Backend Developer

Company: Grey Chain AI

Location: Remote

Experience: 7+ Years

Employment Type: Full Time

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Python AI Engineer who will lead the design, development, and delivery of production-grade GenAI and agentic AI solutions for global clients. This role requires a strong Python engineering background, experience working with foreign enterprise clients, and the ability to own delivery, guide teams, and build scalable AI systems.

You will work closely with product, engineering, and client stakeholders to deliver high-impact AI-driven platforms, intelligent agents, and LLM-powered systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of Python-based AI systems, APIs, and microservices.
• Architect and build GenAI and agentic AI workflows using modern LLM frameworks.
• Own end-to-end delivery of AI projects for international clients, from requirement gathering to production deployment.
• Design and implement LLM pipelines, prompt workflows, and agent orchestration systems.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and security of AI solutions in production.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership to the team.
• Work closely with clients to understand business needs and translate them into robust AI solutions.
• Drive adoption of latest GenAI trends, tools, and best practices across projects.
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Must-Have Technical Skills

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Python development, building scalable backend systems.
• Strong experience with Python frameworks and libraries (FastAPI, Flask, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, etc.).
• Solid experience working with LLMs and GenAI systems (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, open-source models).
• Good experience with agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or similar.
• Experience designing multi-agent workflows, tool calling, and prompt pipelines.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience deploying AI solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of MLOps / LLMOps, model monitoring, evaluation, and logging.
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD, and production deployment pipelines.

Leadership & Client-Facing Experience

• Proven experience leading engineering teams or acting as a technical lead.
• Strong experience working directly with foreign or enterprise clients.
• Ability to gather requirements, propose solutions, and own delivery outcomes.
• Comfortable presenting technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

What We Look For

• Excellent communication, comprehension, and presentation skills.
• High level of ownership, accountability, and reliability.
• Self-driven professional who can operate independently in a remote setup.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and attention to detail.
• Passion for GenAI, agentic systems, and emerging AI trends.

Why Grey Chain AI

Grey Chain AI is a Generative AI-as-a-Service and Digital Transformation company trusted by global brands such as UNICEF, BOSE, KFINTECH, WHO, and Fortune 500 companies. We build real-world, production-ready AI systems that drive business impact across industries like BFSI, Non-profits, Retail, and Consulting.

Here, you won’t just experiment with AI — you will build, deploy, and scale it for the real world.

SA Role Summary:

The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of technology solutions that align with the organization's business goals and technology standards. This role involves working closely with both technical teams and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Solution Design and Architecture:

●      Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the business processes and technology landscape.

●      Design holistic technology solutions that address business challenges and opportunities, integrating with existing systems and technologies where necessary.

●      Define and document architectural designs, including system components, functionalities, interfaces, and data flows.

●      Taking into account all pillars of the Well-Architected Framework (WAF) on AWS - including Scalability, Resiliency

●      Identifying reusable components in a project and working with the Backend team to generalize those components.

●      Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification (Preferred)

Technical Leadership and Guidance:

●      Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the implementation phase, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and best practices.

●      Evaluate and recommend technologies and tools for the effective development and management of solutions.

●      Ensure the implemented solution is in compliance with the designed architecture. Deviation from the architecture must be evaluated and agreed upon.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication:

●      Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

●      Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

●      Act as a liaison between technical teams and business units, facilitating understanding and alignment on project objectives and deliverables.

Project and Risk Management:

●      Participate in project planning activities, including resource allocation, timeline estimation, and risk assessment.

●      Identify potential technical and project risks and develop mitigation strategies.

Quality Assurance and Best Practices:

●      Ensure solutions are designed and implemented to high-quality standards, including performance, security, and scalability considerations.

●      Advocate for and ensure adherence to software development best practices, including code reviews, continuous integration, and automated testing.

Continuous Learning and Improvement:

●      Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their applicability to organizational needs.

●      Promote a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovation and efficiency improvements in technology practices.

About TensorIoT

TensorIoT is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner. We help companies realize the value and efficiency of the AWS ecosystem. From building PoCs and MVPs to production-ready applications, we are tackling complex business problems every day and developing solutions to drive customer success.

TensorIoT's founders helped build world-class IoT and AI platforms at AWS and Google and are now creating solutions to simplify the way enterprises incorporate edge devices and their data into their day-to-day operations. Our mission is to help connect devices and make them intelligent. Our founders firmly believe in the transformative potential of smarter devices to enhance our quality of life, and we're just getting started!

TensorIoT is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means that we are committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind and make our hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

WHO YOU ARE

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:

·         Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.

·         A sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.

·         Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems. 

·         Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.

·         Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact. 

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

·         BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field. 

·         5+ years of professional production and development experience with leading-edge server and database technologies (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, Scala, Spring Boot, MySQL, and NoSQL databases).

KEY SKILLS

·         Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns Experience with professional production cloud (AWS preferred).

·         Experience with RESTful Services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain scalable products
• Participate in code reviews, and design discussions to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
• Pair with team members for functional and non-functional requirements to write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code.
• Help to define roadmap and architecture based on technology and business needs
• Understand business requirements and work closely with the business to provide solutions

Eligibility

• Strong expertise in Backend Python Development with skills to create APIs, integrate the functions into UI, and store and retrieve data from a variety of databases.
• Strong experience with Django/Flask.
• Strong experience in writing unit tests.
• B.Tech/B.E (Preferred CSE)

• Work with stakeholders and fellow developers.
• Design and implement Python code using the Django framework.
• Identify and fix bottlenecks that may arise from inefficient code.
• Identify and fix software bugs.
• Create a wide variety of unit tests to verify the functionality of software.
• Manage the security of the platform.
• Write detailed documentation around the code.
• Knowledge of front end languages.

• Relevant Experience : Minimum 2 Years
• You have prior experience developing and working on consumer facing web/app products
• Hands-on experience on Python. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good on any other language with experience on building web/app based tech products
• Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Django, Flask, Falcon, web2py, Twisted, Tornado
• Working knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems
• You've worked with core AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• You can dabble in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS and Javascript
• You love doing things efficiently. At Fynd, the work you do will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves
• You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle