Job Description

As an SDE III, you'll bring your engineering depth into a current way of working. You won't just write code — you'll specify, orchestrate, validate, and ship with AI as your primary collaborator. You'll work in a small, mission-driven cross-functional team called a pod — three functions (Product, Engineer, Quality) with high agency, shared ownership, and no hand-offs.

Reporting to the Tech Lead, you'll join the Product & Technology Team. Are you ready to be part of a team that's redefining how software gets built in an AI Native setup?

What You Will Do

- Deliver against the pod's mission — own the full software delivery lifecycle including quality, from design through production and measurement.
- Operate in continuous flow (Kanban) — pull work, respect WIP limits, ship daily.
- Use AI agents as your primary delivery mechanism — code generation, testing, spec writing, deployment.
- Design, build, and debug software across backend and frontend with distributed systems awareness.
- Evaluate and tune agent workflows — steering docs, prompts, rules, skills. You improve the tools you use.
- Write clean, well-tested code and take ownership of quality end-to-end.
- Act as the initial on-call responder, ensuring health and stability of deployed applications.
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to shared tooling, knowledge bases,



and the agent foundation kit.

Engineering Mindset — What We Look For

We assess every candidate across six core dimensions:

- AI Fluency: AI is the primary way we engineer. Prompt, evaluate, and iterate. Manual coding is a deliberate choice, not the default.
- Cross-Functional Versatility: "That's not my area" doesn't exist. Contribute beyond your discipline, share knowledge openly, and communicate clearly across different formats.
- Customer and Value Awareness: Ask "why" and "for whom" before "how." Understand the bigger business context while still being able to zoom in and trace a bug. Map dependencies before you build.
- Craft: Apply SOLID principles, DRY, separation of concerns, and observability by default. Write clean, maintainable code with the right level of testing. Treat CI/CD as standard engineering practice, whether the code is written by a human or an AI agent.
- Technical Curiosity: Build a prototype, experiment, and try to break it before relying solely on documentation. Stay curious about how things work and continuously explore better approaches.
- Agency & Entrepreneurship: Don't wait for permission. Take ownership of outcomes end-to-end, enable others to succeed, challenge the status quo, and proactively look for ways to create value.

📌 Software Development Engineer III (Pune)
🏢 Entain India
📍 Pune