Senior/Lead Software Engineer(Python, Microservices)

Designation: Python Developer

Experienced in AI/ML

Location: Turbhe, Navi Mumbai

CTC: 6-12 LPA

Years of Experience: 2-5 years

At Arcitech.ai, we’re redefining the future with AI-powered software solutions across education, recruitment, marketplaces, and beyond. We’re looking for a Python Developer passionate about AI/ML, who’s ready to work on scalable, cloud-native platforms and help build the next generation of intelligent, LLM-driven products.

💼 Your Responsibilities

AI/ML Engineering

• Develop, train, and optimize ML models using PyTorch/TensorFlow/Keras.
• Build end-to-end LLM and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines using LangChain.
• Collaborate with data scientists to convert prototypes into production-grade AI applications.
• Integrate NLP, Computer Vision, and Recommendation Systems into scalable products.
• Work with transformer-based architectures (BERT, GPT, LLaMA, etc.) for real-world AI use cases.

Backend & Systems Development

• Design, develop, and maintain robust Python microservices with REST/GraphQL APIs.
• Implement real-time communication with Django Channels/WebSockets.
• Containerize AI services with Docker and deploy on Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS).
• Configure and manage AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, SageMaker, CloudWatch) for AI/ML workloads.

Reliability & Automation

• Develop background task queues with Celery, ensuring smart retries and monitoring.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for automated model training, testing, and deployment.
• Write automated unit & integration tests (pytest/unittest) with ≥80% coverage.

Collaboration

• Contribute to MLOps best practices and mentor peers in LangChain/AI integration.
• Participate in tech talks, code reviews, and AI learning sessions within the team.

🎓 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field.
• 2–5 years of experience in Python development with strong AI/ML exposure.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain for building LLM-powered workflows and RAG systems.
• Deep learning experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience deploying ML models and LLM apps into production systems.
• Familiarity with REST/GraphQL APIs and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Skilled in Git workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, Milvus) for retrieval pipelines.
• Knowledge of LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and evaluation frameworks.
• Familiarity with Airflow/Prefect/Dagster for data and model pipelines.
• Background in statistics, optimization, or applied mathematics.
• Contributions to AI/ML or LangChain open-source projects.
• Experience with model monitoring and drift detection in production.

🎁 Why Join Us

• Competitive compensation and benefits 💰
• Work on cutting-edge LLM and AI/ML applications 🤖
• A collaborative, innovation-driven work culture 📚
• Opportunities to grow into AI/ML leadership roles 🚀

💥 What will you do?

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will

• Build out and help scale our Django (+ReactJS / VueJS) based web application as we add new features and customers

• Help us transition from monolithic system architecture to microservices and serverless system architecture to help meet our future scaling requirements

• Collaborate on a daily basis with a small, nimble team of product managers, engineers, and UX designers to understand business requirements and user experience goals and pain points.
• Build out features to enable multi-channel customer acquisition include partner channels, enterprise channels, and government channels
• Integrate third-party plugins to enhance customer experience and internal tooling build internal tooling to improve internal team efficiencies.
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Work with our quality assurance team to improve coverage on our automated testing suites

🙋 What are we looking for? 

While we do not have a strict list of requirements for candidates interested in this role, some indicators that you would fit this role and our engineering culture are 

• Prior experience of a few years (3+ years) with python based frameworks as Django or Flask would be essential to work on our application stack.

• You actively promote a culture of engineering excellence some of which could be writing efficient code, use of elegant design patterns, and styling your code through code-linting policies.

• You enjoy designing software architecture by collaborating with engineering managers, architects, and other lead engineers to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation.

• You enjoy coaching folks to achieve outcomes through nudges.

📢 Other information you may want to consider 

• We will be flexible for the rest of the pandemic and work remotely; however, we are not a remote-first company, and the work location would be Bangalore when things settle.
• Our backend tech stack includes Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, and TigerGraph. Our environments are managed through Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

• Developing and maintaining all server-side network components.
• Ensuring optimal performance of the central database and responsiveness to front-end requests.
• Collaborating with front-end developers on the integration of elements.
• Designing customer-facing UI and back-end services for various business processes.
• Developing high-performance applications by writing testable, reusable, and efficient code.
• Implementing effective security protocols, data protection measures, and storage solutions.
• Running diagnostic tests, repairing defects, and providing technical support.
• Documenting Node.js processes, including database schemas, as well as preparing reports.
• Recommending and implementing improvements to processes and technologies.
• Keeping informed of advancements in the field of Node.js development.

Node.js Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information science, or similar.
• At least two years' experience as a Node.js developer.
• Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.

• Conducting analysis of website and application requirements.
• Writing back-end code and building efficient PHP modules.
• Developing back-end portals with an optimized database.
• Troubleshooting application and code issues.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Responding to integration requests from front-end developers.
• Finalizing back-end features and testing web applications.
• Updating and altering application features to enhance performance.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar field.
• Knowledge of PHP web frameworks including Yii, Laravel, and CodeIgniter.
• Knowledge of front-end technologies including CSS3, JavaScript, and HTML5.
• Understanding of object-oriented PHP programming.
• Previous experience creating scalable applications.
• Proficient with code versioning tools including Git, Mercurial, CVS, and SVN.
• Ability to project manage.
• Good problem-solving skills.

Skills And Qualifications

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack)
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack)
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance (depending on the specific project)
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
• Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (such as Git, Mercurial or SVN)
• (Make sure to mention other frameworks, libraries, or any other technology related to your development stack)
• (List education level or certification you require)

Job Description for Senior Python Developer 

Experience: 4 to 7 years

• Must have strong knowledge in Python 2/Python 3
• Must have a strong knowledge of Web development using the Django web framework and API development experience using Django REST API.
• Flask framework or any other framework’s knowledge is great.
• Ability to write reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Team Handling exposure
• Knowledge of Standard databases like MySql, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Firebase, etc. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Must be good at understanding client requirements.
• Good testing/debugging skills using standard python modules/IDEs
• Deployment experience with standard servers like Apache/AWS etc.
• Experience in testing frameworks known in the industry.
• Having good/basic knowledge of Front end Technologies HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript is good.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools - GIT

The candidate must have experience in coding part and team handling experience both

• PHP Developer Exp 6 + Years Openings:
• Candidate should have excellent communication skill.
• Object-oriented programming in PHP.
• Front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Complex SQL queries and database schema design.
• MVC frameworks (Laravel, Yii2, Any Framework).
• Working in a collaborative team environment using tools like JIRA and Git.
• Consuming and creating web services.
• Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively.
• Demonstrable knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, MYSQL,JQuery,Bootstrap ,Web services etc..
• Consuming and creating web services.
• Stable work history and an ability to collaborate effectively. ,