Senior Director of Engineering – Full Stack / Backend Engineering
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Weekday AILife sciences and healthcare compliance
Remote
Workable locations: India
Location: India
Location: Remote (India)Full-TimeDirector
Salary3,000,000 - 12,000,000 INR per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7–11 years of software engineering experience Min Experience: 8 years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPythonKubernetesReactCI/CDRESTful APIs
Requirements
- 7–11 years of software engineering experience with strong exposure to SaaS platform development
- Strong expertise in Python for backend systems, AI integrations, and data pipelines
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications, RAG architectures, and AI-driven retrieval systems
- Experience working with vector databases, embedding workflows, and modern LLM APIs
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, along with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices
- Experience designing scalable REST or GraphQL APIs
- Familiarity with React or modern frontend technologies is a plus
- Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to work in complex, evolving environments
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to operate with ownership, initiative, and a long-term platform mindset
- Exposure to healthcare, regulatory, or other highly regulated environments is highly valuable
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services and platform infrastructure
- Own critical platform components including document ingestion pipelines, search and retrieval systems, APIs, and data models
- Develop and maintain AI-powered features such as RAG pipelines, LLM-driven analysis, entity extraction, summarization, and intelligent retrieval systems
- Integrate and evaluate modern AI technologies, vector databases, embedding pipelines, and orchestration frameworks
- Improve AI output quality, retrieval relevance, and system reliability in high-stakes regulatory environments
- Contribute to architectural decisions, system scalability, and engineering best practices
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while maintaining high code quality standards through reviews and technical guidance
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and domain teams to refine technical requirements and solution approaches
- Mentor and support engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
- Participate in hiring, technical evaluations, and engineering process improvements
- Support cloud-native deployments, CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and infrastructure automation
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