Hands‑on Tech Lead / Founding Engineer at Clemens Capital Partners · Remote only · 3 - 6 years · $35K - $50K / yr · Raised funding · Remote only · Posted 26 Dec 2025

Title: Hands‑on Tech Lead (AI Agents, Automations, Chatbots)
Type: Full‑time (preferred) or full‑time‑equivalent contractor
Location: Remote (India-friendly), must overlap with founder for live collaboration
Comp: Flexible; you indicated up to ~$50k/year is comfortable for the right person
Why this role exists
We build and deploy rough-but-working “minimum viable applications” fast (days/weeks, not months) for small businesses, then gradually extract reusable components so the best solutions become repeatable products.
You’ll be the engineering owner who can design + ship, keep quality “clean enough,” and avoid the long-term trap of one-off scripts.
What you’ll build
- AI-agent driven automations using n8n (including agentic workflows, tool usage, memory/DB access, and production hardening). n8n explicitly positions AI Agents as autonomous workflows that make decisions and execute tasks, and provides dedicated AI agent capability pages/docs.
- Conversational chatbots (web + messaging + optionally voice) with reliable orchestration, state, and analytics
- Voice experiences using ElevenLabs Text‑to‑Speech (and optionally Speech‑to‑Text), including real-time or low-latency flows.
- Admin/internal tooling (e.g., Retool) to manage clients, prompts, workflows, logs, and operations. Retool’s own positioning: connect to databases/APIs/LLMs and build internal tools.
- (If applicable) Voice agent platforms such as Retell AI (inbound/outbound voice agent platform + docs).
Responsibilities
Shipping (hands-on)
- Build the first end‑to‑end “vertical slices” yourself (agent/workflow → backend/service → DB → UI/admin → deployment).
- Deliver working MVAs rapidly; optimize for time-to-deploy while maintaining baseline reliability.
Architecture & productization
- Define a lightweight but real architecture that supports:
- multi-client deployments (config/tenant separation)
- prompt/version management
- logging + observability
- secure secret handling
- repeatable integrations and “workflow templates”
- Establish “golden path” patterns so new projects are mostly configuration + reuse.
Leadership
- Lead (and unblock) an Implementation Engineer: tickets, code review, standards, and technical direction.
- Produce short docs and checklists so others can build consistently.
Required experience (must-haves)
- Strong full‑stack fundamentals (API design, auth, data modeling, debugging, deployments).
- Proven experience building automation/workflow systems (preferably n8n in production).
- Experience with LLM + agent patterns: tool calling, retrieval/RAG, structured outputs, prompt/versioning, evaluation, failure handling.
- Conversational chatbot experience (web or messaging). Voice is a plus.
- Ability to design databases and data flows (Postgres/MySQL/etc.), including migrations and indexing.
- Strong written communication: can turn ambiguous needs into a plan, and can document the “how to run it.”
Strong plus
- Retool (or similar low-code internal tooling) experience.
- ElevenLabs voice integration (TTS/STT) in production.
- Experience with Retell AI or similar voice-agent platforms (Vapi/Retell/etc.).
- Experience self-hosting and operating systems: Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, secrets.

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About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to design, build, and integrate AI-driven systems that automate and enhance real-world business workflows. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys full-stack ownership — from backend AI architecture to frontend user experiences — and can align engineering decisions with measurable product outcomes.
You will begin as a strong individual contributor, independently architecting and deploying AI-powered solutions. As the product portfolio scales, you will lead a distributed team across India and Australia, acting as a System Integrator to align engineering, data, and AI contributions into cohesive production systems.
Example Project
Design and deploy a multi-agent AI system to automate critical stages of a company’s sales cycle, including:
- Generating client proposals using historical SharePoint data and CRM insights
- Summarizing meeting transcripts
- Drafting follow-up communications
- Feeding structured insights into dashboards and workflow tools
The solution will combine RAG pipelines, LLM reasoning, and React-based interfaces to deliver measurable productivity gains.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement AI workflows using LLMs, vector databases, and automation frameworks
- Act as a System Integrator, coordinating deliverables across distributed engineering and AI teams
- Develop frontend interfaces using React/JavaScript to enable seamless human-AI collaboration
- Design APIs and microservices integrating AI systems with enterprise platforms (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
- Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, performance, and security
- Collaborate with product managers, clients, and data teams to translate business use cases into production-ready systems
- Mentor junior engineers and evolve into a broader leadership role as the team grows
Ideal Candidate Profile
Experience Requirements
- 5+ years in full-stack development (Python backend + React/JavaScript frontend)
- Strong experience in API and microservice integration
- 2+ years leading technical teams and coordinating distributed engineering efforts
- 1+ year of hands-on AI project experience (LLMs, Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI/Azure AI frameworks)
- Prior experience in B2B SaaS environments, particularly in AI, automation, or enterprise productivity solutions
Technical Expertise
- Designing and implementing AI workflows including RAG pipelines, vector databases, and prompt orchestration
- Ensuring backend and AI systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and secure
- Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
- Experience building production-grade AI systems within enterprise SaaS ecosystems
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Applied AI & Data Engineer to become our first dedicated AI and data engineer.
You’ll build conversational AI experiences across web, mobile, and in-store channels while developing the data foundation behind them. You’ll make key technical decisions and own your work through to production.
What You’ll Do
• Build AI assistants using tool calling to work with real product, search, and order systems
• Design guardrails and evaluation sets to ensure AI responses are accurate and safe
• Build real-time and voice-enabled AI experiences
• Improve product data quality through AI-assisted enrichment and review workflows
• Build data pipelines, analytics, and personalisation systems
• Work closely with web and mobile developers and help guide technical implementation
What You’ll Need
• 6+ years of experience building and running production backend systems
• Strong Python skills, plus experience with JavaScript/TypeScript backends
• Experience shipping at least one LLM-powered feature to real users
• Experience with search and relevance
• Experience building data pipelines and analytics stores
• Comfortable deploying and monitoring services on a major cloud platform
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently
Nice to Have
• Experience with speech or voice AI
• E-commerce or retail technology experience
• Experience building multilingual products
Sapical is looking for an experienced Full Stack Technical Lead to provide technical leadership, engineering governance, delivery management, and people leadership across multiple software development projects.
The role combines hands-on full-stack technical expertise with project delivery and team management responsibilities. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of scalable, secure, and high-quality enterprise applications.
The ideal candidate should have strong experience across React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, APIs, integrations, cloud technologies, and microservices, along with proven experience leading engineering teams.
Experience Required
- 8+ years of overall software engineering experience
- At least 3 years of experience in a Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, or Delivery Lead role
- Experience managing teams of 10+ members
- Strong experience in full-stack application development and technical leadership
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technical design, architecture reviews, and engineering governance across multiple projects.
- Provide technical oversight for React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, APIs, integrations, and cloud-based solutions.
- Manage multiple project streams, delivery plans, risks, dependencies, and resource allocation.
- Drive Agile delivery practices including sprint planning, estimation, tracking, and release management.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
- Mentor development teams and support technical and professional growth.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders, business users, architects, QA, and DevOps teams.
- Monitor project progress and provide regular status reporting to leadership.
- Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and team development.
- Ensure successful delivery within agreed scope, schedule, quality, and budget expectations.
AI & Automation
- Drive the strategic adoption of AI and automation technologies across engineering teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and delivery efficiency through AI and automation.
- Help reduce development effort and time-to-market through effective adoption of emerging technologies.
Technical Requirements
Frontend Technologies
- Strong hands-on experience with React.js
- JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript
- Modern JavaScript frameworks and state management libraries
- Experience building responsive and performance-optimized web applications
Backend Technologies
- Strong experience with Node.js
- Express.js and/or NestJS
- REST APIs and GraphQL
- Microservices architecture
- API integrations and enterprise application development
Databases
Experience with one or more of:
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MS-SQL
Cloud & DevOps
- Docker
- CI/CD pipelines
- AWS and/or Azure
- Monitoring and observability tools
Leadership & Delivery Competencies
- Project planning and delivery management
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Stakeholder management
- Risk and issue management
- Resource planning and team allocation
- Executive reporting and communication
- Team leadership and mentoring
- Continuous improvement and process governance
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale digital transformation projects
- Experience managing distributed teams
- Experience working in client-facing engagements
What Success Looks Like
- Successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects
- High customer and stakeholder satisfaction
- Strong engineering quality and governance
- Effective team leadership and retention
- Consistent adherence to project timelines and delivery commitments
Why This Role?
This is an opportunity to take ownership of full-stack engineering and technical delivery, while leading teams and driving engineering excellence across enterprise projects.
You will play a key role in shaping technical solutions, improving engineering processes, mentoring teams, and driving the adoption of AI and automation across engineering.
Key Skills
React.js | Node.js | TypeScript | JavaScript | Express.js | NestJS | MongoDB | PostgreSQL | REST API | GraphQL | Microservices | Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Azure | Agile | Technical Leadership | Team Management | AI & Automation
We are looking for an Engineering Lead to own the entire technology stack — from onboarding and underwriting to disbursals, repayments, and collections — and to build the engineering function into something genuinely AI-native.
What You'll Own
● Full tech stack: backend, frontend, infrastructure, integrations, and data pipelines
● Real-time underwriting and decisioning systems
● LOS/LMS architecture — onboarding, disbursals, repayments, and collections
● Integrations with bureaus, KYC providers, account aggregators, and payment gateways
● Reconciliation systems — disbursement, repayment, and NACH reconciliation end-to-end
● AWS infrastructure: scaling, reliability, uptime, and cloud cost ownership ● Data infrastructure for the credit and risk team — feature pipelines, model serving, experiment infrastructure
● Engineering leadership: hiring, sprint planning, code reviews, and execution standards
● Compliance systems: RBI guidelines, DPDP, KYC/AML, e-NACH, e-sign
AI-Native Engineering
This is a core part of the role, not a bonus. You will build a machine-readable knowledge base of the entire codebase — architecture, data models, service contracts, coding standards, decision history — so that AI agents working on code have the context to produce accurate, consistent output. You will build skills for code review, developer onboarding, and recurring engineering workflows. You will build a code review pipeline where agents do the first pass on every pull request. The knowledge base and the skills improve over time as the team grows and the product evolves.
What We're Looking For
● 7+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years leading teams or architecture
● Strong hands-on experience with Python, Django, and React Native
● Deep expertise in AWS and cloud-native architecture
● Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
● Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API design
● Experience owning reconciliation or payment flow infrastructure in a lending or payments context
● Prior experience in fintech / NBFC / digital lending — mandatory
● Strong understanding of the full loan lifecycle — mandatory
● You have used LLMs seriously as engineering tools and have strong opinions about what makes AI-assisted development produce good output versus mediocre output
Bonus: Kubernetes / Kafka, AI/ML-driven underwriting, Account Aggregator framework, e-NACH / e-Sign / Video KYC integrations
What Success Looks Like
● scales with strong uptime, performance, and reliability
● Reconciliation runs cleanly — no financial discrepancies surface late ● A new engineer joins and is writing standard, correct code within their first week
● The credit team is never blocked on an engineering dependency
● Engineering health metrics are tracked and visibly improving
● AI agents are doing the structured first pass on code reviews, and the system gets smarter over time
Role & Responsibilities
Responsibilities
• Business: Immerse in operations until you think like an insider.
Rapidly acquire domain expertise through direct observation, translate between business and engineering seamlessly, and mentor engineers in your area on immersion. Influence senior stakeholders effectively, manage complex stakeholder landscapes with competing agendas, and build trust rapidly with new stakeholders.
• Delivery: Lead rapid delivery initiatives across teams in your area, coach on prototype-first approaches, and establish trust through consistent fast delivery. Build complete applications rapidly across any technology stack, select the right tools for each problem, and define clear criteria for prototype-to-production transitions.
• Generative AI: Architect RAG systems for complex use cases across teams, implement advanced techniques (hybrid search, reranking, query expansion), mentor engineers on RAG best practices, and establish RAG standards. Lead evaluation strategy across teams, establishing annotation guidelines, training human-calibrated LLM judges, and building evaluation pipelines that connect tracing to datasets to experiments.
• People: Build high-performing teams across your area, navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, foster psychological safety, and create environments where diverse perspectives are valued. Influence through communication at all levels — from frontline to executive. Handle difficult conversations skilfully and train engineers in your area on effective communication.
• AI-Augmented Development: Optimise AI tool usage across teams in your area, train engineers on AI-augmented and agentic engineering workflows, evaluate new AI development tools, and establish practices that balance AI speed with verification rigour.
• Scale: Design complex multi-component systems end-to-end, evaluate architectural options for large initiatives across teams, guide technical decisions for your area, and mentor engineers on architecture. Create debt reduction strategies across teams, influence roadmap decisions to include debt work, and teach engineers when to accept debt for speed versus when to invest in quality.
• Documentation: Define documentation standards across teams in your area, create documentation systems and templates, train engineers on spec-driven development, and ensure documentation quality across projects. Lead pattern generalization initiatives, defining criteria for when to generalize versus keep custom.
• Reliability: Define reliability standards across teams in your area, drive post-incident improvements systematically, design capacity planning processes, andmentor engineers on SRE practices.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Staff Software Engineer / FDE profile (full-stack + production GenAI, multi-team technical leadership)
- Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated full-stack delivery across backend and frontend.
- Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have deep production experience with Python AND JavaScript/TypeScript, working comfortably across the full stack.
- Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have 2+ years of experience in generative AI applications developement — LLM integrations, vector databases, RAG systems, and evaluation pipelines
- Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React) and backend API development.
- Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP valued), including infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation / Terraform).
- Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have working knowledge of multiple database paradigms — relational (PostgreSQL), document, and key-value (Redis) — with ability to select the right storage per problem.
- Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions), containerization, and production deployment strategies.
- Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have demonstrable fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and proven ability to design agentic engineering workflows and train teams on them
- Preferred (Experience) – Advanced RAG techniques — hybrid search, reranking, query expansion — and establishing RAG standards across teams
Role- Sr Senior Engineer
Location -Hyderabad
Shift -Night Shift starts from 8:30 PM IST
About The Role
As a Senior Engineer on the team, you will own systems end to end across a high-volume, event-driven surface. You'll build the APIs and services behind key initiatives including:
- The driver comms platform — the rules engine, cohorting, and scheduling that reach drivers across SMS, push, and email
- The onboarding funnel and applicant tracking layer, architected to support Veho's move to an in-house system over time
- Live selling workflows that turn live offer and market-clearing data into well-timed, well-targeted driver outreach
You'll partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Data Science to ship tooling that scales with Veho's growth.
Responsibilities Include:
- Design, build, test, and deploy features across the driver-facing apps (driver mobile app, onboarding and registration surfaces), our GraphQL APIs, and the event-driven services behind them
- Own a problem end to end: write the design doc your team works from, build it, roll it out behind a feature flag, and stay on it after launch until it is stable
- Own the driver comms platform — the rules engine, cohorting, and scheduling that decide when to reach a driver over SMS, push, or email, and the delivery services behind it
- Build the onboarding funnel and applicant tracking layer: registration and set-password flows, consent and eligibility gating, and the integrations that track where every applicant sits in the funnel
- Build live selling workflows that consume live offer data and market-clearing signals to notify the right driver cohorts only when routes are actually claimable
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical design for complex, distributed systems, and architect today's comms and onboarding infrastructure so it supports the eventual in-house replacement of our third-party ATS rather than becoming throwaway work
- Break a project into milestones your product, design, ops, and data partners can plan against
- Write correctness-first code in an event-driven system where delivery is at-least-once and no driver may be texted twice about the same route — and where a send must never fire when there is no offer to claim
- Improve reliability and observability in the services you own, with alerts that fire on real problems and stay quiet otherwise, so an on-call engineer is paged for a broken send pipeline and not for noise
- Propose the engineering work your team should be doing, including the reliability, data-quality, and compliance work nobody is asking for
- Use AI-native development workflows and tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and similar) as part of how you ship
- Mentor the engineers around you, keep the team's code review bar high, and write down what you learn
What You Bring:
- 5–7+ years of experience building, testing, and deploying applications in high-traffic production environments
- Depth in AWS serverless, including Lambda, a managed GraphQL layer such as AppSync, DynamoDB, EventBridge, and SQS
- Experience with event-driven systems and the idempotency work that comes with at-least-once delivery — especially in a comms context where duplicate or misfired messages reach real people
- Strong full-stack experience with TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and React
- Experience with DynamoDB single-table design
- Experience integrating with third-party platforms and their webhooks, and keeping the data they produce in sync and trustworthy across services
- At least one project owned through production rollout, including what broke afterward and who fixed it
- Experience operating a service in production long enough to own its failure modes
- Judgment about what a design costs in engineering time, dollars, and vendor commitment
- A self-starter mindset with the ability to move quickly and ship iteratively, including on migrations, compliance obligations, and the manual steps nobody has automated yet
- Enthusiasm for working closely with product, design, operations, data science, and support partners
-Tech Stack: AWS, TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native, GraphQL, DynamoDB, serverless event-driven architecture;
multi-channel comms (SMS, push, email); Firebase Auth; Statsig for experimentation; Redshift/Databricks-backed data pipelines
Preferred:
- Experience with applicant tracking / recruiting funnels or other funnel-driven onboarding systems, and the drop-off analysis that improves them
- Experience with experimentation and analytics infrastructure (Statsig, Fivetran, Redshift, Databricks) to measure and tune what you ship
- Consent modeling and compliance obligations (e.g., driver terms-and-conditions and messaging consent) that span services
About the Company
The client is revolutionising the way businesses operate through cutting-edge technological solutions. Their focus is on developing intelligent agents and agentic workflows that automate processes and eliminate the need for human effort wherever possible. By leveraging
advanced AI and machine learning, they create systems that enhance productivity and drive efficiency.
Their expertise extends to the fintech, healthcare and medical technology sectors, where they develop innovative solutions that improve patient outcomes and streamline medical operations.
From medical devices to healthcare platforms, their work sits at the intersection of technology and medicine, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. The team is dedicated to continuous learning and growth, ensuring the team members are always at the forefront of the tech landscape.
About the Role
This is a senior, hands-on engineering role at the heart of our product team. You will be one of the most technical people in the room — setting the architecture for our real-time voice AI
agents and building the hardest parts of it yourself. From the systems that power live conversations to the interfaces our clients rely on, you will own how the product is engineered end to end.
We are looking for a genuine lead full-stack engineer with the depth to make architecture decisions that hold up as we scale, and the appetite to still be in the code every day. You should be as comfortable designing the backend services behind a live voice agent as you are shaping a clean interface on top of them — and comfortable being the person others turn to when something is hard.
You will work directly with the founder and product leadership on a fast-moving product, with real influence over technical direction. This is a role for someone who wants ownership at the level of "how the whole thing is built," not just individual features — and who raises the bar for
everyone around them.
What You'll Own
Set the technical direction
- Own the architecture of our core systems — the real-time voice agents, backend
- services, data and APIs — making the decisions that keep the product fast, reliable and scalable as it grows.
- Lead the hardest engineering problems and solve them personally.
- Establish engineering standards — code quality, review practices, testing and technical patterns that the team builds to.
- Drive technical strategy with the founder and product leadership — shaping the roadmap, flagging risk early, and turning product ambition into a sound technical plan.
Build the product end to end
- Design, build and ship features across the stack — backend services, APIs and front-ends — owning them from idea to production.
- Build the client-facing surfaces — dashboards, review tools and configuration interfaces that let our clients run and trust the product.
- Design and evolve the data models and APIs that hold up as we scale across clients.
Make it reliable and fast
- Own production quality — put the monitoring and alerting in place so issues are caught before clients feel them, and performance stays within target.
- Care about performance — find and fix bottlenecks across the stack.
- Build for correctness — put the testing and evaluation in place that keeps the product behaving predictably as it changes.
Lead through the team
- Mentor and grow engineers — through code review, pairing, and setting a technical example others learn from.
- Multiply the team's output — unblock others and lift the overall quality of the codebase.
- Take features from ambiguity to done — turn a rough product goal into a shipped, working capability with minimal hand-holding, and help others do the same.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant depth across backend and a track record of owning systems, not just features.
- Strong backend engineering, ideally in Python — building and scaling production services and APIs..
- Proven architecture and system-design ability — you have designed systems that scaled, and can reason clearly about trade-offs.
- Solid fundamentals across APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building real-time and/or AI-powered products — or clear, demonstrable ability to lead in this area.
- A history of technical leadership — setting standards, mentoring engineers, and being trusted with the hardest problems — while remaining hands-on.
- Excellent communication and a genuine ownership mindset — someone who can be handed an ambiguous, high-stakes problem and be trusted to see it through.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with AI / large language models in production.
- Experience with voice or other real-time products.
- Exposure to healthcare, fintech, or other regulated / high-stakes domains.
- Experience as an early or senior engineer in a startup, where you set direction and wore many hats.
About MyOperator
MyOperator is a Business AI Operator, a category-leader that unifies WhatsApp, Calls, and AI-powered chat & voice bots into one intelligent business communication platform. Unlike fragmented communication tools, MyOperator combines automation, intelligence, and workflow integration to help businesses run WhatsApp campaigns, manage calls, deploy AI chatbots, and track performance — all from a single, no-code platform. Trusted by 12,000+ brands including Amazon, Domino's, Apollo, and Razorpay, MyOperator enables faster responses, higher resolution rates, and scalable customer engagement — without fragmented tools or increased headcount
Role Summary
We’re hiring a Front Deployed Engineer (FDE)—a customer-facing, field-deployed engineer who owns the end-to-end delivery of AI bots/agents.
This role is “frontline”: you’ll work directly with customers (often onsite), translate business reality into bot workflows, do prompt engineering + knowledge grounding, ship deployments, and iterate until it works reliably in production.
Think: solutions engineer + implementation engineer + prompt engineer, with a strong bias for execution.
Responsibilities-
Requirement Discovery & Stakeholder Interaction
- Join customer calls alongside Sales and Revenue teams.
- Ask targeted questions to understand business objectives, user journeys, automation expectations, and edge cases.
- Identify data sources (CRM, APIs, Excel, SharePoint, etc.) required for the solution.
- Act as the AI subject-matter expert during client discussions.
Use Case & Solution Documentation
- Convert discussions into clear, structured use case documents, including:
- Problem statement & goals.
- Current vs. proposed conversational flows.
- Chatbot conversation logic, integrations, and dependencies.
- Assumptions, limitations, and success criteria.
Customer Delivery Ownership
- Own deployment of AI bots for customer use-cases (lead qualification, support, booking, etc.). Run workshops to capture processes, FAQs, edge cases, and success metrics. Drive the go-live process: requirements through monitoring and improvement.
Prompt Engineering & Conversation Design
- Craft prompts, tool instructions, guardrails, fallbacks, and escalation policies for stable behavior. Build structured conversational flows: intents, entities, routing, handoff, and compliant responses. Create reusable prompt patterns and "prompt packs."
Testing, Debugging & Iteration
- Analyze logs to find failure modes (misclassification, hallucination, poor handling). Create test sets ("golden conversations"), run regressions, and measure improvements. Coordinate with Product/Engineering for platform needs.
Integrations & Technical Coordination
- Integrate bots with APIs/webhooks (CRM, ticketing, internal tools) to complete workflows. Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate fixes/root-cause analysis.
What Success Looks Like
- Customer bots go live quickly and show high containment + high task completion with low escalation.
- You can diagnose failures from transcripts/logs and fix them with prompt/workflow/knowledge changes.
- Customers trust you as the “AI delivery owner”—clear communication, realistic timelines, crisp execution.
Requirements (Must Have)
- 2–5 years in customer-facing delivery roles: implementation, solutions engineering, customer success engineering, or similar.
- Hands-on comfort with LLMs and prompt engineering (structured outputs, guardrails, tool use, iteration).
- Strong communication: workshops, requirement capture, crisp documentation, stakeholder management.
- Technical fluency: APIs/webhooks concepts, JSON, debugging logs, basic integration troubleshooting.
- Willingness to be front deployed (customer calls/visits as needed).
Good to Have (Nice to Have)
- Experience with chatbots/voicebots, IVR, WhatsApp automation, conversational AI platforms with at least a couple of projects.
- Understanding of metrics like containment, resolution rate, response latency, CSAT drivers.
- Prior SaaS onboarding/delivery experience in mid-market or enterprises.
Working Style & Traits We Value
- High agency: you don’t wait for perfect specs—you create clarity and ship.
- Customer empathy + engineering discipline.
- Strong bias for iteration: deploy → learn → improve.
- Calm under ambiguity (real customer environments are chaotic by default).
Read This Before Anything Else
We have 6 developers who can ship. What we don't have is someone who turns that into a real engineering function: real architecture, real leverage, real AI-driven advantage. If that gap sounds like an opportunity rather than a headache, you're in the right place. If it sounds like a lot of undefined work with no playbook handed to you, this one probably isn't for you. That's completely okay. There are plenty of great roles that fit differently.
About CraftMyPlate
CraftMyPlate is Hyderabad's go-to platform for food experiences for micro-events: house parties, birthdays, office celebrations, festive gatherings, and more. We're building the operating system for how India discovers, customises, and orders food for smaller events. We're backed by established founders and investors, and we're funded and growing fast. The next phase of that growth runs through engineering.
Where We Stand
Some numbers, because they matter more than adjectives. Order volume has grown 50x in two years, and we're compounding at roughly 3x year over year, without giving up equity to fund it. That means the business runs on its own economics. The growth is real demand, not runway bought with dilution, and every efficient architectural decision this role makes directly protects that.
Most people size up an opportunity by asking what's going to change in ten years. The more useful question, and the one this company is built around, is what won't change. People will keep gathering. They'll keep celebrating, hosting, and marking festivals, in 10 years and in 20. That permanence is the bet. You're not building infrastructure for a trend cycle. You're building for a category that outlasts the current AI wave, the next funding round, and probably us too.
The Technical Reality
Here's an honest read of the engineering problem, not a sanitized version of it.
Event-driven commerce doesn't scale like typical e-commerce. Demand isn't smooth, it's spiky: weekends, festival calendars, and event dates create real load concentration, and each order is tied to a hard deadline that can't slip the way a shipped package can. That has direct architectural consequences: systems need to handle bursty, unpredictable traffic without paying for idle capacity the rest of the time, which is exactly why we're serverless-first on AWS rather than running a fixed fleet sized for peak.
Underneath that, every order touches multiple systems that have to stay consistent: kitchen and vendor fulfillment status, inventory across partners, payment gateway settlement, and refunds, often in real time and often across more than one vendor for a single event. Getting that consistency right across SQL and NoSQL stores, without it becoming a source of support tickets and manual reconciliation, is a real architecture problem, not a CRUD problem.
The AI-agent layer is the next lever, and it's a business lever as much as a technical one. Every workflow we can hand to a well-orchestrated agent instead of a new hire is a workflow that scales without adding headcount, which is exactly how a company grows 3x a year without diluting equity to fund the team behind it. That's why agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph, sits in the "go deep" tier of this role rather than being a nice-to-have.
You'll likely find some of this framing right and some of it worth challenging once you're actually in the codebase. That's expected, and honestly preferred over someone who just nods along.
Why This Role Exists
You'll be the most senior technical person in the company, reporting directly to the founder. Not a manager brought in to run standups. An owner. You set the architecture, you write code yourself, and you make the team materially better. You also own where AI and automation take this company next, starting with our first in-house AI agent product (details shared in the interview), and expanding from there into how the company runs, department by department: HR, finance, marketing, design, development, all sitting on an engineering layer that you design.
If you've outgrown a role where you plan but don't build, or where good ideas die in a committee, this is built to be the opposite of that.
What You'll Own
- Architecture, end to end. Scalable, cost-efficient systems from day one, not "fix it later" engineering. You own the decisions and their long-term consequences.
- Hands-on building. You are still writing code and shipping. This isn't a seat where you review other people's work all day. You lead by building.
- The engineering team. Directly manage, mentor, and level up our 6 developers. Build the technical bar, the review culture, and the calibration that lets the team ship independently.
- The AI-agent roadmap. Own the architecture behind our first AI agent product, then the broader strategy for AI agents and automation across every function in the company, with engineering as the layer underneath all of it.
- Team scaling. Build the next layer of leads under you so execution quality scales without you being the bottleneck.
- Technical accountability. When something breaks, you fix it. You don't escalate and wait.
Our Stack, and the Depth We Expect
Not everything on this list needs the same level of mastery. Some of it you need to own at an architectural level. The rest you need to be strong enough to build yourself, direct the team on, or delegate to AI agents with confidence.
Go deep here. This is where the real architecture decisions live, and where the business impact is highest:
- AWS, serverless first. You should be genuinely well versed in AWS application development, not just "have used AWS." You should be able to design and guide serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and similar) as our default way of building, because our demand curve is spiky by nature and fixed infrastructure is money left on the table.
- TypeScript, our primary language across backend and frontend.
- Agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph. This is core to our AI roadmap and our path to scaling operations without scaling headcount. You own how it's architected, not just how it's used.
Working proficiency. Build it yourself, direct the team, or hand it to an AI agent and know if the output is right.
This Is You If
- You've built and shipped real production systems yourself, not just reviewed other people's architecture from a distance.
- You go deep wherever the problem is, and you're comfortable owning the exact stack described above, not just "full-stack" in the abstract.
- You've made engineers around you measurably better, whether or not you've held the title for it yet.
- You're already using AI coding tools and agents seriously, like Claude, Cursor, or similar tools, as part of how you build, not as something you tried once. We'll likely explore this together in the interview.
- You have a bias toward leverage over hours. You'd rather automate or systematize a problem than grind through it. But when something's live and needs to be done right, you see it through completely, with no half-finished work.
- You want to build something for years, not land somewhere comfortable. We'll know the difference from how you talk about your last three years.
This Might Not Be the Right Fit If
- You'd prefer a stable, well-defined role with clear boundaries and someone else making the calls. That's a fair thing to want, just not what this is.
- You'd rather receive direction than bring us architecture and AI strategy yourself.
- You haven't yet gotten hands-on with AI coding tools in your daily work.
- You're drawn more to the title than the work behind it.
If none of that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
Requirements
- 5 to 7 years of experience in software engineering, with real ownership of architecture-level decisions, not just feature delivery.
- Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers, formally or informally.
- Tier-1 or Tier-1+ engineering college strongly preferred (IIT, BITS, top NIT tier, or equivalent). We'll consider other institutions only with clearly commendable, verifiable work: real systems you can walk us through in depth, strong open-source contributions, or a track record that speaks for itself. Pedigree is a proxy for speed, not a checkbox. We test for the underlying ability regardless.
- Comfortable in an early-stage environment: undefined problems, few processes, and the expectation that you help define both.
Compensation
Competitive, with equity. We're formalizing a structured ESOP program alongside this hire. Specific numbers are discussed directly in later interview rounds.
If reading this got you a little excited about what you'd build here, we'd genuinely love to talk. If it didn't quite land, no hard feelings. We just want the right fit for both sides.
Job Title: Full Stack AI Engineer
Location: Remote/Hyderabad
Experience Level: 3-5
Salary Range: 12-18LPA
Application Link:https://beyond.ciltriq.com/apply/BUILD
Description:
Join a team building AI-powered systems that solve complex business problems and automate operational workflows across document processing, voice agents, enterprise integrations, workflow automation, and multi-agent systems.
Strong full-stack foundations: frontend state management, asynchronous user experiences and performance; backend API design, authentication, data modelling, databases, queues and distributed systems.
Strong coding ability in Python and JavaScript or TypeScript, with practical experience in modern frontend frameworks and backend services.
Requirements:
- Design and build complete systems: frontend applications, backend services, APIs, databases, data pipelines and integrations with customer systems.
- Build multi-agent workflows with clear agent responsibilities, tool access, shared state, context management, routing, handoffs and coordination across sequential and parallel tasks.
- Make agent execution dependable through durable state, checkpoints, retries, timeouts, idempotency, recovery and human approval or review where needed.
- Deliver document-processing pipelines, voice agents and retrieval-based AI applications, connecting model outputs to useful actions in real business workflows.
- Own quality in production: automated tests, AI evaluations, guardrails, observability, access controls, deployments, incident response and clear documentation.
- Choose where AI adds value and where deterministic software is the better fit. Balance accuracy, latency, cost, security and maintainability.
- Improve reusable engineering foundations, review code and help other engineers grow as the team expands.
- A solid understanding of tool calling, structured outputs, retrieval, context and memory management, model selection and evaluation.
- Practical cloud and deployment experience, including containers, CI/CD, secrets management, logging, monitoring and production debugging.
- Ability to reason from first principles, investigate failures across system boundaries and communicate technical decisions clearly to customers and teammates.
- Useful additional experience: Document AI and OCR, real-time voice systems, enterprise integrations, agent protocols such as MCP, and orchestration frameworks.
- Useful additional experience: Mentoring engineers or building reusable platforms.






