This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 2500000 - Rs 5000000 (ie INR 25 - 50 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years

Location: India, Remote (India)

JobType: full-time

This is a senior, foundational engineering role. The architecture, standards, and systems built now are the ones the rest of the company will be built on. You'll operate with full autonomy — in a team this small, your judgment directly shapes the product, the codebase, and the company's trajectory.

Responsibilities

- Architect and build the core backend and platform from the ground up — the foundational systems everything else depends on.
- Design and ship LLM agents that reason over large, messy, real-world organizational data, and make them reliable enough to trust.
- Make the foundational calls — architecture, infrastructure, data, tooling — and set the bar for engineering quality on the team.
- Operate with full autonomy, owning problems end to end in a small, high-leverage team.

Must-Haves
- Years of experience building and operating backend and platform systems at real scale — the person your team turned to for the hardest problems.
- Deep expertise in Python, distributed/platform systems, API design, and SQL data stores; comfortable owning systems end to end, from design through production.
- A track record of leading ambiguous, high-impact projects end to end — setting technical direction, not just executing against someone else's.
- Hands-on experience (or strong, rapid-forming intuition) with LLMs, agentic frameworks, and RAG, with a feel for building dependable products on top of nondeterministic models.
- Genuine excitement for the scope, pace, and consequence of an early-stage company over the structure of a large one.




- Has owned and operated systems at meaningful scale at a strong engineering org — Staff / Senior Staff /

Principal-level scope, even if the title varies. Scope and impact matter more than tenure or a year count.
- Example signal: Staff/Senior/Principal at Databricks, Snowflake, Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe,

Notion, Ramp, Scale AI — or an early/senior founding engineer at a reputable VC-backed startup.
- Most experience should come from fast-moving tech environments, not banks/financial companies, slow-moving non-tech, telecom, or transportation/government.
- Has been a technical anchor — sets direction, makes the hard architectural calls, and unblocks others.
- High drive for problem-solving, with a deep, first-principles approach to any challenge taken on.
- Strong agency and independence — comfortable defining the problem as well as solving it.
- Genuinely excited (not just willing) to work in a fast-paced, high-ownership, early-stage environment.
- Backend depth — building robust production systems, APIs, and Python — is important.

Nice to Have

- Previous founder, founding-member, or entrepreneur experience.
- Drawn to new, ambiguous problems with no clear solution.
- Fluent with AI tools for research and writing high-quality code.
- Experience with LLMs, AI agents, and making sense of large or heterogeneous data.
- An obsession with details and strong product sense.
- Strong written and verbal communication.

What We're Looking For (Screening Snapshot)
- 5+ years of experience at the Staff / Senior Staff / Principal level.
- Was operating at a senior level even before AI-assisted coding tools became standard.
- 3–5 years at a high-bar software engineering company (e.g., FAANG, Ramp, or similar).
- Some startup experience is ideal, though not required.
- Excellent communication skills.

📌 Platform Engineer (India)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 India