Lead Full-Stack Engineer AI Product Development

Experience: 6–9 Years | Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Work from Office)

About the Role

We're hiring a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to design, build, and operate AI-powered products end-to-end. You'll own complex features across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure - combining solid full-stack engineering with a passion for building intelligent, AI-driven applications - while mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.

What You'll Do
Lead design and delivery of end-to-end AI products and platform capabilities
Define architecture, coding standards, and best practices across backend, frontend, and data layers
Build scalable, secure backend services and REST/GraphQL APIs
Lead development of data-centric React UIs - dashboards, tables, workflows, audit trails
Architect and manage AWS deployments for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
Drive observability and CI/CD best practices
Mentor engineers, run code reviews, and collaborate with product & data teams

Must-Have Skills

Backend:
Node.js with TypeScript - deep expertise required
REST/GraphQL API design: auth, RBAC, rate limiting, pagination
Distributed systems: event-driven architecture, queues,



async processing
Strong debugging skills across distributed systems

AWS:
Hands-on architecture, deployment & monitoring on AWS (EC2/EKS/Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch)
Docker, containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines

Frontend:
React and up-to-date frontend practices
State management, component design, performance optimization

Data Fundamentals:
SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) - query optimization, indexing
Working knowledge of MongoDB
Core ETL/ELT concepts: idempotency, data quality, schema evolution

Good to Have
Agentic AI / LLM-based workflows exposure
Event-driven messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Data ingestion pipeline experience with Airflow (or equivalent orchestration tools)
Microservices & domain-driven design (DDD)
Experience in high-scale, data-intensive environments

What We're Looking For
Proven track record as a technical leader or senior IC
Strong ownership - takes initiatives from concept to production
Comfortable in ambiguous, quick-paced environments
Passion for mentoring and building high-performing teams

Apply now to lead impactful AI products at scale.

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