Staff Engineer

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

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to design, build, and integrate AI-driven systems that automate and enhance real-world business workflows. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys full-stack ownership — from backend AI architecture to frontend user experiences — and can align engineering decisions with measurable product outcomes.

You will begin as a strong individual contributor, independently architecting and deploying AI-powered solutions. As the product portfolio scales, you will lead a distributed team across India and Australia, acting as a System Integrator to align engineering, data, and AI contributions into cohesive production systems.

Example Project

Design and deploy a multi-agent AI system to automate critical stages of a company’s sales cycle, including:

• Generating client proposals using historical SharePoint data and CRM insights
• Summarizing meeting transcripts
• Drafting follow-up communications
• Feeding structured insights into dashboards and workflow tools

The solution will combine RAG pipelines, LLM reasoning, and React-based interfaces to deliver measurable productivity gains.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement AI workflows using LLMs, vector databases, and automation frameworks
• Act as a System Integrator, coordinating deliverables across distributed engineering and AI teams
• Develop frontend interfaces using React/JavaScript to enable seamless human-AI collaboration
• Design APIs and microservices integrating AI systems with enterprise platforms (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
• Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, performance, and security
• Collaborate with product managers, clients, and data teams to translate business use cases into production-ready systems
• Mentor junior engineers and evolve into a broader leadership role as the team grows

Ideal Candidate Profile

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years in full-stack development (Python backend + React/JavaScript frontend)
• Strong experience in API and microservice integration
• 2+ years leading technical teams and coordinating distributed engineering efforts
• 1+ year of hands-on AI project experience (LLMs, Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI/Azure AI frameworks)
• Prior experience in B2B SaaS environments, particularly in AI, automation, or enterprise productivity solutions

Technical Expertise

• Designing and implementing AI workflows including RAG pipelines, vector databases, and prompt orchestration
• Ensuring backend and AI systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and secure
• Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
• Experience building production-grade AI systems within enterprise SaaS ecosystems

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

1. Technical & Project Deep Dive – Conversational discussion around past projects, AI experience and technical depth
2. System Design & Technical Round – Deeper technical and architecture discussion
3. Founder Round – Communication, culture fit, ownership and initiative

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 

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 

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.

 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.

Fifteen professional sports teams use our product every day. You would be the engineer who owns it.

Pixology is an AI-native platform for the sponsorship economy. Sports teams use us to turn their sponsorship inventory and a brand's objectives into visual concepts, tailored pitches and the films that win deals. Work that used to take a designer two weeks now takes hours.

We are live with fifteen teams across nine leagues, including clubs in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS. Three founders, out of MIT. You would be our first engineering hire in India.

THE HONEST VERSION OF THIS JOB

Our CTO built this platform largely with AI coding tools. It works. Real customers, real usage, real revenue. It also has the shape you would expect from that: patterns that differ between files, test coverage that is thin in places, and decisions nobody wrote down.

You are not joining to maintain somebody's tidy codebase. You are joining to take ownership of a working product that needs a proper engineer's hands on it, and then to build the next two years of it.

If that reads as a problem, this is not your role. If you have inherited a system before and found the archaeology satisfying, keep reading.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

The whole stack. Frontend, backend services, database, API integrations. There is nobody else to hand a ticket to.

Applied AI. Generative models that turn sponsorship inventory and brand context into visual concepts and pitch material. Production AI, not a demo.

Evaluation infrastructure. Harnesses and regression tests that let us compare models, validate prompt changes, and track output quality, latency and inference cost. This barely exists today and it matters more every month.

The media pipeline. Timeline-based video editing. Clip trimming and sequencing, transitions, audio synchronisation, rendering and export. Genuinely hard engineering, and the part customers notice most.

Shipping. Design, build, test, deploy. Customer bugs come to you.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Around five years building production software, with real ownership of something live.

Strong across the stack, with a view on where logic belongs rather than just the ability to write both halves.

You have inherited a codebase you did not write and made it better without rewriting it.

Working knowledge of LLM APIs and the practical tradeoffs: cost, latency, reliability, evaluation.

You debug well. Given an unfamiliar system and a failing case, you find the cause rather than the symptom.

Nice to have: media processing (FFmpeg, rendering pipelines), computer vision, evaluation tooling, early-stage experience, any interest in sport.

COMPENSATION AND SETUP

40 to 50 LPA, all cash. No equity, and we would rather say so now than in your third interview. We have taken the view that we would rather pay you properly today than hand you a number on a slide that may be worth nothing in four years.

Hybrid. At least one day a week together in our Basavanagudi office, the rest is yours. If you live in South Bengaluru, you never touch the Outer Ring Road.

HOW TO APPLY

No CV screen. Answer these two questions and we will read every one.

1. Describe a codebase you inherited that you did not respect. What did you change first, and what did you deliberately leave alone?
2. Tell us about a production bug where the cause was not where you first looked. How did you find it?

About the role

You'll work on cloud software that helps technical teams collaborate and move faster: an established, in-production product that real customers rely on every day. You'll work directly with leadership who built products at Meta and Apple, on a team where you own meaningful work and your decisions have direct impact.

Location: On-site, Financial District, Hyderabad

What you'll do

• Lead the engineering team day to day, owning delivery and technical direction
• Architect projects end to end and make the high-leverage technical decisions across the stack, in ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• Set up the engineering processes, standards, and rituals that let the team ship fast without breaking things
• Mentor and grow engineers, raising the bar across the team
• Break complex, ambiguous problems into clear plans and drive them to done
• Make deliberate tradeoffs between creating tech debt and delivering business requirements

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of full stack engineering experience (strong senior engineers ready to step into a lead role are welcome)
• Deep, hands-on command of ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• A track record of technical leadership: architecting systems, mentoring engineers, and setting up engineering processes
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Excellent communication and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Bonus if you know: TypeScript, SQL, ExpressJS

Who you are

• You have serious work ethic. You get a high from checking things off and seeing results.
• You're curious, resourceful, and self-learning.
• You take ownership and bring the hustle.
• You lead by example and bring momentum to everything and everyone you work with.

📌Important: To complete your application for this role, please fill out this short screening form: [https://app.botfriday.ai/#/open/external-job-application/792cccfa-c046-4092-b20d-814705d5314f].

Only candidates who complete this step will be considered for further rounds."