Senior AI Product Engineer – Full Stack

Location: Remote – India

Experience: 7–11 years

Employment: Full-time

About the Role

Traction is an Australian AI product studio building AI-powered products and solutions for businesses across professional services, financial services, government and technology.

We are hiring our first Senior Engineer in India. This is a hands-on, end-to-end product engineering role where you will own solutions from understanding the business problem through development, deployment and production.

Key Responsibilities

Understand client business problems and identify opportunities where AI can create real value.
Translate ambiguous requirements into practical product and technical solutions.
Design and build end-to-end software products, including data models, APIs, interfaces and AI workflows.
Build and deploy AI/LLM-powered applications such as agents, RAG systems and tool-calling workflows.
Own applications in production and continuously improve them based on real-world usage.
Make key technical decisions around architecture, build vs. buy and implementation approach.
Work closely with clients and senior stakeholders and communicate technical decisions clearly.
Use AI coding agents effectively as part of the development workflow.

What We're Looking For

7–11 years of software engineering experience, with strong hands-on development experience.
Strong full-stack / product engineering background with experience building software end-to-end.
Proven experience building and shipping production systems used by real users.
Hands-on experience building and deploying production AI/LLM applications.
Experience with AI agents, RAG, tool calling or similar LLM-based workflows.
Strong practical experience with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
Excellent engineering judgement, including the ability to identify and validate incorrect AI-generated code or output.
Ability to take ownership, work independently and challenge unclear or incorrect requirements.
Strong problem-solving and product thinking skills.
Ability to quickly understand new businesses, domains and customer problems.
Excellent spoken and written English with confidence in client-facing discussions.

Technology

The team primarily works with TypeScript, Python and React, along with modern AI/LLM technologies.

Strong engineers from other technology backgrounds can also be considered if they demonstrate strong product engineering capability and the ability to learn quickly.

Work Arrangement

Fully remote – anywhere in India
Full-time role
Minimum 4 hours of overlap with Australian working hours
In practice, the role generally requires availability from around 8 AM IST

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