Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

Company: EB1A Experts Company Link: ( EB1A Experts ) Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India (Hybrid Mode) About the Role At EB1A Experts, we?re building high-impact, AI-driven platforms that power our internal operations and customer-facing products. We?re seeking a seasoned Lead / Principle Software Engineer who will take charge of our backend architecture, drive DevOps and deployment practices, ensure top-tier security, and leverage LLM/AI capabilities for our next-gen tools. You will lead by example, mentor the team, and architect systems that are resilient, multi-tenant, secure, and built for scale. Key Responsibilities Architect, design and lead the development of backend services using Python 3 , with frameworks such as FastAPI . Define and oversee a microservices-based architecture (multi-tenant, event-driven, reactive) that supports high volume, secure operations. Own the security posture of our backend systems: threat modelling, vulnerability mitigation, secure APIs, data protection, access control. Lead deployment and operational practices: CI/CD pipelines, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), AWS infrastructure & configuration. Integrate AI/LLM capabilities into production systems: understanding model deployment, inference, data flows, utilizing LLMs/internal AI tools. Mentor and guide other engineers in best practices for clean code, architecture, testing, monitoring, observability and DevOps. Collaborate with product, frontend and AI teams to translate business use-cases into robust technical solutions and services. Establish metrics, monitoring, logging and alerting to ensure reliability, performance and maintainability of services. Required Qualifications Around 10 years of professional engineering experience, with a significant portion in backend systems using Python 3 . Proven experience with FastAPI (or equivalent modern Python frameworks) in production environments. Strong expertise in AWS cloud services , Kubernetes (or other container orchestration), deployment/infra as code and CI/CD practices. Deep understanding of secure software architecture: authentication/authorization (OAuth, SSO, RBAC), data security, OWASP best practices, threat analysis. Experience designing and building microservices architectures (multi-tenant, event-driven, reactive systems). Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL) and data modelling/ORM layers; plus familiarity with event/streaming technologies is a strong plus. Experience integrating AI / LLM components or at least a solid understanding of how LLMs and AI workflows work in production. Excellent mentoring and leadership skills: able to lead a team of engineers, define architecture standards, drive code quality and operational excellence. Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to work across teams and align technical decisions with business goals. Why Join Us Opportunity to own and shape the core backend architecture of AI-first products. Work in a dynamic environment where innovation, clean engineering and scalability matter. Lead a growing engineering team and have a large impact. Exposure to AI/LLM tools and next-generation tech in a production setting.