Technical Lead

Position: Technical Lead

Experience: 8+ Years

Job mode: Hybrid

Location: Kochi/ Bangalore/ Hyderabad

Role Overview:

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead – AI Platform Engineering to lead an AI-enabled platform engineering team. The role requires strong expertise in Python backend development, FastAPI, REST APIs, RAG, GenAI/LLM applications, and agentic workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate platform architecture and product requirements into technical designs, implementation plans, sprint tasks, and engineering deliverables.
• Lead hands-on development and technical problem-solving across Python/FastAPI services, REST APIs, RAG integrations, and agentic AI workflows.
• Conduct design reviews, code reviews, technical grooming sessions, and implementation walkthroughs.
• Establish and enforce clean-code practices, reusable design patterns, secure coding standards, testability, and documentation standards.
• Validate technical estimates, monitor sprint commitments, identify delivery risks, and proactively remove technical blockers.
• Collaborate closely with AI Architects, Technical Architects, Backend Engineers, AI/ML Engineers, QA, DevOps, and Product Owners to resolve design and integration dependencies.
• Act as the primary technical interface for feature acceptance, release readiness, engineering-quality sign-off, and client demonstrations.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and drive consistency in architecture, coding, testing, and engineering practices.
• Perform debugging, root-cause analysis, technical risk assessment, and resolution of complex production and integration issues.
• Translate architecture decisions and product requirements into technical stories, acceptance criteria, implementation tasks, and measurable deliverables.
• Support production deployments and ensure applications meet security, reliability, scalability, observability, and performance expectations.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a Technical Lead / Lead Engineer / Senior Technical Leadership role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python backend development.
• Strong experience with FastAPI or comparable Python API frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of REST API design, asynchronous programming, service-oriented architecture, and production-grade API development.
• Hands-on experience building GenAI/LLM applications.
• Strong understanding of RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases/vector stores, semantic search, and retrieval techniques.
• Working experience with LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, or comparable AI/agent orchestration frameworks.
• Strong system design and software architecture skills, including:
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Experience with containerized application deployment, CI/CD processes, and environment/release management.
• Strong expertise in code reviews, design reviews, technical estimation, debugging, and root-cause analysis