We're hiring one engineer. Three months. Contract. Remote, India-based.
We're not going to tell you what we're building.
We have spent twenty-one years building learning solutions for enterprises across the GCC, India, Africa, US and Europe. Profitable, founder-led, and now building software of our own. I'm looking for one senior engineer to lay the technical foundation before the permanent team arrives.
Why the secrecy: it's a competitive category and we're keeping it quiet until launch. Shortlisted candidates get the full technical brief under Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). It's unusually detailed, including an honest account of the hardest problems in the project, because I'd rather you know what you're taking on.
What we can say now. It's an AI-native, multi-tenant platform with a demanding generation pipeline, a metered commercial model, and hard requirements on output quality, accessibility and internationalisation. The data contract you design has to survive years of product change without breaking anything already shipped to a customer.
What you'd need
➡️ 8+ years shipping production software other people depended on
➡️ 2+ years with large language models in production, not in prototypes
➡️ Reliable structured output from LLMs at scale: a schema-valid first-pass rate you personally owned and improved
➡️ Strong TypeScript/Node and strong Python. The role spans both, and neither half can be handed off
➡️ Deep PostgreSQL: JSONB, transaction isolation, row-level security
➡️ AWS and Terraform owned end to end, without support
Helpful: durable workflow orchestration, RAG and evaluation harness design, cost accounting, usage-based billing, WCAG 2.1 AA and right-to-left languages.
What this is not: no model training, no fine-tuning, no GPUs, no ML research. Inference is via hosted APIs.
The engagement: three months, full-time equivalent, with solid potential to extend into the full build or a permanent leadership role. Fully remote, but India-based only. You must be resident in India and able to invoice monthly as an independent contractor. Rate is competitive and negotiable. You'd work directly with me, no layers in between.
To apply, email
[email protected] with the subject line "Founding Contract Engineer". Attach your CV and answer two questions. I read the answers before the CV.
➡️ Describe a production system where you had to get structured output from a language model reliably. What was your first-pass valid rate when you started, what was it when you finished, and what actually moved the number?
➡️ You need to add a current type to a data schema. Artefacts already exported to customers months ago must keep working, unchanged, indefinitely. How do you handle it?
Include your expected monthly rate in INR and earliest start date. Everyone who answers both questions in your email, gets a reply.
This chance is only for contract engineers and not for companies. Therefore, companies please excuse.
📌 Senior Software Engineer (India)
🏢 Infylearn Technologies
📍 India