Engineering Lead
Hybrid (Bengaluru, KA, IN / Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN)INR 4000k - INR 6000kFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Engineering Lead role at Infer, an AI-powered operating system for insurance agencies. IC-first technical leadership focusing on architecture, code quality, and mentoring, with ownership of day-to-day engineering alongside the founder.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and codebase: lead integration of FDE (customer deployment) work back into production systems
- Make onboarding new engineers straightforward (going from 6 to 12 fast)
- Design and document architecture for custom integrations and deployments
- Set standards for code quality, async patterns, and streaming system reliability
- Operate as IC first write code that others learn from
- Mentor 1–2 engineers on projects as capacity allows
- Help define technical strategy
- Technical interviews, culture fit conversations, onboarding new engineers
Qualifications
- 5–10+ years shipping production systems that scale
- Deep experience with async/streaming systems (Python, Go, or similar)
- Shipped something where you felt the constraints
- Strong opinions on AI/LLM application architecture — streaming, state management, reliability
- Experience building or operating AI agent systems in production — orchestrating LLM calls, tool use, multi-step reasoning, or conversation flows that run autonomously
- Familiarity with agent evaluation and quality infrastructure — designing eval harnesses, benchmarking pipelines, regression testing for AI behaviour, or conversation quality scoring across deployments
- Architecture maturity — thinks about trade-offs, not best practices
- Comfortable with the full stack from infrastructure to application
- Evidence of technical leadership — mentoring, architecture decisions, earning respect through code
- Voice/audio systems or telephony experience
- Experience bringing structure to codebases
- Founded or early employee at a 10–50 person startup
Skills
Required:Architecture designBackend developmentAsync/streaming systemsAI/LLM application architecture
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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