Pune, India Hybrid Employment

QAD, Inc. is hiring an Elite Software Engineering Pipeline (All Levels)

About the Role

This role is based in Pune, India with a hybrid work model requiring three days per week in the office. It is a full-time individual contributor position, with opportunities available for mid, senior, and principal-level engineers depending on experience and fit.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement complete user experiences by developing responsive front-end interfaces and robust backend microservices.
  • Ensure smooth integration between user interfaces and independent backend AI agents.
  • Uphold high coding standards, conduct unit testing, and enhance front-end efficiency for intricate enterprise workflows.
  • Develop the architecture for multi-phase agent coordination, tool invocation systems, state management logic, and error handling mechanisms.
  • Create and refine schemas for the Enterprise Knowledge Graph and manufacturing-specific domain models.
  • Manage the design and operation of the LLM Gateway, including model selection, cost controls, response time targets, and real-time data streaming.
  • Drive large-scale refactoring of Java applications, improve modularity, and adapt business logic for integration with cloud and AI technologies.
  • Transform data architecture by overseeing schema evolution, boosting system performance, and scaling PostgreSQL databases to support downstream AI pipelines.
  • Improve system dependability, implement secure sandboxing methods, and advance cloud-native microservices design.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Pune, India

Position Overview

  • Location: Pune, India (Hybrid: 3 days/week from the office)
  • Employment Type: Full-Time, Individual Contributor (IC) Roles
  • Experience Levels: Mid, Senior, and Principal levels available depending on track match.

Strict Application Filters

  • Notice Period: Maximum 30 days (Immediate joiners strongly preferred). Candidates with a notice period exceeding 30 days will not be considered.
  • AI Experience (All Levels): Mandatory production or hands-on exposure to AI architectures for ALL roles. Whether you are a Mid-level developer or a Principal Architect, you must have experience building or integrating applications with LLMs, prompt engineering, vector embeddings, RAG pipelines, or agentic frameworks.

Track A: Full-Stack Product Engineering (Mid to Senior Levels)

  • Core Focus: Building feature-rich, high-performance web applications that integrate with backend AI intelligence.
  • Key AI Requirements: Experience consumption of streaming AI APIs, orchestrating UI states based on dynamic LLM responses, and building interfaces for AI-driven workflows.
  • Key Responsibilities: Engineer end-to-end user journeys, deploying highly interactive frontends and resilient microservices.
  • Key Responsibilities: Integrate user interfaces seamlessly with autonomous backend agents.
  • Key Responsibilities: Maintain clean code standards, unit testing, and optimize front-end performance for complex enterprise user workflows.
  • Tech Stack: Modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React.js, Angular, or Vue), Node.js/Java backends, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Microservices.

Track B: Agentic AI & Intelligence Infrastructure (Principal Level)

  • Core Focus: Building the runtime orchestration and data models that power our autonomous AI agents.
  • Key Responsibilities: Architect the multi-step agent orchestrator, tool dispatch systems, state machines, and error recovery frameworks.
  • Key Responsibilities: Design and optimize the Enterprise Knowledge Graph schema and manufacturing domain ontologies.
  • Key Responsibilities: Own LLM Gateway architecture: model routing, cost governance, latency SLOs, and streaming responses.
  • Tech Stack: LangGraph, AutoGen, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, RDF/OWL ontologies, Vector/Graph hybrid search, Distributed Systems.

Track C: Platform Architecture & Modernization (Principal Level)

  • Core Focus: High-throughput backend systems, cloud infrastructure scaling, and database evolution optimized for heavy AI workloads.
  • Key Responsibilities: Lead enterprise-scale Java application refactoring, modularization, and future-proofing application logic for modern cloud & AI layers.
  • Key Responsibilities: Redefine data architecture, manage complex schema migrations, optimize performance, and scale PostgreSQL backends to feed downstream AI data pipelines.
  • Key Responsibilities: Enhance infrastructure reliability, sandboxing patterns, and cloud-native microservices architecture.
  • Tech Stack: Java/Spring Boot (advanced refactoring), PostgreSQL (expert-level indexing, query tuning, migration), AWS/Cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Docker.

Other

Hybrid work: 3 days/week from the office

About company
QAD, Inc.
QAD Inc. is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, packaging, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category other
Posted 20 days ago