Lead Ai Platform Engineer – Fastapi, Snowflake, Langgraph, …, Vapi

We are looking for a highly hands-on AI-native Technical Lead / Founding Engineer type profile who can build and scale production-grade AI systems end-to-end.

This is NOT a conventional Python developer or standard Tech Lead role.

The ideal candidate is someone already operating in contemporary AI-first engineering environments — actively building with frontier LLMs, agentic workflows, AI coding systems, and scalable backend/data architectures.

Role Overview

You will work closely with leadership and product stakeholders to architect, build, and optimize AI-powered systems and engineering workflows.

You should be capable of:

Owning architecture decisions

Building production-grade AI systems

Leading engineering execution

Improving developer productivity using AI

Designing scalable backend + data platforms

Working independently with minimal hand-holding

This role requires a solid builder mindset, startup execution speed, and deep hands-on technical capability.

Mandatory Skills

Backend & System Engineering

Strong hands-on experience in:

Python

FastAPI

REST APIs

Microservices architecture

Distributed systems

Robust understanding of:

System design

Scalable backend architecture

API integrations

Performance optimization

AI / LLM Engineering

Must have real production experience with:

Generative AI systems

Agentic AI workflows

RAG pipelines

LangChain / LangGraph

OpenAI / Claude / Gemini ecosystem

Prompt orchestration

AI-assisted engineering workflows

AI coding tools in daily development lifecycle

Data Engineering

Mandatory experience with:

Snowflake

ETL / ELT pipelines

Data modeling

Large-scale data systems

Structured + unstructured data processing

Cloud & Infrastructure

Experience with one or more:

AWS / Azure / GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability & monitoring

Key Responsibilities

Architect and build AI-native backend systems

Design and deploy scalable RAG and agentic AI pipelines

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