AI Technical Lead / Principal Backend & AI Engineer

Experience: 8-15 Years

Location: Kochi

Employment Type: Full time

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced AI Technical Lead to design and build enterprise-grade AI platforms, backend systems, and data-driven automation solutions. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Python backend development, Generative AI, Agentic AI, cloud-native architectures, and data engineering. The role involves leading technical design, mentoring engineering teams, and delivering scalable AI-powered enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

AI & Generative AI

- Design and implement enterprise AI applications using LLMs.
- Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for enterprise knowledge retrieval.
- Develop Agentic AI workflows using orchestration frameworks.
- Integrate OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or similar LLM services.
- Design prompt engineering strategies and AI evaluation pipelines.
- Build semantic search using vector databases and embeddings.
- Design AI APIs and enterprise AI integrations.

Backend Engineering
- Design scalable backend applications using Python.
- Build RESTful APIs and enterprise backend services.
- Develop distributed systems and microservices.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization.
- Design reusable and maintainable backend architecture.
- Perform architecture reviews and technical mentoring.

Data Engineering
- Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Design workflow orchestration pipelines using Apache Airflow or equivalent.
- Develop data transformation pipelines using dbt or similar frameworks.
- Design operational and analytical data models.
- Work with structured and semi-structured enterprise datasets.
- Optimize large-scale data processing workloads.

Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Design cloud-native applications on AWS.
- Build scalable data pipelines using AWS services.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and automation.




- Containerize applications using Docker.
- Deploy applications using CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure security, scalability, and high availability.

Search & Knowledge Systems
- Build enterprise search platforms.
- Design semantic search and hybrid search solutions.
- Implement Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
- Optimize indexing and retrieval performance.
- Design enterprise knowledge repositories.

Leadership
- Lead technical teams and mentor engineers.
- Participate in architecture discussions and solution design.
- Review code and technical documentation.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and business teams.
- Drive engineering best practices and delivery excellence.

Required Technical Skills

Programming

- Python
- SQL

Backend
- Django / FastAPI / Flask
- REST APIs
- GraphQL (preferred)
- Microservices Architecture

AI & GenAI
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- RAG
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- Prompt Engineering
- Vector Databases
- Embeddings
- OpenAI APIs (or equivalent)
- Agentic AI

Data Engineering
- Apache Airflow
- dbt
- ETL / ELT
- Data Pipelines
- Apache Spark / PySpark (preferred)

AWS
- AWS Lambda
- S3
- Glue
- Redshift
- Athena
- EC2

Databases
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon Redshift
- MySQL
- Redis
- Cassandra (preferred)

Search Technologies
- Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Kibana
- Logstash
- Apache Solr (preferred)

DevOps
- Docker
- Git
- CI/CD
- Linux

Good to Have
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- CrewAI
- AutoGen
- OpenTelemetry
- Grafana
- Kafka / RabbitMQ
- Celery
- GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow)
- AI Observability
- AI Guardrails

Preferred Candidate
- 8–15 years of experience in backend engineering, AI, or data engineering.
- Strong experience leading engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience building enterprise AI solutions.
- Experience designing scalable cloud-native platforms.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, data architecture, and enterprise software development.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

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