Senior Software Engineer

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FirstWorkAI HR technology

Location: India Workplace: RemoteFull-TimeSenior

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Experience: 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
Required Skills: PostgreSQLPythonSQLDjangoRESTful APIsPlaywrightDistributed Systems

Have 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
Have owned a system end to end.
Demonstrate strong SQL and relational data modeling, including schema design and reading query plans.
Understand distributed systems fundamentals, including queues, asynchronous workers, idempotency, retries, and partial failure.
Have a track record of leading a project across several engineers and delivering it.
Ensure correctness in multi-tenant systems, with queries scoped to individual customers.
Write clear design documents, pull requests, and incident writeups.
Be comfortable with ambiguity and defining problems alongside solving them.
Nice to have: strong Python experience, including Django and Django REST Framework or an equivalent.
Nice to have: experience shipping LLM- or ML-powered features to production and working with agentic systems or orchestration frameworks.
Nice to have: browser automation at scale with Playwright or similar, and experience with Temporal, Celery, Airflow, or another durable execution engine.
Nice to have: PostgreSQL experience beyond CRUD, LLM evaluation and cost control, or experience in regulated domains and high-volume operational products.

Own a subsystem such as document processing, workflow automation, compliance rules, communications, or integrations, and lead projects from design through rollout.
Ship AI agent capabilities into production, including extraction and validation pipelines, confidence handling, human review routing, and accuracy feedback loops.
Build browser-based agents that operate government and third-party portals.
Own the accuracy and cost of shipped AI across prompts, structured output, evaluation, model selection, and spend per document.
Design and evolve REST APIs and webhooks for customer ATS, HR, and payroll integrations.
Build durable asynchronous workflows in Temporal for automations, AI jobs, and bulk actions, with safe retries.
Design schemas and data models that support growth in tenants, volume, and product surface.
Improve latency and throughput using production evidence, profiling, and validation of performance improvements.
Raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.
Work with product and operations to turn customer processes into product.

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