Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineering Lead

Keka Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Aivar Innovations is hiring Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineering Leads to own end-to-end delivery of AI-native platforms for enterprise clients in regulated industries. You will work directly with customers and contribute to accelerator platforms like Convogent and Velogent across a full SDLC.

Role requires strong hands-on coding, architecture, and leadership in AI-native engineering practices, with experience shipping production-grade systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development across the full SDLC.
• 1+ year of end-to-end AI SDLC experience.
• Experience delivering client-facing consulting engagements in regulated industries (fintech, healthcare, life sciences, or manufacturing) preferred.
• Hands-on with 2+ AI-native tools used in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and contribute to Convogent, Velogent, and Kubogent accelerator platforms.
• Lead agile delivery including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and stakeholder reporting on client-facing engagements.
• Manage distributed delivery teams within fixed-price, milestone-gated engagements (Lead level).
• Design and implement Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and RAG retrieval pipelines for enterprise customers.
• Build MCP connectors integrating requirements, GitLab, and enterprise tools into the AI-native pipeline.
• Implement verification & validation hooks and automated traceability gates in regulated software pipelines.
• Ingest compliance and regulatory documents — DHF, traceability matrices, V&V protocols — into knowledge bases and RAG systems.
• Build developer hooks — lint, type-check, security scanning — wired into CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor and guide engineers on AI-native engineering practices (Lead level).

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Java

Go

LLMs

RAG

Prompt engineering

Agentic system design

GitLab CI/CD

REST APIs

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Amazon Lambda

AWS EKS

Knowledge Bases

MCP connector

Job description

Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineering Lead

5+ Years

Full-Time

Role: Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineering Lead

About Aivar Innovations

Aivar Innovations is the AI Studio for Enterprises — a GenAI-first, AWS Preferred studio founded by former AWS leaders and backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and Sorin Investments. We serve 100+ enterprise customers across fintech, life sciences, healthcare, and manufacturing across four geographies.

We build production-grade AI systems that run at enterprise scale — not pilots, not proofs of concept. Our three accelerators power everything we deliver:

• Convogent — Conversational & Voice AI
• Velogent — Agentic Workflow Automation

At Aivar, AI is not a bolt-on. It is how we engineer, how we deliver, and what we build.

The Role

We are hiring Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineering Leads who have completed the full SDLC the AI-native way — where agentic tools are core contributors, not assistants. You will own delivery end-to-end, work directly with enterprise customers, and contribute to Aivar's accelerator platforms across regulated industries.

What You'll Do

• Build and contribute to Convogent, Velogent, and Kubogent accelerator platforms
• Lead agile delivery including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and stakeholder reporting on client-facing engagements
• Manage distributed delivery teams within fixed-price, milestone-gated engagements (Lead level)
• Design and implement Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and RAG retrieval pipelines for enterprise customers
• Build MCP connectors integrating requirements, GitLab, and enterprise tools into the AI-native pipeline
• Implement verification & validation hooks and automated traceability gates in regulated software pipelines
• Ingest compliance and regulatory documents — DHF, traceability matrices, V&V protocols — into knowledge bases and RAG systems
• Build developer hooks — lint, type-check, security scanning — wired into CI/CD pipelines
• Mentor and guide engineers on AI-native engineering practices (Lead level)

What We're Looking For

Experience

• 5+ years in software development across the full SDLC
• 1+ year of end-to-end AI SDLC experience — shipped in production, not just explored
• Experience delivering on client-facing consulting engagements in regulated industries (fintech, healthcare, life sciences, or manufacturing) preferred

AI-Native Tooling — hands-on with 2 or more, used in production:

Technical Skills

• Proficient in Python, TypeScript, Java, or Go
• Hands‑on with AWS — Bedrock, Knowledge Bases, Agents, Lambda, EKS
• Experience with microservices, REST APIs, and GitLab / CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, and agentic system design
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector development
• Exposure to regulated software pipelines with V&V, traceability, and compliance requirements is a strong plus

You're a Strong Fit If

• You have authored steering files and spec documents as part of an AI-native SDLC
• You have built or configured Amazon Bedrock RAG pipelines end-to-end
• You have delivered a complete feature or module autonomously using an AI coding agent
• You have worked with compliance or regulatory document ingestion into knowledge bases
• You understand the real challenges of AI-native delivery — context management, agent failure modes, hallucinations — and have strategies to handle them

Why Aivar

• Funded startup with real enterprise customers and production deployments
• Founding team from AWS leadership
• Work at the cutting edge of AI-native engineering — the tools and practices you use here are where the industry is heading
• High ownership, fast-moving,

Required Skills