This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 5000000 - Rs 10000000 (ie INR 50 - 100 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Remote (India)
JobType: full-time

You are the first engineer. You work directly with the founders and the founding product designer to build the product, take it to market, and improve it quickly from what real readers do. You will ship the whole product, from the database to the screen the reader sees, and you will use coding agents to do most of the typing. Your time goes on the things agents are still bad at: knowing what should be built, designing the experiment that tells us whether it works, and deciding where AI can and cannot be trusted to make the call.

Requirements

What you will own.

– The production loop. Data model, streaming, background work, concurrency, payments and the credit ledger, deployment, observability. Every turn must be reconstructable after the fact, because failures in a system like this are hard to reproduce.
– Benchmarks and evals. Test cases for continuity, character behaviour,



narrative quality and failure modes, developed alongside the first working loop so they tell us what to build rather than only whether we built it.
– Memory, context and models. How a story is remembered across hundreds of turns, which models do which jobs, retrieval, orchestration, cost and latency. We have starting points. We expect you to make the easy approaches fail on our own test cases before we build anything bespoke.
– The standards the next hire inherits. Enough structure around agents that speed does not turn into unmaintainable code.

A world class former CTO and two senior technical advisers are on call as a sounding board. The founders come from product and growth, have worked closely with engineers before, and know how to give you what you need and then get out of the way.

How we work

The bar is a tier A consumer product: story quality, latency, typography, state and reliability all count, and we will pu

📌 Founding Staff Engineer (India)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 India