Posted on: 23/07/2026
We're looking for a highly entrepreneurial engineer who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys solving hard technical problems and wants to build products that impact millions of users.
You'll have significant ownership over architecture, product decisions, backend systems, AI integrations, and platform scalability.
If you've always wanted to experience the excitement, challenges, and rewards of building an AI startup from scratch, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities :
1. Build & Scale Core Backend Systems :
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
- Build high-performance distributed systems capable of handling large-scale AI workloads.
- Architect systems that are reliable, fault-tolerant, and highly available.
2. Ownership & Technical Leadership :
- Drive architecture and engineering decisions.
- Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and review processes.
- Mentor future engineering hires and help shape the company's technical culture.
3. Scaling & Performance :
- Optimize APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
- Ensure platform scalability, security, and reliability.
- Build monitoring, observability, and alerting systems.
4. Startup Builder Mindset :
- Work across product, engineering, customer success, and growth teams.
- Solve problems beyond your job description.
- Operate with speed, ownership, and customer obsession.
Must-Have Skills :
1. Backend Engineering :
- Strong expertise in Python
- Extensive experience with Django or FastAPI
- REST API design and development
- Microservices architecture
2. Databases & Infrastructure :
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- AWS/GCP/Azure
3. Engineering Excellence :
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- System Design
- Distributed Systems
- Performance Optimization
- CI/CD Pipelines
4. AI Exposure (Preferred) :
- LLM applications
- OpenAI ecosystem
- AI Agents
- RAG Architectures
- Voice AI / Conversational AI
- Video AI platforms
Who You Are :
- 3-8 years of software engineering experience.
- Strong computer science fundamentals.
- Builder mentality with startup experience preferred.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-ownership environments.
- Excited about building products from zero rather than maintaining legacy systems.
- Passionate about AI and emerging technologies.
Preferred Qualifications :
- Bachelor of Technology/Bachelor of Engineering
- Experience with SaaS architectures.
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