AI Engineering Lead

About Flutter Entertainment

Flutter Entertainment stands as the largest operator in the global sports betting and iGaming market, boasting 15.9 million average monthly players worldwide and projecting a revenue of $16.4 billion for 2025. Our brand portfolio includes leading names such as FanDuel, Paddy Power, Betfair, PokerStars, Sisal, and Sportsbet. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Flutter has also been named one of the World's Best Companies 2025 by TIME.

Our global capability center in Hyderabad's Hi-Tech City houses over 1,000 talented professionals working across customer support, data and technology, business operations, and HR analytics. We embody core values: Build Better Together, Own Every Outcome, Stay Curious and Grow, and Raise the Bar Every Day, which guide our collaboration and growth.

Role Overview

We seek an AI Engineering Lead to guide a small team of AI developers in building Flutter's enterprise AI assistant and agent platforms. This role combines hands-on AI engineering, architectural oversight, team leadership, and cross-department collaboration to deliver scalable AI services supporting over 20 million customers globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision for AI assistant and agent platforms with focus areas including LLM inference, agent frameworks, context engineering, and system design.
• Manage deployment and optimization of LLM inference technologies such as AWS Bedrock and LiteLLM, aiming for cost-efficiency, low latency, and operational excellence.
• Architect production-ready context pipelines, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, and prompt engineering with established standards and evaluation methods.
• Balance architectural decisions involving token economics, latency budgets, and capability versus cost analysis.
• Implement robust AI guardrails, security measures, and Responsible AI practices considering regulated markets.
• Evaluate and select agentic frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, Strands, and ADK for scalable orchestration and tooling patterns.
• Drive end-to-end solution delivery, from backend LLM integrations to user-facing APIs and interfaces leveraging AWS services and modern engineering.
• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of 2-3 AI developers, fostering technical growth and coding standards.
• Oversee incident management, technical challenges, and continuous improvement through post-mortems and team guidance.
• Promote a team culture of learning, experimentation, psychological safety, and innovation encouraging calculated risk-taking.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions.
• Work alongside data scientists and platform engineers to embed AI functionalities into Flutter's existing infrastructure.
• Communicate complex AI concepts effectively across audiences and influence technical strategies within and beyond the team.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, or a STEM discipline with 8 to 12 years overall software development experience, including at least 2 to 3 years focused on AI/ML or agent development.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineering teams and setting technical direction.
• Expertise in Python backend development with production experience in FastAPI, Flask, and asynchronous programming models.
• Practical knowledge of LLM inference platforms (AWS Bedrock, LiteLLM), including aspects like model routing, API design, cost optimization, and deployment.
• Experience with context engineering, RAG methodologies, prompt architectures, and evaluating production trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience with multiple agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Strands, ADK, or CrewAI, including orchestration and multi-agent systems.
• Skilled in implementing AI guardrails and responsible AI measures, including security concerns like prompt injection, data leakage, and access control in regulated environments.
• Familiar with AI security fundamentals: OAuth, JWT, least privilege principles.
• Competent with AI coding assistance tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and OpenCode, and capable of validating and mentoring usage of AI-generated code.
• Strong foundation in software engineering principles including SDLC, Git version control, API design, architecture, and collaborative engineering practices.
• Excellent communication and influence capabilities, able to distill complex technical details to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and lead without formal authority.

Desirable Additional Competencies

• Full-stack development experience with React, TypeScript, backend integrations, and AI implementations.
• Experience architecting and operating production RAG systems and vector databases such as Pinecone, pgvector, OpenSearch, or Weaviate.
• Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) used in AI agent systems.
• Contributions to open-source AI/ML or agentic platforms like LangChain or CrewAI.
• Experience working in regulated sectors like gaming, sports betting, or financial services.
• Track record of growing engineering talent, leading impactful technical projects, and fostering high-performance teams.
• A passion for emerging AI technologies and formulating informed strategic technology choices.

Employee Benefits

• Access to learning platforms like Learnerbly and Udemy, and a personal development fund for upskilling.
• Internal mobility programs to support career advancement.
• Comprehensive health insurance covering you and dependents, including OPD consultations and annual health checkups.
• Wellbeing initiatives including wellness funds and 24x7 assistance programs.
• A hybrid work model with two days per week in the office and flexible leaves including maternity, paternity, and sabbaticals.
• Free meals, cab allowance, and home office setup support.
• Employer contributions to Provident Fund, gratuity, personal accident, and life insurance policies.
• Sharesave plans for purchasing company shares at discounted rates.
• Volunteering leave and team-building events.
• Recognition via internal Kudos platform and referral incentives.

Equal Opportunity Commitment

Flutter Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer embracing diversity and inclusiveness in hiring. We evaluate candidates fairly based on qualifications and potential, encouraging applications even if not all criteria are perfectly met.