Senior Agentic AI Software Engineer

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Job Summary

The Senior Agentic Software Engineer will develop financial technology solutions within the rapidly evolving AI world. This includes utilizing/extending agentic protocols for impact in frontier LLMs, building agents to perform specialized tasks, and developing internal AI-powered tools to drive efficiency throughout the organization. Engineers in this role will actively participate in coding, testing, and code reviews while improving applications and processes for scalability and efficiency. This role will work independently to identify issues or defects that may arise from system enhancements that would reduce the quality of a product. This role requires implementing full stack development efforts across the SDLC, improving frontend, backend, and UI/UX components. This position also involves mentoring Associate Software Engineers and Software Engineers and collaborating across teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Essential Job Functions

• Use AI development tools to build agents, as well as APIs to be used by agents. Take ownership of solutions and ensure they are well tested before deploying them safely to various environments. Translate requirements into technical designs and application code. Develop design specs and convert them into functioning components. - (50%)
• Create and execute unit tests to ensure issues are proactively identified. Analyze and review code to identify causes of errors and defects and remediate known errors. Define and enforce relevant code standards. Estimate and size work based on high-level requirements. Continuously improve applications and processes for quality, efficiency, and user experience - (20%)
• Write automation test scripts and ensure automated tests are completed with proper coverage for all requirements. Identify and track defects through their lifecyle. Provide Subject Matter Expertise of all of the components and functionality of the system and framework. - (20%)
• Provide technical on-call triage, escalation and remediation as necessary for production incidents in systems over which you have ownership. - (10%)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related field of study or equivalent, relevant work experience
• 5-8 years of experience in a related field (Software Development Life Cycle across Full Stack, Frontend and Backend Development and UI / UX engineering)
• 1 cloud certification- AWS cloud practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or Google Cloud- Cloud Digital Leader

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a related field (Software Development Life Cycle across Full Stack, Frontend and Backend Development and UI / UX engineering).
• 6+ years of experience building production backend services.
• 3+ years of experience building public-facing frontend interfaces.
• 3+ years of experience in AI/ML, Generative AI, or agentic systems (e.g., LLM-powered applications, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen).

Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Python (Programming Language)
• Full Stack Development
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Telemetry
• OpenAI
• Gemini
• GitHub Copilot

Reports To: Director and above

Direct Reports: 0

Work Environment

• Normal office environment, hybrid.

Physical and Mental Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily and meet the physical, mental and work environment requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, absent undue hardship.

• Communicate/Hearing
• Communicate/Talking
• Stationary Position/Seated
• Typing/Writing
• Maintain focus in high pressure or fast-paced work environment

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

About Bread Financial®

At Bread Financial, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community, and be part of our award-winning culture. We’ve been consistently recognized as a best place to work nationally and in many markets and we’re proud to promote an environment where you feel appreciated, accepted, valued, and fulfilled—both personally and professionally. Bread Financial supports the overall wellness of our associates with a diverse suite of benefits and offers boundless opportunities for career development and non-traditional career progression.

Bread Financial® (NYSE: BFH) is a tech-forward financial services company that provides simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions to millions of U.S. consumers. Our payment solutions deliver growth for some of the most recognized brands in travel & entertainment, health & beauty, technology, electronics, jewelry, home and specialty apparel through our co-brand and private label credit cards and pay-over-time products providing choice and value to our shared customers. Additionally, we offer Bread Financial general purpose credit cards and saving products that empower our customers and their passions for a better life.

Bread Financial proudly marks 30 years of success in 2026. To learn more about our global associates, our performance and our sustainability progress, visit breadfinancial.com or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn.

• All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of credit and background checks.

• Bread Financial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Family:

Information Technology

Job Type:

Regular