Lead Software Engineer—Full Stack & AI Agents

Posted on: January 16, 2026


Lead Software Engineer—Full Stack & AI Agents
Job Title: Lead Software Engineer – Full Stack & AI Agents
Experience: 7+ Years
Location: Pune (In-Office)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: IT Product Development / Artificial Intelligence (AI) / SaaS / Generative AI
Key SkillsFull Stack Development, Python, React, AI Agents, LangChain, LangGraph, Generative AI, LLMs, Docker, CI/CD, Cloud Computing, Microservices

About the Role

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Full Stack & AI Agents to design, build, and scale AI-native applications alongside modern full-stack systems. This role combines deep software engineering expertise with hands-on leadership in AI agent architecture and GenAI-driven development.

You will play a key role in building production-grade AI Agents, ensuring reliability, accuracy, and maintainability while leveraging AI-powered development tools to accelerate delivery. The position requires strong ownership, technical mentorship, and a high standard for both traditional engineering and AI-driven systems.

Key Responsibilities

Core Engineering

  • Design and develop scalable, secure, and high-performance full-stack web applications

  • Architect backend systems with a focus on maintainability, observability, and performance

  • Collaborate with Product, AI, and DevOps teams to convert business requirements into technical solutions

  • Write clean, efficient, testable, and well-documented code

  • Conduct code reviews and enforce engineering best practices

  • Lead by example through hands-on development and technical decision-making

AI Agents & Generative AI

  • Design, build, and maintain AI Agents for real-world production use cases

  • Work extensively with LangChain and LangGraph for multi-step, stateful, tool-enabled agent workflows

  • Ensure high AI agent quality, including:

    • Response accuracy and relevance

    • Deterministic behavior is required

    • Guardrails, fallback mechanisms, and failure handling

    • Continuous evaluation, testing, and improvement

  • Define best practices for prompt engineering, memory management, tool invocation, and agent supervision

  • Integrate LLMs with APIs, databases, workflows, and external systems

Productivity & Engineering Excellence

  • Leverage AI code-generation tools (Copilot, Cursor, GPT-based tools) to improve development speed

  • Review and validate AI-generated code to ensure production-grade quality and security

  • Identify technical risks early, especially in AI-driven systems, and propose effective solutions

  • Mentor engineers in full-stack development and AI-native engineering practices

Required Skills & Experience

Frontend

  • Strong experience with React.js or Vue.js

  • Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript / TypeScript

Backend

  • Strong proficiency in Python with frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask

  • Experience designing scalable backend services and APIs

AI & Agent Frameworks

  • Hands-on experience with LangChain

  • Experience with LangGraph or similar agent orchestration frameworks

  • Proven experience building, testing, and deploying AI Agents

Databases & APIs

  • Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

  • Strong experience with RESTful APIs (GraphQL is a plus)

Architecture & DevOps

  • Solid understanding of system design, microservices, and modular architectures

  • Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Git

  • Exposure to AWS, GCP, or Azure

Problem Solving & Quality

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a first-principles mindset

  • High focus on quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability, especially for AI systems

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience with LLM / AI agent evaluation frameworks

  • Exposure to Kubernetes or serverless architectures

  • Knowledge of performance optimization and security best practices

  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, Jira, and Confluence

What We’re Looking For

  • A problem solver who enjoys working on complex, ambiguous challenges

  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability

  • Ability to balance AI-enabled speed with engineering rigor

  • Clear communicator capable of explaining complex AI and system design decisions

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