AI Engineer — Cloud-Native Backend & AI Integration

EdCast; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 13,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

EdCast is seeking an AI Engineer in Hyderabad to design, build, and scale high-quality software systems powering our product platforms. The role emphasizes strong backend fundamentals, cloud experience, and growing exposure to AI-driven development.

Ideal candidates have robust Java and AWS experience, plus SQL/NoSQL data stores and an interest in integrating AI or Generative AI into real-world apps. You will collaborate with senior engineers, architects, and product teams to deliver reliable,

Qualifications

• 3 years of hands-on software engineering experience building production systems.
• Strong experience with Java in backend and service-oriented architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, etc.).
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases in production.
• Experience building RESTful APIs; exposure to GraphQL is a plus.
• Experience with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes (EKS) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java and modern frameworks.
• Build and operate cloud-native services on AWS, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Develop and expose API-first services using REST and GraphQL.
• Contribute to system design discussions and help implement scalable, distributed architectures.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following engineering best practices.

Skills

Java

AWS

React

Python

REST APIs

GraphQL

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL

AI/Gen AI

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

EdCast is seeking an AI Engineer in Hyderabad to design, build, and scale high-quality software systems powering our product platforms. The role emphasizes strong backend fundamentals, cloud experience, and growing exposure to AI-driven development.

Ideal candidates have robust Java and AWS experience, plus SQL/NoSQL data stores and an interest in integrating AI or Generative AI into real-world apps. You will collaborate with senior engineers, architects, and product teams to deliver reliable,