Software Engineer

EY; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EY Hyderabad seeks a senior engineer to lead delivery of AI and software platform solutions on large projects. You will design, develop, deliver, and maintain systems while aligning with firm standards and business needs.

Provide advanced technical guidance, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate across Development, Engineering, and Architecture teams to ensure successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, IT, mathematics, or related field.
• 10+ years of software or platform engineering experience.
• Experience delivering software via CI/CD with GitHub and Azure DevOps.
• Strong knowledge of one or more of C#, Java, or Python.
• Experience with AI/ML NLP tasks and model evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Leads the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for large projects.
• Designs, develops, delivers and maintains solutions with standards.
• Fully understands business and user requirements for design specs.
• Provides advanced technical leadership and continuous improvement plans.
• Collaborates with Development, Engineering and Architecture teams.

Skills

Advanced software design

CI/CD automation

Python, C#, or Java

NLP / language model tuning

AI model evaluation & benchmarking

10+ years experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, IT, mathematics, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub

ADO

Job description

Job Summary

• Leads the delivery of solution or infrastructure development services for a large or more complex project, using strong technical capabilities and outstanding hands-on experience!
• Takes accountability for the design, development, delivery and maintenance of solutions or infrastructure, driving compliance with and contributing to the development of relevant standards
• Fully understands business and user requirements and ensures design specifications meet the requirements from a business and technical perspective

Your key responsibilities

• Solves complex and escalated aspects of a project, performing coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process
• Provides advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership and identifying and implementing continuous improvement plans
• Develops strong working relationships with peers across Development & Engineering and Architecture teams, collaborating to develop and engineer leading solutions
• Provides a leadership role for the work group, ensuring the appropriate expectations, principles, structures, tools and responsibilities are in place to deliver the project
• Drives consistency to the relevant processes, procedures, standards, technical design whilst supporting the definition, maintenance and implementation of technology standard

Skills and attributes for success

• Advanced technical proficiency in designing, developing, and debugging solutions
• Advanced knowledge of one or more of: C#/Java or Python
• Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics, or related field preferred
• More than 10 years applied experience
• Significant relevant experience in either an internal or external software or platform engineering role, or similar
• Technical knowledge and experience in delivering software / platform engineering solutions (depending on specialism), providing comprehensive technical advice and handling user requirements
• CI/CD delivery using code management, configuration management and automation tools such as GitHub, ADO
• Proficiency in fine-tuning language models for specific tasks, including text generation, summarization, or question answering
• Knowledge of embedding models and their application in NLP tasks like similarity matching, clustering, and information retrieval
• Familiarity with designing and implementing agentic systems that combine AI models with external tools or environments for autonomous decision-making
• Ability to design robust evaluation frameworks for AI models and agents, including metrics development, A/B testing, and performance benchmarking

Ideally, you'll also

• Microsoft/Google/AWS certificates
• Delivery using modern methodologies
• Significant proven experience in building application using container-orchestration systems like Kubernetes, and container engines like Docker

What we look for

• A self-starter, independent-thinker, curious and creative person with ambition and passion