Software Engineer

Snow Planet; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Snow Planet is seeking a Project Lead to guide a team of software and AI engineers in cloud-native and AI-native development. You will own the code lifecycle, including deployment, testing, evaluation, and validation of both traditional and AI components.

Leadership duties include mentoring, performance reviews, and quarterly goal setting. The role emphasizes collaboration with product management and cross-functional teams, plus staying current with AI advancements to drive scalable solutions

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of Java experience.
• 1-2 years in prompt engineering and scripting.
• 1-2 years integrating AI/ML services and APIs.
• Experience designing prompt templates and agent frameworks.
• Develop and optimize microservices for high-performance data pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, and JavaScript, with ML/AI focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead software and AI engineers; coach and mentor.
• Perform detailed code reviews, including prompts and evaluation results.
• Set quarterly goals and track progress for team members.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define requirements.
• Develop AI-native software with model selection and data architecture.
• Ensure secure coding practices and monitor model performance in production.

Skills

Java programming

Prompt engineering

AI/ML integration

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Testing & QA

Education

Bachelors in CS

Tools

OpenAI API

LangChain

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Job description

Job Description

This role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to foster a collaborative and innovative environment. We are looking for a Project Lead familiar with cloud-native and AI-native development practices. Our software is built around AI at its core-LLMs, agents, and retrieval systems-and runs on IaaS (Google Cloud/AWS/etc.), so familiarity with these environments and their managed AI services is a plus. Full ownership of your code will be encouraged, including deployment, testing, evaluation, and validation of both traditional and AI components. You will lead a team of software and AI engineers, coaching and mentoring them. Familiarity with CI/CD, test-driven development, and evaluation-driven development (eval harnesses for AI features) will be a benefit.

Responsibility Area: Leadership

• Manage individual contributors daily tasks
• Mentor software and AI engineers to ensure high product quality across both deterministic code and AI/model behavior
• Perform detailed code reviews, including reviews of prompts, agent logic, and evaluation results
• Evaluate performance, provide feedback and constructive criticism to team members
• Set and track quarterly goals for all team members
• Assist with training and recruitment activities
• Provide status updates, weekly reports, and issue details to senior leadership as needed
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis for customer-reported issues, including failures rooted in model behavior, hallucinations, or data/retrieval quality
• Aid and support the coaching and training of other team members to ensure all employees are confident in the use of software applications and AI tooling
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, domain specialists, and engineering to define requirements and develop scalable AI-driven solutions
• Stay current with the latest advancements in AI and related technologies (new models, frameworks, and techniques), and proactively identify opportunities to apply them to our products and services

Responsibility Area: Software Development

• Develop intuitive AI-native software that meets and exceeds the needs of the company
• Development of technical specifications and planning, including model selection, prompt/agent design, and data/retrieval architecture
• Analyze and automate tests for software components prior to delivery, and build evaluation harnesses (accuracy, regression, and hallucination checks) for AI features
• Troubleshoot coding and model-behavior problems quickly and efficiently to ensure a productive workplace
• Follow secure software coding practices, including AI-specific safeguards (prompt-injection defense, data privacy, PII handling, and responsible-AI guardrails)
• Professionally maintain all software and create updates regularly to address customer and company concerns, including monitoring model performance and drift in production
• IaaS procedures and practices, including managed AI/ML services (e.g., Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI)
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization is welcome; experience serving models or deploying inference/GPU workloads is a plus

Responsibility Area: Communication

• Communicate effectively and professionally in all forms of communication with internal and external customers
• Liaise with team members, management, and clients
• Be transparent about challenges, failures, and successes, including the limitations and non-deterministic nature of AI systems
• Deliver presentations and write progress reports for stakeholders, translating AI capabilities and trade-offs for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Actively seek ways to improve business software processes and interactions, including where AI and automation can add value

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of practical Java experience
• 1-2 years of experience with prompt engineering and prompt/agent scripting
• 1-2 years of hands-on experience integrating third-party AI/ML services and platform APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Salesforce and other SaaS)
• Proven ability to design and manage domain-specific languages, prompt templates, and agent instruction frameworks
• Develop and optimize microservices that power high-performance data and embedding pipelines, handling up to 10 million rows and feeding vector stores
• Proficiency in Python, Java, and JavaScript, with strong Python skills for the ML/AI ecosystem
• Experience with RESTful and streaming APIs, model/inference endpoints, web services and integration technologies
• Knowledge of cloud computing and managed AI services (e.g., AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI)
• Create customer-centric AI solutions such as RAG assistants, agentic workflows, and AI-driven customer service
• Create data and knowledge-base migration tools for SaaS applications, including moving embeddings and vector data between cloud instances
• Experience with LLM orchestration and retrieval frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector)
• Outstanding collaboration and communication skills
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, including working with non-deterministic AI outputs
• Ability to learn quickly, take direction, work independently, and as part of a team
• Ability to develop unit tests and AI evaluation harnesses (accuracy, regression, and hallucination checks) for code components, prompts, and complete applications
• Ability to debug and isolate the root cause of complex issues in probabilistic and distributed systems
• Experience with Agile and Scrum development methodologies
• Experience with Spring Boot or similar frameworks
• Experience working with APIs, REST standards, JSON, SQL, and NoSQL/vector stores
• Bachelors degree in computer science or a related field; coursework or experience in ML/AI a plus

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