Job description

The Applied AI Engineer at Deriv operates in an AI-first software development environment, leveraging AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and frontier models as primary development interfaces. This role requires designing systems, prototyping, debugging, refactoring, and shipping production software using AI as a co-developer. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of software features, exploring problem spaces with AI, building autonomous AI systems that maintain context and act proactively, and continuously improving workflows. Engineers in this role must deliver real production systems for millions of users, collaborate across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, and deployment infrastructure, and operate in fast-paced, high-output environments.