Engineering Manager – Service Implementation

About Cient:

Our client is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.They helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.Powering this growth is our clients talent cloud—an AI-vetted pool of 4M+ software engineers, data scientists, and STEM experts who can train models and build AI applications. All of this is orchestrated by ALAN—our AI-powered platform for matching and managing talent, and generating high-quality human and synthetic data to improve model performance. ALAN also accelerates workflows for model and agent evals, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, preference-pair generation, benchmarking, data capture for pre-training, post-training, and building AI applications.

Job Title: Engineering Manager – Service Implementation

Location: Pan India

Experience: 8+ yrs

Job Type : Contract to hire

Notice Period:- Immediate joiner

What does day-to-day look like:

• Leading the design and development of real-world services as modular, production-ready APIs at max quality

• Providing technical direction and mentorship while remaining hands-on with the codebase

• Helping with planning, program management, and introducing new processes that drive clarity, accountability, and efficiency across the team

• Maintaining excellent, developer-friendly documentation across services

• Enforcing a Test Driven Development approach with high-quality test coverage

• Designing and iterating on scalable database schemas for service integrations

• Demonstrating excellent judgment and accountability - you are someone others can rely on

Requirements:

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with 4+ years in a technical leadership role

• Deep expertise in production-grade Python and backend architecture

• Proven ability to guide teams in building and scaling systems quickly and cleanly

• Strong fundamentals in database schema design and data modeling

• Hands-on experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)

• [Bonus] Familiarity with LLM function calling protocols and integration paradigms