AI Tech Lead

Recro; Chennai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Recro is seeking a Senior Technical Lead / Engineering Manager to guide the development of AI-powered applications across frontend, backend, data, and AI platforms. This role balances technical leadership with hands-on engineering and architecture ownership.

You will mentor a small, high-performing team, drive technical planning, ensure quality via testing and CI/CD, and collaborate with Product, UX, and Data Science to deliver scalable AI solutions leveraging LLMs, vector databases, and RAG

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with technical leadership responsibilities.
• 2+ years leading engineering teams, technical projects, or large-scale software initiatives.
• Strong React and TypeScript experience building production web applications.
• Experience defining architecture and engineering standards for modern full-stack apps.
• Experience integrating OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM platforms.
• Strong understanding of embeddings, vector databases, and RAG architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction, architecture, and execution of AI-enabled products across frontend, backend, database, and AI layers.
• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance and career development support.
• Drive technical planning, sprint execution, and delivery of complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Oversee development of production-grade Python services and APIs using FastAPI and PostgreSQL.
• Oversee development of modern React applications and reusable UI frameworks using TypeScript.
• Lead the integration of LLMs, embedding models, vector databases, and RAG-based architectures into production systems.
• Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture design

React

TypeScript

Python

Tools

React

TypeScript

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

OpenAI API

Azure OpenAI

Anthropic

Vite

pnpm

Job description

5.Senior Technical Lead / Engineering Manager (AI Applications)

We are seeking a Senior Technical Lead / Engineering Manager to lead the development of AI-powered applications that combine modern web technologies,

LLMs, vector search, and backend services. This role balances technical leadership, architecture ownership, team development, and hands-on engineering. You will guide a small, highly skilled team while driving delivery across frontend, backend, data, and AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction, architecture, and execution of AI-enabled
• products across frontend, backend, database, and AI layers.
• Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical
• guidance, coaching, and career development support.
• Drive technical planning, sprint execution, and delivery of complex cross-
• functional initiatives.
• security, testing, and observability.
• Guide the design and development of production-grade Python services and
• APIs using FastAPI and PostgreSQL.
• Oversee development of modern React applications and reusable UI
• frameworks using TypeScript.
• Lead the integration of LLMs, embedding models, vector databases, and
• RAG-based architectures into production systems.
• and code review processes.
• Partner with Product, UX, Data Science, Infrastructure, and business
• stakeholders to translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Identify technical risks, manage dependencies, and drive successful delivery
• of strategic AI initiatives.
• Contribute hands-on to critical architectural components and complex
• technical challenges when needed.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including
• technical leadership responsibilities.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams, technical projects, or
• large-scale software initiatives.
• typing practices, and scalable service design.performance tuning, and data architecture.
• Strong React and TypeScript experience building and leading development of
• production web applications.
• Hands-on experience with:
• React 19
• Vite
• shadcn/ui
• pnpm
• Experience defining architecture and engineering standards for modern full-
• stack applications.
• Experience integrating OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar LLM
• platforms.
• Strong understanding of embeddings, vector databases, RAG architectures,
• prompt engineering, and AI application design patterns.
• Experience establishing testing strategies, CI/CD practices, and quality
• Proven ability to lead distributed teams..
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence
• technical direction and organizational outcomes.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading AI/ML product development teams.
• Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks, golden datasets, model
• monitoring, and AI testing strategies.
• Familiarity with tokenization, caching, inference optimization, and LLM
• infrastructure concepts.
• Experience with dependency injection, repository patterns, domain-driven
• design, and enterprise architecture practices.
• Experience managing engineering roadmaps, resource planning, and
• technical prioritization.
• Experience in financial services, banking technology, or other highly regulated
• Experience designing reusable enterprise platforms that support multiple AI
• products and use cases.

Success Profile

The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with leadership capability. They can effectively lead engineers, make sound architectural decisions, collaborate with stakeholders, and remain sufficiently hands-on to guide implementation of complex