Founding ML Engineer

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

We're seeking an exceptional design leader to manage and guide a team of talented multidisciplinary designers in one of the fastest growing tech startups of the nation to drive it towards becoming the best design team in the industry.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Manage the team and the work-

• Own a team of multi-disciplinary designers consisting of product designers, visual designers, visual communication designers and researchers.
• Along with the design leads, manage various design projects and their priorities.
• Help the team in resolving blockers. Ensure the output meets business goals,
• deadlines and the quality bar.

Shape up product direction and drive design-led projects-

• Take part in ideation, planning and prioritization of our diverse range of products & features keeping the short and long-term goals of the organization in mind.
• Find out new directions that we can take in our quest to make payments and finance easy and accessible to all.
• Strategise, prioritize and drive design-led projects. Also, help to extend the existing design systems and build new ones.

Mentor, Guide and Lead the Team-

• You will be responsible for the growth of the team. Help them grow their soft and hard skills. Help them define their career paths, identify opportunities and level up to do the best work of their lives.

Raise the Bar-

• You will set the bar high. You know what quality looks like and how to help product teams ship at that quality with minimal impact on velocity.

Drive and improve the design process-

• Iterate upon and improve the design processes to introduce the best practices within the team. Bring in users to the center of the process and encourage design decisions to be backed by user-behavior and data.
• Create frameworks and guidelines for the team to deliver better and faster.
• Conduct design reviews and status meetings. Facilitate design sprints, workshops, brainstorming sessions.
• Prioritize research and design improvement opportunities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Share engineering principles to guide

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

We're seeking an exceptional design leader to manage and guide a team of talented multidisciplinary designers in one of the fastest growing tech startups of the nation to drive it towards becoming the best design team in the industry.

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

We treat all our employees as adults. We think that you can do your best with freedom to experiment, sense of ownership of your work, license to fail and when you have peers who care just as much as you about their art. We default to transparency because everyone can contribute to anything, and it's only possible if you get to know what's going on.

We believe in having the best tools for the job. We are happy paying customers of Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision, GitHub, Principle and Slack, some of the most important tools in our workflow.

We think that you can do your best with freedom to experiment, sense of ownership of your work, license to fail and when you have peers who care just as much as you about their art.

We prefer to mingle with the community through meetups and conferences on topics as broad as daylight. And at the end of the day we accept that we are humans, fallible to error, learning through errors together. After all, there's comedy in error too.

Strong Head of Engineering / Engineering Director / VP Engineering Profiles.

Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have minimum 15+ years of overall experience in software engineering roles

Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have minimum 8+ years of experience in senior engineering leadership roles (Head of Engineering, Director, Engineering Manager, or equivalent)

Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have strong hands-on proficiency in .NET, Python, and Node.js, with the ability to guide teams on coding standards and best practices

Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, specifically PostgreSQL and MongoDB

Mandatory (Experience 5): Must have strong understanding of system architecture principles, scalable system design, and hands-on experience with design patterns such as DDD and CQRS

Mandatory (Experience 6): Must have hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native microservices, preferably on Azure, with strong exposure to Docker and Kubernetes

Mandatory (Experience 7): Must have proven experience building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing engineering teams across ERP, POS, and Integration platforms

Mandatory (Experience 8): Must have ownership of end-to-end product delivery, including planning, execution, release management, and production readiness for SaaS

Mandatory (Note): Candidate should be from Kolkata or neayby states, Do ensure their willingness to relocate if they are not from Kolkata

Preferred

About Cognida.ai

Our Purpose is to boost your competitive advantage using AI and Analytics.

We Deliver tangible business impact with data-driven insights powered by AI. Drive revenue growth, increase profitability and improve operational efficiencies.

We Are technologists with keen business acumen - Forever curious, always on the front lines of technological advancements. Applying our latest learnings, and tools to solve your everyday business challenges.

We Believe the power of AI should not be the exclusive preserve of the few. Every business, regardless of its size or sector deserves the opportunity to harness the power of AI to make better decisions and drive business value.

We See a world where our AI and Analytics solutions democratise decision intelligence for all businesses. With Cognida.ai, our motto is ‘No enterprise left behind’.

Qualifications 

Bachelor's degree in BE/B. Tech /MCA

6+ years of experience

Position: Integration Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, India

Job Description

• Strong hands-on experience building and managing integrations using Workato along with any (similar iPaaS platforms such as Boomi or MuleSoft)
• Solid understanding of API-based integrations, data flows, and automation workflows
• Ability to triage and resolve connectivity issues with external and third-party SaaS systems (e.g Salesforce, Sharepoint, NetSuite)
• Ability to work collaboratively with our Implementation and Product teams to design, test, and deploy integrations

Location: Remote (US preferred) | Type: Full-Time | Team Size: 12-person product org

Industry: Fintech / Lending SaaS | Stack: PHP, Python, AWS, LangChain, OpenAI, CrewAI

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What We’re Building

We’re LendingWise — a B2B SaaS platform powering over 250 lenders, brokers, and banks nationwide. We’re launching a next-gen AI Agent Platform for the mortgage/lending lifecycle: document verification, pricing engines, automated workflows, and multi-agent orchestration — all fully integrated with our CRM/LOS.

You’ll lead the design and development of:

• Modular AI agent system (n8n, CrewAI, LangChain, or your recs)
• Workflow builder UI (admin-facing, trigger/condition/action logic)
• Tool registry + field mapping layer (to connect LendingWise + 3rd-party APIs like CoreLogic, Qualia)
• Document AI module using OCR (Textract or Google)
• Python AI microservices running next to our PHP monolith
• OpenAPI 3.1 upgrade of our current endpoints

🛠️ 

Your Role

• Act as hands-on architect and lead engineer
• Own integration of LLMs, workflows, and document tools into real loan files
• Design scalable agent orchestration, triggers, and tool execution
• Collaborate with CTO, 5 full stack engineers (PHP), and 2 product owners
• Prototype and ship the MVP in 4–6 months, scale from there

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About You

• You’ve built real-world agent workflows or automation platforms (AI or not)
• You’re fluent in LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI API, or similar
• You’ve shipped production software integrating external APIs and business logic
• You’re comfortable leading architecture, writing Python services, and advising on where PHP stays or goes
• You balance speed with technical vision — you build for iteration, not just demos

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Bonus Skills

• Experience with mortgage or financial software
• PHP knowledge (to interface with legacy systems)
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or tool registry concepts
• Vector databases, RAG, embeddings, Doc AI APIs

📈 Why This Role?

• Massive greenfield AI project with real customers, real use cases, real docs
• No fluff. Small team. Fast cycles. Visible outcomes.
• You’ll architect something that might become the “AI Copilot of Lending”

✅ Apply if you’re ready to:

• Own the architecture
• Write production Python
• Help shape the next chapter of AI in lending tech

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala,
• MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS), and the likes
• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting
• services, so you'll be flexible about travel
• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title
• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside the Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

• 6 + years of Hands-on development and delivery experience with Java, Scala, and the likes
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)
• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems

About Seek

We are building a consumer-first rewards platform that brings personalised offers and rewards for every consumer.

This is a very early opportunity, you will be working with the Founding team to build Seek's first product and business from the ground up.

What will I do in this role?

- develop designs into high-perfomance Flutter apps for Android and iOS

- own and be responsible for performance, security and experience on the Seek mobile apps

What's in it for me?

- You'll be one of the earliest members in the team

- Experience how a startup is built in its early days

- Explore and acquire new skills along with building depth in your desired field of work

Required Skills and Interests

- Flutter

- Firebase

- Android/iOS Development

- AWS

- Full-stack experience preferred

• Experience in developing large scale, highly available, complex front-end development using JavaScript, React.js and ReactNative.
• Strong knowledge in both web and mobile application development.
• Knowledge, skills, and experience to write detailed design documentation, and functional specifications for application development.
• Write well designed, efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Work with other senior Developers to resolve/debug program errors.
• Knowledge and ability to apply OOD (Java, HTML, XML, Java Script, and Patterns) and impact to the application development process.
• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies (preferably Scrum).
• Knowledge of database design and data structure libraries,(e.g., Immutable.js).
• Developing new user-facing features using React.js.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.
• Actively aid the consulting team in different phases of the project including problem definition, effort estimation, diagnosis, solution generation, design development and deployment.
• Experience with data structure libraries,(e.g, Immutable.js).
• Contributing to team meetings, troubleshooting development.
• Good understanding of HTML CSS and front-end design technologies.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships, supporting company leadership and other team members.
• Ability to manage multiple and changing priorities/tasks.
• Must like to continuously improve code, product and process.
• Must work with a strong professional and ownership mindset.
• Strong working experience in JavaScript, ReactNative and ReactJs is required.
• In-depth understanding of Javascript, the DOM, and relevant concepts.
• Proficiency in Typescript.
• Should have hands-on experience with testing libraries like jest & enzyme.
• Must be strong in logic and coding abilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be passionate and self-motivated.
• Excellent team player and good communication skills.