Ai Engineering Managers

📍 Position : Java Architect

📅 Experience : 10 to 15 Years

🧑‍💼 Open Positions : 3+

📍 Work Location : Bangalore, Pune, Chennai

💼 Work Mode : Hybrid

📅 Notice Period : Immediate joiners preferred; up to 1 month maximum

🔧 Core Responsibilities :

• Lead architecture design and development for scalable enterprise-level applications.
• Own and manage all aspects of technical development and delivery.
• Define and enforce best coding practices, architectural guidelines, and development standards.
• Plan and estimate the end-to-end technical scope of projects.
• Conduct code reviews, ensure CI/CD, and implement TDD/BDD methodologies.
• Mentor and lead individual contributors and small development teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, Product, and QA.
• Engage in high-level and low-level design (HLD/LLD), solutioning, and cloud-native transformations.

🛠️ Required Technical Skills :

• Strong hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices architecture
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging/event streaming platforms
• Proficiency in cloud platforms – AWS and Azure (must-have)
• Exposure to frontend technologies (nice-to-have)
• Solid understanding of HLD, system architecture, and design patterns
• Good grasp of DevOps concepts, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Agile/Lean development, Pair Programming, and Continuous Integration practices
• Polyglot mindset is a plus (Scala, Golang, Python, etc.)

🚀 Ideal Candidate Profile :

• Currently working in a product-based environment
• Already functioning as an Architect or Principal Engineer
• Proven track record as an Individual Contributor (IC)
• Strong engineering fundamentals with a passion for scalable software systems
• No compromise on code quality, craftsmanship, and best practices

🧪 Interview Process :

1. Round 1: Technical pairing round
2. Rounds 2 & 3: Technical rounds with panel (code pairing + architecture)
3. Final Round: HR and offer discussion

About the Role

We're looking for a hands-on AI Architect to lead the design and delivery of AI-native applications. You will define the AI stack, establish engineering standards, and drive adoption of AI-assisted development across teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build production-grade AI applications.
• Evaluate and standardize AI frameworks, tools, and platforms.
• Design agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and AI workflows.
• Establish AI evaluation, testing, guardrails, and observability practices.
• Drive AI-native development and delivery acceleration initiatives.
• Partner with engineering and product teams on technical roadmap decisions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks.
• Experience with LangGraph, AutoGen, MCP, or similar ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience with AI evaluations (DeepEval, Ragas), guardrails, and structured outputs.
• Strong Python and TypeScript/Java skills.
• Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and event-driven architectures.
• Proven experience shipping AI applications to production.

Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong backend development experience using one or more frameworks (FastAPI / Django (Python), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js).

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have deep understanding of relevant libraries, tools, and best practices within the chosen backend framework

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs, services, and backend systems, including system design and clean code practices

Mandatory (Domain) – Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications is highly preferred (fintech background is a strong plus)

Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in product companies / startups, preferably Series A to Series D

Mandatory (Education) – Candidates from top engineering institutes (IITs, BITS, or equivalent Tier-1 colleges) are preferred

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Java-based applications using best practices and modern frameworks.

• Integrate and manage AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.

• Develop RESTful APIs and microservices architecture to support scalable and robust applications.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Git, and Docker to automate deployment processes.

• Monitor and troubleshoot application performance, defect triaging, and reliability issues, providing timely support and resolution.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver high-quality software.

• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and AWS services to continuously improve our technology stack.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 5-7 years of experience in Java development, with a strong understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns.

• Proficiency in AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.

• Experience with Spring Boot and other Java frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required skills:-

2+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.

Strong Java Basics

SpringBoot or Spring MVC

Hands-on experience on Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)

Proficient in REST API development

Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)

Microservices

Any Caching Mechanism

Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

2+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks

Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.

Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.

Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
• Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
• Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
• Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
• Write unit tests for API Testing.
• Automate the code testing and deployment process.

Skills Required:

• At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
• Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
• Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
• Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
• Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
• Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
• Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
• Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
• Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
• Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
• Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
• Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.

Core Competency:

• Extensiveexperiencewith C#and ASP.net/.NETCore 2.0 / .NET WebAPI coreframework framework • concepts and fundamentals/ MVC and EF. • REST Web services&API Experience • Strong architectural knowledge with two or more of - MicroServices, 12 FactorApplications and • EventDriven architectures • Messaging knowledge(Topics,Queues&PublishSubscribe) • Knowledge of AWS, Docker and Kubernetes • Experience with databasedevelopmentincluding relational databasedesign,SQL, andORM • Agile Delivery experience • Deploying .Net Core web application/api inWindows and Linux • Experience withweb developmenttechnologiesincludingASP.NET, MVC3, EF, HTML,JavaScript, • JQuery, AJAX and CSS,LINQ. • Experience with core Microsoft.Nettechnologiesincluding:WCF, LINQ, and EF • Experience designing and developing enterprise gradesoftware • Experience with source controlmanagementsystems and deployment environment • Experience with debugging, performanceprofiling and optimization. • Comprehensiveunderstandingof object-orientedand service-oriented applicationdevelopment,techniquesand theories • Internallymotivated, able towork proficientlyboth independently and in a teamenvironment • Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external businessstakeholders • Experience with userinterfacedesign and prototyping

Your Role

We at Innovaccer are looking for  Software Development Engineer-II (Backend) to build the most amazing product experience. You’ll get to work with other engineers to build delightful feature experience to understand and solve our customer’s pain points.

A Day in the Life

• Building efficient and reusable applications and abstractions.
• Identify and communicate back-end best practices.
• Participate in the project life-cycle from pitch/prototyping through definition and design to build, integration, QA and delivery
• Analyse and improve the performance, scalability, stability, and security of the product
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What You Need

• 3+ years of experience with a start-up mentality and high willingness to learn
• Solid knowledge of Python and experience with any web framework (Django, etc)
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skill
• Experience in Web Services and REST.
• Experience in RDBMS & NoSQL database.
• Experience in Solution Architecture.
• Proven experience with Git.
• Knowledge of high-level JavaScript concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, promises, data-binding, async-await, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering.

Preferred Skills

• Expert in Python and Django Code Reviews
• Server Deployment
• Mongo DB/Postgres SQL DB
• JIRA Administration

What We Offer

• Industry-focused Certifications: We want you to be a subject matter expert in what you do. So, whether it’s our product or our domain, you will dive straight in and be certified by the best in the world.
• Quarterly Rewards and Recognition Programs: We foster learning and encourage people to take moonshots. When you achieve your goals, we recognize and reward your hard work. 
• Health Benefits: We cover health insurance for you and your loved ones. 
• Sabbatical Policy: We encourage people to take time off and rejuvenate, upskill and pursue their interests so that they can generate new ideas for innovating at Innovaccer.
• Pet-friendly office and open floor plan. No mundane cubicles.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development and unit testing of web applications including back-end (microservices), maintenance & level 3 support of the same
• Assist Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Tech Lead in project planning (provide estimates, risk analysis, requirements analysis, technical options)
• Software Architecture
• Involvement in full life cycle of projects (including requirement analysis and system design, development and support if required)
• Support and work collaboratively with teams across areas of design, development, quality assurance and operations
• Commit your knowledge and experience into team success
• A small amount of travel (when needed) to work with other offices
• Attend meetings to discuss and demonstrate solutions at both technical and business level

 REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                                                                                           

• 5+ years web application development experience
• 3+ years developing with Python
• 3+ years developing with C# and .NET Framework 4.x
• Experience with ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebAPI 2, LINQ, and WCF
• Dependency Injection and other common ASP.NET MVC design patterns
• Experience with API design and development using REST
• Experience with performance optimization
• Experience integrating security best practices into the SDLC
• Experience with object-oriented programming (OOP) and OOP patterns
• Experience with Git
• 1+ years of Agile development experience
• Experience manipulating and working with data in a variety of forms: csv, xml, json, structured and unstructured                                                                                                
• Experience with SQL database schema design and querying. Microsoft SQL Server and PostGreSQL are used and preferred.

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                           

• Knowledge of JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, or BitBucket is a plus.
• Experience with a JavaScript MVVM library such as Web Components, knockout.js, Angular, React, etc. is a plus (Web Components and knockout.js are used and preferred)
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/ and AJAX is a plus
• SPA (Single Page Application) design and implementation is a plus
• Experience with any ORM such as Entity Framework or NHibernate is a plus (NHibernate is preferred)
• Experience with TypeScript is a plus
• Experience with MS Build is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus
• Experience with Object Mapping Frameworks (AutoMapper, etc) is a plus
• Understanding of OOD, DDD and TDD is a plus
• AWS-based development is a plus
• Knowledge of Flask is a plus.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Clever personality
• Strong spirit skills set: conflict resistant, self -motivated, result-oriented, responsible, honest, “open”, courageous