--- title: 'Senior AI Applied Software Engineer at Backbase' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-ai-applied-software-engineer-backbase-hyderabad-yxwykm0vv25p' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Senior AI Applied Software Engineer at Backbase - **Company:** Backbase - **Location:** Hyderabad, India - **Posted:** 2026-08-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/workatbackbase/jobs/7965781 ## Job description At Backbase, we build AI-powered, secure, enterprise-grade digital banking software used daily by millions worldwide. With seamless integration, unified data, agentic AI, and a complete banking suite built for every line of business, you'll be building the next generation of banking. As a Senior iOS Engineer, you will drive the AI-native engineering of our product across the software development lifecycle, following and improving our way of working, and refining our best practices. You will lead the team in ensuring our practices are not only best practice and efficient but continually evolving and improving to use AI principles You will help design, build and maintain one or more capabilities for the Backbase Mobile Platform, working closely with the Principal Engineers. You will be part of a multidisciplinary squad that is responsible for delivering an end-to-end solution, from initial concept to fruition in one of our production-ready applications. You will be tasked with addressing complex business requirements and with translating them into technical designs and implementations. You will be expected to deliver high-quality, well-engineered software that is performant, clean and is easy to maintain. As a squad member, you will contribute to all aspects of product development, starting from gathering feedback & requirements and implementing actual functionality, to writing tests, documentation and providing product adoption support to colleagues, customers and partners. As a Senior Mobile Engineer, you will be working in the Identity team, which builds Identity and Authentication journeys and components for the Backbase mobile banking applications for Retail, Business and Wealth customers. You will ● Platform Development: Help design, build, and maintain one or more capabilities for the Backbase Mobile Platform, working closely with the Principal Engineers. ● Engineering & Quality: Build, improve, and grow SDKs and libraries to revolutionise Identity and Authentication for mobile banking. Write clean, maintainable Swift code to create scalable features that other developers can use seamlessly. Developing features with native frameworks and cutting-edge Apple technologies, collaborating with others in the squad and other mobile squads to bring in the latest ways to develop. Responsible for upholding our engineering standards across the product, proactively proposing and leading initiatives within your squad to improve engineering excellence. ● Agile & CI/CD: Automate testing while working closely with QAs to achieve an 80% minimum unit test coverage using frameworks like XCTest and XCUITest. You have a strong engineering culture in all parts of the SDLC, working in Agile practices to deliver a complete product. CI/CD practices are part of your mantra, ideally with Bitrise and GitHub Actions. ● AI-Native Mindset: Showing an AI-Native mindset, you will proactively explore, experiment with, and apply AI tools and agentic frameworks (e.g., code generation, test automation, dev productivity). Encourage AI adoption across engineering workflows and product capabilities. ● Collaboration: Contribute to all aspects of product development, starting from gathering feedback & requirements and implementing actual functionality, to writing tests, documentation and providing product adoption support to colleagues, customers and partners. ● Experience: 6+ years of professional experience in native iOS development. ● Languages: Strong proficiency in Swift and practical experience with Objective-C. ● Domain: Experience developing applications in the FinTech, Banking, or Payments space. ● Architecture: Expertise in modern iOS architectural patterns (e.g., MVVM, VIPER, Clean Architecture) and development frameworks (e.g., SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine/RxSwift). ● Concurrency & Integration: Solid experience integrating with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and asynchronous programming (e.g., Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), async/await, Combine). ● Security & Tools: Strong understanding of mobile security best practices (e.g., Keychain, Biometrics). Experience with version control systems like Git. ● AI/ML Passion: You are passionate about embracing AI/ML tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, and Xcode (AI) and you enjoy shaping the product or platform’s functionality with AI. Bonus Points (Preferred Experience) ● In-depth knowledge of mobile application security and data encryption standards ● Experience with dependency managers like Swift Package Manager (SPM) or CocoaPods. ● Familiarity with mobile analytics, A/B testing, and crash reporting tools (e.g., Firebase, Crashlytics). ● Experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions). ● Published one or more iOS applications on the Apple App Store. ## About Backbase ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Backbase builds the AI-native Banking OS that unifies digital channels, front office, and operations so banks can coordinate customers, employees, and AI agents from one platform. - **Entity Type**: Private (no public ticker; no funding rounds disclosed – appears organically grown) - **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Founded**: 2003 - **Founders**: Not publicly available (described as “founder-led” but names not stated on the provided sources) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Banking technology / financial services software - **Target customers**: B2B – large banking institutions (120+ banks globally, serving 75M+ daily users) - **Mission/purpose**: “We built something that didn't exist before – an AI-native Banking OS where humans and AI agents work side by side, at scale, inside real banks.” ## Products & Services - **AI-native Banking OS**: A unified platform that sits above legacy cores, CRMs, and data platforms. It orchestrates customer engagement (digital banking, conversational banking, front-office workspaces) and banking operations (high-volume processes like disputes, payments, lending). Designed to be deployed incrementally without rip-and-replace. Includes native AI agents for governance, automation, and auditability. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: 2,000+ employees globally, 50% of team in R&D, 120+ banks as customers, 75M+ active daily users across the platform - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available - **Growth Signals**: Expanding globally with 16 offices across 5 continents; notable customer examples include I&M Bank (Africa) which grew onboarding from 2,000 to 21,000 new customers per month, and Techcombank (Vietnam) achieving 50% of savings and investments through digital. The company is actively hiring and describes itself as “in the middle of the biggest shift in banking’s history.” ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified Frontline architecture** – breaks down fragmentation between digital channels, front office, and operations, enabling banks to move fast without sacrificing compliance or security - **AI-native from the ground up** – not a bolt-on; full governance and audit trails for every AI decision - **Progressive modernization** – works with existing cores, no big-bang migration required - **18+ years of banking domain expertise** (since 2003) with a singular focus on banking since 2012 ## Strategic Focus - Deepening AI integration into banking workflows (Elastic Operations – scaling throughput without scaling headcount) - Expanding global footprint (17 offices, including recent additions in Hyderabad, Riyadh, Mexico City, and Toronto) - Continuing to shift banks from legacy fragmentation to a unified, composable operating system ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “ambition without ego,” “bias for action,” “you own what you ship,” and “the work is the standard.” Flat structure with no micromanagement. - **Work model**: Hybrid – “Where you do your best work is up to you.” Offices in 17 locations globally. - **Perks**: Annual learning budget, global exposure, wellness support, real ownership of projects from day one. - **Engineering focus**: 50% of the team in R&D; real AI running in production, not just pilots. ## Sources 1. [backbase.com/careers](https://www.backbase.com/careers) 2. [backbase.com/about](https://www.backbase.com/about) 3. [backbase.com](https://www.backbase.com/) 4. 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