Staff Engineer at YOptima Media Solutions Pvt Ltd · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 8 - 11 years · ₹40L - ₹60L / yr (ESOP available) · Bootstrapped · Posted 30 Jun 2025

Why This Role Matters
- We are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead the technical direction and hands-on development of our next-generation, agentic AI-first marketing platforms. This is a high-impact role to architect, build, and ship products that change how marketers interact with data, plan campaigns, and make decisions.
What You'll Do
- Build Gen-AI native products: Architect, build, and ship platforms powered by LLMs, agents, and predictive AI
- Stay hands-on: Design systems, write code, debug, and drive product excellence
- Lead with depth: Mentor a high-caliber team of full stack engineers.
- Speed to market: Rapidly ship and iterate on MVPs to maximize learning and feedback.
- Own the full stack: From backend data pipelines to intuitive UIs—from Airflow to React - from BigQuery to embeddings.
- Scale what works: Ensure scalability, security, and performance in multi-tenant, cloud-native environments (GCP).
- Collaborate deeply: Work closely with product, growth, and leadership to align tech with business priorities.
What You Bring
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack, data-driven products
- Proficiency in backend (Node.js, Python) and frontend (React), with solid GCP experience
- Strong grasp of data pipelines, analytics, and real-time data processing
- Familiarity with Gen-AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI APIs, vector databases)
- Proven architectural leadership and technical ownership
- Product mindset with a bias for execution and iteration
Our Tech Stack
- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform
- Backend: Node.js, Python, Airflow
- Data: BigQuery, Cloud SQL
- AI/ML: TensorFlow, OpenAI APIs, custom agents
- Frontend: React.js
What You Get
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
- The chance to build global products from India
- A culture that values clarity, ownership, learning, humility, and candor
- A rare opportunity to build with Gen-AI from the ground up
Who You Are
- You’re initiative-driven, not interruption-driven.
- You code because you love building things that matter.
- You enjoy ambiguity and solve problems from first principles.
- You believe true leadership is contextual, hands-on, and grounded.
- You’re here to build — not just maintain.
- You care deeply about seeing your products empower real users, run reliably at scale, and adapt intelligently with minimal manual effort.
- You know that elegant code is just 30% of the job — the real craft lies in the engineering rigour, edge-case handling, and production resilience that make great products truly dependable.

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Dear Candidate,
We have an immediate opening with Mphasis for Senior Full Stack Engineer (Python AI).
📍 Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore
💼 Experience: 5+ Years
🏢 Employment: Permanent
⚡ Immediate Joiners Preferred
Mandatory Skills:
- Python
- Java + Spring Boot
- React.js
- MongoDB
GenAI
Role & Responsibilities
Responsibilities
• Business: Immerse in operations until you think like an insider.
Rapidly acquire domain expertise through direct observation, translate between business and engineering seamlessly, and mentor engineers in your area on immersion. Influence senior stakeholders effectively, manage complex stakeholder landscapes with competing agendas, and build trust rapidly with new stakeholders.
• Delivery: Lead rapid delivery initiatives across teams in your area, coach on prototype-first approaches, and establish trust through consistent fast delivery. Build complete applications rapidly across any technology stack, select the right tools for each problem, and define clear criteria for prototype-to-production transitions.
• Generative AI: Architect RAG systems for complex use cases across teams, implement advanced techniques (hybrid search, reranking, query expansion), mentor engineers on RAG best practices, and establish RAG standards. Lead evaluation strategy across teams, establishing annotation guidelines, training human-calibrated LLM judges, and building evaluation pipelines that connect tracing to datasets to experiments.
• People: Build high-performing teams across your area, navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, foster psychological safety, and create environments where diverse perspectives are valued. Influence through communication at all levels — from frontline to executive. Handle difficult conversations skilfully and train engineers in your area on effective communication.
• AI-Augmented Development: Optimise AI tool usage across teams in your area, train engineers on AI-augmented and agentic engineering workflows, evaluate new AI development tools, and establish practices that balance AI speed with verification rigour.
• Scale: Design complex multi-component systems end-to-end, evaluate architectural options for large initiatives across teams, guide technical decisions for your area, and mentor engineers on architecture. Create debt reduction strategies across teams, influence roadmap decisions to include debt work, and teach engineers when to accept debt for speed versus when to invest in quality.
• Documentation: Define documentation standards across teams in your area, create documentation systems and templates, train engineers on spec-driven development, and ensure documentation quality across projects. Lead pattern generalization initiatives, defining criteria for when to generalize versus keep custom.
• Reliability: Define reliability standards across teams in your area, drive post-incident improvements systematically, design capacity planning processes, andmentor engineers on SRE practices.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Staff Software Engineer / FDE profile (full-stack + production GenAI, multi-team technical leadership)
- Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated full-stack delivery across backend and frontend.
- Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have deep production experience with Python AND JavaScript/TypeScript, working comfortably across the full stack.
- Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have 2+ years of experience in generative AI applications developement — LLM integrations, vector databases, RAG systems, and evaluation pipelines
- Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React) and backend API development.
- Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP valued), including infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation / Terraform).
- Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have working knowledge of multiple database paradigms — relational (PostgreSQL), document, and key-value (Redis) — with ability to select the right storage per problem.
- Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions), containerization, and production deployment strategies.
- Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have demonstrable fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and proven ability to design agentic engineering workflows and train teams on them
- Preferred (Experience) – Advanced RAG techniques — hybrid search, reranking, query expansion — and establishing RAG standards across teams
We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our lean, high-impact engineering team. This is a key founding-team role where you will work closely with the CTO and help build the engineering foundation of the company.
The ideal candidate is a backend-strong full-stack engineer with solid Python and React experience, a strong understanding of AI/LLMs, and the ability to independently take ownership of projects from idea to production.
What You'll Do:
- Build and scale applications across the backend and frontend
- Develop backend services and APIs using Python
- Build and maintain frontend applications using React
- Design and implement AI/LLM-powered applications and features
- Work with AI services and integrate them into real-world applications
- Contribute to system design and architecture
- Work with cloud infrastructure and services
- Take ownership of features and initiatives from ideation to production
- Identify problems and proactively drive solutions without requiring constant direction
- Work closely with the CTO and founding team to shape engineering practices and future systems
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
What We're Looking For:
- 3–6 years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience with Python
- Good hands-on experience with React
- Strong backend development experience with full-stack exposure
- Practical understanding of AI, LLMs and AI services
- Experience building at least one meaningful AI project beyond basic API/chatbot integrations
- Experience taking an AI/ML application or feature into production is preferred
- Exposure to cloud platforms
- Good understanding of system design and software architecture
- Strong problem-solving and ownership mindset
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple language
- Genuine hands-on experience with the technologies mentioned on the resume
What Makes This Role Different:
This is not a typical execution-focused engineering role. We are building a lean "A-team" of experienced engineers who will eventually help shape the team and take on senior/leadership responsibilities.
We're looking for someone who:
- Takes initiative rather than waiting for tasks
- Can work independently in an early-stage environment
- Is comfortable exploring and building with AI
- Can go deep into the work they've done and explain the technical decisions behind it
- Wants significant ownership and influence over the product and engineering direction
Location & Compensation
- Work Mode: Remote initially
- Future Location: Expected relocation to Bangalore in approximately 1 year
- Working Hours: Regular IST hours
- Travel: Potential opportunities to travel to Germany
Interview Process:
3 Rounds
- Technical & Project Deep Dive – Conversational discussion around past projects, AI experience and technical depth
- System Design & Technical Round – Deeper technical and architecture discussion
- Founder Round – Communication, culture fit, ownership and initiative
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World's Best Employers 2025) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.
This role is part of Cognizant IOA (Intuitive Operations and Automation) — and more specifically, a product team with its own origin story. We started as Matterway, a German startup building automation software from scratch. We were acquired by Cognizant, but we kept our team, our culture, our pace, and our way of working. We move like a startup, think like a startup, and now do it with the backing of a global company.
We combine human expertise with intelligent automation, ML operations, and digital experience solutions to help technology and digital-native companies build smarter, more adaptive operating models.
What's the opportunity?
We are looking for Senior Product Engineers to join our team. We're a tight crew of 5 senior engineers, from different corners of the world. We're hiring 3 more people, and those people will shape what this team becomes.
We're building a platform to support the agentification of our operations. You'll work across a suite of products including a cloud platform for process optimization, desktop application, browser extension, and specialized AI agents.
This is genuinely frontier work: we don't follow AI trends, we implement them. New model drops on a Monday; we've prototyped with it by Wednesday.
We believe this is the most exciting time to join. Be part of the founding R&D talent in this area and help set the technical bar for everything that comes next.
What will you be doing?
Your day-to-day responsibilities:
- Design and evolve the core architecture of our platform
- Set technical standards and take ownership of complex projects end-to-end
- Work on a well-architected, fast-evolving TypeScript codebase using technologies such as React, Node.js, Electron, and GraphQL
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems, with real autonomy
- Participate in the full development lifecycle: scoping, design, estimation, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, maintenance, and support
- Evaluate and implement proofs of concept using the latest AI tools and models
You will know you're successful if:
- You develop projects independently until they deliver their intended business value
- You keep top-notch software quality standards about design, implementation, and documentation
- You're the person who brings something new to the team's radar, a model, a technique, a tool, before anyone else has heard of it
What makes you a great fit
Must-haves:
- Excellent English (C1+) with exceptional written and verbal communication
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript across frontend and backend, including building and maintaining Node.js-based services
- Experience in frontend development using modern frameworks such as Vue.js or React
- Knowledge of any E2E testing framework such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Cypress
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables
- Strong technical fundamentals, genuine intellectual curiosity, and a drive to keep getting better
- You follow AI closely, not just as a user but as someone who reads the papers, watches the releases, and has opinions. You're excited about where this is going and want to be building at the edge of it
Nice-to-haves:
- Familiarity with AI-coding tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, etc.)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP) and infra-as-code deployment
- Having built or maintained CI/CD pipelines or workflows, especially GitHub actions
Why join us?
- Be at the cutting edge of AI agents and applying LLMs to real-world use cases, not in theory but in production
- Work on hard problems with high agency: your ideas get heard; your decisions get shipped
- Join a small but growing internationally distributed team.
- giving you real influence over how it evolves
- The resources of a global company with the speed and culture of a startup
- Remote-first set-up, with the option to work from one of our 13 locations in India: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida, Kolkata, Kochi, Coimbatore, Bhubaneswar, Mangalore, and Indore
- Flexible working hours
- Collaborative, pragmatic engineering culture focused on outcomes
- Fast-growing team within Cognizant, with access to global resources and real career opportunities
Senior Technical Manager
Primary objective: Own engineering teams, architecture, delivery governance and successful execution of product and AI initiatives across DocTutorials.
Location
Hyderabad / Chennai
Employment
Full-time
Experience
10+ years
Role Summary
The Senior Technical Manager combines technical leadership, people management, product delivery and project execution. The role is accountable for team outcomes, engineering quality, timelines, production stability and the disciplined delivery of AI projects.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technology and Architecture Leadership
· Provide direction for Python FastAPI, React/Next.js, data, cloud and AI architectures.
· Review solution designs for security, scalability, maintainability, performance and cost.
· Define engineering standards and resolve complex cross-team technical risks.
· Remain technically hands-on through architecture reviews, critical code reviews and incident debugging.
2. People and Delivery Management
· Lead, mentor and develop engineering teams with clear goals and accountability.
· Own estimation, capacity, execution, dependencies, risks, releases and delivery recovery plans.
· Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews, coaching and skill-development planning.
· Work with Product, QA, DevOps and stakeholders to deliver measurable product outcomes.
3. AI Project Execution
· Assess AI use cases for feasibility, data readiness, risk, cost and measurable value.
· Lead delivery of LLM, RAG, agentic and AI-assisted product initiatives from PoC to production.
· Ensure evaluation, human validation, security, privacy, observability and rollback controls.
· Prevent isolated demos, uncontrolled AI usage and dependency on individual engineers or vendors.
Required Skills and Experience
· 10+ years in software engineering with significant technical and people leadership experience.
· Strong understanding of Python/FastAPI, React/Next.js, APIs, databases, cloud and distributed systems.
· Proven ownership of product delivery, project planning, risk management and production operations.
· Experience hiring, mentoring, evaluating and developing engineering teams.
· Strong knowledge and execution experience across AI/ML, LLM, RAG or agentic-AI projects.
· Practical understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI and responsible AI use relevant to the role.
· Ability to use approved AI tools productively while protecting source code, credentials, learner data and organisational information.
· Commitment to human review, testing, security validation and traceability for AI-assisted outputs.
Good-to-Have Experience
· EdTech or medical-learning product experience.
· AWS, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, MLOps or LLMOps.
· Experience scaling teams and platforms through major transformation.
How Success Will Be Measured
· Delivery becomes predictable with risks identified early.
· Engineering quality, security and production stability improve.
· AI projects progress from validated use cases to reliable production outcomes.
· Team capability, ownership, engagement and succession strength increase.
· Work consistently delivers measurable outcomes and business value—not merely completion of assigned tasks or activities.
Expected mindset: Own the outcome, use AI responsibly, communicate risks early and deliver secure, measurable value for DocTutorials and its learners.
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.
Title: Tech Lead / Engineering Lead
Experience: 8-10 years
Location: Sector 55, Gurugram (On-site, 5 days)
Industry: B2B SaaS / Enterprise Technology
About Master-O:
Master-O is a sales enablement platform used by leading enterprises across industries like FMCG, Pharma, Banking, Insurance, Automotive, Retail, Technology etc. to drive the capability development and frontline readiness for their customer-facing teams with the help of microlearning, game-based assessments and AI-powered conversational roleplays.
As we continue to expand our enterprise deployments across Pan India, North America, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, we are looking for a Tech Lead to take ownership of our engineering function and drive the successful delivery, implementation, and scalability of our solution.
The Role:
This is a high-ownership role for someone who enjoys building features, solving complex engineering problems, and collaborating with internal teams and customers. You will be leading a team of 5–6 developers and will be the face of the engineering function at Master-O.
Reporting directly to the Founder, this role requires someone who can balance engineering excellence with business priorities and ensure reliable delivery across multiple enterprise clients and geographies.
We are particularly interested in people who have prior worked in a growing SaaS organisation or have entrepreneurial experience and understand what it takes to build and deliver features from scratch.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Engineering Leadership & Technical Ownership
- Own the engineering function, including architecture, development, code quality, performance, scalability, security, and maintenance.
- Lead a team of 5-6 engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing code, ensuring timely delivery and nurturing their career path.
- Remain hands-on with development and debugging rather than functioning solely as a people manager.
- Establish engineering standards, development practices, testing protocols, and release processes.
- Make pragmatic technology decisions that balance long-term scalability with ad-hoc business requirements.
2. Enterprise Implementations & Client Delivery
- Own the technical execution of our implementations with enterprise clients across the globe.
- Drive client-specific configurations, integrations, customizations, deployments, and production rollouts.
- Work closely with the Founder, Customer Success team, Product team, and other key stakeholders to translate client requirements into robust technical outcomes.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, manage technical dependencies within team, and ensure implementation timelines and quality standards are met.
- Build reusable frameworks and integration capabilities that reduce implementation time and minimize repetitive custom development.
3. AI Engineering & Emerging Technologies
- Evaluate and implement AI capabilities that solve real enterprise problems and enhance product functionality.
- Experience integrating Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI agents into enterprise applications will be a strong advantage.
- Understand the practical considerations of deploying AI in production, including data security, reliability, latency, cost, and evaluation.
- Encourage responsible adoption of AI coding tools such as Claude Code while ensuring engineers retain strong fundamentals, understand the code they ship, and take ownership of its quality.
4. Team & Execution Management
- Take ownership of engineering priorities, sprint execution, resource allocation, and delivery commitments.
- Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure the team can independently diagnose and resolve technical problems rather than relying excessively on external tools or generated code.
- Collaborate with leadership to align engineering priorities with customer commitments, product roadmaps, and business objectives.
Required Technical Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, Express.js, React, MySQL, Python, and AWS.
- Solid understanding of backend architecture, REST APIs, database design, system integrations, and cloud-based deployments.
- Experience building, maintaining, and scaling production-grade mobile and web applications.
- Strong debugging, code review, system design, and performance optimization skills.
- Familiarity with software development lifecycle practices, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
- Ability to make independent technical decisions and take ownership of issues from identification through resolution.
Experience & Qualifications:
- 8–10 years of relevant software engineering experience, with demonstrated progression into technical leadership.
- Prior experience leading a team of junior and mid-level engineers.
- Experience in a B2B SaaS company or an enterprise technology environment is strongly preferred.
- Experience managing enterprise client implementations, integrations, and production deployments.
- B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline, preferably from a Tier-1 engineering college.
What We Are Looking For:
We are looking for a seasoned engineering professional who has experience handling multiple clients, varied integration requirements, competing priorities, and production issues.
You must be flexible to coordinate across time zones and work outside standard business hours when client implementations or critical releases require it.
This role offers the opportunity to work closely with the Founder, influence the product and architecture decisions, lead a compact engineering team, and directly shape how our technology scales across enterprise customers in not just domestic but international markets.
Senior/Lead Full Stack Engineer – AI
Experience: 5+ Years
Location: Bengaluru / Hyderabad
Employment Type: Permanent
Preferred: Immediate Joiners
Key Skills
- React.js
- Python
- Generative AI (GenAI)
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior/Lead Full Stack Engineer – AI with strong expertise in React.js, Python, and Generative AI. The candidate should have hands-on experience building scalable full-stack applications, developing backend APIs, and integrating AI/GenAI solutions into enterprise applications.
Interested candidates: Please share your updated resume, current CTC, expected CTC, and notice period.
We're hiring Drumbeat's first Senior Product Engineer to help us go to the next level.
We're not first-timers. We're the team that founded Phrasee in 2015 and grew it to more than 100 people, customers around the world, and a >$100m exit. Lots of people made lots of money, including the founding employees.
With Drumbeat, our plan is to do it all again… except this time, bigger and faster.
What is Drumbeat?
Drumbeat (www.drumbeat.com) predicts your next best action on LinkedIn, then copilots your team to turn invites, DMs and posts into pipeline.
We launched in September 2025 and have raised a £2m seed round led by a well-known VC. We're building the core team around our cofounders (Parry, Jonny and Dan) and Mohit, our Engineering Manager and Phrasee's first engineer. You'll report to Mohit.
What you'll be building on
- Setlist: a short, ordered list of the right things for each person to do today.
- Radar: predicts who each rep should connect with now, not everybody who matches a job-title search.
- Riff and AuthorDNA: help people find something worth saying, and write it in their own voice.
- Campaigns, Conversations, Backstage and Analytics: team-wide activity, replies, company knowledge and reporting.
Under the hood: Django and PostgreSQL, background jobs on Redis, LLM workflows, statistical models that learn what works, and integrations with LinkedIn and CRMs. A lot of our code is written with AI coding agents, inside a strict engineering process.
How we think about engineering
- "Human-first AI, not AI-first humans." AI agents write a lot of our code. They don't make our decisions. We want someone super smart without AI, and even smarter with it, who knows when the machine is blowing smoke.
- "Spend 55 minutes on the problem." Understand what's actually wrong before you fix it.
- "Fix the class, not the instance." Every bug is an example of something bigger. Find the pattern, and fix it everywhere it lives.
- "A check must be able to fail." A test you've never seen go red proves nothing.
- "You don't need a Ferrari to drive to the supermarket." Simplicity over cleverness, every time.
What you'll own
- Technical architecture. How Drumbeat is built, so it holds up as we add customers, features and integrations.
- Shipping features end to end. From Parry and Mohit's briefs, and turning Parry's MVPs into production features.
- Foundations. Scale, resilience (safe retries, timeouts and fallbacks when outside services wobble), cost and refactoring.
- What you build. Once it's live, it's yours: you maintain it and fix it.
- The hardest bugs. The ones nobody else can crack.
Your experience
- 8+ years as an engineer, at a product company, preferably B2B SaaS.
- Time at a smaller company, so you know how to get stuck in.
- You've owned a system in production, not just added features to one.
- Senior Python and Django: Postgres, background jobs, correctness in production.
- System architecture and refactoring.
- You direct AI coding agents well, and explain trade-offs in plain English to people who aren't engineers.
Where you'll work
Delhi / NCR. You'll be in our Delhi office some days each week, alongside Mohit.
Pay
₹40–65 lakh CTC, plus equity that vests as the company hits revenue milestones.
This is probably not a job for most people. Don't apply if you want an easy job. Apply if you want a hard one: lots of responsibility, very little bureaucracy, plenty to figure out, and a genuine chance to shape what this company becomes… and make a bunch of money as a result.
If that sounds exciting, LET'S PARTY.
About the role
You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.
Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office
What you will do
Technology & product leadership
- Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
- Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
- Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.
Engineering & platform management
- Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
- Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
- Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.
Innovation & AI strategy
- Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
- Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
- Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
- Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
- Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.
Technical leadership
- A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
- Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
- Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
- Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.
What success looks like
- Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
- Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
- Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.
Qualifications & experience
- Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
- A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
- Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
- Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
- Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.
Technical expertise
- Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
- Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).
Behavioural & leadership competencies
- Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
- Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
- High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.












