Founding Engineer

AI / Backend Engineer — Remote (India / Overseas)

Company: Ink'd

Compensation: $1,500–$2,500 USD/month, depending on experience

Type: Independent contractor, long-term opportunity

Ink'd is building a voice-first AI platform for residential real estate transactions. Our AI assistant allows real estate agents to generate contracts, automate workflows, and complete transaction documentation through natural conversation.

We're looking for a highly capable AI/backend engineer to help scale and maintain our production platform.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production AI agent workflows
• Develop integrations with third-party APIs and services
• Work with LLMs, structured data extraction, and document generation
• Troubleshoot production systems and improve reliability
• Build scalable backend services and maintain databases
• Collaborate directly with the founder and engineering team

Technical experience

• Python, FastAPI, Node.js, and REST APIs
• LLM APIs, tool calling, and agent orchestration
• PostgreSQL and cloud infrastructure
• GitHub, CI/CD, debugging, and deployment
• Experience with voice AI, WebSockets, or document processing is a major plus

What we're looking for

Someone who has independently shipped production software, can troubleshoot unfamiliar systems, communicates clearly, and takes ownership of their work.

Please include your GitHub, two examples of production systems you've built, your specific contributions, monthly compensation expectations, and availability.

We're hiring Drumbeat's first Senior Product Engineer to help us go to the next level.

We're not first-timers. We're the team that founded Phrasee in 2015 and grew it to more than 100 people, customers around the world, and a >$100m exit. Lots of people made lots of money, including the founding employees.

With Drumbeat, our plan is to do it all again… except this time, bigger and faster.

What is Drumbeat?

Drumbeat (www.drumbeat.com) predicts your next best action on LinkedIn, then copilots your team to turn invites, DMs and posts into pipeline.

We launched in September 2025 and have raised a £2m seed round led by a well-known VC. We're building the core team around our cofounders (Parry, Jonny and Dan) and Mohit, our Engineering Manager and Phrasee's first engineer. You'll report to Mohit.

What you'll be building on

• Setlist: a short, ordered list of the right things for each person to do today.
• Radar: predicts who each rep should connect with now, not everybody who matches a job-title search.
• Riff and AuthorDNA: help people find something worth saying, and write it in their own voice.
• Campaigns, Conversations, Backstage and Analytics: team-wide activity, replies, company knowledge and reporting.

Under the hood: Django and PostgreSQL, background jobs on Redis, LLM workflows, statistical models that learn what works, and integrations with LinkedIn and CRMs. A lot of our code is written with AI coding agents, inside a strict engineering process.

How we think about engineering

1. "Human-first AI, not AI-first humans." AI agents write a lot of our code. They don't make our decisions. We want someone super smart without AI, and even smarter with it, who knows when the machine is blowing smoke.
2. "Spend 55 minutes on the problem." Understand what's actually wrong before you fix it.
3. "Fix the class, not the instance." Every bug is an example of something bigger. Find the pattern, and fix it everywhere it lives.
4. "A check must be able to fail." A test you've never seen go red proves nothing.
5. "You don't need a Ferrari to drive to the supermarket." Simplicity over cleverness, every time.

What you'll own

1. Technical architecture. How Drumbeat is built, so it holds up as we add customers, features and integrations.
2. Shipping features end to end. From Parry and Mohit's briefs, and turning Parry's MVPs into production features.
3. Foundations. Scale, resilience (safe retries, timeouts and fallbacks when outside services wobble), cost and refactoring.
4. What you build. Once it's live, it's yours: you maintain it and fix it.
5. The hardest bugs. The ones nobody else can crack.

Your experience

• 8+ years as an engineer, at a product company, preferably B2B SaaS.
• Time at a smaller company, so you know how to get stuck in.
• You've owned a system in production, not just added features to one.
• Senior Python and Django: Postgres, background jobs, correctness in production.
• System architecture and refactoring.
• You direct AI coding agents well, and explain trade-offs in plain English to people who aren't engineers.

Where you'll work

Delhi / NCR. You'll be in our Delhi office some days each week, alongside Mohit.

Pay

₹40–65 lakh CTC, plus equity that vests as the company hits revenue milestones.

This is probably not a job for most people. Don't apply if you want an easy job. Apply if you want a hard one: lots of responsibility, very little bureaucracy, plenty to figure out, and a genuine chance to shape what this company becomes… and make a bunch of money as a result.

If that sounds exciting, LET'S PARTY.

Key Skills :

• Builds AI-powered business applications end to end, from the Python/FastAPI service layer through

to React-based user interfaces, deployed on Databricks

• Designs and builds APIs connecting AI agents, governed data and user-facing workflows, including

decision capture, audit logging and file exports for downstream systems

• Codes rule-based decision engines in Python (e.g. allocation or replenishment logic) that work

alongside ML models

• Integrates LLM agent runtimes into applications, including tool calls, streamed responses and cited

outputs

• Writes performant SQL against governed data and ensures services operate within defined access

boundaries

• Builds interactive screens, dashboards and conversational interfaces that let users review and act

on AI recommendations

• Works closely with GenAI/ML engineers, data engineers and BA

Only immediate joiners are considered.

About Juicelabs

Where creative engineering meets applied AI.

We build vertical, AI-native tools that unlock fresh insights and creative superpowers for clients in advertising, ecommerce, and beyond. We're a nimble team of founders and builders obsessed with using AI to solve real problems in ways that didn't exist eighteen months ago.

The Opportunity

A year ago, we would have posted this as a backend role. That role doesn't really exist any more.

Code has become nearly invisible. Agents write it, test it, and iterate on it faster than anyone could read it. What's left is the work above it: deciding what's worth building, designing systems that hold up at 10x, and building the setup that turns a clear spec into working software.

That's the job. At your level, it isn't one system. It's several workstreams, running at once.

You'll work directly with our Cofounder/CTO on products going from zero to one, with AI at the core of both what we build and how we build it. Real ownership, real scope, and an unusual amount of leverage: one engineer with good judgment and a well-tuned agent setup now ships what a small team used to.

What you'll do

• Own multiple workstreams in parallel. Two or three features of the same product moving at once, each with its own scope, edge cases, and failure modes. You decide where your attention goes this week, and nothing goes stale.
• Run a fleet, not a single agent. Design the setup that makes high-throughput work possible: how work gets broken down, specced, and run across many agents at once, so output scales without things breaking.
• Design the system. Service boundaries, data models, failure modes. Make the architectural calls before a line gets generated, and be able to explain the trade-off six months later.
• Write the spec. PRDs and technical designs are the new source code. A vague spec produces confidently wrong software, fast. Scope, edge cases, non-goals, what "done" means.
• Own it end to end. Ideation → design → build → deploy → monitor → iterate, including functional UX. Nobody hands you tickets.
• Set the workflow. Bring your harness: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, subagents, custom commands, eval loops — whatever makes agents reliable rather than merely impressive. We want to steal your good ideas.

What we're looking for

• High agency. You see the gap and close it. You don't wait for direction, and you don't need to be chased for follow-through. This is the single trait we screen hardest for. And you can do it across several workstreams at once, without dropping threads.
• Real system design depth. You can reason about consistency, caching, queues, and scale — and about complexity, because you need to know when an elegant-looking solution is quietly quadratic. LeetCode ninja not required. Being able to explain why this won't blow up at 10x, very much required.
• Clear thinking, put to paper. You get the thinking straight first, then write it down so nobody has to guess: PRDs, design docs, PR comments. Writing is most of how you'll direct both humans and models, and muddy thinking on paper becomes muddy software.
• You've shipped to production. Deployed things, monitored them, been paged by them, fixed them. Docker, CI/CD, cloud infra. Our stack is mostly Python (FastAPI), Postgres, GCP/AWS — but we care more about how you think than which framework you've memorised.
• You orchestrate AI, not just use it. Not "I've tried Copilot," and not just "I use Claude Code." You've run multiple agents in parallel and developed opinions: how to split work so they don't step on each other, where they excel, where they confidently lie, how you structure a repo so they don't wander, and how you verify what comes back at volume.
• Startup energy. Multiple hats, fast cycles, and the judgment to balance "ship it now" against "will this survive contact with real users?"

Experience

3–6 years of professional experience (full-time positions, excluding internships).

Location / How to apply

On-site at our office in HSR Layout, Bangalore.

Apply through this posting, or email us with a link to the best thing you've built.

About PortOne

PortOne is building the reconciliation and data intelligence layer for payments across Korea and international markets. We are a Series B startup backed by Softbank and Hanwa Capital, powering multi-billion dollars in annualised settlement volume for 2,000+ merchants across Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and beyond.

We are building AI-native products for leading brands — intelligent automation layers on top of complex financial data pipelines. If you want to work at the intersection of fintech, data engineering, and applied AI, this is your role.

Culture and Values

* You will be joining a team that stands for making a difference.

* You will be joining a culture that identifies more with Sports Teams rather than a 9 to 5 workplace.

* Your will have peers who are/have

** Highly Self Driven with A sense of purpose

** High Energy Levels - Building stuff is your sport

** Ownership - Solve customer problems end to end - Customer is your Boss

** Hunger to learn - Highly motivated to keep developing new tech skill sets

Your Work Ethic

* You are an athlete and building apps is your sport.

* Your passion drives you to learn and build stuff and not because your manager tells you to.

* You obsess over correctness — a bug in a settlement figure or a silent data drop is not acceptable to you.

* You have an eye for detail that most engineers skip past, and you take pride in getting it exactly right.

* Your work ethic is that of an athlete preparing for your next marathon. Your sport drives you and you like being in the zone.

* You are NOT a clockwatcher renting out your time, and NOT have an attitude of "I will do only what is asked for"

What will you do?

• Build and maintain financial data ingestion pipelines that pull settlement and transaction data from marketplace platforms (Amazon, Shopee, TikTok, Qoo10, Rakuten) on behalf of large brands operating across multiple Asian markets.
• Own reconciliation workflows end-to-end — from raw marketplace data to verified, merchant-ready settlement reports — ensuring every figure is correct and every discrepancy is surfaced, not swallowed.
• Design and implement AI-native features that automate financial analysis: agentic triage of settlement mismatches, root-cause detection across large transaction volumes, and intelligent alerting for ops and merchant teams.
• Instrument data quality and health monitoring so that silent failures — missing records, schema shifts, delayed ingestion — are caught before they reach the merchant.
• Build APIs and tooling that enable PortOne's ops and merchant success teams to investigate, verify, and close financial discrepancies faster and with more confidence.
• Expand platform coverage by integrating new marketplaces and new report types, working closely with data formats that are often inconsistent, undocumented, or changing without notice.
• Uphold rigorous engineering standards — correctness in financial data is not negotiable, and you treat edge cases and off-by-one errors with the same seriousness as a production incident.
• Uphold high engineering standards across codebases and processes.
• Collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and operations stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

* Have ideally 4 to 6 Years of experience shipping high quality products/live features and workflows

*AI-native development — you build products where AI is a first-class component, not a bolt-on.

* Strong backend engineering foundation — Go (Preferred), Python, or equivalent; REST/gRPC APIs; database design.

* Understands how to build scalable, resilient, and observable distributed systems.

* Must have built data flows and applications end to end taking full ownership

Preferred Skills and Background

*Prior experience/built apps in golang backend

*Data and data engineering background — comfortable with data pipelines, ETL/ELT patterns, event-driven architectures, reconciliation logic, or analytical workloads.

*AI agentic development — experience building or working with agent frameworks, tool-use patterns, LLM orchestration, or automated reasoning pipelines.

Job Title : Full-Stack AI Product Engineer

Experience : 3+ Years

Work Mode : Remote

Time Zone : IST

Engagement Type : Freelance

Availability : Must be comfortable attending US client calls during IST night hours.

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Full-Stack AI Product Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying production-ready AI-powered applications. The ideal candidate should have strong Python backend development skills, practical expertise in LLMs, AI agents, RAG pipelines and tool calling, along with basic frontend development knowledge.

Mandatory Skills :

Python, FastAPI, AI / LLMs, AI Agents, RAG, Tool Calling, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, GCP / Cloud Run, CI/CD, Basic React.js / Next.js.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop and maintain AI-powered products using Python and FastAPI.
• Build and integrate LLM-based applications, AI agents, RAG pipelines and tool-calling workflows.
• Develop scalable backend services and REST APIs.
• Work with PostgreSQL and Redis for data storage, caching and performance optimization.
• Containerize applications using Docker and deploy services on GCP, preferably Cloud Run.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and follow production deployment best practices.
• Develop and integrate basic frontend features using React.js or Next.js.
• Troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance and ensure application reliability.
• Collaborate with US-based clients and stakeholders during IST night hours when required.

Required Skills :

• 3+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and FastAPI.
• Hands-on experience with AI / LLMs and production-level AI product development.
• Practical experience building AI agents, RAG pipelines and tool / function-calling workflows.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Experience with Docker, GCP / Cloud Run and CI/CD pipelines.
• Basic working knowledge of React.js or Next.js.
• Understanding of REST APIs, application architecture, deployment and production debugging.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience deploying and maintaining AI applications in production.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks and vector databases.
• Experience with cloud-native application development and monitoring.

Important Requirements :

• Must have demonstrable, hands-on experience delivering production-grade AI products.
• Must be comfortable working remotely and coordinating with US clients during IST night hours.

ou will work closely with AI engineers, product teams, and domain experts to build intelligent document processing and knowledge automation solutions. Responsibilities include:

• Develop AI-powered document ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Build knowledge extraction engines using NLP, Machine Learning, and Generative AI.
• Develop document-to-knowledge compilers that transform PDFs, Word documents, policies, regulations, and manuals into structured knowledge.
• Build AI agents and Agentic AI workflows for enterprise automation.
• Develop rule extraction and rule generation frameworks from business documents.
• Create semantic search and enterprise knowledge retrieval solutions.
• Develop backend APIs and AI services using Python.
• Design and optimize document processing pipelines for scalability and performance.
• Build and maintain MySQL databases for knowledge repositories and AI applications.
• Integrate LLMs from providers such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, and open-source ecosystems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable AI architectures.
• Participate in code reviews and follow software engineering best practices.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI and GenAI technologies.

REQUIRED SKILLS — PROGRAMMING & DEVELOPMENT

• Strong proficiency in Python and a solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
• Experience building REST APIs and backend services.
• Experience working with JSON, XML, and structured data formats.
• Knowledge of software design patterns and scalable architecture.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING

• Strong understanding of Machine Learning concepts and algorithms.
• Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Understanding of prompt engineering techniques.
• Knowledge of Agentic AI concepts and AI agent architectures.
• Experience developing AI-powered applications and workflows.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

AI & GenAI: Python · OpenAI · Azure OpenAI · Hugging Face · Agentic AI Frameworks · LLMs · NLP · Machine Learning

Knowledge Systems: ChromaDB · Pinecone · FAISS · Vector Databases · Semantic Search

Document Processing: Docling · OCR · PDF Processing · Apache Tika · Document Intelligence

Backend: Python · FastAPI · Flask · REST APIs

Database: MySQL

Tools & Technologies: Git · Docker · JSON · CI/CD · Azure / AWS / GCP

Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled Python Full Stack / Agentic AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications and intelligent agentic workflows. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python, FastAPI, LLMs, RAG, LangChain/LangGraph, and modern full-stack development.

You will work on building scalable backend services, integrating Large Language Models, developing AI agents, implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and creating production-ready AI applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend applications using Python and FastAPI.
• Build and deploy Agentic AI solutions using LLMs and agent frameworks.
• Develop multi-step and multi-agent workflows using LangChain and LangGraph.
• Design and implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines.
• Integrate LLMs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or open-source models.
• Develop prompt engineering strategies and structured LLM workflows.
• Work with vector databases and embedding models for semantic search and knowledge retrieval.
• Build APIs and microservices for AI-powered applications.
• Integrate AI services with databases, third-party APIs, and enterprise systems.
• Develop conversation memory, tool calling, function calling, and agent orchestration capabilities.
• Implement evaluation, monitoring, logging, guardrails, and error handling for AI applications.
• Optimize applications for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend developers, data engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and production-ready code.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, and deployment activities.

Required Skills

Programming & Backend

• Strong proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI, REST APIs, and backend development.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, API design, authentication, and middleware.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.

Generative AI / Agentic AI

• Strong understanding of LLMs and Generative AI.
• Hands-on experience building AI Agents / Agentic AI applications.
• Experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph.
• Knowledge of agent orchestration, tool calling, function calling, memory, and workflow management.
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering.

RAG

• Experience designing and implementing RAG architectures.
• Knowledge of document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, retrieval, reranking, and response generation.
• Experience with vector databases such as FAISS, Chroma, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or similar.

LLM & AI Integration

• Experience integrating commercial or open-source LLMs.
• Understanding of embeddings, context windows, temperature, token usage, and model selection.
• Experience with structured outputs and LLM-based workflows.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation and observability is a plus.

Full Stack

• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with React.js or similar frontend frameworks is preferred.
• Ability to integrate frontend applications with Python/FastAPI services.

About Us

We believe the future of software development is AI-native — where engineers operate at a higher level of abstraction and quality remains non-negotiable. 

Incubyte is a software craft consultancy where the “how” of building software matters as much as the “what”.  

We partner with companies of all sizes, from helping enterprises build, scale, and modernize to early-stage founders bring their ideas to life. 

Our engineers operate in an AI-native development model, using AI as a collaborator across the SDLC to accelerate development while upholding the discipline of software craftsmanship. Guided by Software Craftsmanship and Extreme Programming practices, we build reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems with speed, without compromising quality. If this way of building software resonates with you, we’d like to talk. 

Our Guiding Principles 

These principles define how we work at Incubyte. They are non-negotiable. 

Relentless Pursuit of Quality with Pragmatism 

  We build high-quality systems without losing sight of delivery. 

Extreme Ownership 

  We take responsibility end-to-end for decisions, execution, and outcomes. 

Proactive Collaboration 

  We collaborate closely, challenge each other, and solve problems together. 

Active Pursuit of Mastery 

  We continuously improve our craft and raise our bar. 

Invite, Give, and Act on Feedback 

We seek, give, and act on feedback to get better every day. 

Ensuring Client Success 

We act as trusted partners and focus on real outcomes, not just output. 

Experience Level

This role is ideal for engineers with total 3+ years of experience with a proven track record of shipping complex projects successfully.

An experienced individual contributor and leader who thrives in large, complex projects with widespread impact.

What You’ll Do as a Software Craftsperson 

• Design and build high-quality, maintainable systems using disciplined engineering practices such as TDD, continuous refactoring, and pair programming 
• Operate in an AI-native development model, using AI as a collaborator to explore architecture and design, accelerate development, and continuously improve systems while applying strong judgment to ensure that speed never compromises quality 
• Take end-to-end ownership of outcomes from problem understanding and system design to implementation, deployment, and operation in production 
• Make thoughtful design decisions that balance simplicity, scalability, and long-term maintainability in real-world systems 
• Maintain a high bar for engineering quality through rigorous testing, code reviews, and continuous feedback 
• Investigate and resolve production issues, and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence 
• Work directly with clients, navigate ambiguity, and translate business problems into well-designed technical solutions 
• Contribute to improving team practices, tooling, and systems to raise the overall quality and effectiveness of engineering 

Requirements

What You’ll Bring 

• 3+ years of experience building high-quality, production systems (flexible based on demonstrated capability) 
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including object-oriented design, system design, and testing practices such as TDD 
• Demonstrated ability to build simple, maintainable, and scalable systems with a focus on long-term reliability 
• Proficiency in one or more modern technologies, Python, PHP, JavaScript, or TypeScript, with the ability to learn new technologies quickly 
• Deep experience working with Git in collaborative environments, including managing shared codebases, conducting code reviews, and maintaining a high bar for quality 
• Ability to operate effectively in an AI-native workflow using AI as a collaborator to explore solutions and accelerate development, while applying strong judgment to ensure correctness, quality, and maintainability 
• Clear thinking and strong problem-solving ability, with the capacity to break down complex problems into simple, well-structured solutions 
• A strong sense of ownership — you take responsibility for outcomes, care deeply about quality, and are not comfortable shipping work that does not meet your standards.

Benefits

Life at Incubyte 

We are a remote-first company with structured flexibility. Teams commit to shared rhythms during core hours, ensuring smooth collaboration while maintaining autonomy. Twice a year, we come together in person for a co-working sprint and once a year for a retreat - with all travel expenses covered. 

Our environment is built for crafters: pairing, refactoring, experimenting with AI, and pushing the boundaries of software excellence. We are all lifelong learners, and our work is our passion. 

Perks

• Dedicated learning & development budget. 
• Sponsorship for conference talks. 
• Comprehensive medical & term insurance. 
• Employee-friendly leave policies. 
• Home Office fund 
• Medical Insurance

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled Python Developer with experience in Generative AI and Agentic AI to develop AI-powered applications and scalable backend services.

Mandatory Skills

• Python
• Generative AI (GenAI) / Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• LangChain / LangGraph
• Agentic AI
• FastAPI
• REST API development
• Vector Databases
• Prompt Engineering
• Microservices

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python-based applications and backend services.
• Build GenAI/LLM-powered applications and AI solutions.
• Implement RAG pipelines for document processing and information retrieval.
• Develop AI agents using LangChain/LangGraph and Agentic AI frameworks.
• Build and integrate REST APIs using FastAPI.
• Work with vector databases for embeddings, semantic search, and retrieval.
• Design and optimize prompts to improve LLM response quality.
• Develop scalable microservices and integrate AI models into applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-based solutions.
• Troubleshoot, test, and optimize application performance.

Required Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience in Python development.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI/LLMs, RAG, and Agentic AI.
• Practical experience with LangChain/LangGraph, FastAPI, and REST APIs.
• Knowledge of vector databases, prompt engineering, and microservices.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to develop and deploy production-ready AI applications.