AIFA Labs - Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Description :

Location : Hyderabad (Hybrid)

Role Summary :

- Enhance an existing AI platform by instrumenting it to capture signals, events, and feedback, enabling continuous learning all while the system remains live and serving customers.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Design and implement event-driven architecture across APIs and services

- Define scalable event schemas that capture full context and intent

- Build reliable Kafka-based pipelines with replay and failure handling

- Instrument React/Next.js frontend to capture user interactions and feedback

- Ensure end-to-end event flow: UI ? Backend ? Event Bus ? Storage

- Refactor systems using: Strangler pattern, Feature flags, Zero-downtime deployments

- Implement observability (logs, metrics, and traces) from day one

- Migrate historical data into new event schemas

- Provide technical leadership, design reviews, and documentation

Required Skills :

- Strong distributed systems knowledge (CAP theorem, consistency models)

- Proven experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)

- Full-stack expertise: Backend: Python, Frontend: React / Next.js

- Experience transforming live production systems

- Hands-on experience with incremental rollouts and feature flags

Strong Plus (Nice To Have) :

- Observability tools (Open Telemetry, Datadog, Prometheus)

- Event sourcing or CQRS

- High-scale analytics instrumentation

- Monolith-to-microservices migration experience

Tech Stack :

- MongoDB

- PostgreSQL

- Redis

- Kafka

- React

- Next.js

- Docker

- Kubernetes

- Azure Skills : next.js, react, postgresql, mongodb, redis, kafka, python