Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will gather and refine technical and AI requirements with stakeholders. You will build scalable applications, microservices, APIs, LLM-powered features, AI agents, and multi-agent workflows. You will develop backend services, implement retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search, and maintain databases and UI components. You will manage the software lifecycle, CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, testing, AI evaluation, and guardrails.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Proficiency in Python
- Working knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, and Kotlin
- Experience with FastAPI, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and microservices
- Experience or exposure to LLMs, prompt engineering, or AI application development
- Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, and semantic search
- Familiarity with LangChain and Agent Harness concepts
- Knowledge of AI evaluation, guardrails, and hallucination mitigation
- Understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, object-oriented programming, and design patterns
- Proficiency in SQL, relational databases, Hibernate, and JPA
- Experience with CI/CD, Git, DevOps practices, and deployment automation
- Communication skills for explaining complex engineering and AI concepts
Responsibilities
- Gather, analyse, and refine technical and AI-related requirements
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications, microservices, and APIs
- Develop and integrate LLM-powered features
- Build backend services using Java, Python, Node.js, FastAPI, and Spring Boot
- Perform prompt engineering, context engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation
- Build and orchestrate AI agents and multi-agent workflows
- Integrate LLM APIs and manage vector databases and embeddings for semantic search
- Develop AI evaluation systems, testing harnesses, and guardrails
- Design and optimise SQL databases and use ORM tools
- Contribute to full-stack development and UI/UX
- Manage development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and support automation, monitoring, and scalability