Lead Engineer

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🚀 Job Title: Engineering Lead Company: Darwix AI Location: Gurgaon (On-site) Type: Full-Time Experience: 5–10 Years Compensation: Competitive + Performance-based incentives + Meaningful ESOPs 🧠 About Darwix AI Darwix AI is one of India’s fastest-growing AI startups, building the future of enterprise revenue intelligence. We offer a GenAI-powered conversational intelligence and real-time agent assist suite that transforms how large sales teams interact, close deals, and scale operations. We’re already live with enterprise clients across India, the UAE, and Southeast Asia , and our platform enables multilingual speech-to-text, AI-driven nudges, and contextual conversation coaching—backed by our proprietary LLMs and cutting-edge voice infrastructure. With backing from top-tier VCs and over 30 angel investors, we’re now hiring an Engineering Lead who can architect, own, and scale the core engineering stack as we prepare for 10x growth. 🌟 Role Overview As the Engineering Lead at Darwix AI , you’ll take ownership of our platform architecture, product delivery, and engineering quality across the board. You’ll work closely with the founders, product managers, and the AI team to convert fast-moving product ideas into scalable features. 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 This is a hands-on, player-coach role —perfect for someone who loves building but is also excited about mentoring and growing a technical team. 🎯 Key Responsibilities🛠️ Technical Leadership 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 🚀 Feature Delivery 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 🧱 System Architecture 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 🧑‍🏫 Mentorship & Team Building 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 🔄 Collaboration 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 ⚙️ Our Tech Stack 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 🧑‍💼 Who You Are 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 📌 Qualities We’re Looking For 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 🎁 What We Offer 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 🧠 Final Note 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 If you're ready to build a product with 10x potential, join a high-output team, and be the reason why the tech doesn’t break at scale , this role is for you. 📩 How to Apply Send your resume to people@darwix.ai with the subject line: “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 Show more Show less