Lead AI Engineer

Info Edge: Info Edge's mission is to create world-class platforms that transform lives by continuously
innovating. Our products and services are built keeping our customers in mind.
We always delight our customers by delivering superior value through enhanced offerings on the
internet and other platforms. Through our continuous investment across various businesses, especially
in cutting-edge technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), we have built a robust
system that constantly increases our predictive powers on customer behaviour, and optimizes and
improves our systems.
Our various teams tirelessly work together to solve problems, innovate, and create something to
empower our customers. At Info Edge, people are our core competitive advantage and we will continue
doing all that is needed to attract and retain the best available talent.

Business: Central Function – AI Team.

Title: Lead Engineer Backend (Python)
Required Educational Qualification: BE/ B.Tech/MCA
Experience: 3-5 Years

Job Objective:
As a Back End Engineer enable high scale, reliable, high performance applications for solving customer needs.

Job Description:
As Lead engineer, you will:

• Be responsible for high end product development and own scalable and high-traffic software
  applications with continuous upgrading and building new technology skills used by millions of
  users worldwide.
• Be responsible for coding, documenting and maintaining web applications in a fast paced project
  environment.
• Ownership for complex modules design and delivery
• Align closely with Technical architects for developing better product design and evolving the
  current architecture.
• Explore platforms, technologies, approaches for achieving greater efficiencies and synergies -
  test pilot projects for proof of concept.
• Mentor people on work, functionally review the code & design and analyze technical training
  needs.
• Contribute to Tech blogs and white papers within work area; participate in events as speaker
  and drive innovation agenda.
• Work on complex design patterns and architecture of the products.
• Participate in system coding including formal code review and provide feedback on structure,
  maintainability and quality of code.
• Enforce best practices in area of security, performance and load, scalability, usability, and
  support of system

Required Skills:

• Hands on of experience on Python with Django/Flask/Fast API for building scalable REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience with messaging queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or ActiveMQ.
• Practical experience working with caching systems like Redis, Aerospike, Memcache or similar
  technologies.
• Must have excellent programming, debugging and scripting skills with a solid understanding of
  Object Oriented Design principles.
• Hands on experience in micro service architectural design and should have a proven track record
  in implementing best practices around coding, design, quality in team.
• Experience with Elastic search or Neo4j is a plus.
• Should have good knowledge of design patterns while building scalable web products.
• Ability to learn/iterate quickly in an agile environment owning technical stack with nascent
  codebase and developer tools.
• Must possess a passion for delivery-focused development, and overcoming challenges through
  teamwork and self-motivation

Desired Skills:

• Good to have experience in Integration of LLMs and Agentic AI solutions using frameworks like
  LangChain, LangGraph.
• Good to have experience popular data science libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn,
  TensorFlow, Keras).
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques, statistical modeling, and data preprocessing.
• Familiarity with data visualization libraries such as Matplotlib, Seaborn, and Plotly.
• Good knowledge of DevOps tooling like docker, kubernetes, ansible/chef, AWS.
• Influence others to accept complete solutions and is seen as a subject-matter expertise
• Strong understanding of technical architecture, frameworks/guidelines/standards,
  programming language, database and web protocols.

Why Join us:
This is a unique opportunity to work on innovative and disruptive technologies that are shaping the
future of the industry. We are looking for candidates who are willing to work passionately in a
fast-paced environment and are ready to enhance their skills by learning something new. Being a part of
the InfoEdge team, you will be engaged in innovations, product development, integration with mobile
and social media, technology, research and development, quality assurance, sales and marketing.
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