Software Development Engineer - (Temporary)
Volga Partners
IndiaremotePosted 15 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Salary/compensation: ₹19–₹24 LPA (based on experience)
- Level Required: 3+ years of professional experience in backend or systems engineering
- Key benefit: Fully remote work with occasional office visits 1–2 times per year
- Notable requirement: Strong experience in Python development for production systems
Role overview
Volga Partners is seeking a skilled Software Development Engineer to build and maintain production-grade AI-powered systems using Python and LLM integration. The role involves creating backend services, integrating large language models into real-world workflows, designing scalable APIs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Positioned as a full-time, project-based contract until September 2026, this remote-first opportunity requires 3+ years of backend/systems engineering experience and offers competitive compensation (₹19–₹24 LPA).
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services and internal tools in Python for AI-powered applications.
- Integrate LLM APIs into production workflows, including prompt handling, response processing, validation, and retries.
- Design and implement scalable REST APIs, async workflows, and background job systems.
- Maintain and enhance components of a multi-language codebase (C#/C++, Python, web technologies) where applicable.
- Work with structured and unstructured data to prepare inputs, transform outputs, and support downstream systems.
- Develop systems for prompt management, model routing, response validation, and failure handling.
- Debug complex issues across backend logic, API integrations, and distributed services.
- Monitor system performance using telemetry tools and proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks.
- Automate recurring workflows related to data processing, evaluation, and reporting.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn ambiguous product ideas into production-ready features.
- Contribute to architecture decisions around scalability, performance, and safe use of AI systems.
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while helping establish engineering best practices for AI systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3+ years of professional experience in backend or systems engineering.
- Strong experience in Python development for production systems.
- Experience integrating LLM APIs or AI-driven services into real applications.
- Proven ability to work within large codebases and collaborative environments.
- Knowledge of Python, C#, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL.
- Experience with .NET Web API, ASP.NET (MVC & WebForms), Entity Framework.
- Experience with React, Bootstrap, Ajax.
- Familiarity with testing frameworks (xUnit or similar).
- Understanding of AI/LLM Systems (prompt design, response parsing, guardrails, model integration patterns, failure handling, LLM limitations and production constraints).
- Experience with tools and platforms (Azure DevOps, Git, Docker, Terraform, SQL Server, Elastic Stack, Postman, Swagger, AWS or Azure cloud environments).
- Knowledge of operating systems (Windows, Linux).
- Preference for build tools (Make, Ninja).
Nice to have
- Experience with RAG, embeddings, vector databases, or retrieval systems.
- Familiarity with agent workflows or multi-step orchestration.
- Experience with model monitoring, prompt versioning, or evaluation systems.
- Understanding of AI safety, privacy, and secure data handling.
- Exposure to cloud-native deployments and scalable infrastructure.
Benefits
- Compensation: ₹19–₹24 LPA (based on experience).
- Fully remote work arrangement with occasional office visits 1–2 times per year.
- Remote-first culture with minimal in-person requirements.
- Opportunity to build real-world LLM applications at scale.
- High ownership, fast-moving environment with strong growth potential.
Additional details
- Company: Volga Partners
- Location: Fully Remote (Occasional office visits 1–2 times per year)
- Job Type: Full-time, Project-Based
- Project Duration: Until the end of September 2026
- Start Date: Urgently hiring — must be available to start within 1–2 weeks
- Work Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM IST or 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM IST (Collaboration with USA Pacific Time teams)