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GenAI-powered conversational intelligence and real-time agent assist suite

India, the UAE, and Southeast Asia

Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead at Darwix AI

You will:

• Lead backend and full-stack engineers across microservices, APIs, and real-time pipelines
• Architect scalable systems for AI/LLM deployments
• Drive code quality, maintainability, and engineering velocity

player-coach role

• Own technical architecture across backend, frontend, and DevOps stacks
• Translate product roadmaps into high-performance, production-ready systems
• Drive high-quality code reviews, testing practices, and performance optimization
• Make critical system-level decisions around scalability, security, and reliability

• Work with the product and AI teams to build new features around speech recognition, diarization, real-time coaching, and analytics dashboards
• Build and maintain backend services for data ingestion, processing, and retrieval from

  Vector DBs, MySQL, and MongoDB

• Create clean, reusable APIs (REST & WebSocket) that power our web-based agent dashboards

• Refactor monoliths into

  microservice-based architecture

• Optimize real-time data pipelines with

  Redis, Kafka, and async queues

• Implement serverless modules using AWS Lambda, Docker containers, and CI/CD pipelines

• Lead a growing team of engineers—guide on architecture, code design, and performance tuning
• Foster a culture of ownership, documentation, and continuous learning
• Mentor junior developers, review PRs, and set up internal coding best practices

• Act as the key technical liaison between Product, Design, AI/ML, and DevOps teams
• Work directly with founders on roadmap planning, delivery tracking, and go-live readiness
• Contribute actively to investor tech discussions, client onboarding, and stakeholder calls

• Languages:

  Python (FastAPI, Django), PHP (legacy support), JavaScript, TypeScript

• Frontend:

  HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Mustache templates; (React.js/Next.js optional)

• AI/ML Integration:

  LangChain, Whisper, RAG pipelines, Transformers, Deepgram, OpenAI APIs

• Databases:

  MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Pinecone/FAISS (Vector DBs)

• Cloud & Infra:

  AWS EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, Docker, GitHub Actions, Nginx

• DevOps:

  Git, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, load testing

• Tools:

  Jira, Notion, Slack, Postman, Swagger

• 5–10 years of professional experience in backend/full-stack development
• Proven experience leading engineering projects or mentoring junior devs
• Comfortable working in high-growth B2B SaaS startups or product-first orgs
• Deep expertise in one or more backend frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Laravel, Flask)
• Experience working with AI products or integrating APIs from OpenAI, Deepgram, HuggingFace is a huge plus
• Strong understanding of system design, DB normalization, caching strategies, and latency optimization
• Bonus: exposure to working with voice pipelines (STT/ASR), NLP models, or real-time analytics

• Builder-first mindset

  – you love launching features fast and scaling them well

• Execution speed

  – you move with urgency but don’t break things

• Hands-on leadership

  – you guide people by writing code, not just processes

• Problem-solver

  – when things break, you own the fix and the root cause

• Startup hunger

  – you thrive on chaos, ambiguity, and shipping weekly

• High Ownership

  : Directly shape the product and its architecture from the ground up

• Startup Velocity

  : Ship fast, learn fast, and push boundaries

• Founding Engineer Exposure

  : Work alongside IIT-IIM-BITS founders with full transparency

• Compensation

  : Competitive salary + meaningful equity + performance-based incentives

• Career Growth

  : Move into an EM/CTO-level role as the org scales

• Tech Leadership

  : Own features end-to-end—from spec to deployment

This is not just another engineering role.

This is your chance to:

• Own the entire backend for a GenAI product serving global enterprise clients
• Lead technical decisions that define our future infrastructure
• Join the leadership team at a startup that’s shipping faster than anyone else in the category

be the reason why the tech doesn’t break at scale

people@darwix.ai

“Application – Engineering Lead – [Your Name]”

Attach:

• Your latest CV or LinkedIn profile
• GitHub/portfolio link (if available)
• A short note (3–5 lines) on why you're excited about Darwix AI and this role