Job Description:
Location: Location: DGS – India (overlap hours with US Eastern Time required)
Required Qualifications
- 12–16 years of qualified software engineering experience with deep Python expertise
- Demonstrated experience leading or managing a team of engineers — code review, mentoring, growth planning — not just individual contribution
- Strong experience designing and building production APIs in Python (FastAPI, Flask, or similar) and full-stack applications including React + Tailwind CSS front ends
- Strong relational database experience — schema design, normalization, query performance — Postgres preferred
- Strong practical proficiency with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted development tools, including agentic coding patterns and context management — and the ability to establish team standards for effective use
- Experience integrating LLM APIs (Claude, OpenAI, or equivalent) into production systems — system prompt design, structured output parsing, multimodal input handling




- Practical experience with tool-use/function-calling patterns — defining tool schemas, validating arguments, handling tool results, chaining tool calls, and managing basic failure/retry behavior
- Strong context engineering fundamentals — context window management, token budgeting, long-document handling strategies, and retrieval/context-selection patterns
- Awareness of prompt injection, adversarial inputs, and untrusted-document risks in AI systems; ability to design guardrails for external briefs, trafficking sheets, platform exports, and other model-readable inputs
- Experience integrating third-party platform APIs with OAuth (any domain) — general competency, not platform-specific
- Working knowledge of secrets management and credential security practices in production systems, ideally including Azure Key Vault or equivalent managed secrets tooling
- Solid grasp of QA practices, data quality engineering, and AI evaluation: unit and integration testing, data validation, go

📌 Engineering Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 dentsu
📍 Bengaluru