Java NLP Engineer

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI/ML and Generative AI solutions

• Work on GEO, AEO, and SGE initiatives to improve visibility across AI-driven search platforms

• Optimize content and digital experiences for conversational queries and LLM-based search

• Develop solutions using LLMs, NLP, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, and vector databases

• Analyze search intent, AI-generated responses, citations, retrieval patterns, and content discoverability

• Build frameworks to measure GEO/AEO strategies and AI-search performance

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Content, SEO, Marketing, and Business teams

• Improve solution accuracy, relevance, latency, and user experience

🔹 Mandatory Requirements

✅ 1–4 years of professional experience

✅ Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience in GEO, AEO, or SGE

✅ Experience with prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, or RAG systems

✅ Understanding of semantic search and entity-based optimization

✅ Exposure to ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or similar LLM platforms

✅ Knowledge of schema, context building, content structuring, and knowledge representation

🎓 Preferred Education

B.Tech, M.Tech, Integrated M.Sc., or MS from a Tier-1 engineering institute such as IIT, NIT, BITS, VIT, DTU, or NSUT.

This is a remote position.

About Leegality:

Leegality works with large Indian businesses to digitally transform critical compliance processes in a fast, easy and secure way.

We have multiple products across 2 categories:

Document Infrastructure:

Products that help businesses build paperless processes at scale:

1. Document Execution Workflow: A unified platform for businesses to digitally execute (eSign, eStamp, Template Pre-fill, Document Fraud Prevention etc.) agreements, forms and other documents in a compliant way. Currently in use by 2000+ Indian businesses from giants like HDFC and SBI Cards to high-growth disruptors like goDigit and Cars24.
2. Contract Management: An AI-powered platform for businesses to quickly review, negotiate and take action on contract
3. Signstation: A simple platform for businesses to digitally sign simple documents like invoices, policies and letters in a cost effective manner

Consent Infrastructure:

1. Consentin: An end-to-end DPDP and Privacy compliance platform for Indian businesses
2. Consentin Lens: A data discovery platform for businesses to identify the personal data they collect and store.

If you’re interested in building mission critical software that operates at population scale (75 million + Indians have signed at least one document through Leegality) then join Leegality.

Curious about our impact? Explore our customer success stories: leegality.com/case-studies

Our Culture

At Leegality, trust, ownership, transparency, and having fun while doing meaningful work are core to how we operate — not just values on paper. Our team rated us an incredible 97 eNPS for FY 2023–24 — the highest among 175+ startups surveyed.

We focus deeply on helping our people grow and stay motivated. Some of the perks you’ll enjoy:

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work setup
• Bi-annual performance appraisals
• A culture that rewards initiative, curiosity, and impact

If you're looking for a place where you can make a real difference while working with smart, driven, and genuinely nice people, welcome to Leegality.

Location: Hybrid

Job Brief:

• As a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), you will develop solutions to interesting technical problems, exploring exciting growth opportunities and having a real impact on our product, particularly focusing on document and content intelligence.
• To ensure success, you should demonstrate solid data science knowledge and experience in a related ML, CV, or NLP role. A first-class engineer will be someone whose expertise enhances our systems for document intelligence and content processing

Responsibilities:

• Designing machine learning systems, self-running artificial intelligence (AI) software, and specialized models for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing applications.
• Transforming data science prototypes and applying appropriate deep learning algorithms and tools to text and image/document data.
• Solving complex CV and NLP problems with multi-layered data types, such as image/document classification, information extraction, semantic search, and object detection.
• Optimizing existing machine learning models, with a focus on high-performance model deployment for CV and NLP tasks.
• Developing ML algorithms (including large language models/LLMs and computer vision models) to analyze huge volumes of historical text, image, and document data to make predictions and automate workflows.
• Running tests, performing statistical analysis, and interpreting test results for CV/NLP model performance.
• Documenting machine learning processes, model architectures, and data pipelines.
• Keeping abreast of developments in machine learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in Machine Learning Engineering, with a strong focus on Computer Vision and/or Natural Language Processing.
• Advanced proficiency with Python.
• Extensive knowledge of ML frameworks, libraries (e.g., PyTorch, Transformers), data structures, data modeling, and software architecture.
• Experience with building and maintaining scalable RESTful APIs (e.g., FastAPI).
• In-depth knowledge of mathematics, statistics, deep learning (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers), and algorithms.
• Superb analytical and problem-solving abilities, especially for unstructured data challenges.
• Great communication and collaboration skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational abilities.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) for model deployment and MLOps.

Recruitment Process:

• Our hiring process combines AI-powered evaluations with structured interviews to ensure a fair and seamless experience.
• You will be contacted via email with the next steps upon being shortlisted.
• The process may include Assessments, AI-enabled interviews, and In-Person Interviews with our team.
• Final selection and CTC will be based on your overall performance and experience.

Apply directly through our career page: https://careers.leegality.com/jobs/Careers

For more information about us please visit our:

Our Company and Culture: https://bit.ly/3Iqm5SB

Our Website: www.leegality.com/

Our LinkedIn Page: www.linkedin.com/company/leegality/

Leegality's Privacy Notice: https://www.leegality.com/employee-privacy-notice

Job Description: Senior Java/Python Developer (AI & GenAI Specialist)

Location

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Java/Python Developer with strong expertise in enterprise application development and extensive hands-on experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), and AI-powered application development. The ideal candidate will lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable, intelligent solutions that integrate modern AI technologies with enterprise-grade Java and Python ecosystems.

This role requires a combination of strong software engineering skills, AI innovation capabilities, and architectural leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Application Development

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable enterprise applications using Java and Python.

• Develop RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.

• Build high-performance backend systems using Spring Boot, FastAPI, Flask, or Django.

• Ensure code quality through unit testing, integration testing, and code reviews.

AI & Generative AI Development

• Design and implement AI-powered solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs).

• Develop intelligent applications using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and similar platforms.

• Build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures for enterprise knowledge systems.

• Implement AI agents, copilots, chatbots, virtual assistants, and workflow automation solutions.

• Engineer prompts and build prompt orchestration frameworks.

• Develop multi-agent AI systems and autonomous AI workflows.

Required Technical Skills

Core Programming

• Expert-level proficiency in:

o Java (Java 11/17/21)

o Python 3.x

• Strong understanding of OOP, design patterns, and software engineering principles.

Java Technologies

• Spring Boot

• Spring Cloud

• Hibernate/JPA

• Microservices Architecture

• Kafka/RabbitMQ

• REST API Development

Python Technologies

• FastAPI

• Flask

• Django

• Pandas

• NumPy

• Async Programming

Generative AI & LLMs

• OpenAI APIs

• Azure OpenAI

• LangChain

• LangGraph

• LlamaIndex

• Semantic Kernel

• Hugging Face

• Prompt Engineering

• RAG Frameworks

• AI Agent Frameworks

• Vector Databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, Milvus, FAISS)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing enterprise AI copilots and intelligent assistants.

• Experience implementing AI solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Services, or similar platforms.

• Knowledge of AI governance, responsible AI, security, and compliance frameworks.

• Experience in travel, finance, telecom, retail, or large enterprise environments.

• Exposure to graph databases and knowledge graphs.

• Understanding of multimodal AI (text, image, audio, video).

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or related discipline.

• Generative AI certifications preferred.

Key Competencies

• Solution Architecture

• AI Innovation & Thought Leadership

• Problem Solving

• Stakeholder Management

• Technical Mentoring

• Agile Development

• Analytical Thinking

• Communication & Presentation Skills

Success Metrics

• Delivery of scalable AI-enabled enterprise solutions.

• Reduction in operational effort through AI automation.

• Successful deployment of GenAI applications into production.

• Application performance, reliability, and security.

• Adoption of AI best practices across development teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design and develop intelligent AI-based applications using advanced NLP and LLM techniques to solve real-world business challenges in financial services.
• Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines leveraging structured and unstructured financial data.
• Integrate and orchestrate LLMs/SLMs for question-answering, summarization, semantic search, and document understanding.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs (sync and async) to serve NLP models and chatbot interfaces using frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, etc.
• Should have knowledge of advanced prompting techniques.
• Implement semantic search, hybrid search, and text retrieval systems using Elasticsearch and vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate).
• Perform NLP tasks such as entity recognition, text classification, intent detection, embedding generation, and sentiment analysis where required.
• Monitor and fine-tune LLM/SLM performance with real-world user data to improve relevance, latency, and accuracy.
• Exposure to LLMOps tools for monitoring, evaluation, and versioning of AI models in production.
• Build, train, and evaluate deep learning models for NLP tasks including classification, NER, summarization, and embedding generation.
• Develop traditional machine learning models (e.g., regression, decision trees, clustering) for structured data analysis and prediction tasks.
• Interact with cross-functional teams to understand system issues and follow up with respective teams to get them fixed.
• Understand and identify areas of improvement across businesses and participate in solution identification and implementation.
• Should be able to work as an Individual Contributor on new and existing projects.
• Positive and problem-solving attitude, must work as an independent contributor.

Ideal Candidate

1.Strong Data Scientist / AI Engineer / Generative AI Engineer profile.

2.Mandatory (Experience 1) - Must have 3+ years of hands-on experience in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, or Generative AI application development.

3.Mandatory (Experience 2) - Must have strong hands-on experience in Python programming, backend development, API development, and production-grade application support

4.Mandatory (Experience 3) - Must have experience working with Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, or Scikit-learn.

5.Mandatory (Experience 4) - Must have hands-on experience in NLP use cases such as text classification, sentiment analysis, entity recognition (NER), semantic search, embeddings, or document understanding.

6.Mandatory (Experience 5) - Must have experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT, LLaMA, Mistral, Phi, Claude, Gemini, or similar models

.7.Mandatory (Experience 6) - Must have hands-on experience building or implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, vector search, semantic search, or knowledge-based AI applications.

8.Mandatory (Experience 7) - Must have experience with Prompt Engineering and Generative AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AI Agents, Azure OpenAI, or similar technologies.

9.Mandatory (Experience 8) - Must have experience developing, consuming, or integrating APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or similar technologies.

10.Mandatory (CTC) - The CTC breakup offered will be 75% fixed + 25% variable, as per company policy.

11.Preferred (Experience 1) - Experience with LLMOps/MLOps tools for monitoring, evaluation, experimentation, and versioning of AI models.

12.Preferred (Experience 2) - Exposure to Azure OpenAI, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes, cloud-native AI deployments, or distributed systems.

13.Preferred (Experience 3) - Experience working with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, or large-scale data platforms.

14.Preferred (Experience 4) - Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and scalable deployment architecture.

15.Preferred (Company) - Candidates from AI-first startups, product companies, SaaS organizations, fintech, or data-driven technology companies.

16.Mandatory ( Age ) - Candidate Should be Below 28 Years.

17.Mandatory ( Pedigree) - B.TECH / M.TECH from Tier 1 Colleges (IIT's, NIT's, BITS) are Considered.

Locations: Bangalore & Mumbai

⏳ Experience: 3–15 Years

⚡ Notice Period: Immediate Joiners or Max 10 Days

Mandatory Skills:

✅ Strong Core Java

✅ Excellent Problem-Solving Skills

✅ Data Structures & Algorithms

✅ AI / LLM Knowledge

✅ Strong Coding Skills

Important:

Candidates must be available for a Face-to-Face Interview in Bangalore or Mumbai.

Only Immediate Joiners or candidates serving up to 10 days' notice period will be considered.

ML Leads JD

Key Responsibilities

• Model Training & Fine-Tuning: Build, fine-tune, and optimize state-of-the-art NLP, LLM, Speech, and Vision models for scheduled Indian languages, utilizing parameter-efficient methods (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT).
• Indic Tokenization & Linguistics: Architect custom tokenizers and text-normalization pipelines to address the "fertility problem" in Devanagari, Dravidian, and other regional scripts, ensuring low-latency and cost-effective model inference.
• Multimodal System Design: Develop robust OCR engines capable of parsing complex script geometries (conjoint consonants, Shirorekha, vowel modifiers) and integrate them into document intelligence pipelines.
• Speech Engineering: Deploy and scale robust STT (Speech-to-Text) and TTS (Text-to-Speech) pipelines capable of handling heavy code-mixing (e.g., Hinglish, Tanglish), regional accents, and localized dialects.
• Vernacular Guardrails & Evaluation: Establish culturally contextual benchmark datasets and implement safety guardrails.
• Production Deployment (MLOps): Package and serve models using high-throughput frameworks (vLLM, Triton, ONNX) optimized for GPU environments, minimizing computational overhead for massive cross-lingual workloads.
• Vernacular Fraud & Anomaly Detection: Architect risk-scoring systems and anomaly detection models capable of identifying fraud patterns in native scripts and code-mixed formats.

Essential Qualifications & Technical Skills

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a closely related quantitative field.
• Experience: 4+ years of professional experience building and deploying machine learning models in production environments, with a proven track record in Indian Language NLP, Speech, or Anomaly Detection.
• Programming: Expert-level proficiency in Python and standard ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Indic AI Stack: Direct, hands-on experience with specialized Indic frameworks and datasets (e.g., AI4Bharat's IndicTrans2/IndicWhisper, Bhashini API, Kathbath, Sarvam-105B, or Aksharantar).
• Fraud Stack: Proficiency in tabular/graph-based ML toolkits (XGBoost, LightGBM, PyTorch Geometric) and handling highly imbalanced target variables (SMOTE, class weights).
• NLP & LLMs: Deep understanding of Transformer architectures, sequence-to-sequence modeling, cross-lingual embeddings, vector databases (Milvus, Pinecone, Qdrant), and quantization tools (bitsandbytes, GPTQ).
• Speech & Vision Processing: Experience processing raw audio signals (grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, spectrogram analysis) or document structures using OCR networks (CRAFT, DBNet, LayoutLM).
• Handling Code-Mixing: Proven ability to build models that gracefully parse text or speech containing heavy code-switching (mixed Latin/regional scripts, multi-language grammar).

Strong AI Engineer / Machine Learning Engineer profiles.

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied AI, NLP, Deep Learning, or Generative AI solutions.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong hands-on experience in Python programming, SQL, data analysis, feature engineering, model development, and production-grade ML applications.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have experience working with Machine Learning and Deep Learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-learn, or equivalent.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have hands-on experience working on NLP, embeddings, semantic search, text classification, document understanding, recommendation systems, or similar AI/ML use cases.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT, Llama, Mistral, Claude, Gemini, Phi, or similar foundation models.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have hands-on experience building or implementing RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems, vector search, knowledge retrieval, embeddings, chunking, indexing, or semantic retrieval solutions.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience working with Git, CI/CD practices, production environments, and scalable AI/ML systems.

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Mandatory (CTC) – The CTC breakup offered will be 75% fixed + 25% variable, as per company policy.

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Mandatory (Age) - Candidate's Age should be below 28 Years

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Preferred (Experience 1) – Experience with MLFlow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Prefect, Feature Stores, Model Registry, or MLOps/LLMOps frameworks.

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Preferred (Experience 2) – Experience working with Vector Databases, Spark, PySpark, distributed ML pipelines, large-scale data processing, or real-time ML systems..

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Preferred (Experience 3) – Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, cloud-native AI deployments, and scalable ML architecture.

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Preferred (Company) – Candidates from AI-first startups, Fintech, Banking, Lending, Fraud Analytics, Risk Analytics, Product Companies, SaaS organizations, or data-driven technology companies

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Mandatory ( Pedigree) - B.TECH / M.TECH from Tier 1 Colleges (IIT's, NIT's, BITS) are Considered.

We are looking for Java Developers with 5+ years of experience for Bangalore and Mumbai locations.

Key Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Java development
• Strong hands-on experience in Core Java
• Strong understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, and Problem Solving
• Good experience in Multithreading / Concurrency
• Exposure to or awareness of AI / LLM concepts
• Candidate should be an Immediate Joiner
• Must be available for a Face-to-Face interview
• Candidate should be open to attending the interview in Mumbai or Bangalore

Locations:

• Mumbai
• Bangalore

Strong Backend Software Engineer Profile with strong Core Java expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 2+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience.

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must be able to design and implement moderately complex features with minimal supervision, and contribute to system design and architecture discussions.

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Mandatory (Experience 3): Must be comfortable owning business-critical production components — maintaining connectors, handling customer escalations, security fixes, bug fixes, and building new features end-to-end.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current Core Java depth with solid, clear coding fundamentals — Java is the primary skill for this role. Deep hands-on core engineering strength matters more than framework knowledge.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong core backend engineering fundamentals and experience with scalable systems (connectors handle millions of events/data points daily across customers).

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Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have microservices experience.

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Mandatory (AI Fluency): Must have demonstrated, hands-on use of AI coding assistants (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) as a core part of the daily workflow — scaffolding, writing tests, reviewing code, and debugging — with the ability to write precise, effective prompts for production-quality output, decompose tasks so AI assistance is effective, and critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and standards before merging.

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Mandatory (AI-Native): Must have actually built and deployed AI/LLM-powered features in production (e.g. RAG, LLM-based scoring, AI assistant) — demonstrable AI-native engineering, not merely using AI tools to write code.

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Mandatory (Database): Hands-on database / JDBC integration experience in a production environment.

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Mandatory (Company): Must come from a product company background (B2B SaaS or B2C both acceptable).

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Mandatory (Note1): This is a 3-month contract role. Candidate must be comfortable with the contract engagement and able to join immediately (urgent — onboarding within ~a week)

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Mandatory (Note 2): Must be based in or near Chennai, Bangalore, or Ahmedabad (Chennai: hybrid, Tue & Thu in office)

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Preferred (Backend): Hands-on Python experience is a plus.

Strong Backend Software Engineer Profile with strong Core Java expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 2+ years of hands-on backend software engineering experience.

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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must be able to design and implement moderately complex features with minimal supervision, and contribute to system design and architecture discussions.

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Mandatory (Experience 3): Must be comfortable owning business-critical production components — maintaining connectors, handling customer escalations, security fixes, bug fixes, and building new features end-to-end.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong, current Core Java depth with solid, clear coding fundamentals — Java is the primary skill for this role. Deep hands-on core engineering strength matters more than framework knowledge.

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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong core backend engineering fundamentals and experience with scalable systems (connectors handle millions of events/data points daily across customers).

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Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have microservices experience.

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Mandatory (AI Fluency): Must have demonstrated, hands-on use of AI coding assistants (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) as a core part of the daily workflow — scaffolding, writing tests, reviewing code, and debugging — with the ability to write precise, effective prompts for production-quality output, decompose tasks so AI assistance is effective, and critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and standards before merging.

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Mandatory (AI-Native): Must have actually built and deployed AI/LLM-powered features in production (e.g. RAG, LLM-based scoring, AI assistant) — demonstrable AI-native engineering, not merely using AI tools to write code.

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Mandatory (Database): Hands-on database / JDBC integration experience in a production environment.

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Mandatory (Company): Must come from a product company background (B2B SaaS or B2C both acceptable).

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Mandatory (Note1): This is a 3-month contract role. Candidate must be comfortable with the contract engagement and able to join immediately (urgent — onboarding within ~a week)

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Mandatory (Note 2): Must be based in or near Chennai, Bangalore, or Ahmedabad (Chennai: hybrid, Tue & Thu in office)

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Preferred (Backend): Hands-on Python experience is a plus.