About the job:

We’re hiring a Software Engineer – AI (Backend) to build and ship production backend and AI systems across real client and internal use cases. You’ll design APIs and services, build LLM-powered applications, and own them in production.

This is a full-time, work-from-office role in Hyderabad.

About us:

We’re a new age tech & business services company, HQ’ed in Hyderabad with clients across the world. Find out more at https://www.linkedin.com/company/gitforce

What You’ll Do

TL;DR: Build and run the backend and AI systems behind real products.

- Design and build backend services and APIs in Python (FastAPI, Flask, or similar)
- Design data models and work with SQL and PostgreSQL
- Build AI-powered applications using LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-source models)
- Build RAG pipelines using embeddings, retrieval, reranking, and vector databases
- Develop AI agents, tool-calling workflows, and multi-step LLM systems
- Integrate with third-party APIs, databases, and services
- Deploy, monitor, debug, and improve systems in production
- Work closely with product, founders, and client teams to turn requirements into technical solutions

Qualifications TL;DR: Strong backend engineering fundamentals in Python,



plus hands-on experience building AI-powered applications.

You Are:

- 2 to 5 years into your professional engineering career
- A strong backend engineer who has built and shipped AI-powered features
- Someone who cares about reliable, well-tested production systems
- Comfortable picking up current frameworks and tools quickly
- Someone who enjoys owning a system end to end, not just isolated tickets

Must-haves:

- Strong Python, with experience building production backend services and APIs
- Solid SQL and PostgreSQL, including schema design
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, including prompt engineering, structured outputs, and tool calling
- Experience building RAG pipelines or AI agents (LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, or similar)
- Good grasp of API design, software architecture, Git, testing, and production engineering fundamentals
- Solid problem-solving and communication skills

Nice-to-haves:

- Vector databases: Pinecone, pgvector, Weaviate, Qdrant, Chroma, or similar
- LLM evaluation, observability, tracing, or monitoring
- Redis, queues, async processing, or distributed systems
- Docker, CI/CD, and cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Some frontend experience (React, Next.js, TypeScript)

📌 Software Engineer – AI (Backend) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Gitforce
📍 Hyderabad