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This role is for one of our clients
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet

Seniority level: Associate level

Min Experience: 2 years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

You're a builder. A thinker. Someone who thrives in ambiguity, leads without waiting for permission, and gets excited about solving hard, high-stakes problems. You've built systems that ship. You care about quality and impact. And above all, you want to work with people who take pride in being the best at what they do.

You're not just looking for a jobyou're looking for a mission.

What You'll Do
As a Senior SDE, you will:

Lead and deliver across 34 high-impact product tracks.

Own the architecture and execution of a core trackhands-on.

Mentor bright engineers from top schools and top firms.

Guide system design, best practices, and execution strategy.

Communicate directly with clients (who are Founders and Executives)

Ship real AI products, across industries, that create 10x value.

And you'll do all this while learning how to run and scale cutting-edge AI systems, working shoulder-to-shoulder with one of the most capable engineering teams in India.

What's In It For You
Career acceleration: Direct mentorship from founders, early access to leadership roles, and exposure to multi-industry use cases.

Equity and ownership: High performers move fast and grow into partners early.

Elite engineering culture: Solve real problems with elite teammates who care deeply about craft.

Real-world impact: You won't just write codeyou'll ship AI systems that transform how people work.

Alumni trajectory: Whether you grow here or move on, you'll be primed for CTO, AI Lead, or Founder roles at the next generation of global companies.

What You'll Work On
Here's a glimpse of the kinds of problems our team is solving right now:

AI Freight Broker: A Gen AI-powered freight broker that captures demand and supply information, autonomously matches supply to demand, and fixes rates.

Legal Copilot: Helping Indian lawyers access case law, insights, and documents via intelligent retrieval and summarization tools.

AI Career Coach: A multi-agent platform that recommends careers, finds jobs, rewrites resumes, and preps users for interviewsall in one chat interface.

Skills
Technical Skills Required

Technical Skills RequiredThe ideal candidate must be proficient in Python with hands-on experience in Django and have a strong grasp of system design principles, ensuring alignment with business and customer needs. Expertise in PostgreSQL is essential, along with practical knowledge of AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda. Experience with Flask or FastAPI is desirable, while familiarity with LLMs and LangChain for orchestrating AI agents is a plus. Additionally, exposure to frontend technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or React would be an added advantage.

Qualifications
B.Tech. with up 3 to 4 years of work experience, or M.Tech. with 2 to 4 years of work experience

Good to have for both roles: Graduation from Tier 1 institutes (IITs, IIITs, BITS, NITs)

B.Tech in Computer Science will be strongly preferred

Good To Have
Previous work experience with a start-up or similar setting is preferred

Having an interest in system architecture design

Location

Bangalore

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