AI – R&D Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a talented LLM & Backend Engineer to join our AI innovation team at EaseMyTrip.com and help power the next generation of intelligent travel experiences. In this role, you will lead the integration and optimization of Large Language Models (LLMs) to create conversational travel agents that can understand, recommend, and assist travelers across platforms. You will work at the intersection of backend systems, AI models, and natural language understanding, bringing smart automation to every travel interaction.

Key Responsibilities:

• LLM Integration: Deploy and integrate LLMs (e.g., GPT-4, Claude, Mistral) to process natural language queries and deliver personalized travel recommendations.
• Prompt Engineering & RAG: Design optimized prompts and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows to enhance contextual relevance in multi-turn conversations.
• Conversational Flow Design: Build and manage robust conversational workflows capable of handling complex travel scenarios such as booking modifications and cancellations.
• LLM Performance Optimization: Tune models and workflows to balance performance, scalability, latency, and cost across diverse environments.
• Backend Development: Develop scalable, asynchronous backend services using FastAPI or Django, with a focus on secure and efficient API architectures.
• Database & ORM Design: Design and manage data using PostgreSQL or MongoDB, and implement ORM solutions like SQLAlchemy for seamless data interaction.
• Cloud & Serverless Infrastructure: Deploy solutions on AWS, GCP, or Azure using containerized and serverless tools such as Lambda and Cloud Functions.
• Model Fine-Tuning & Evaluation: Fine-tune open-source and proprietary LLMs using techniques like LoRA and PEFT, and evaluate outputs using BLEU, ROUGE, or similar metrics.
• NLP Pipeline Implementation: Develop NLP functionalities including named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and dialogue state tracking.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with AI researchers, frontend developers, and product teams to ship impactful features rapidly and iteratively.

Preferred Candidate Profile:

• Experience: Minimum 2 years in backend development with at least 1 year of hands-on experience working with LLMs or NLP systems.
• Programming Skills: Proficient in Python with practical exposure to asynchronous programming and frameworks like FastAPI or Django.
• LLM Ecosystem Expertise: Experience with tools and libraries such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face Transformers, and OpenAI/Anthropic APIs.
• Database Knowledge: Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and performance optimization.
• Model Engineering: Familiarity with prompt design, LLM fine-tuning (LoRA, PEFT), and evaluation metrics for language models.
• Cloud Deployment: Comfortable working with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and building serverless or containerized deployments.
• NLP Understanding: Solid grasp of NLP concepts including intent detection, dialogue management, and text classification.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to translate business problems into AI-first solutions with a user-centric approach.
• Team Collaboration: Strong communication skills and a collaborative spirit to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Curiosity and Drive: Passionate about staying at the forefront of AI and using emerging technologies to build innovative travel experiences.

We are looking for a highly capable machine learning engineer to optimize our machine learning systems. You will be evaluating existing machine learning (ML) processes, performing statistical analysis to resolve data set problems, and enhancing the accuracy of our AI software's predictive automation capabilities.

To ensure success as a machine learning engineer, you should demonstrate solid data science knowledge and experience in a related ML role. A first-class machine learning engineer will be someone whose expertise translates into the enhanced performance of predictive automation software.

Machine Learning Engineer Responsibilities:

Consulting with managers to determine and refine machine learning objectives.

Designing machine learning systems and self-running artificial intelligence (AI) software to automate predictive models.

Transforming data science prototypes and applying appropriate ML algorithms and tools.

Ensuring that algorithms generate accurate user recommendations.

Turning unstructured data into useful information by auto-tagging images and text-to-speech conversions.

Solving complex problems with multi-layered data sets, as well as optimizing existing machine learning libraries and frameworks.

Developing ML algorithms to analyze huge volumes of historical data to make predictions.

Running tests, performing statistical analysis, and interpreting test results.

Documenting machine learning processes.

Keeping abreast of developments in machine learning.

Machine Learning Engineer Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, or a related field.

Master’s degree in computational linguistics, data analytics, or similar will be advantageous.

At least two years' experience as a machine learning engineer.

Advanced proficiency with Python, Java, and R code writing.

Extensive knowledge of ML frameworks, libraries, data structures, data modeling, and software architecture.

In-depth knowledge of mathematics, statistics, and algorithms.

Superb analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Great communication and collaboration skills.

Excellent time management and organizational abilities.

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Role

We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.
Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
• Write meaningful test cases for frontend &amp
• Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

Ideal Background / Experience

• At least 12 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
• Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages
• In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

• AWS
• Azure
• ELK
• Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
• Google APIs
• Microservices Architecture Pattern
• NodeJS / ExpressJS

Not just a delivery company…

RaRa Delivery is revolutionising instant delivery for e-commerce in Indonesia through data driven logistics.

RaRa Delivery is making instant and same-day deliveries scalable and cost-effective by leveraging a differentiated operating model and real-time optimisation technology. RaRa makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to get same day delivery in Indonesia. While others are focusing on ‘one-to-one’ deliveries, the company has developed proprietary, real-time batching tech to do ‘many-to-many’ deliveries within a few hours.. RaRa is already in partnership with some of the top eCommerce players in Indonesia like Blibli, Sayurbox, Kopi Kenangan and many more.

We are a distributed team with the company headquartered in Singapore 🇸🇬 , core operations in Indonesia 🇮🇩 and technology team based out of India 🇮🇳

Future of eCommerce Logistics.

• Data driven logistics company that is bringing in same day delivery revolution in Indonesia 🇮🇩
• Revolutionising delivery as an experience
• Empowering D2C Sellers with logistics as the core technology

A section describing benefits and life at your company is a great way to attract talent.
About the Role

1. Architect, build, and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
2. Implement pixel-perfect UI's that match designs.
3. Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
4. Integrate third-party APIs.
   1. Work as part of a small team to build applications.
5. Write unit and integration tests.
6. Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
7. Work with native modules when required.
8. Work as part of a small team, which will include other React Native developers, a project manager, QA professional, and designer.
9. Complete two-week sprints and participate in sprint retrospectives and daily standups.
10. Assist with building estimates.
11. Interface with clients via Slack, Zoom, and email.
12. Track your time throughout the day using Toggle.
13. Work with modern tools including Jira, Slack, GitHub, Google Docs, etc.
14. Be part of a community of React Native developers who share knowledge and help each other as problems arise

About the company:

NowPurchase is transforming the 140B$ Metal Manufacturing industry. The metal industry forms the backbone of the economy and the fundamental block of the physical world - be it transportation, construction and every machinery. NowPurchase is building a rich, digital marketplace where Metal Manufacturers can procure high quality raw materials in a trusted manner. At the same time we are building the OS (Operating System) that will supercharge their productivity and processes to ultimately make procurement autonomous. Now Purchase raises USD 2.4 million in Nov 2021, led by Orios Venture Partners, InfoEdge Ventures.

About you: 

We are looking to add an immensely talented Senior Front End Engineer that will help us invent, design, refine and deliver products that will meet our vision. Expect to build a lot of web interfaces and dashboards both for the browser as well as native IoT enabled terminals that will be placed at the manufacturers' premises. You need to lead the front end team to make sure they are delivering high quality code and are constantly inspired to experiment with tools to push out MVPs.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You are empowered to work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and future of the product.
• Deliver high quality modular code deployed over web, mobile and native IoT enabled terminals that leverage REST-based services and real time sockets.. This would include visual dashboards and real time optimizations that are critical for the manufacturing process.
• Have a strong emphasis on shipping features quickly without sacrificing code quality. Be ready to build a lot of MVPs that will go through iteration or be completely scrapped depending on the outcome at the customer end.
• Own your Agile projects and lead the team from software design to implementation and deployment. Maintain sprints, delivery timelines and contribute to better managing the engineering team.
• Transform UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks. Be ready to do the mockups yourself sometimes.
• Build a culture of simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code that other developers emulate and you ensure through thorough code reviews and processes.
• Have an exceptional understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and service workers and command over the internals of JavaScript, React and Redux.
• Continuously evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.

Required Skills and qualification:

• 4+ years’ experience developing rich UI/Front-end for user-facing web applications.
• Strong experience with React or similar frameworks, TypeScript, SSR (Server Side Rendering), SPA (Single Page Application), PWA (Progressive Web application), OOP (Object Oriented Programming), Reactive programming, and Unit tests.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a project leader as well as an individual contributor.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Tech Stack skills required:

• React/Redux
• Python/Django/Celery
• Git, AWS, ELB (Elastic Beanstalk), Netlify
• PostgreSQL/Redis/S3

Location: 

On- site: Kolkata, West Bengal

Compensation & Benefits:

• Cash Compensation: As per industry standards & pedigree of candidate
• ESOPs: 10% of NowPurchase is dedicated to current & future team members. Your package would entail some ESOPs so that you own a part of the company and grow along with it.
• Medical Insurance: Benefits of group insurance of 3 lakhs for family including parents, spouse, children
• Generous leave structure and WFHs including Marriage, Maternity & Paternity leaves
• Complete Relocation Expenses: We are building a unicorn out of the city of Joy (Kolkata). We will pay for everything you spend to relocate here.

Company Link: https://nowpurchase.com">https://nowpurchase.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowpurchase/

Experience :  Minimum 1 year to 2 years experience required.

Education: Any Engineering Graduate

Work Location:  Anywhere in India (Remote Work)

Job Requirements:

• 1+ years of professional experience in Information Technology field as Front End Developer
• Strong experience in HTML, CSS, Java Script, JQuery and Bootstrap
• Knowledge of formal methods and techniques in software development
• Experience / Knowledge in the following technologies/languages/libraries/frameworks:
• Exposure server side programming using Python / PHP / Java / C#
• Experience with Version Control Software (GIT)
• Ability to work independently and direct a team of any size (small to medium or large)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

If the above assignment and work practice are exciting you, then apply.  We will invite video call meeting for shortlisted candidates after assessment.

Key Qualifications:

5 + years of experience in Software development in multithreaded Java/Python applications

3+ years of UI/UX stack experience (Angular JS/PHP/Javascript)

Extensive experience in coding and debugging Java applications and deployment

Should have experience/exposure to Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, SOAP, REST, Maven, Spring framework, hibernate, Kafka, Zookeeper, DHCP, DNS, SNMP

Extensive experience with MySQL and various NoSQL Databases like MongoDB, Elasticsearch

Modelling languages like Netconf, Restconf, Yang,Tosca, Yaml, XML

Skilled in data center, networking, Linux and cloud technologies especially IaaS

Understanding of the ETSI NFV architecture stack

2+ experience with SDN technologies

2+ experience with OpenStack, Kubernetes or other container orchestration platform

Agile programming methodologies

DevOps - CI/ CD experience with Git, Gerritt, Jenkins

Experience contributing to and working with open source communities like ONAP, ONF