Java software engineer

Role: Senior AI Engineer

Work Location: TechGenzi Coimbatore Office (ODC for Tiramai.ai)

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 2–5 years (Full-stack development with AI exposure)

About the Role & Work Location.

The selected candidate will be employed by Tiramai.ai and will work exclusively on Tiramai.ai projects. The role will be based out of TechGenzi’s Coimbatore office, which functions as an Offshore Development Center (ODC) supporting Tiramai.ai’s product and engineering initiatives.

Primary Focus

As an AI Engineer at our enterprise SaaS and AI-native organization, you will play a pivotal role in building secure, scalable, and intelligent digital solutions. This role combines full-stack development expertise with applied AI skills to create next-generation platforms that empower enterprises to modernize and act smarter with AI. You will work on AI-driven features, APIs, and cloud-native applications that are production-ready, compliance-conscious, and aligned with our mission of delivering responsible AI innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using Python (backend) and React/Angular (frontend).
• Build and integrate AI-driven modules, leveraging GenAI, ML models, and AI-native tools into enterprise-grade SaaS products.
• Develop scalable REST APIs and microservices with security, compliance, and performance in mind.
• Collaborate with architects, product managers, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into production-ready features.
• Ensure adherence to secure coding standards, data privacy regulations, and human-in-the-loop AI principles.
• Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Contribute to reusable libraries, frameworks, and best practices to accelerate AI platform development.

Skills Required

• Strong proficiency in Python for backend development.
• Frontend expertise in React.js or Angular with 2+ years of experience.
• Hands-on experience in full SDLC development (design, build, test, deploy, maintain).
• Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) or GenAI tools (LangChain, vector DBs, OpenAI APIs).
• Knowledge of cloud-native development (AWS/Azure/GCP), Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, microservices, and enterprise-grade security standards.
• Ability to work collaboratively in fast-paced, cross-functional teams with strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Exposure to responsible AI principles (explainability, bias mitigation, compliance) is a plus.

Growth Path

• AI Engineer (24 years) focus on full-stack + AI integration, delivering production-ready features.
• Senior AI Engineer (4–6 years) lead modules, mentor juniors, and drive AI feature development at scale.
• Lead AI Engineer (6–8 years) own solution architecture for AI features, ensure security/compliance, collaborate closely with product/tech leaders.
• AI Architect / Engineering Manager (8+ years) shape AI platform strategy, guide large-scale deployments, and influence product/technology roadmap.

Requirements:

·       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

·       Minimum of 4 years of professional Python development experience.

·       Strong expertise in Django framework and its ecosystem.

·       Proficiency in web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and front-end frameworks.

·       Experience with database systems like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.

·       Knowledge of RESTful API design and integration.

·       Familiarity with version control systems, especially Git.

·       Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

·       Strong communication and collaboration skills.

·       Self-motivated and able to work independently or in a team.

·       Experience with React.js and Docker is a plus.

- Work with development teams and UI/UX designers to ideate software solutions.

- Design client-side and server-side architecture.

- Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.

- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications.

- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency.

- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.

- Create security and data protection settings.

- Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design.

- Write technical documentation.

- Excellent verbal communication skills.

- Good problem-solving and logical skills.

Desired Profile:

Experience with web technologies including HTML, CSS, JS, AJAX, Bootstrap, Jquery etc.

- Experience in Web Application Development using PHP/MySQL.

- Knowledge of object-oriented PHP programming.

- Understanding of MySQL databases and their declarative query languages.

-  Responsible for handling a projects using MVC framework CodeIgniter/Laravel.

- Design interchange of data between the server and the client using RESTful/GraphQL.
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance.

- Build efficient, testable & reusable PHP modules in latest version.

- Should have basic knowledge in Scrum and Git.

• Observe, strategize, develop and design required software solutions.
• Designing Client-Side and Server-Side Architecture and Rendering and Static Site Generation.
• To confer with users - by studying systems flow, data usage & work related bottlenecks.
• Design and implement Back End and Front End code
• Interact with the production team, understand their workflow and find new ways to automate their workflow.
• Write effective APIs as well as Integrate third-party APIs.
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
• Manage huge data sets including structured and unstructured data sources.
• Machine learning tools for workflow automation.
• Knowledge of Spark and Map Reduce.

• Strong Knowledge of and C#, .NET
• Strong knowledge of client-side dynamic and rich UI applications development.
• Hands-on experience on HTML, CSS, bootstrap, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery and Prototyping.
• Strong hands-on experience in popular frameworks and JavaScript ecosystem – JS, Node, Angular, Jquery.
• Experience in Spark, Hadoop, Scala, and Elastic Search is a plus point.
• Experienced in building applications that meet enterprise needs – secure, scalable, loosely coupled design
• Exceptional design, coding, and problem-solving skills, with a bias for architecting at scale.
• Experience using NPM, Web-Pack, Gulp.
• Familiarity with performance testing and optimization’s.
• Strong knowledge of computer science, algorithms, and design patterns
• Write robust modular code for the full stack using the latest technologies, test and optimize it to work for high performance and scale and deploy it to the UiPath cloud platform.
• Work with various horizontal teams such as Structure, Electrical, Mechanical, Accessibility, Legal, and Finance and also interact with other core teams across locations at UiPath
• Own the smooth running of your cloud service or docker service, and respond to live site issues.
• Strong oral and written communication, and other soft skills critical to collaborating and engage with teams

• Provide development and maintenance services for .NET application.
• Develop and implement best practices for .NET programming.
• Review codes and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Identify the key problems and develop a solution within business and technical context.
• Design, develop, test, review and document .NET application programs.
• Evaluate user requests to determine budget, time, feasibility and compatibility of the new or modified program.
• Analyze technical architecture and provide recommendations.
• Coordinate with users to analyze and propose application solutions to meet business needs.
• Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle including coding, designing and documentation.
• Develop support processes to integrate .NET applications into in-house and third party applications.
• Prepare and maintain system-level, program-level and user-level documentations.
• Act as a technical lead for development and integration of .NET applications.

In Brief
Urgent Hiring • Re-location Required
Company Founded 2018 • 1-5 employees
Internet and Technology Startup • Bootstrapped

About us
Based out of Egypt and with presence in the GCC, Quesst Technologies is an early Internet and Tech Startup committed to helping thousands of nationals, residents and travelers in the MENA region, saving them time and effort in seeking reliable and credible knowledge within their communities and localities.

Quesst, the company's flagship platform, is a hyper-local Q&A and knowledge sharing platform that offers the necessary infrastructure for users seeking information to meet, share, engage and interact with one another and with verified subject matter experts.

Who we're looking for
Ideally the successful candidate will have experience in the start-up world and is in a position for a new challenge to take this company to the next level. Someone who is passionate about delivering a scalable and highly performant state-of-the-art cloud-based platforms built with technologies utilizing the JavaScript ecosystem, AI/ML and the latest web technologies to help solve exciting real world problems.

We are looking for an agile and entrepreneurial leader with strong people leadership and technical capability who has a problem-solving and analytical aptitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, is familiar with statistics, has a business acumen, independent, positive can-do attitude, and passion for excellence to the workplace.

Your role and our tech stack
Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop, improve and optimize the structure, quality, and extensibility of current software technologies, codebases and databases
• Prototype ideas to quickly access viability and iterate based on feedback from the team
• Build robust, web-based applications interacting with databases, file-systems and APIs
• Write custom code or integrate open source technologies as needed to find solutions to problems
• Design and build effective APIs; Create servers and databases for functionality
• Design client-side and server-side architecture; Design the data model ensuring scalability
• Accurately translate screen designs into functional front-end code; Develop features and with a mobile responsive design
• Write high-quality, extensible, testable and reusable code and libraries; Conduct code reviews and establishment of best practices
• Participate in planning activities; Estimate accurate stores for new features and design product features
• Help define processes and build tools as needed to scale the solution and the team
• Create and lead the product road-map; Proactively breakdown work, manage development sprints, identify risks and explore solutions
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency; Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software; Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving
• Steer the business on timescales, prioritization and costs on competing development requirements
• Drive rigorous, and weekly product releases and lead required integration efforts with partners and/or third-party software services
• Guide the development in design, architecture and platform choices with strong focus on quality, speed, stability and scalability
• Identify and establish best practices and frameworks keeping in mind parameters of performance, responsiveness, security, maintainability, extensibility, and reuse; Work collaboratively in a lean and agile environment; Write technical documentation
• Recommend and implement new technologies, improvement of existing tech and set-up and future-proofing our technology that can help the company optimize efficiency and productivity and lead edge thinking and knowledge of innovative technologies i.e. AI, ML, blockchain, etc..

Your qualifications

• Minimum of BSc in Computer Science/IT/Electronics/Software Engineering or a comparable degree program
• Proven experience of 2-5 years of full-stack development of web applications; 2+ years building front-end interfaces with React.js & Redux workflows and 2+ years building back-end and maintaining server applications on Node.js, PostgreSQL and designing APIs
• Expert in traditional web-dev stack (HTML5, CSS3, JS); Strong in core JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ESNext, TypeORM and Typescript) and JS object model
• Experience with Linux environments and using the shell and command line terminals (preferred)
• Professional coding experience in object-oriented and scripting languages; Extensive experience building client-side web applications using React
• Proficient with:
  • JavaScript Frameworks (ReactJS/NextJS/Redux) and Node.js Frameworks (Express.js)
  • Client-side MVC frameworks such as NodeJS, React JS, NextJS, Redux, and AngularJS; Knowledge of isomorphic React
  • Configuration of various servers to run web application servers, databases, etc.; Web server technologies like Nginx, NodeJS, Apache, etc.
  • Frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, Material UI and preprocessors like SASS and SCSS/LESS
  • Writing and integrating middleware; Experience with Redux Saga and Thunk
  • Architecture, design, queries of Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and other RDBMS)
  • Modern JS tooling (NPM, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Prettier)
  • Developer tools, such as Visual Studio Code
  • Code versioning tools and Git version control systems (Github); Containerization systems (Docker)
  • Strong in data structures, XML technologies, JSON parsing
  • Caching frameworks and mechanisms, work-task queues, transactions and messaging queues (Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ and others)
  • Building real-time applications using Web Sockets (Socket.io)
  • Web and mobile push notifications and cloud message APIs (GCM, APNS, OneSignal, etc.)
  • Setting up cron jobs and schedule task execution
  • Handling Services, RESTful, APIs, third party libraries and APIs (Google APIs, AWS, Zendesk, etc.)

• Experience with API gateway, distributed infrastructure architectures and applications tuning/profiling; Experience working with microservices
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments; Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
• Experience with REST API and web service construction, integration and architecture and working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, Authentication and Security Technologies
• Familiarity with building secure systems (OWASP secure coding practices or similar)
• Architect and cloud-deploy applications on AWS and other cloud providers
• Deep understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Build and manage end-to-end and UI tests; Experience writing tests (unit, integration, functional, etc.), and using testing frameworks
• Build third-party integrations like Slack, Stripe, Google and supporting their workflow
• Provision DevOps tooling with continuous integration; Build modern Front-end build pipelines and tools
• Contribute to API documentation including API description languages like Swagger; Document and diagram functional flows and architectures
• Experience in building rich PWA applications; Experience in responsive design, cross browser compatibility and website performance
• Understanding of how browsers and DOM work; Understanding and experience with asynchronous processing, partial page refresh, DOM traversal and manipulation
• Expert level using Web Analytics tools (Google Analytics and others); Experience with open source software development
• Experience with localization and internationalization of applications (working with multi-site setups, multi-language, i18n, etc.)

Some desired extras and good to have skills

• Knowledge of cyber-security, malware analysis, threat detection and/or sandboxing technology
• Preferably has knowledge of working in big data (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop) and machine learning ecosystems
• Strong background in security and data analytics and on-premise data experience
• Experience and familiarity with:
  • Architecture, design, queries and aggregation of NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra and others)
  • Elasticsearch and ELK stack
  • Developing integrations for global OTAs
  • OpenAPI
• Knowledge of multiple backend languages and framework

We offer you

• A unique entrepreneurial opportunity to build something from the ground up and scale it up to a major regionally recognizable brand
• A great learning curve in a collaborative environment with no barriers for initiatives
• Leading compensation package including salary free of local taxes, accommodation allowance for local hire or shared accommodation for international hire, free medical care from company physician, free government healthcare membership, transport allowance, paid airfare to the country of origin, paid leave and end of service according to local labor law.

Your professional career growth opportunities
As you help us grow Quesst, we will help you grow and professionally develop. Joining us at this stage, you will have the opportunity to be part of the core team if you prove you have what it takes and will be given the opportunity to:

• Lead and develop a technical strategy for the company, which involves goal setting, discussing options, and analyzing risks with the management team, CEO and board members
• An opportunity to build and manage a business unit from scratch and scale it up to success at a regional level
• Attract and retain top tech talent, mentor and manage the team as it grows
• Develop and manage KPIs for the tech team and create a challenging work environment

Have we caught your attention?
Send us your application including your resume, salary expectations and earliest starting date.

We’re looking forward to your application!