Senior Software Engineer

Backend Engineer III – Senior Python Developer (LLM & AI)

Location: Gurgaon, India

Positions: 1

Experience: 6 to 9 Years

Gurgaon Hybrid

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer III / Senior Python Developer to join our AI engineering team and play a critical role in building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend platforms for LLM and AI-driven applications. You will work as a hands-on individual contributor while collaborating closely with Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Cloud/DevOps teams to deliver innovative, production-grade AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and services using Python to support LLM and AI-based applications
• Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices that serve machine learning models and AI components
• Write clean, modular, efficient, and testable code following industry best practices and coding standards
• Participate actively in code reviews, ensuring high quality, security, and maintainability of the codebase
• Debug, profile, and optimize applications to improve performance, reliability, and scalability
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in AI/ML pipelines and backend services
• Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to translate business and technical requirements into robust backend solutions
• Mentor and support junior developers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment workflows to ensure consistent and reliable releases
• Stay up to date with emerging trends in Python, cloud-native development, and LLM/AI engineering practices and apply them to improve systems and processes

Required Skills & Experience

• 6 to 9 years of strong hands-on experience in Python development
• Solid understanding of Python software design, architecture patterns, and testing best practices
• Proven experience working on AI, Machine Learning, or LLM-based projects
• Strong experience in building and consuming RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
• Hands-on experience with FastAPI, Flask, or similar model-serving frameworks
• Strong debugging, performance profiling, and optimization skills
• Experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a strong plus
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, evolving AI/ML environment while mentoring junior team members

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• AWS or other relevant cloud certifications are preferred but not mandatory

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge AI and LLM platforms
• Collaborate with top-tier engineering and data science teams
• Opportunity to influence system architecture and technical direction
• Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities

Job Description

Build and maintain bots on Azure platform.  Integration with Active directory, WEB API based integration with external systems. Training and Integrate bots as per users’ requirements. Work in line with design guidelines, best practices and standards of bot deliverable. Creative approach to the conversation flow design, human aspects in the bot responses and sentiments

Qualifications

1. a) 5 years of experience in software development with clear understanding of the project life cycle
   b) Min 2-3 years of hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Bot Framework, LUIS and other Cognitive services offered by Azure
   c) Hands on experience with Machine Learning based chat bots
   d) Experience with Azure bot services like Text Analytics etc.
   e)Strong database skills and hands-on experience on databases like SQL Server/Oracle
2. f) Strong experience on Azure Active directory and adaptive cards integration in Chat bot.
3. g) Strong experience designing and working with

with service-oriented architectures (SOA) and WebAPIs.

1. h) A strong experience on Microsoft Azure, ASPNET / MVC and programming languages such as C#/VBNET
2. i) Knowledge of Python and NodeJS is a plus
3. j) Ability to design and optimize SQL Server 2008 stored procedures.
4. k) Experience with JQuery, CSS3, HTML5 or similar technologies.

JioTesseract, a digital arm of Reliance Industries, is India's leading and largest AR/VR organization with the mission to democratize mixed reality for India and the world. We make products at the cross of hardware, software, content and services with focus on making India the leader in spatial computing. We specialize in creating solutions in AR, VR and AI, with some of our notable products such as JioGlass, JioDive, 360 Streaming, Metaverse, AR/VR headsets for consumers and enterprise space.

Mon-Fri, In office role with excellent perks and benefits!

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Build and implement scalable and robust microservices and integrate API gateways.

3. Develop and optimize NoSQL database structures and queries (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).

4. Implement real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

5. Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration of backend services.

6. Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices, including design patterns.

7. Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing systems for improved performance.

Mandatory Skills:

1. Proficiency in at least one backend technology: Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Strong experience in:

i. Microservices architecture,

ii. API gateways,

iii. NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB),

iv. Kafka

v. Data structures (e.g., arrays, linked lists, trees).

3. Frameworks:

i. If Java : Spring framework for backend development.

ii. If Python: FastAPI/Django frameworks for AI applications.

iii. If Node: Express.js for Node.js development.

Good to Have Skills:

1. Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.

2. Familiarity with in-memory databases like Redis or Memcached.

3. Frontend skills: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React.js.

Here a video that explains our product journey:

https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21">https://www.loom.com/share/ccd0ed9e7bc349d7bba851d762253c21

This is fully a remote role, but the employer needs to fly down to the office in Kolkata for 5–6 days every month. Plane tickets and accommodation will be reimbursed by the company.

Minimum 5-7years of professional experience building web-applications
Strong experience in backend development
Strong experience in AI/Machine Learning development, Data Analysis/Processing
Experience in creating robust and secure REST APIs
Hands-on exposure to RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB etc.
Proficiency with one or more programming languages from Java, Python, Node/JavaScript
Solid familiarity working with cloud and related technologies, AWS, GCP and Azure cloud environments
Ability to do very quick research in unknown technologies
Startup mindset, comfort with chaos and multi-tasking ability
Strong programming fundamentals in Data Structures, Algorithms
An eye for writing performance optimum code in any tool set

Responsibilities Include

You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

Requirements

• B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
• Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology team
• Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
• Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
• Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
• Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
• A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
• Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.
• Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
• Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus.