
Full-Stack Machine Learning Engineer
Role: Full-Time, Long-Term Required: Python Preferred: C++
OVERVIEW
We are seeking a versatile ML engineer to join as a core member of our technical team. This is a long-term position for someone who wants to build sophisticated production systems and grow with a small, focused team. You will work across the entire stack—from data ingestion and feature engineering through model training, validation, and deployment.
The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with deep ML expertise, particularly in time series forecasting and quantitative applications. You should be comfortable operating independently, making architectural decisions, and owning systems end-to-end.
CORE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Python (Required): Professional-level proficiency writing clean, production-grade code—not just notebooks. Deep understanding of NumPy, Pandas, and their performance characteristics. You know when to use vectorized operations, understand memory management for large datasets, and can profile and optimize bottlenecks. Experience with async programming and multiprocessing is valuable.
Machine Learning (Required): Hands-on experience building and deploying ML systems in production. This goes beyond training models—you understand the full lifecycle: data validation, feature engineering, model selection, hyperparameter optimization, validation strategies, monitoring, and maintenance.
Specific experience we value: gradient boosting frameworks (LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost), time series forecasting, probabilistic prediction and uncertainty quantification, feature selection and dimensionality reduction, cross-validation strategies for non-IID data, model calibration.
You should understand overfitting deeply—not just as a concept but as something you actively defend against through proper validation, regularization, and architectural choices.
Data Pipelines (Required): Design and implement robust pipelines handling real-world messiness: missing data, late arrivals, schema changes, upstream failures. You understand idempotency, exactly-once semantics, and backfill strategies. Experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster) expected. Comfortable with ETL/ELT patterns, incremental vs full recomputation, data quality monitoring, database design and query optimization (PostgreSQL preferred), time series data at scale.
C++ (Preferred): Experience valuable for performance-critical components. Writing efficient C++ and interfacing with Python (pybind11, Cython) is a significant advantage.
HIGHLY DESIRABLE: MULTI-AGENT ORCHESTRATION
We are building systems leveraging LLM-based automation. Experience with multi-agent frameworks highly desirable: LangChain, LangGraph, or similar agent frameworks; designing reliable AI pipelines with error handling and fallbacks; prompt engineering and output parsing; managing context and state across agent interactions. You do not need to be an expert, but genuine interest and hands-on experience will set you apart.
DOMAIN EXPERIENCE: FINANCIAL DATA AND CRYPTO
Preference for candidates with experience in quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, or fintech; cryptocurrency markets and their unique characteristics; financial time series data and forecasting systems; market microstructure, volatility, and regime dynamics. This helps you understand why reproducibility is non-negotiable, why validation must account for temporal structure, and why production reliability cannot be an afterthought.
ENGINEERING STANDARDS
Code Quality: Readable, maintainable code others can modify. Proper version control (meaningful commits, branches, code review). Testing where appropriate. Documentation: docstrings, READMEs, decision records.
Production Mindset: Think about failure modes before they happen. Build in observability: logging, metrics, alerting. Design for reproducibility—same inputs produce same outputs.
Systems Thinking: Consider component interactions, not just isolated behavior. Understand tradeoffs: speed vs accuracy, flexibility vs simplicity. Zoom between architecture and implementation.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Self-Direction: Given a problem and context, you break it down, identify the path forward, and execute. You ask questions when genuinely blocked, not when you could find the answer yourself.
Long-Term Orientation: You think in years, not months. You make decisions considering future maintainability.
Intellectual Honesty: You acknowledge uncertainty and distinguish between what you know versus guess. When something fails, you dig into why.
Communication: You explain complex concepts clearly and document your reasoning.
EDUCATION
University degree in a quantitative/technical field preferred: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering. Equivalent demonstrated expertise through work also considered.
TO APPLY
Include: (1) CV/resume, (2) Brief description of a production ML system you built, (3) Links to relevant work if available, (4) Availability and timezone.

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- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and participate in agile development.
- Deploy and maintain applications on AWS cloud infrastructure.
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- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions.
Required Skills:
- 4+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java and Spring/Spring Boot frameworks.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture.
- Experience with REST APIs, CI/CD, and debugging complex systems.
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- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication in English (written and verbal).
Good to Have:
- Experience with automation tools like Workato or similar.
- Hands-on experience with Python development.
- Familiarity with AI/ML features or API integrations.
- Comfortable working with US-based teams (flexible hours).
Title: Senior Software Engineer – Python (Remote: Africa, India, Portugal)
Experience: 9 to 12 Years
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Location Requirement: Candidates must be based in Africa, India, or Portugal. Applicants outside these regions will not be considered.
Must-Have Qualifications:
- 8+ years in software development with expertise in Python
- kubernetes is important
- Strong understanding of async frameworks (e.g., asyncio)
- Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django for microservices
- Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes/AWS ECS
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and IaC tools (CDK, Terraform)
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB)
- Exposure to GenAI tools and LLM APIs (e.g., LangChain)
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We are presently seeking for our next enthusiastic, talented, and driven Python Backend Engineer to start right away. We'd want you to
- Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
- Possess a can-do attitude and be open to new challenges
- Value working with a great team - self-assured, creative, and insightful individuals who work together to achieve amazing things
- Be willing to explore, learn, and contribute new ideas to the platform, thereby improving it
- Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup culture - small team, fast-paced work environment
If this is you, we'd love to hear from you!
As the Python Backend Engineer in https://www.ynos.in/" target="_blank">YNOS, you will
- Create reusable optimised code and libraries
- Deploy task management systems and automate routine tasks
- Build performant apps that adhere to the best practices, therefore increasing latency, performance, and scalability
- Improve the existing codebase while reducing technical debt
- Take charge of all elements of the application, including architecture, quality, and efficiency
Requirements
- Proficient understanding of Python language
- Expertise in developing web apps and APIs using Python frameworks like Flask with an overall grasp of client-server interactions
- Familiarity with task management systems and process automation
- Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
- Experience and understanding of version control systems like git, svn, etc
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
Good to have
- Expertise in other backend frameworks viz. Django, NodeJS, Go, Rust etc
- Knowledge of data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
- Experience with data visualisation tools & libraries such as Plotly, Seaborn etc
- Exposure to Statistical and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, particularly in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Familiarity with front-end tools & frameworks such as HTML, CSS, JS, React, Vue, and others
Work location, Job type & Salary
- Our office is located at https://respark.iitm.ac.in/" target="_blank">IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, surrounded by the beautiful IITM Campus!
- This is a full-time position and we’d like you to relocate to Chennai
- Expected salary range ₹6L - ₹8L per annum
Must have:
- 8+ years of experience with a significant focus on developing, deploying & supporting AI solutions in production environments.
- Proven experience in building enterprise software products for B2B businesses, particularly in the supply chain domain.
- Good understanding of Generics, OOPs concepts & Design Patterns
- Solid engineering and coding skills. Ability to write high-performance production quality code in Python
- Proficiency with ML libraries and frameworks (e.g., Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
- Strong expertise in time series forecasting using stat, ML, DL and foundation models
- Experience of working on processing time series data employing techniques such as decomposition, clustering, outlier detection & treatment
- Exposure to generative AI models and agent architectures on platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Crew AI, Mosaic/Databricks, Azure
- Experience of working with modern data architectures, including data lakes and data warehouses, having leveraged one or more of the frameworks such as Airbyte, Airflow, Dagster, AWS Glue, Snowflake,, DBT
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and deploying ML models in cloud environments.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Good To Have:
- Experience with MLOps tools and practices for continuous integration and deployment of ML models.
- Has familiarity with deploying applications on Kubernetes
- Knowledge of supply chain management principles and challenges.
- A Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field is preferred
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- Back-end software development
- Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
- Working together with engineers and product teams
- Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
- Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
- Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team
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- 4+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
- Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle.
- Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
- Experience with Databases (Relational and Non-Relational). Ex: Cassandra, MongoDB, Postgresql
- Experience with writing REST-APIs.
- Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
- Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
- Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
- A positive attitude, and a growth mindset
Bonus:
- Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Sklearn, NLTK, tensorflow, HuggingFace Transformers
- Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
- Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
- Good with Humor and Team player
6-8 yrs experience
Fully Remote position
Max compensation - 45 LPA per annum (Full in hand)
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain software to the demanding standards of a real time, highly concurrent distributed system.
- Working in conjunction with the rest of the development team, you will architect and build highly performant, scalable and extensible external APIs
- Collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders, at all levels, to continuously improve our product in a measured data-driven approach
- Learn quickly, adapt, and invent based on changing company needs and priorities
- Contribute to code reviews, tech talks, innovation drives and patents
Minimum Qualifications
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Bachelors in a computer science or other equivalent field
- Proficiency in deploying production systems using a major programming language like Java, Python, NodeJS or similar
- Excellent command over object oriented design and system design
- Experience building distributed systems and scaling them with high availability
- Ability to exercise autonomy rather than needing detailed direction and proactively get things done
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in customer facing software development
- Proficiency building unit and performance tests to ensure reliability and scalability
- Experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (ML) models, Natural Language Processing or Deep Learning is a plus
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP is a plus
Why work with us
- A small collaborative and excited team
- We value autonomy, allowing you to choose the configuration that makes you most productive
- Able to work remotely anywhere in Indian Standard Time
- Continuous learning and up-skill opportunities
- We love ideas, innovation and experiments!
- Competitive salary









