Lead Software Engineer - GenAI, Distributed Systems & Payments

Company: Jive Jar LLC - Product Division

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Workplace: In office

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Experience: 8+ years

Shift: UK Shift - 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST

About Jive Jar

Jive Jar LLC is a U.S.-based company building technology products for the U.S. market.

Our Product Division is developing an AI-first, offline-capable restaurant Point-of-Sale and operations platform for independent restaurants and small multi-location groups.

The platform will support

- Point-of-sale terminals
- Kitchen and customer-facing displays
- Payments, tips, refunds, and reconciliation
- QR and online ordering
- Merchant back-office operations
- Device and store management
- Offline transaction processing
- AI-assisted restaurant operations

Because restaurants must continue operating even during internet outages, the platform is designed to process essential workflows offline and synchronize safely when connectivity is restored.

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer - GenAI to lead the engineering team and build the technical foundation of our platform.

This is an engineering leadership role with significant hands-on coding responsibility. You will make architecture decisions, guide technical execution, mentor engineers, review critical implementations, investigate production issues, and develop production-grade software.

You will own delivery from architecture and implementation through production readiness and the first live customer pilot.

What You Will Lead & Build

- Lead day-to-day technical execution and engineering delivery.
- Translate product requirements into architecture, implementation plans, production code, and reliable releases.
- Build backend services using TypeScript and Node.js.
- Develop REST APIs and event-driven workflows.
- Design distributed, offline-first transaction and synchronization systems.
- Design secure and scalable multi-tenant PostgreSQL architectures.
- Implement append-only event and transaction-processing models.
- Build idempotency, retry, deduplication, replay, recovery, and reconciliation mechanisms.
- Handle concurrency, duplicate requests, delayed messages, partial failures, and out-of-order webhooks.




- Integrate payment creation, merchant onboarding, tips, refunds, webhooks, and financial reconciliation.
- Ensure retries, device reconnections, and repeated requests do not create duplicate financial transactions.
- Build and guide merchant back-office and QR-ordering applications.
- Define transaction, tax, pricing, discount, tip, and refund business rules.
- Establish engineering standards for code quality, security, observability, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
- Implement monitoring and diagnostics using tools such as Sentry and Amazon CloudWatch.
- Develop property-based, simulation, and failure-injection tests for transactional workflows.
- Define integration contracts for Android POS applications, payment terminals, printers, and restaurant hardware.
- Review AI-generated and AI-assisted code for correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Use GenAI and AI-assisted coding tools to improve engineering productivity and development workflows.
- Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices across the team.
- Work closely with the Product Owner and Principal Engineer to prioritize and deliver product milestones.
- Own production readiness and support the platform through its first live customer pilot.

Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Previous experience leading or managing an engineering team.
- Strong mentoring and technical leadership skills.
- 3+ years of production experience with TypeScript, Node.js, or a comparable backend ecosystem.
- Strong PostgreSQL, SQL, and relational data-modeling experience.
- Production experience with distributed, event-driven, offline-first, transactional, or highly available systems.
- Strong understanding of idempotency, retries, deduplication, concurrency, ordering, and data consistency.




- Experience designing and operating production REST APIs and webhook integrations.
- End-to-end payment integration experience, including payments, refunds, webhooks, and reconciliation.
- Experience designing secure multi-tenant SaaS applications.
- Experience testing complex transactional or financial business logic.
- Experience taking product requirements through design, development, testing, release, and production support.
- Experience taking an early-stage product through production launch or a live pilot.
- Hands-on experience with GenAI / AI-assisted or agentic coding tools such as Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent.
- Ability to critically review AI-generated code rather than accepting generated output without verification.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Willingness to work full-time from our Hyderabad office during the UK shift (3:00 PM - 12:00 AM IST).

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in restaurant POS, retail, commerce, fintech, logistics, or ERP systems.
- Production experience with AWS.
- Experience with event sourcing or append-only event logs.
- Experience with property-based, simulation, chaos, or failure-injection testing.
- Experience with Next.js, Fastify, tRPC, or similar TypeScript frameworks.
- Working familiarity with Kotlin and Android integration boundaries.
- Experience integrating POS hardware, printers, customer-facing displays, or payment terminals.
- Experience with semi-integrated payment architectures.
- Experience working in an early-stage product company or startup environment.
- Strong interest in GenAI, AI-native development, and agentic engineering workflows.

What Success Looks Like During your first year, you will:
- Establish the platform's core architecture and engineering standards.
- Build a dependable engineering delivery process.
- Develop a team capable of producing secure, production-quality software.
- Deliver reliable offline and payment transaction workflows.
- Establish strong GenAI-assisted engineering practices.
- Prepare the platform for production operations, monitoring, and incident recovery.
- Help launch and support the product with its first live restaurant customers.

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