Senior Lead Python AI Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Lead Python AI Engineer to lead our technology function from the ground up. The ideal candidate must have hands-on expertise in Python, AI, system architecture, cloud technologies, and product engineering, along with proven experience in building and leading engineering teams.

This role requires a strong technical leader who can drive the complete product lifecyclefrom requirement gathering, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and infrastructure setup to successful launch and post-production support for web and mobile applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing engineering team of 10+ developers, QA engineers, and DevOps professionals.
• Drive the entire technology department from scratch and establish engineering processes, coding standards, documentation, and best practices.
• Own complete product delivery from concept to Website & Mobile App Live (Production) Phase.
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems using Python.
• Lead architecture decisions for enterprise-grade applications.
• Develop secure, production-ready, and maintainable code while conducting code reviews and mentoring developers.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted software development tools while ensuring secure coding, testing, and code quality standards.
• Establish Agile, Sprint Planning, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, release management, and production monitoring.
• Collaborate closely with Product, UI/UX, Sales, and Business teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, application security, API integrations, databases, and deployment pipelines.
• Ensure application scalability, reliability, performance optimization, and disaster recovery planning.
• Identify technical risks and proactively resolve engineering challenges.
• Lead vendor evaluations, technology selection, and engineering strategy.
• Drive automation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across the organization.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 812+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Python and Object-Oriented Programming.
• Experience in designing scalable microservices and REST APIs.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud and cloud-native application development.
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks, LLM integrations, and AI-driven application development.
• Hands-on experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with system architecture, application security, and performance optimization.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.

Leadership Requirements

The candidate must have successfully built and managed a technology team of at least 10 engineers and demonstrated the ability to:

• Build engineering teams from scratch.
• Hire, mentor, and manage developers across multiple technologies.
• Deliver complete software products from ideation to production.
• Successfully launch and maintain Web Applications and Mobile Applications in production.
• Establish engineering governance, coding standards, and development processes.
• Drive technical roadmap, sprint planning, and release management.