
Tech Lead – AI Platform, Consumer Systems
Weekday (YC W21)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bengaluru • India
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Salary
💰 ₹1,800,000 - ₹4,800,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect, build, and scale a next-generation AI-powered consumer platform
- Take ownership of the end-to-end AI and backend ecosystem
- Drive system design, performance, and scalability
- Lead a cross-functional engineering team
- Design and implement scalable, low-latency, and fault-tolerant architectures
- Build robust integrations across web, mobile, and AI-driven services
- Architect and enhance AI agent systems
- Improve retrieval pipelines, RAG systems, and prompt engineering frameworks
- Develop personalization systems and persistent memory for enhanced user experiences
- Enhance conversational intelligence for natural interactions
- Build and optimize live AI-powered voice and video interaction systems
- Develop and manage backend systems for user data and analytics
- Lead and mentor engineers across AI, backend, and DevOps
- Continuously evaluate and integrate advancements in LLMs and multimodal AI
Requirements
- 5–10+ years in backend engineering, distributed systems, or AI/ML platforms
- Strong expertise in Python, system design, APIs, and databases
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG systems, vector databases, and agent frameworks
- Strong understanding of prompt engineering, personalization, and memory systems
- Proven ability to design scalable, fault-tolerant, real-time systems
- Experience building and deploying high-performance production systems
- 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
- Nice to Have: Exposure to real-time streaming architectures or multimodal AI systems
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonsystem designAPIsdatabasesLLMsRAG systemsvector databasesagent frameworksprompt engineeringpersonalization systems
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringownership mindsetfocus on qualityfocus on performancefocus on user experienceadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingcommunication