Lead Software Engineer - AI (Java/Python)

Responsibilities

• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems.
• Design and Architecture: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features and systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Experience in developing cloud native SAAS products/applications.
• GenAI Product Development: Participate in the entire AI development lifecycle, including data collection, preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Code Review: Review peer code, provide constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to industry best practices for clean, efficient, maintainable, and well-tested code with built-in observability.
• Testing: Build testable software, define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using tools and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation pyramid as the guide.
• Debugging and Troubleshooting: Triage defects or customer reported issues, debug and resolve in a timely and efficient manner.
• Service Health and Quality: Maintain service reliability by monitoring health indicators, promptly addressing incidents, collaborating on issue resolution, and performing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Dev Ops Model: Use and contribute to the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process (CI/CD).
• Mentorship: Mentors the team on technology concepts and ensures team compliance to best practices for design.
• Innovation: Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and champion their adoption to enhance team innovation and productivity

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate/ Postgraduate in Computer Science with at least 60% throughout academics
• 5 - 8yrs' IT experience and more than 5yrs of relevant experience
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and Java.
• Experience with software development practices and design patterns.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Familiarity with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.
• Basic understanding of cloud technologies and DevOps principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of building and shipping successful software products and services.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• High level familiarity with AI/ML, GenAI, and MLOps concepts.
• Familiarity with frameworks like LangChain and LangGraph.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, MSSQL, or Postgres.
• Experience with testing tools such as PyTest, PyMock, xUnit, mocking frameworks, etc.
• Experience with GCP technologies such as VertexAI, BigQuery, GKE, GCS, DataFlow, and Kubeflow.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in microservices architecture
• Experience with Java plus.

Company Overview:

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.

Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process

For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com