Software Engineer

Overview

Senior hands-on AWS Backend Developer to design, build and scale agentic AI systems, owning backend services on AWS, integrating LLMs through secure and cost-efficient patterns, and delivering production-grade, observable and compliant systems for mission-critical use cases.

What you'll do

• Design and document sophisticated software components, services and platforms
• Implement robust and maintainable code with clear, maintained documentation
• Deliver customer value iteratively while working towards longer-term systems that solve roadmap goals with increasing efficiency
• Serve as a technical lead and own projects end-to-end
• Communicate status and changes to your work and keep all stakeholders informed of updates to the original plan
• Design test automation on all code implemented through unit and integration testing
• Work with internal and external teams to bring new platforms to market
• Maintain and enhance software frameworks for development
• Serve as a technical mentor for other engineers on the team and provide technical leadership of junior engineers
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of best practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve platform-related issues
• Support internal and external audit teams for security, software licensing and regulatory audits, ensuring documentation and evidence are available and accurate
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement new controls and procedures addressing identified compliance gaps or risks
• Define low-level solution designs and implement backend services that orchestrate agent workflows using AWS primitives and AI frameworks
• Implement robust orchestration for multi-step agent pipelines, including retries, timeouts and compensating actions
• Build and integrate with secure, low-latency APIs and event-driven microservices with AWS services
• Partner closely with a tight-knit team and work cross-functionally with security, data, data science, UX and customer enterprise platform teams to deliver high-quality solutions
• Be fully hands-on, actively contributing to coding, design and implementation of backend services and AWS solutions

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, or equivalent experience
• 7–10+ years building production backend systems
• 5+ years hands-on with AWS
• Solid understanding and experience in AWS core services and emerging AWS technologies such as AWS AgentCore
• Compute: Lambda, ECS, EKS
• API and integration: API Gateway, AppSync, EventBridge, SQS, SNS
• Data and storage: DynamoDB, Aurora (Postgres/MySQL), S3
• Networking and security: VPC, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudFront
• Observability: CloudWatch
• Orchestration: Step Functions
• Authentication and authorization: IAM Identity Centre, API Gateway authorizers and integration with Microsoft Azure Entra ID
• Extensive experience designing and implementing microservices and event-driven architectures
• Understanding and experience implementing the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Ability to work effectively with customer enterprise teams (security, AI governance, data platforms etc.) to obtain approvals and sign-off on solution designs

Nice to have

• AWS certifications
• Experience in trading systems or ETRMs (Energy Trading & Risk Management)
• Operational experience of running business-critical systems

Details

• Location: Pune, India
• Hybrid office/remote working
• Up to 10% travel
• Eligible for relocation within country
• Advertised as full time; flexible working arrangements may be considered (contact the hiring manager or recruiter)