Job DescriptionRole: Lead Software Engineer (Backend+Native AI) (9-12 Years)
nLocation: Bangalore
nAbout Tekion:
nPositively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years,
nTekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive
nplatform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC), Automotive
nEnterprise Cloud (AEC), and Auto Location motive Partner Cloud (APC). Tekion
nconnects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless
nplatform. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia, and
nEurope.
nKey Responsibilities:
n• Design and build production-grade AI platform services — LLM gateways, MCP
nservers, and agent orchestration frameworks
n• Lead the design and implementation of Tekion's AI gateway — a unified
nabstraction layer for multi-provider LLM access with intelligent routing, fallback,
ncost optimization, token budgeting, and comprehensive observability
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- Design and implement MCP (Model Context Protocol) infrastructuren




- Design agentic AI patterns — multi-step reasoning workflows, tooln

norchestration, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths
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- Take end-to-end ownership of critical platform subsystemsn
- Solve complex performance bottlenecks across inference and orchestrationn

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- Mentor junior and mid-level engineersn
- Communicate and collaborate with management, product, QA, UI/UX, andn

nAI/ML teams
n• Deliver with quality, on time, in a fast-paced start-up environment.
nSkills & Qualifications:
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- Bachelor/Master's in Computer Science or relevant fieldsn
- 9+ years of relevant software engineering experiencen
- Strong sense of ownershipn
- Excellent Java and object-oriented development skillsn
- Experience in building and scaling microservicesn
- Robust problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting, and diagnosingn
- Expected to be a role model for

📌 Lead Software Engineer(Backend+Native AI) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tekion
📍 Bengaluru