Business Development Manager

Required Qualifications

2–3 years of experience in Product Management, Product Analytics, or Technical Product roles

Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving

Experience working with data-driven products

Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, analytics, and operations teams

Experience working on AI or ML-enabled products

Familiarity with LLM-based applications

Experience in consumer platforms, marketplaces, or CX products

Company Description

Recruiting Bond International is a next-generation Talent Intelligence, Executive Search, and Human Capital Advisory firm helping start-ups, enterprises, GCCs, and VC/PE-backed companies build high-impact global teams. It is a global leader in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), executive search, and workforce consulting, specializing in building transformative talent strategies.

From high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies, Recruiting Bond partners with organizations across 50+ industries and 140+ countries to deliver fast, scalable, and inclusive hiring solutions. The company supports businesses in scaling teams, fostering innovation, and creating talent-first strategies to achieve their goals.

With deep expertise across Technology, FinTech, Healthcare, Real Estate, and Energy, Recruiting Bond is dedicated to building careers, companies, and futures by connecting world-class talent with high-impact opportunities globally.

About the Role

Our client is hiring a Backend Engineer (India-based, Remote) to design, build, and scale the core memory infrastructure powering production-grade AI agents.

This role is intended for an experienced engineer with 7–10 years of backend engineering experience, who has deeply internalized AI-native engineering practices and actively builds using tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or comparable AI development tools as a core part of their workflow.

The hiring process is intentionally non-traditional and skill-first. There is no evaluation based on IIT pedigree, LeetCode performance, or conventional resume filters. Instead, the only evaluation criterion is: how you build with AI in real-world scenarios.

Candidates are expected to submit prompt logs or transcripts from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Windsurf demonstrating a feature or product they are proud of.

What You'll Own

• Build and scale backend systems powering the memory infrastructure of the product
• Own and deliver features end-to-end, integrating AI coding tools into the core development workflow
• Design, manage, and optimize database, storage, and retrieval systems for persistent memory
• Collaborate closely on system architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability engineering
• Contribute directly to product roadmap decisions based on real customer usage and production insights

Requirements

Must-Have

• 7–10 years of backend engineering experience
• Demonstrated ability to build with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, or comparable)
• Ability and willingness to submit prompt log transcripts from a feature or product you are proud of
• Strong Python fundamentals
• Strong PostgreSQL or comparable relational database fundamentals
• Comfort owning systems end-to-end in production
• Based in India, remote work from anywhere in the country

Nice-to-Have

• Prior AI infrastructure or developer tools product experience
• FastAPI fluency
• Open-source contributions in AI, memory, vector databases, or developer tools
• Prior experience in memory systems, RAG pipelines, or vector database engineering
• Public technical writing or conference talks on AI-native engineering practices

Primary Skills

• Observability: ELK (Elasticsearch/Kibana), Prometheus, Grafana, PromQL
• Automation: Java/Vert.x or Python (FastAPI), Shell/Bash, REST/SOAP APIs
• Cloud & Platform: Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis
• Reliability Engineering: Distributed Systems, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, DR & Incident Management
• Stakeholder Management & Cross-functional Collaboration

Secondary Skills

• Agentic AI: LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, MCP
• LLM Integration & AI Frameworks
• Python (FastAPI)

Key Responsibilities

• Build and deploy LLM-powered Agentic AI solutions with tool calling and autonomous workflows.
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing applications using modern AI frameworks.
• Own platform reliability through SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, MTTD/MTTR, and operational governance.
• Enhance observability using ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, and advanced alerting.
• Lead incident response, RCA, disaster recovery, and resiliency initiatives.
• Drive production readiness, automation, platform stability, and infrastructure optimization.

Your responsibilities could include:

• Managing your area of responsibility, including providing support, absence management, discipline and grievance, and recruitment activities
• Effectively setting out goals and objectives for your team, including those for supervisory roles that may fall under your reporting line and structure
• Acting as a role model and always behaving in line with our company values
• Driving employee engagement by personal interaction and engagement with your team in order to develop and coach them in their duties and responsibilities
• Managing contractual budgets in line with financial targets
• Ensuring all aspects of the required security services are being delivered to the customers’ satisfaction and in accordance with the contract
• Ensuring there are sufficient trained, licenced and vetted staff working at all times to meet customer and contract requirements
• Ensuring contract required training and screening / vetting has been completed for all security staff
• Developing professional customer relationships, responding appropriately to customer requests and concerns
• Completing effective health & safety assessments, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of any incidents, involvement in subsequent investigations and providing input into health & safety committees or forums.
• Completing risk assessments and site evaluations as well as completing monthly performance reports and billing schedules
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Skills and experience

Ideally, we’re looking for people with

• A checkable personal history including periods of education, employment, travel and unemployment
• Prior experience of working in a similar operational management role , ideally within the security industry
• A valid security industry licence or accepted certificate of security competence
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interacting both internally and externally
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to successfully manage a team
• Track record of working in a fast paced and demanding environmen