Principal Engineer (AI + Backend) | Series B AI SaaS | BLR

Michael Page

10-15 Years

Bengaluru, India

Posted 6 hours ago
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Job Description

Own architecture and AI strategy across the company
Shape technology strategy with the founding team

Job Description

Own the backend architecture and technical direction across the company's product portfolio.
Design and scale distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, cloud infrastructure and core engineering platforms.
Set technical standards around scalability, reliability, performance and engineering quality.
Lead the integration of AI agents and agentic workflows into production, working across orchestration, retrieval, tool use, context and observability.
Build the backend infrastructure required to make AI systems reliable, scalable, measurable and cost-efficient.
Develop AI-powered engineering tools, including developer tooling, code generation and AI-assisted QA.
Stay hands-on - prototype, code and validate critical technical decisions.
Partner directly with the Co-Founder & CTO, founders and CPO on long-term technology strategy.

The Successful Applicant

10-15 years of engineering experience, with a strong foundation in backend engineering and distributed systems.
10+ years building scalable Cloud/SaaS products, enterprise platforms or developer infrastructure.
Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure.
Proven experience shipping AI-powered systems or AI agents into production.
Strong practical understanding of agent orchestration, tool calling, retrieval, context management, evaluation and observability.
Ability to solve the production challenges around reliability, latency, scale, security and cost of AI systems.
Strong hands-on coding and architecture skills, with a bias toward building rather than simply reviewing.
Proven ability to influence senior engineering and product leaders and raise the technical bar across an organization.
Excellent communicator who can simplify complex technical decisions for founders and executive stakeholders.

What's on Offer

Senior-most Engineering IC role with ownership of the company's technical direction.
Direct reporting to the Co-Founder & CTO and close partnership with the founders.
Ownership across backend architecture and AI engineering.
The opportunity to take AI agents from concept to reliable production deployment.
A mandate to shape architecture, engineering standards and AI-native development practices.
The opportunity to build the infrastructure that fundamentally changes how a growing SaaS company builds and ships software.

More Info

Job Type:

Permanent Job

Function:

Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

About Company

Michael Page

About Our Client Our client is a Series B, AI-native Customer Experience SaaS company helping businesses deliver fast, human customer support across email, chat, phone, WhatsApp and other channels. The company is challenging a category traditionally dominated by complex, over-engineered legacy platforms with a product focused on simplicity, automation and intelligent customer experiences. Its platform is used by organizations across healthcare, financial services, logistics, education and technology. The company is backed by leading investors including Kalaari Capital, Kae Capital, KCK Global and AngelList India, and is now at an important stage of scaling its technology and engineering organization. As the business accelerates its AI roadmap, it is looking for a Principal Engineer who can bridge deep backend engineering with practical AI execution, taking AI agents and intelligent systems from architecture and experimentation into reliable, scalable production environments.

Job ID: 152411415

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