This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

**Salary range: Rs 1800000 - Rs 4800000 (ie INR 18-48 LPA)

**Min Experience: 5 years

Location: Bengaluru, NCR

JobType: full-time

This is a high-impact, CTO-track opportunity for a hands-on technology leader to architect, build, and scale a next-generation AI-powered consumer platform. You will take ownership of the end-to-end AI and backend ecosystem, driving system design, performance, and scalability while leading a cross-functional engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

System Architecture & Platform Ownership

• Design and implement scalable, low-latency, and fault-tolerant architectures across AI systems, backend infrastructure, and real-time applications
• Build robust integrations across web, mobile, and AI-driven services

AI Systems & Intelligence

• Architect and enhance AI agent systems, including multi-agent orchestration and context/memory layers
• Improve retrieval pipelines, RAG systems, and prompt engineering frameworks
• Develop personalization systems and persistent memory for enhanced user experiences

Human-Centric AI Experience

• Enhance conversational intelligence to deliver natural, human-like interactions
• Improve multilingual capabilities and structured reasoning for complex topics
• Enable high-quality voice and interactive learning experiences

Real-Time Systems Development

• Build and optimize live AI-powered voice and video interaction systems
• Integrate visual and interactive components such as graphs, sketchpads, and dynamic explanations

Performance, Reliability & Scalability

• Address latency, system stability, and output consistency challenges
• Ensure high availability, fast response times, and seamless user experience at scale

Backend & API Development

• Develop and manage backend systems for user data, analytics, notifications, and AI usage tracking
• Build scalable APIs for mobile and web platforms
• Implement recommendation systems using vector search and intelligent discovery

Hands-on Engineering

• Actively contribute to coding, debugging, and system optimization
• Operate across system design and deep technical problem-solving

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor engineers across AI, backend, and DevOps
• Drive execution, unblock teams, and maintain high engineering standards

AI Research & Innovation

• Continuously evaluate and integrate advancements in LLMs, agent frameworks, and multimodal AI
• Push the boundaries of intelligent, scalable AI systems

What We’re Looking For

Core Experience

• 5–10+ years in backend engineering, distributed systems, or AI/ML platforms
• Strong expertise in Python, system design, APIs, and databases

AI & GenAI Expertise

• Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG systems, vector databases, and agent frameworks
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering, personalization, and memory systems

Technical & Systems Thinking

• Proven ability to design scalable, fault-tolerant, real-time systems
• Experience building and deploying high-performance production systems

Builder Mindset

• Demonstrated experience building products at scale
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments
• Strong ownership mindset with focus on quality, performance, and user experience

Nice to Have

• Experience in EdTech, conversational AI, or voice/video AI systems
• Exposure to real-time streaming architectures or multimodal AI systems

Why Join

• Build and scale cutting-edge AI systems at the intersection of intelligence and real-time interaction
• High ownership with direct influence on product and technology direction
• Opportunity to shape a global-scale platform from the ground up
• Clear path to executive leadership (CTO track)
• Collaborative, fast-paced, and innovation-driven environment

Skills

• Engineering Leadership
• AI/ML Systems
• Backend Development
• System Design
• Distributed Systems
• Real-Time Architectures
• Product Thinking