Company: LendingTree

Location: Hyderabad (Hybrid work)

Role: Sr. Software Engineer-AI

About the Role

LendingTree is seeking a highly skilled and hands-on AI Engineer to join our growing innovation hub in Hyderabad. This role is perfect for someone who moves seamlessly between AI research and engineering, and is excited to build agentic AI workflows, automation frameworks, and LLM-driven systems that shape the future of fintech.

You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to design next-gen intelligent solutions, experiment with the latest advancements in LLMs, and build AI applications that directly impact millions of users.

What You'll Do

- Identify, design, and implement automation opportunities across business, product, and engineering workflows.
- Build, prototype, and deploy agentic AI systems, including RAG architectures, intelligent assistants, and LLM-powered tooling.
- Collaborate with global teams to drive AI-first innovation across LendingTree's fintech ecosystem.
- Conduct applied research on retrieval techniques, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and emerging LLM capabilities.
- Develop and maintain production-grade AI pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Stay ahead of the curve by exploring new open-source models, agent frameworks, and cloud AI offerings.

Preferred Qualifications

- 3 to 6 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering or applied research.
- Robust understanding of LLMs, RAG systems, vector databases, embeddings, and agentic architectures.
- Proficiency in Python; experience with LangChain, Hugging Face, OpenAI APIs, or related libraries.
- Familiarity with microservices, API design, and integration patterns.
- Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure and MLOps tooling is a strong plus.
- Exposure to Amazon Bedrock and its model ecosystem (Claude, Titan, Cohere, etc.)



is advantageous.

Why Join LendingTree?

- Work at a mission-driven fintech leader transforming how millions of customers make financial decisions.
- Build cutting-edge AI solutions that directly influence real-world products.
- Collaborate with a global team of innovators, technologists, researchers, and digital product leaders.
- Grow in a culture that values curiosity, experimentation, ownership, and impact.

About LendingTree

LendingTree is the largest online lending marketplace in the United States, connecting consumers with multiple lenders so they can shop, compare, and choose the best financial productsspanning mortgages, personal loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity, insurance, and more.

Founded in 1996 by CEO Doug Lebda, LendingTree is now a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: TREE) and home to a family of businesses dedicated to helping consumers achieve better financial outcomes. Our products including the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard give people powerful tools to monitor, manage, and improve their financial health.

CULTURE

We are a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. Were collaborative, ambitious, candid, and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you'll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we are pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity, and the knack for just getting stuff done.(We even have an award for employees called the GSD, Get Stuff Done).
Come work with us!

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression

📌 Sr.Software Engineer-AI (Hyderabad)
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