Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Lead Software Engineer role for Capital One India’s MLX team, focusing on building and deploying responsible GenAI and ML models and enabling enterprise AI/ML platform capabilities.

What you'll do

• Lead a portfolio of technology projects across distributed systems, microservices, platform engineering, and AI/ML applications.
• Partner with product, design, data science, and engineering teams to define and deliver scalable AI/ML platform capabilities.
• Design and develop production-grade APIs, SDKs, libraries, microservices, and developer tools for AI/ML applications.
• Build and integrate GenAI capabilities including LLMs, RAG, agents, tool use, orchestration, inference, and AI evaluation.
• Develop AI observability, evaluation, monitoring, and responsible AI capabilities covering quality, reliability, safety, and performance.
• Use programming languages, open source technologies, databases, containers, Kubernetes, and AWS tools/services for scalable and serverless solutions.
• Support existing users of the platforms/products owned.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 10 years of experience in software engineering.
• At least 8 years building back-end services using languages including Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Node, Scala, or TypeScript.
• At least 6 years building with database technologies including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or DynamoDB.
• At least 4 years designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing and event-driven development.
• At least 4 years building SDKs, APIs, packages, or libraries for downstream consumption with OOP concepts.
• At least 3 years building or integrating AI/ML solutions including GenAI, LLMs, RAG, ML platforms, or AI-enabled applications.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.