Senior backend/NLP engineer (Python/Django) - Founding member

Must of Skills/Experience 

• System Design

• Python

• TensorFlow

• Google ADK or Lang Graph

• Lang Chain , Lang Graph

• Spark

• Agentic AI Design

• ML Ops

• MCP (client and server)

• FastAPI

• Doc Factory

• RAG

• Golang

• LLMs – Gemini, Open AI

• NLP

• Dev Assistant - AI based code - generation

(Qwen or Claude or Copilot)

• CI/CD

• Good in oral and written communication,

collaboration and be a team player

Good to have skills 

• DevOps with K8

• Scripting

• Java

• REST API

• UV

• ReACT

• DocFactory

• Unix

Principal Software Engineer

Company Summary :

As the recognized global standard for project-based businesses, Deltek delivers software and information solutions to help organizations achieve their purpose. Our market leadership stems from the work of our diverse employees who are united by a passion for learning, growing and making a difference. At Deltek, we take immense pride in creating a balanced, values-driven environment, where every employee feels included and empowered to do their best work. Our employees put our core values into action daily, creating a one-of-a-kind culture that has been recognized globally. Thanks to our incredible team, Deltek has been named one of America's Best Midsize Employers by Forbes, a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, a Top Workplace by The Washington Post and a Best Place to Work in Asia by World HRD Congress. www.deltek.com

Position Responsibilities :

About the Role 

We are seeking a highly motivated AI Solutions Engineer to join Deltek’s growing AI Center of Excellence team to design, develop, deploy, and optimize internal Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions that solve complex business challenges. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in AI, machine learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), SLMs, software engineering, cloud computing, and MLOps/LLMOps to build scalable, production-grade AI applications. 

The AI Solutions Engineer will collaborate with AI data scientists, architects, and engineering teams to deliver innovative AI-driven solutions while ensuring security, scalability, governance, and operational excellence. This role reports to the Senior AI Solutions Architect. 

Key Responsibilities 

AI & Machine Learning Development 

• Design, build, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning and deep learning models. 
• Develop Generative AI solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and Mistral. 
• Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and AI agent frameworks. 
• Build NLP, recommendation systems, forecasting, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation solutions. 
• Optimize model performance, scalability, latency, and cost. 

Software Engineering & Solution Development 

• Develop production-grade AI applications using Python and modern software engineering practices. 
• Build APIs, microservices, and AI-powered enterprise applications. 
• Integrate AI services with enterprise systems, business applications, and data platforms. 
• Apply coding standards, automated testing, CI/CD, and version control best practices. 

MLOps & AI Operations 

• Design and implement MLOps pipelines for model development, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management. 
• Automate model training, validation, testing, and deployment processes. 
• Monitor model performance, data drift, hallucinations, and operational metrics. 
• Support continuous improvement and reliability of AI platforms. 

Cloud & Platform Engineering 

• Develop AI solutions on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud platforms. 
• Leverage cloud-native AI services, containerization, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies. 
• Build scalable architectures supporting enterprise AI workloads and real-time inference. 

AI Governance & Security 

• Ensure compliance with Responsible AI, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements. 
• Implement model governance, explainability, bias mitigation, and risk management practices. 
• Maintain standards for secure design, deployment, and operation of AI solutions. 

Required Qualifications 

Education 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. 

Experience 

• 5+ years of software engineering or machine learning development experience. 
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying Agentic AI, Generative AI or AI/ML solutions in production environments. 

Technical Skills 

Programming & Engineering 

• Strong expertise in Python. 
• Experience with Java, ReactJS, JavaScript, or similar programming languages. 
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, APIs, and software design principles. 

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning 

• Machine Learning and Deep Learning concepts and frameworks. 
• Model training, evaluation, optimization, and deployment. 

Generative AI 

• Large Language Models (LLMs) & SLMs 
• Prompt Engineering 
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) 
• AI Agents and Agentic Workflows 
• Fine-tuning and model customization 
• Vector embeddings and semantic search 

Frameworks & Tools 

• PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn 
• LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, MCP, A2A and Transformers 
• FastAPI, Flask 

Data & Analytics 

• SQL and NoSQL databases 
• Data pipelines, ETL, and data modeling 
• Experience with AWS, Azure and Google 

MLOps & DevOps 

• MLflow, Kubeflow, Azure ML, SageMaker 
• Docker and Kubernetes 
• Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins 
• CI/CD automation and model monitoring 

Cloud Platforms 

• AWS (preferred) 
• AWS Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Service 
• AWS SageMaker 
• Google Vertex AI 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience designing enterprise-scale AI platforms and products.  
• Knowledge of multi-agent architectures and autonomous AI systems.  
• Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Snowflake Cortex, Pgvector, Weaviate, Chroma, or Azure AI Search.  
• Understanding of AI governance, compliance, and Responsible AI frameworks.  
• Relevant certifications in Azure AI, AWS Machine Learning, or Google Cloud AI.

The Role

You own AI systems end to end. From the speech-to-text models that turn audio into text, to the diarization that separates and identifies speakers, to the agentic layer that turns conversation into memory and action, to the observability and evaluation that keep all of it honest in production. This is a wide role by design. You will own model selection, serving, and production reliability. If you want to tune one model and ignore the system around it, this is not the role.

What You Will Own

•     Speech-to-text. Evaluate, integrate, and optimize STT models across cloud and self-hosted. Drive accuracy and cost trade-offs with ground-truth metrics.

•     Speaker diarization and identification. Push accuracy on hard, real-world, multi-speaker audio.

•     Agentic AI. Build the memory and retrieval pipeline, LLM orchestration, and the agent workflows that sit on top of captured conversation.

•     Model serving and infrastructure. Stand up and optimize self-hosted serving (vLLM, Triton class). Own latency, throughput, and cost per user.

Observability

An always-on wearable means models run in production every second, on messy real-world audio. You own the visibility into that.

•     Instrument the full audio-to-memory pipeline: STT, diarization, retrieval, and LLM calls.

•     Define and track model-quality SLOs in production: transcription drift, diarization error over time, retrieval relevance, latency, throughput, and cost per user.

•     Build dashboards and alerting so model degradation is caught before users feel it.

•     Trace failures across a distributed, always-on system using metrics, logs, and traces.

•     Close the loop. Production signals feed back into evaluation and model selection.

Evaluation

We do not ship what we cannot measure. You own the systems that prove a model is actually better, not just newer.

•     Build and own ground-truth evaluation harnesses for every model in the stack.

•     Measure with real metrics: WER for transcription, DER for diarization, Recall and F1 for retrieval and speaker identification.

•     Build and maintain labeled benchmark datasets that reflect real, messy, multi-speaker audio.

•     Run regression and A/B evaluations on every model swap, prompt change, or pipeline update. Nothing ships on a vibe.

•     Reject anecdotal proxies, single confidence scores, and cherry-picked examples as evidence of quality.

What We Are Looking For

•     3 to 5 years as an AI/ML engineer with production systems behind you. Engineering and production experience is non-negotiable.

•     Depth across the modern AI stack: LLMs, speech models, vector retrieval, model serving.

•     Strong software engineering. You write code that ships and survives contact with real users.

•     Fluency in Python and the production ML ecosystem.

•     Comfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP a plus) and containerized deployment on Kubernetes.

•     A working command of observability and evaluation. You measure first and trust metrics over intuition.

•     First-principles reasoning and metric discipline.

Nice to Have

•     Research background or publications. A strong signal, not a substitute for production work.

•     Audio and speech ML experience (STT, diarization, voice).

•     Experience self-hosting and optimizing open models.

•     Experience with LLM gateway and agent orchestration patterns.

•     Experience building eval harnesses or production model-monitoring systems.

Requirements

Agentic work is must. Audio is good to have

. Self hosting models is a must

 Experience with LLM gateway and agent orchestration is a must have

About the Company

The client is revolutionising the way businesses operate through cutting-edge technological solutions. Their focus is on developing intelligent agents and agentic workflows that automate processes and eliminate the need for human effort wherever possible. By leveraging

advanced AI and machine learning, they create systems that enhance productivity and drive efficiency.

Their expertise extends to the fintech, healthcare and medical technology sectors, where they develop innovative solutions that improve patient outcomes and streamline medical operations.

From medical devices to healthcare platforms, their work sits at the intersection of technology and medicine, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. The team is dedicated to continuous learning and growth, ensuring the team members are always at the forefront of the tech landscape.

About the Role

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role at the heart of our product team. You will be one of the most technical people in the room — setting the architecture for our real-time voice AI

agents and building the hardest parts of it yourself. From the systems that power live conversations to the interfaces our clients rely on, you will own how the product is engineered end to end.

We are looking for a genuine lead full-stack engineer with the depth to make architecture decisions that hold up as we scale, and the appetite to still be in the code every day. You should be as comfortable designing the backend services behind a live voice agent as you are shaping a clean interface on top of them — and comfortable being the person others turn to when something is hard.

You will work directly with the founder and product leadership on a fast-moving product, with real influence over technical direction. This is a role for someone who wants ownership at the level of "how the whole thing is built," not just individual features — and who raises the bar for

everyone around them.

What You'll Own

Set the technical direction

• Own the architecture of our core systems — the real-time voice agents, backend
• services, data and APIs — making the decisions that keep the product fast, reliable and scalable as it grows.
• Lead the hardest engineering problems and solve them personally.
• Establish engineering standards — code quality, review practices, testing and technical patterns that the team builds to.
• Drive technical strategy with the founder and product leadership — shaping the roadmap, flagging risk early, and turning product ambition into a sound technical plan.

Build the product end to end

• Design, build and ship features across the stack — backend services, APIs and front-ends — owning them from idea to production.
• Build the client-facing surfaces — dashboards, review tools and configuration interfaces that let our clients run and trust the product.
• Design and evolve the data models and APIs that hold up as we scale across clients.

Make it reliable and fast

• Own production quality — put the monitoring and alerting in place so issues are caught before clients feel them, and performance stays within target.
• Care about performance — find and fix bottlenecks across the stack.
• Build for correctness — put the testing and evaluation in place that keeps the product behaving predictably as it changes.

Lead through the team

• Mentor and grow engineers — through code review, pairing, and setting a technical example others learn from.
• Multiply the team's output — unblock others and lift the overall quality of the codebase.
• Take features from ambiguity to done — turn a rough product goal into a shipped, working capability with minimal hand-holding, and help others do the same.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant depth across backend and a track record of owning systems, not just features.
• Strong backend engineering, ideally in Python — building and scaling production services and APIs..
• Proven architecture and system-design ability — you have designed systems that scaled, and can reason clearly about trade-offs.
• Solid fundamentals across APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building real-time and/or AI-powered products — or clear, demonstrable ability to lead in this area.
• A history of technical leadership — setting standards, mentoring engineers, and being trusted with the hardest problems — while remaining hands-on.
• Excellent communication and a genuine ownership mindset — someone who can be handed an ambiguous, high-stakes problem and be trusted to see it through.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with AI / large language models in production.
• Experience with voice or other real-time products.
• Exposure to healthcare, fintech, or other regulated / high-stakes domains.
• Experience as an early or senior engineer in a startup, where you set direction and wore many hats.

ABOUT

The Persona Labs is building a new kind of social platform focused on something most social products do not explicitly optimize for: helping people become real friends.

We want to help people discover interesting people around them, find meaningful common ground, start low-pressure interactions, continue promising conversations, create shared experiences, and ultimately build real-life friendships.

DISCOVER → CURIOSITY → COMPATIBILITY → INTERACTION → UNDERSTAND → IRL EXPERIENCE → FRIENDSHIP

THE AI LAYER - COMPANION INTELLIGENCE

Alongside the platform, we are building a proactive personal AI companion that learns about the user and helps them navigate this journey through personalized recommendations, suggestions, reminders, conversations, and experiences. 

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Founding ML Engineer to build the intelligence layer of the platform from the ground up. This is a 0→1 Applied AI / ML role where you will work directly with the founder and Product Engineer to turn ambiguous problems around users, relationships, recommendations and personal intelligence into working systems.

You will be expected to:

Understand the problem → identify the signals → design the intelligence system → prototype → evaluate → deploy → learn → improve.

WHAT YOU WILL BUILD & OWN

USER INTELLIGENCE

User representations, behavioural models, interests, preferences, contextual signals, and evolving understanding of the user. MEMORY Short- and long-term memory, episodic/preference/relationship memory, retrieval, relevance and updating.

RECOMMENDATION & MATCHING

People discovery, compatibility, activity/experience recommendations, and personalized ranking.

INTENT & INTEREST

Infer what the user is trying to do and learn what they care about from behaviour, not only declared interests.

RANKING

Decide what should appear first across potentially thousands of relevant people, activities or experiences.

CONTENT INTELLIGENCE

Classification, toxicity, spam, policy signals, quality, relevance, and semantic understanding.

RELATIONSHIP INTELLIGENCE

Reciprocity, interaction health, shared interests, progression, declining engagement and shared activity.

NEXT-BEST-ACTION

Determine the most useful action now: show a person, suggest a question, recommend an activity, reconnect, or do nothing.

TRUST / SAFETY INTELLIGENCE

Fake-account signals, spam, abuse, behavioural anomalies, risky interactions and moderation assistance.

COMPANION INTELLIGENCE

Use signals and outputs to help the companion decide what to say, suggest, recommend or not do. 

WHAT YOUR DAY-TO-DAY LOOKS LIKE

• Translate ambiguous product problems into ML/AI system designs.

• Build models and intelligence pipelines using behavioural, relational and contextual signals.

• Develop recommendation, matching and personalization systems.

• Design memory and retrieval systems that help the companion understand the user over time.

• Build and evaluate LLM-powered and agentic workflows.

• Decide when to use traditional ML, rules, retrieval, ranking or LLMs.

• Prototype quickly, test assumptions and iterate based on real user behaviour.

• Work closely with the founder and Product Engineer to turn intelligence into product experiences.

• Design APIs and production systems that bring ML/AI capabilities into the application.

• Build evaluation, monitoring and feedback loops so the intelligence improves over time.

WHO SHOULD APPLY

• Experience: 0–4 years’ experience, including exceptional fresh graduates. Strong 1–3 year engineers and experienced 3–4 year product builders are welcome.

• Strong foundations in ML, Python, statistics and software engineering.

• Evidence of Building: Experience with AI/ML projects, recommendation systems, LLM applications or personalization is highly valued.

• Strong evidence of building: Shipped projects, research, hackathons, internships, open source or startup work. 

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

MACHINE LEARNING DEPTH

Can you understand the modelling problem underneath the application?

RECOMMENDATION & PERSONALIZATION

Can you reason about relevance, ranking, cold start and behavioural signals?

AI ENGINEERING

Can you turn LLMs and agents into reliable product capabilities rather than simple API wrappers?

USER INTELLIGENCE

Can you design systems that gradually understand a person from sparse and changing signals?

SYSTEMS THINKING

Can you move from a model to a production system with APIs, data, latency, cost and monitoring?

EVALUATION MINDSET

Can you determine whether the intelligence actually helped the user?

PRODUCT JUDGMENT

Can you decide what the system should do when there is no predefined answer?

SPEED OF EXECUTION

Can you move from idea → prototype → evaluation → production quickly and responsibly?

BUILD WITH US

You will join at a stage where many of the answers do not exist yet. You will not simply implement a model someone else selected; you will help decide how the product learns to understand people.

CAREERS:

Apply with your resume, GitHub, portfolio or shipped work.

https://forms.gle/12YpUSBY2Sqs5xjp8

www.thepersonalabs.com

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience with one or more of the following: Speech/audio (e.g., technology duplicating and responding to the human voice), reinforcement learning (e.g., sequential decision making), ML infrastructure, or specialization in another ML field.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML).
• 7 years of software experience designing and deploying large-scale AI/ML applications and complex models.
• Experience with MLOps, establishing best practices for production model monitoring, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineers, and translating complex business objectives into scalable AI-driven roadmaps.
• Experience architecting scalable data pipelines using BigQuery, Beam, or Dataflow, and deploying models on Google Cloud Platform.
• Understanding of Python and frameworks like TensorFlow, JAX, and Scikit-learn, with deep statistical modeling knowledge.

About the job

The People Operations Engineering team is dedicated to building innovative and scalable technology solutions that empower a global workforce. Leveraging the power of data, AI, and machine learning, the team optimizes HR processes, enhances employee experiences, and drives organizational efficiency. Joining this team offers the opportunity to lead the application of AI to solve complex, real-world business challenges.

We are seeking a highly experienced and results-oriented Senior AI Software Engineer to join the Human Resources Engineering (HRE) team in Hyderabad.

In this role, you will serve as a technical leader, driving the design, development, and deployment of sophisticated AI-powered solutions that significantly impact employees across the organization. You will work on large-scale infrastructure, mentor a talented team of engineers, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and help shape the future of HR through innovative AI applications. You will be responsible for translating complex business challenges and strategic objectives into scalable, efficient AI/ML systems.

As part of the Corporate Engineering organization, you will build world-class business solutions that support a global enterprise. The team delivers end-to-end platforms, tools, and experiences that enable employees to work more effectively and drive innovation across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and architecture of complex, scalable AI/ML systems and infrastructure within the HR engineering domain, ensuring high reliability, performance, and long-term sustainability.
• Drive the development of advanced AI/ML algorithms for HR applications such as talent acquisition and employee engagement using Python and frameworks like TensorFlow and JAX.
• Architect large-scale data pipelines for data ingestion, cleaning, and feature engineering using modern data processing frameworks (e.g., Beam, Dataflow), while leading root cause analysis and system troubleshooting.
• Own the end-to-end MLOps lifecycle, including model deployment, monitoring, optimization, and maintenance, while establishing best practices for software development and code quality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable AI/ML solutions, mentor engineers, and drive the adoption of emerging AI technologies across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy machine learning, deep learning, and NLP models for various business use cases.
• Build end-to-end ML pipelines including data preprocessing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production deployment.
• Optimize model performance and ensure scalability in production environments.
• Work closely with data scientists, product teams, and engineers to translate business requirements into AI solutions.
• Conduct data analysis to identify trends and insights.
• Implement MLOps practices for versioning, monitoring, and automating ML workflows.
• Research and evaluate new AI/ML techniques, tools, and frameworks.
• Document system architecture, model design, and development processes.

Required Skills:

• Strong programming skills in Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras).
• Hands-on experience in building and deploying, finetuning ML/DL models in production.
• Good understanding of machine learning algorithms, neural networks, NLP, and computer vision.
• Experience with REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Working knowledge of MLOps tools such as MLflow, Airflow, DVC, or Kubeflow.
• Familiarity with data pipelines and big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop) is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work with large datasets.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience in deploying models using cloud services (AWS Sagemaker, GCP Vertex AI, etc.).
• Experience in LLM fine-tuning or Generative AI, Voice AI, is an added advantage.

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, Machine Learning, IT, from IIT/NIT colleges strongly preferred

This is a remote position.

About Leegality:

Leegality works with large Indian businesses to digitally transform critical compliance processes in a fast, easy and secure way.

We have multiple products across 2 categories:

Document Infrastructure:

Products that help businesses build paperless processes at scale:

1. Document Execution Workflow: A unified platform for businesses to digitally execute (eSign, eStamp, Template Pre-fill, Document Fraud Prevention etc.) agreements, forms and other documents in a compliant way. Currently in use by 2000+ Indian businesses from giants like HDFC and SBI Cards to high-growth disruptors like goDigit and Cars24.
2. Contract Management: An AI-powered platform for businesses to quickly review, negotiate and take action on contract
3. Signstation: A simple platform for businesses to digitally sign simple documents like invoices, policies and letters in a cost effective manner

Consent Infrastructure:

1. Consentin: An end-to-end DPDP and Privacy compliance platform for Indian businesses
2. Consentin Lens: A data discovery platform for businesses to identify the personal data they collect and store.

If you’re interested in building mission critical software that operates at population scale (75 million + Indians have signed at least one document through Leegality) then join Leegality.

Curious about our impact? Explore our customer success stories: leegality.com/case-studies

Our Culture

At Leegality, trust, ownership, transparency, and having fun while doing meaningful work are core to how we operate — not just values on paper. Our team rated us an incredible 97 eNPS for FY 2023–24 — the highest among 175+ startups surveyed.

We focus deeply on helping our people grow and stay motivated. Some of the perks you’ll enjoy:

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work setup
• Bi-annual performance appraisals
• A culture that rewards initiative, curiosity, and impact

If you're looking for a place where you can make a real difference while working with smart, driven, and genuinely nice people, welcome to Leegality.

Location: Hybrid

Job Brief:

• As a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), you will develop solutions to interesting technical problems, exploring exciting growth opportunities and having a real impact on our product, particularly focusing on document and content intelligence.
• To ensure success, you should demonstrate solid data science knowledge and experience in a related ML, CV, or NLP role. A first-class engineer will be someone whose expertise enhances our systems for document intelligence and content processing

Responsibilities:

• Designing machine learning systems, self-running artificial intelligence (AI) software, and specialized models for Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing applications.
• Transforming data science prototypes and applying appropriate deep learning algorithms and tools to text and image/document data.
• Solving complex CV and NLP problems with multi-layered data types, such as image/document classification, information extraction, semantic search, and object detection.
• Optimizing existing machine learning models, with a focus on high-performance model deployment for CV and NLP tasks.
• Developing ML algorithms (including large language models/LLMs and computer vision models) to analyze huge volumes of historical text, image, and document data to make predictions and automate workflows.
• Running tests, performing statistical analysis, and interpreting test results for CV/NLP model performance.
• Documenting machine learning processes, model architectures, and data pipelines.
• Keeping abreast of developments in machine learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in Machine Learning Engineering, with a strong focus on Computer Vision and/or Natural Language Processing.
• Advanced proficiency with Python.
• Extensive knowledge of ML frameworks, libraries (e.g., PyTorch, Transformers), data structures, data modeling, and software architecture.
• Experience with building and maintaining scalable RESTful APIs (e.g., FastAPI).
• In-depth knowledge of mathematics, statistics, deep learning (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers), and algorithms.
• Superb analytical and problem-solving abilities, especially for unstructured data challenges.
• Great communication and collaboration skills.
• Excellent time management and organizational abilities.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) for model deployment and MLOps.

Recruitment Process:

• Our hiring process combines AI-powered evaluations with structured interviews to ensure a fair and seamless experience.
• You will be contacted via email with the next steps upon being shortlisted.
• The process may include Assessments, AI-enabled interviews, and In-Person Interviews with our team.
• Final selection and CTC will be based on your overall performance and experience.

Apply directly through our career page: https://careers.leegality.com/jobs/Careers

For more information about us please visit our:

Our Company and Culture: https://bit.ly/3Iqm5SB

Our Website: www.leegality.com/

Our LinkedIn Page: www.linkedin.com/company/leegality/

Leegality's Privacy Notice: https://www.leegality.com/employee-privacy-notice

Location: Hyderabad, India. Based at the KnackLabs headquarters, with occasional travel to client locations for workshops and reviews. This role does not involve extended onsite deployments.

About the Role

You will work as an AI Architect who designs the systems behind our client engagements: AI agents, RAG systems, automation platforms, and the conventional backend systems around them.

This is a hands-on design role, not a slideware role. You will scope architectures with clients, make the hard technical decisions, defend them in review, and stay accountable for how the systems perform in production.

You will work directly with clients. Everyone at KnackLabs does. You will sit in design discussions with client engineering teams, present architecture decisions to technical and business stakeholders, and answer for the choices you make.

A full KnackLabs engineering team in Hyderabad builds with you. You own the technical design and the quality of what ships.

What you'll own

1. Architecture - Design AI agents, RAG systems, integrations, and the scalable backend systems around them, for multiple client engagements.
2. Technical scoping - Work directly with clients to turn a business problem into a system design, with clear trade-offs and clear reasons.
3. Scale and reliability - Make sure what we build handles real load: data stores, queues, caching, horizontal scaling, and fault tolerance.
4. Design reviews - Review designs and builds across engagements. Set the technical bar and hold it.
5. Evaluation strategy - Define how we measure accuracy, safety, latency, and cost for the AI systems we ship.
6. Guiding engineers - Raise the level of the engineers building with you, through reviews and direct pairing.
7. Feedback to the platform - Feed what you learn across engagements back into our platform and internal tools.

What we are looking for

1. Around 7 or more years of software engineering experience, including direct work with customers on design or delivery.
2. Full-stack development experience with strength in backend technologies.
3. Experience designing and building scalable applications. You understand how large-scale distributed systems work: data partitioning, queues, caching, horizontal scaling, and fault tolerance.
4. At least 2 years of strong, hands-on AI experience with large language models in production.
5. You build with AI coding tools like Claude Code or Codex as your default way of working. You understand Claude Skills, have written skills yourself, use them actively, and have contributed to them.
6. Hands-on experience building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems: chunking, embeddings, vector databases, retrieval, and reranking.
7. Hands-on experience building AI agents.
8. Strong programming skills in Python. Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript.
9. Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
10. Clear communication. You can explain an architecture decision to an engineer and to a business leader, and defend it under questioning.
11. High ownership and comfort with ambiguity. You can take an unclear problem and turn it into a design.

Nice to have

1. Experience building evaluations to measure accuracy, safety, latency, and cost.
2. Experience with observability and tracing tools such as LangSmith or Braintrust.
3. Experience with on-premises or private cloud (VPC) deployments.
4. Experience deploying AI systems in regulated industries such as insurance, banking, or the public sector.
5. Experience with data engineering and pipelines.
6. A history of side projects, open source contributions, or products you shipped end-to-end.
7. Experience working at a consulting or professional services firm in a client-facing delivery role.

Stack and tools

1. Languages: Python and TypeScript.
2. Models: Claude and other frontier or open-source models, chosen to fit the customer.
3. AI patterns: RAG, agents, prompt engineering, skills, and evaluations.
4. Vector and retrieval: vector databases and retrieval pipelines.
5. Cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP, on public or private cloud.
6. Integration: REST APIs and enterprise system connectors.

We are looking for an Engineering Lead to own the entire technology stack — from onboarding and underwriting to disbursals, repayments, and collections — and to build the engineering function into something genuinely AI-native. 

What You'll Own 

● Full tech stack: backend, frontend, infrastructure, integrations, and data pipelines 

● Real-time underwriting and decisioning systems 

● LOS/LMS architecture — onboarding, disbursals, repayments, and collections

● Integrations with bureaus, KYC providers, account aggregators, and payment gateways 

● Reconciliation systems — disbursement, repayment, and NACH reconciliation end-to-end 

● AWS infrastructure: scaling, reliability, uptime, and cloud cost ownership ● Data infrastructure for the credit and risk team — feature pipelines, model serving, experiment infrastructure 

● Engineering leadership: hiring, sprint planning, code reviews, and execution standards 

● Compliance systems: RBI guidelines, DPDP, KYC/AML, e-NACH, e-sign 

AI-Native Engineering 

This is a core part of the role, not a bonus. You will build a machine-readable knowledge base of the entire codebase — architecture, data models, service contracts, coding standards, decision history — so that AI agents working on code have the context to produce accurate, consistent output. You will build skills for code review, developer onboarding, and recurring engineering workflows. You will build a code review pipeline where agents do the first pass on every pull request. The knowledge base and the skills improve over time as the team grows and the product evolves. 

What We're Looking For 

● 7+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years leading teams or architecture

● Strong hands-on experience with Python, Django, and React Native

● Deep expertise in AWS and cloud-native architecture 

● Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases 

● Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API design

● Experience owning reconciliation or payment flow infrastructure in a lending or payments context

● Prior experience in fintech / NBFC / digital lending — mandatory

● Strong understanding of the full loan lifecycle — mandatory 

● You have used LLMs seriously as engineering tools and have strong opinions about what makes AI-assisted development produce good output versus mediocre output 

Bonus: Kubernetes / Kafka, AI/ML-driven underwriting, Account Aggregator framework, e-NACH / e-Sign / Video KYC integrations 

What Success Looks Like 

● scales with strong uptime, performance, and reliability

● Reconciliation runs cleanly — no financial discrepancies surface late ● A new engineer joins and is writing standard, correct code within their first week

● The credit team is never blocked on an engineering dependency 

● Engineering health metrics are tracked and visibly improving 

● AI agents are doing the structured first pass on code reviews, and the system gets smarter over time