Role Summary

We are hiring Senior Engineers who combine solid software engineering fundamentals with proven proficiency in AI-assisted development. This role is designed for engineers who have actively used AI coding tools (such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI only) for at least one year and can leverage these capabilities to ship higher-quality code faster. You will be embedded in product engineering squads, leading feature development, mentoring junior engineers, and championing AI-first development practices across the team.

What Makes This Role Different

This is not an AI research role - it is a core engineering role for engineers who use AI as a force multiplier. We expect you to:

• Use AI coding assistants daily to accelerate development without sacrificing code quality.
• Critically evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security vulnerabilities, and maintainability.
• Share best practices for AI-assisted workflows with the broader engineering team.
• Help define team standards for responsible and effective AI tool adoption.

Key Responsibilities

1  Feature Engineering & Delivery

• Design, build, and ship production-quality features across the full stack or within your domain (backend, frontend, platform, or data).
• Leverage AI coding assistants to write, refactor, document, and test end-to-end code efficiently.
• Translate product requirements and technical specifications into clean, maintainable implementations.
• Lead feature squads for medium-complexity initiatives from design through deployment.
• Participate in and drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical estimation sessions.

2  AI-Augmented Development Practices

• Champion the use of AI pair-programming tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) across the engineering org.
• Develop and document internal guidelines for effective AI prompt engineering within coding workflows.
• Conduct training sessions or knowledge-share presentations on maximising productivity with AI tools.
• Critically audit AI-generated code for logic errors, security issues, and performance anti-patterns before merging.
• Stay updated on the latest AI development tooling and evaluate new tools for team adoption.

3  Code Quality & Engineering Excellence

• Write testable, modular, and well-documented code following the team's style guides and design principles.
• Drive test-driven development (TDD) and maintain code coverage targets.
• Perform thorough code reviews with constructive feedback; uphold engineering standards.
• Identify and address technical debt proactively; contribute to architecture improvements.
• Participate in RCA (root cause analysis) for production incidents; implement lasting fixes.

4  Architecture & Technical Design

• Contribute to system design discussions, proposing solutions with appropriate trade-off analysis.
• Create and maintain technical design documents (TDDs), ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), and API contracts.
• Evaluate and adopt relevant third-party libraries, APIs, and SaaS tools with a security-first mindset.
• Collaborate with platform / DevOps teams on observability, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.

5  Mentoring & Team Growth

• Mentor 1–2 mid-level engineers; conduct regular 1:1 technical coaching sessions.
• Onboard new team members by sharing codebase context, tooling setup, and team practices.
• Contribute to a culture of psychological safety, learning from failures, and continuous improvement.

6  Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Operations to deliver delightful, high-quality user experiences.
• Coordinate with data and AI/ML teams to integrate model endpoints, APIs, and AI features into product surfaces.
• Participate in customer-facing escalations where deep technical expertise is required.

Required Qualifications

1  Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Candidates without a degree but with a strong portfolio and demonstrable project history will be considered.

2  Experience

• 3 – 5 years of professional software engineering experience in a product-focused environment.
• Minimum 1 year of active, hands-on experience using AI coding tools in professional work (not just personal projects).
• Track record of shipping production features end-to-end with measurable business impact.

3  Technical Skills — Core Engineering

• Languages: Proficiency in at least one of — Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Go, or Kotlin.
• Web / API: REST, GraphQL, gRPC; familiarity with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure — compute, storage, serverless, and managed services.
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI); IaC basics (Terraform/Pulumi).
• Testing: Unit, integration, and e2e testing frameworks; TDD/BDD familiarity.
• Version Control: Git, branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based), PR workflows.

4  AI Tooling Skills (Mandatory)

• Demonstrated proficiency with at least one AI coding assistant (Cursor IDE, Claude Code, Codex CLI).
• Ability to craft effective prompts for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation tasks.
• Experience reviewing and validating AI-generated code for correctness and security.
• Understanding of limitations of LLM-based coding tools (hallucinations, context window, license risks).

5  Nice to Have

• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML features (e.g., calling LLM APIs, embedding models, RAG pipelines).
• Familiarity with agentic coding frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI).
• Experience in a startup or scale-up environment with rapid iteration cycles.
• Knowledge of web security (OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices).

Behavioural Competencies

• AI-First Mindset: Naturally reaches for AI tools to accelerate tasks while maintaining engineering rigour.
• Ownership: Takes end-to-end accountability — from design to deployment to monitoring.
• Pragmatism: Balances perfect with shipped; knows when to iterate vs. over-engineer.
• Mentorship: Invests in the growth of peers and junior colleagues.
• Communication: Writes clearly (code comments, docs, Slack) and articulates trade-offs confidently.
• Curiosity: Continuously explores new tools, languages, and architectural patterns.
• Collaboration: Works well in cross-functional squads; builds trust quickly.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Lead Engineer, AI Systems to serve as the technical anchor across our AI-augmented engineering organisation. This role bridges our Senior AI Coding Engineers, the AI/ML Developer (SLM Specialist), and the Agentic Systems intern cohort. You will set technical direction, own cross-cutting architectural decisions, and champion the responsible, high-impact adoption of AI-assisted development practices across the entire engineering function.

You will remain hands-on with code while simultaneously shaping how the wider team builds, evaluates, and ships AI-powered products.

Key Responsibilities

1  Technical Vision & Architecture

• Define and own the end-to-end technical architecture for AI Systems — spanning product feature surfaces, model inference APIs, and agentic toolchains.
• Drive Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), system design reviews, and RFC processes across squads.
• Establish standards for integrating SLM/LLM model endpoints into product surfaces built by the Senior Engineering team.
• Evaluate emerging AI infrastructure patterns (RAG, agentic orchestration, vector stores, model serving) and guide adoption decisions.
• Own the technical roadmap for AI tooling, developer productivity, and model integration layers.

2  Cross-Squad Technical Leadership

• Act as the primary technical liaison between the AI/ML Developer (model side) and Senior Engineers (product side), ensuring smooth API contracts, evaluation loops, and deployment handoffs.
• Provide technical direction to Agentic Systems interns, reviewing designs, code, and agentic pipeline implementations.
• Unblock senior engineers on hard architectural or integration challenges that span squad boundaries.
• Run cross-team design reviews, architecture syncs, and engineering guild sessions.

3  AI-Augmented Engineering Excellence

• Define and maintain the organisation’s standards for AI-assisted development — covering context engineering, AI code review protocols, context management, and tool evaluation criteria.
• Maintain and evolve the internal AI tooling playbook (Cursor IDE, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and emerging tools).
• Evaluate new AI coding tools, agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen), and developer-productivity platforms; produce adoption recommendations with measured trade-offs.
• Conduct structured audits of AI-generated code across squads for correctness, security, and maintainability.

4  Hands-On Engineering

• Remain an active contributor: own critical-path features, prototype architectural spikes, and build shared infrastructure components used across squads.
• Personally drive resolution of the most complex production incidents and root-cause analyses.
• Review and merge high-impact PRs; maintain the highest code review quality bar on the team.
• Own observability and reliability for AI inference and MLOps integration layers in production.

5  Mentoring & Talent Development

• Mentor Senior Engineers, the AI/ML Developer, and interns through technical coaching, design feedback, and stretch assignments.
• Lead hiring panels and technical interviews; help define and uphold the engineering hiring bar.
• Contribute to onboarding frameworks that embed AI-first practices from day one.
• Model a culture of rigorous experimentation, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.

6  Stakeholder & Product Collaboration

• Partner with the Director of Engineering and Product leadership to translate product strategy into a phased technical roadmap.
• Present architectural proposals and trade-off analyses to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders as required.
• Coordinate with DevOps/Platform teams on GPU/TPU compute provisioning, CI/CD for model pipelines, and cloud cost optimisation.

Required Qualifications

1  Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
• Candidates without a degree but with a compelling portfolio demonstrating scope and impact at staff/lead level will be considered.

2  Experience

• 6 – 8 years of professional software engineering experience in product-focused environments.
• Minimum 2 years in a formal or de-facto technical lead / staff engineer capacity across multiple squads or systems.
• Minimum 8-12 months of active, hands-on experience with AI coding tools in a professional engineering setting.
• Proven track record of shipping production systems with measurable business impact at scale.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating closely with ML/AI model teams on integration, deployment, and evaluation.

3  Technical Skills — Core Engineering

• Languages: Expert proficiency in at least two of — Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go.
• Architecture: Microservices, event-driven systems, API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), distributed systems fundamentals.
• Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis); vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate).
• Cloud: AWS, GCP, or Azure — compute, storage, serverless, managed ML services (SageMaker, Vertex AI).
• DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins); IaC (Terraform/Pulumi); observability stacks.
• Testing: TDD/BDD; unit, integration, and e2e frameworks; model evaluation pipelines.

4  AI / ML Integration Skills (Mandatory)

• Demonstrated proficiency with AI coding assistants (Cursor IDE, Claude Code, Codex CLI) in daily professional workflows.
• Experience designing and consuming LLM/SLM inference APIs; understanding of model serving, latency, and cost trade-offs.
• Hands-on familiarity with RAG architectures, vector stores, and retrieval pipelines.
• Ability to define and enforce AI code quality standards across an engineering team.
• Understanding of LLM limitations: hallucinations, context window constraints, prompt injection risks, and licensing considerations.

5  Technical Skills — Nice to Have

• Experience with SLM/LLM training or fine-tuning pipelines (SFT, RLHF, LoRA/QLoRA).
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI) and multi-step reasoning pipelines.
• Contributions to open-source ML or developer tooling projects.
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, secure coding, and AI-specific security risks (prompt injection, model exfiltration).
• Prior experience in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment with rapid iteration cycles.

Behavioural Competencies

• AI-First Mindset: Defaults to AI tools to accelerate work while maintaining rigorous quality standards; actively pushes the team’s AI capability forward.
• Systems Thinking: Sees the full picture — how model outputs, product surfaces, and infrastructure interdepend; anticipates second-order effects of architectural choices.
• Ownership: Takes end-to-end responsibility from design through production; doesn’t hand off problems, solves them.
• Influence Without Authority: Earns trust through technical credibility; drives alignment through persuasion, data, and well-reasoned proposals.
• Communication: Writes clear design docs, ADRs, and post-mortems; articulates complex trade-offs for engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentorship: Actively invests in the growth of engineers at all levels; gives direct, constructive feedback.
• Pragmatism: Balances the ideal with the shipped; knows when to iterate vs. refactor vs. rewrite.
• Curiosity: Continuously explores emerging research, tools, and patterns — and brings those learnings back to the team.

Who We Are

Konrad is a next generation digital consultancy. We are dedicated to solving complex business problems for our global clients with creative and forward-thinking solutions. Our employees enjoy a culture built on innovation and a commitment to creating best-in-class digital products in use by hundreds of millions of consumers around the world. We hire exceptionally smart, analytical, and hard working people who are lifelong learners.

About the role  

Konrad is looking to hire full-time Senior Quality Assurance Engineers. The ideal candidate will be responsible for helping to lead testing deliverables that utilize a blend of manual and automated strategies, communicating with client teams, software developers and project managers to determine project needs, creating test strategies with test case scenarios, create, update and maintain automated scripts and perform rigorous testing to ensure overall project success.

Our engineering teams work in smaller groups based on project size, collaborating closely with project management and our quality engineering specialists. We strive to create a work environment that encourages innovation, teamwork, career advancement and personal fulfillment.

Responsibilities 

• ​Lead the creation and execution of test strategies for complex programs, emphasizing automation to boost testing coverage and efficiency on different platforms(web/mobile).
• Drive the design and execution of scalable test automation frameworks that align with project goals.
• Utilize knowledge of API testing tools like Postman or REST Assured for comprehensive backend services testing and data integrity verification through API endpoints.
• Provide technical guidance to junior team members and QA team, guiding them towards achieving targeted automation objectives, fostering skill development and professional growth within the team.
• ​Perform regular quality checks and user acceptance tests for several projects on the supported devices, operating systems and browsers.
• Foster strong collaboration with software developers, project managers, and client teams to ensure clear communication and understanding of project needs and pushing QA initiatives forward.
• Document defects and provide technical details for the development team to assist with debugging.
• Assist the development team and management with other project-related tasks.

Successful candidates will have

• One of the following degrees (or similar) B.Tech Computer Application, B.Tech Computer Science, BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor's of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in an automation QA role within an agile setting, alongside a total of 3+ years of experience in software testing or related fields.
• Passion for QA process, engineering, & tooling - looking to improve our existing QA process with proactive suggestions and awareness of industry trends
• Proficiency in Git for effective management of automation scripts, test data, and configurations.
• Familiar with programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python to develop sophisticated automation scripts and frameworks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, facilitating clear and effective interaction across teams and with stakeholders.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, ensuring high-quality outcomes and systematic project tracking.
• Expertise with tools like Jira, Confluence, TestRail, or similar for project management and documentation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD (or similar) to automate the testing and deployment process, enhancing operational efficiency and quality.

Perks and Benefits

• Socials, Outings & Retreats
• One day per week Work From Home flexibility
• Subsidized Lunch
• Culture of Learning & Development

Konrad is committed to maintaining a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status will receive consideration for employment. If you have any accessibility requirements or concerns regarding the hiring process or employment with us, please notify us so we can provide suitable accommodation.

While we sincerely appreciate all applications, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.