The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, proven experience building AI-driven products with LLMs, and a strong MERN stack foundation. This role blends technical leadership with people management and strategic execution to build high-performing teams and scalable systems that fuel rapid innovation and growth.

Key Responsibilities :

1. Leadership & Team Building :

- Build, mentor, and retain world-class engineering talent across multiple teams or pods.

- Foster a high-performance culture centered around innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement.

- Coach engineering managers and tech leads to scale their teams effectively and deliver high-impact outcomes.

2. Scale & Execution :

- Lead engineering strategy for scalable, resilient, and high-availability systems.

- Define and optimize engineering processes for velocity, quality, and operational excellence.

- Manage and prioritize multiple initiatives across product and platform domains.

3. Technology & Architecture :

- Provide technical leadership on MERN-based architectures and modern cloud-native systems.

- Drive innovation through LLM-powered applications, AI integrations, and intelligent automation.

- Review and guide architecture decisions, code quality, performance, and security best practices.

- Ensure a robust engineering foundation with CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure scalability.

4. Cross-functional Collaboration :

- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to translate business goals into engineering outcomes.

- Collaborate with AI research and product teams to implement and operationalize LLM-driven features.

- Communicate technical strategy, progress, and risks to executive stakeholders.

5. Culture & Process :

- Champion engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, and innovation.

- Establish frameworks for growth, learning, and technical leadership within teams.

- Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Qualifications :

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 35 years in engineering leadership roles (managing managers or multiple teams).

- Proven experience in building and scaling engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

- Strong technical background in MERN stack and modern web application architectures.

- Hands-on experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, or similar platforms)- understanding of model integration, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning workflows.

- Deployment of your own model.

- Should have worked with Python + FastAPI - Pytorch.

- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, micro-services , and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).

- Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have :

- Experience in setting up platform teams or developer productivity initiatives.

- Exposure to MLOps or productionizing AI models.

What We Offer :

1. High-Impact Work : Drive the product vision for our Agentic AI platform, shaping features that power millions of customer interactions for Indias leading BFSI institutions.

2. Ownership & Autonomy : Own the product roadmap end-to-end, making strategic decisions and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, high-impact releases.

3. Learning & growth : Annual learning allowance of ?10,000+, mentorship, and hands-on AI exposure.

Join us at Fundamento to shape the future of AI-powered enterprise conversations. Be part of a team where AI, strategy, and customer impact come togetherand where your work drives real change for some of Indias leading financial institutions.