Lead Engineer - Frontend/Backend - Python and Devops

Dear Candidates,

Exp: 3+ years

NP: Immediate to 7 days

Location: Bangalore, Chennai

5 days week

Job Description

Function: Software Engineering → Full-Stack Development

Fintech/BFSI domain experience.

• React.js
• Node.js
• AWS

 Requirements:

• Mandatory Skill: Strong Experience in React JS, Node JS, and AWS -3+ years of relevant experience from Current Projects.
• Expertise with at least one Object-oriented JavaScript Framework (React, Angular, Ember, Dojo, Node, etc. ).
• Good to have hands-on experience in Python development.
• Proficiency with Object Oriented Programming, multi-threading, data serialization, and REST API to connect applications to back-end services.
• Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes (k8s), Jenkins, and GitHub Actions is essential for this role.
• Proven cloud development experience AWS.
• Understanding of IT life cycle methodology and processes.
• Experience in understanding and Leading Enterprise Platforms/Solutions.
• Experience working with Microservices/Service Oriented Architecture Frameworks.
• Good Understanding of Middleware technologies.
• Possess expertise in at least one unit testing framework.
• Education: Avoid UG Degree alone and look only at B. E/B. Tech/MCA/M. Sc.

Founding Engineer - LITMAS

About LITMAS

LITMAS is revolutionizing litigation with the first AI-powered platform built specifically for elite litigators. We're transforming how attorneys research, strategize, draft, and win cases by combining comprehensive case repositories with cutting-edge AI validation and workflow automation. We are a team incubated by experienced litigators, building the future of legal technology.

The Opportunity

We're seeking a Founding Engineer to join our core team and shape the technical foundation of LITMAS. This is a rare opportunity to build a category-defining product from the ground up, working directly with the founders to create technology that will transform the US litigation market.

As a founding engineer, you'll have significant ownership over our technical architecture, product decisions, and company culture. Your code will directly impact how thousands of attorneys practice law.

What You'll Do

• Architect and build core platform features using Python, Node.js, Next.js, React, and MongoDB
• Design and implement production-grade LLM systems with advanced tool usage, RAG pipelines, and agent architectures
• Build AI workflows that combine multiple tools for legal research, validation, and document analysis
• Create scalable RAG infrastructure to handle thousands of legal documents with high accuracy
• Implement AI tool chains to provide agents tool inputs
• Design intuitive interfaces that make complex legal workflows simple and powerful
• Own end-to-end features from conception through deployment and iteration
• Establish engineering best practices for AI systems including evaluation, monitoring, and safety
• Collaborate directly with founders on product strategy and technical roadmap

The Ideal Candidate

You're not just an AI engineer, you're someone who understands how to build reliable, production-grade AI systems that users can trust. You've wrestled with RAG accuracy, tool reliability, and LLM hallucinations in production. You know the difference between a demo and a system that handles real-world complexity. You're excited about applying AI to transform how legal professional’s work.

What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• Deployed production-grade LLM applications with demonstrable experience in:
• Tool usage and function calling
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) implementation at scale
• Agent architectures and multi-step reasoning
• Prompt engineering and optimization
• Knowledge of multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, open-source models)
• Background in building AI evaluation and monitoring systems
• Experience with document processing and OCR technologies
• 3+ years of production experience with Node.js, Python, Next.js, and React
• Strong MongoDB expertise including schema design and optimization
• Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or similar)
• Full-stack mindset with ability to own features from database to UI
• Track record of shipping complex web applications at scale
• Deep understanding of LLM limitations, hallucination prevention, and validation techniques

Tech Stack

• Backend: Node.js, Express, MongoDB
• Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Modern CSS
• AI/ML: LangChain/LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, vector databases, custom AI tools
• Additional: Document processing, search infrastructure, real-time collaboration

What We Offer

• Significant equity stake true ownership in the company you're building
• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience
• Direct impact your decisions shape the product and company
• Learning opportunity work with cutting-edge AI and legal technology
• Flexible work remote-first with a global team
• AI resources access to latest models and compute resources

Interview Process

One more thing: Our process includes deep technical interviews and fit conversations. As part of the evaluation, there will be an extensive take-home test that should expect to take at least 4-5 hours depending on your skill level. This allows us to see how you approach real problems similar to what you'll encounter at LITMAS.

Responsibilities

• Mentoring Team of Juniors, Code Reviews, and System Design Understanding
• Design and develop APIs using NodeJs, TypeScript, and deployment using the CICD pipeline.
• Apply code reviews and development quality reviews to make sure best practices are implemented
• Expertise with MySQL including the design of schemas and development for these databases
• Understanding of System Architectures, Design Patterns, and SOLID Principles
• Knowledge of git-based workflows such as git-flow, Proficient with code editors & linting tools

Requirements

• 2+ years of development experience with NodeJS, and Javascript frameworks related to the web stack
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

Good to have

• Experience with AWS Microservices
• Experience with payment gateways
• Exposure to AWS Services, policies, and the DevOps pipeline is a plus.
• Expertise with React, Redux, Hooks, and its core principles

·         Architect, develop and deploy software using Django/ Python

·         Strong hands on experience in Django and Python Experience with RDBMS, PostgreSQL, MySQL.

·         Experience with HTML5, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery.

·         Experience with Linux platform.

·         Experience building responsive web applications with Bootstrap

·         Understanding of Amazon AWS/ EC2 deployment architecture experience is a plus

·         Experience with source control management tools (Git preferred) Preferred skills 

·         Any work experience related to data scraping algorithms would be an add on weightage

We are looking for a passionate hands-on technologist who has experience developing Python web applications with Django as a framework and has the expertise to integrate the same with a UI built using Angular JS. Basically someone, who has worked as a Full Stack Python Developer delivering web applications from end-to-end.

You will be working on our revolutionary and niche products developed for the Fintech domain. You will develop new software for web applications, perform research & development of new technologies, integrate with other systems, and maintain and support proposed web applications. All we are looking for is a person who must be a core developer at heart and able to write, review and fix source code and database issues as they arise. You must be : able to accept change in a dynamic environment and be able to adjust priorities, able to think outside the box, pragmatic, able to voice and effectively communicate opinions, great listeners and detail oriented.

Here’s an opportunity for you to be a part of a Fintech venture with completely disruptive visions like robo advisory and more.. Lets go one step further to see if you can fit in!

Responsibilities

• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop back-end components using REST API to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solution
• Assess and prioritized feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

Requirements

• 2-3 years Work experience as a Full Stack Python Developer
• Expertise in Django and Angularjs
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills
• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field

We are a highly innovative Fashion tech startup, looking for a senior developer to develop the platform and drive the technology initiatives of the company

Key focus areas: Product Architecture, Full-Stack development, Product Deployment and innovation in technology

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Work as a Sr. Software Developer with strong coding capabilities and cloud capabilities
2. Design, architect and implement the product platform from the scratch
3. Ownership of end to end design, implementation, and development
4. Foster the development of highly scalable and performance-driven product
5. Work closely with the business team to understand the business requirement and vision of the product
6. Collaborate with the Founder to create an effective product road map and release plans
7. To build, lead and mentor the development team  
8. Excellent team management and interpersonal skills

Must-have skills

1. Extensive and deep knowledge of building highly scalable and performance-centric web platform
2. Proficient in designing the monolithic or microservices architecture
3. Understanding the nitty-gritty of data and its useful presentation
4. Deep insight into search and analytics systems
5. Basic understanding of building a graphical representation of data
6. Strong understanding of the data and its usage

Tools and Platform

1. Strong experience in designing and implementing web-based solutions based on any full-stack
2. Excellent understanding and strong working exposure to the AWS platform and it’s a tool like cloud front S3 etc.
3. Proficient and good knowledge of working with databases 
4. Hands-on experiences on at least one DBMS
5. Exposure to web scrapping tools and framework
6. Search and indexing tools like elastic search
7. Exposure to HTML is a must
8. Prior experience of designing, developing and deploying platforms 
9. Knowledge of making SEO friendly and responsive web platforms
10. Experience in designing, scaling and securing APIs