Principal Engineer - MCP/ACP Layer(API & AI Orchestration)
ABC Financial Services21 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and evolve the MCP/ACP ecosystem that exposes company capabilities as standardized tools for AI agents.
- Design schemas, tool definitions, abstraction layers, validation patterns, and structured interfaces for complex underlying systems.
- Implement orchestration patterns for multi-step AI workflows, including tool use, retries, state management, fallbacks, and long-running execution.
- Build deterministic, safe, observable, auditable, reversible, and operationally controlled AI-driven tool interactions.
- Establish company-wide standards for AI interaction patterns, structured outputs, schema governance, and agent orchestration.
- Design security, permissions, access controls, auditability, rate controls, and operational boundaries for autonomous systems.
- Build instrumentation and observability to trace agent interactions and measure orchestration quality.
- Partner with API modernization, platform engineering, infrastructure, security, and SRE teams on scalable production operations.
- Lead technical design reviews and influence architecture decisions across teams.
- Define reusable patterns, SDKs, documentation, reference implementations, and paved paths for AI adoption.
Requirements
- Typically 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 8–14 years identified as the broader aligned range for the principal level.
- Deep expertise building and operating distributed backend systems, APIs, orchestration layers, or platform infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of state management, concurrency, reliability, distributed execution, LLM tool interactions, schemas, structured outputs, and orchestration reliability.
- Deep expertise designing abstractions and wrapping legacy or complex systems with clean, scalable, reusable interfaces.
- Experience building workflow orchestration systems with retries, failure states, long-running processes, and multi-step execution logic.
- Ability to define technical standards and influence engineering direction across multiple teams through architecture and design reviews.
- Experience designing for observability, operational resilience, auditability, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with engineering, product, platform, infrastructure, security, and SRE teams.
- Experience with MCP, ACP patterns, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar AI orchestration frameworks is preferred.
- Experience with middleware platforms, API gateways, service mesh architectures, distributed control planes, internal developer platforms, SDKs, shared engineering tooling, AI observability, tracing, prompt tracking, model evaluation, orchestration telemetry, policy enforcement, permissioning, or AI governance is preferred.
- Experience helping engineering organizations adopt technical standards through documentation, mentoring, and reference implementations is preferred.
Benefits
- Purpose-led company with a values-focused culture centered on Best Life, One Team, and Growth Mindset.
- Competitive PTO, including 15 days of earned accrued leave, 12 sick-leave days, and 12 casual-leave days per year.
- 11 holidays plus four quarterly Days of Disconnect.
- Group mediclaim insurance coverage of INR 500,000 for the employee, spouse, two children, and parents or parents-in-law, including EAP counseling.
- Life insurance and personal accident insurance.
- Quarterly fitness reimbursement through the Best Life Perk.
- Calm App subscription for the employee and up to four dependents over age 16.
- Financial assistance toward crèche facilities for working women.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-HYBRID designation.
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About ABC Financial Services
ABC Financial Services (now ABC Fitness) builds club management and billing software for gyms, studios, and health clubs, combining SaaS tools with integrated payment processing. Its products cover member management, scheduling, point-of-sale, and reporting for single-location studios to multi-site fitness chains, with recurring revenue from subscriptions and processing fees. The company is privately held, backed by private equity, and headquartered in Sherwood, Arkansas, with customers across North America and internationally.