ixigo

Sr. Software Engineer (Backend + Applied AI)

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2 days ago
Gurgaon, IndiaMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable backend systems and distributed services for real-time, low-latency AI experiences.
  • Build AI-powered product features, agentic workflows, conversational systems, and voice-enabled experiences.
  • Develop asynchronous and event-driven systems using queues, workers, WebSockets, and streaming pipelines.
  • Own infrastructure for AI features, including streaming responses, WebSocket/SSE pipelines, and queue-based orchestration.
  • Deploy, operate, instrument, monitor, and optimize production services for latency, availability, robustness, and cost.
  • Make product-level decisions and own features end-to-end from architecture through support.
  • Design evaluation and feedback loops for AI systems and improve production performance.
  • Safeguard sensitive company data and report suspected security incidents according to ISMS policies and procedures.

Requirements

  • 3–4 years of software engineering experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Node.js, Python, TypeScript, REST APIs, GraphQL, and backend architecture.
  • Strong understanding of databases, caching, asynchronous processing, and system design.
  • Experience integrating LLMs and building agentic AI-powered products.
  • Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, function and tool calling, RAG, embeddings, and awareness of fine-tuning.
  • Experience building AI-driven, voice, and conversational products.
  • Strong systems design, product thinking, ownership, communication, and comfort with ambiguity.
  • Experience building or shipping AI products such as voice or text chatbots, copilots, or assistants.
  • Experience designing evaluation and feedback loops for AI systems is a strong signal.
  • Open-source contributions or strong personal projects are valued.
  • Full-stack execution ability and familiarity with modern engineering practices are valued.
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About ixigo

501-1,000 employees

Ixigo (Le Travenues Technology Limited) builds consumer travel apps for India that let users search, plan, and book trains, flights, buses, hotels, and cabs. Revenue comes from travel bookings and related services across its ixigo, ConfirmTkt, and AbhiBus brands, which use AI-based trip planning and utilities. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Gurgaon, it is publicly listed in India (NSE) and targets the mass-market, multi-modal travel segment.

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