Software Engineer

Overview

Software Engineer role at First American (India) developing web-based applications for the title insurance, settlement and mortgage platforms, with a hands-on AI/ML Developer (Full Stack, LLM and Generative AI) track.

What you'll do

• Translate functional requirements into system requirements while developing web-based applications.
• Build basic code for assigned modules and features using available stacks and programming languages, generally under supervision.
• Apply standard troubleshooting and debugging concepts to achieve speed and efficiency.
• Design and develop basic database solutions.
• Work with Configuration Management tools to enforce CM practices and processes.
• Adhere to the QA standards defined by the organization.
• Follow the Agile manifesto and ceremonies using a continuous Build-Integrate-Test approach.
• Design, build and maintain LLM-powered solutions including custom GPTs and domain-specific assistants.
• Develop and optimize prompts, system instructions and context strategies for accuracy and reliability.
• Implement prompt chaining, tool calling and basic agentic workflows.
• Build and support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases.
• Evaluate, test and improve LLM outputs using defined quality and safety criteria.
• Apply responsible AI principles, safety guardrails and governance standards in all implementations.
• Develop full stack AI-enabled applications including backend services, APIs and UI integrations.
• Integrate LLM capabilities into existing enterprise applications.
• Build reusable services and components to support AI features.
• Debug and resolve application or AI-related issues impacting functionality or user experience.
• Develop and deploy AI solutions on Azure and/or AWS.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for application and AI workloads.
• Assist with MLOps workflows including model versioning, deployment and monitoring.
• Ensure solutions are secure, reliable and cost-aware in production environments.

What you'll need

• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and a basic understanding of the business and domain.
• Knowledge of programming languages and the overall application development space.
• Understanding of performance bottlenecks, production infrastructure, interfaces and dependencies of the product.
• 3–5 years of overall software engineering experience.
• Strong full stack development background.
• Proficiency in Python and solid programming fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, Generative AI and prompt engineering.
• Experience creating or customizing GPT-based solutions.
• Familiarity with RAG architectures and vector databases.
• Cloud experience with Azure and AWS.
• Basic understanding of MLOps, DevOps and production support practices.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

Nice to have

• Frontend experience with modern frameworks.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.