ML & BackEnd Engineer

About Advith ITeC

Join India's innovative fintech consulting company revolutionizing traditional accounting and consulting through AI and automation! ITeC stands for Information Technology enabled Consulting. We have a dedicated team of individuals that are trained on tasks related to finance consulting and compliance management. We are now expanding our Technology vertical and here is an opportunity to join us. 

About the Role

This is a high-impact, individual contributor role where you'll own critical ML models and backend systems from Day 1, working directly with the founding team to shape product architecture.

Location:

Experience:

What You'll Build (First 12 Months)

·        ML & Intelligence Systems (60% of role)

·        Backend & Integration Infrastructure (40% of role)

Key Technical Challenges

1. Handling India-Specific Complexity

   : GST rules change quarterly; tax logic spans CGST/SGST/IGST/TDS with 20+ scenarios

2. Unreliable External APIs

   : GST Portal has 60-70% uptime; you'll build resilient systems with offline fallbacks and retry logic

3. On-Premises Integration

   : Deploy connector agents behind corporate firewalls with auto-update capabilities

4. Data Quality at Scale

   : Process invoices with messy, inconsistent data while maintaining 95%+ accuracy

5. Real-Time vs Batch

   : Balance instant validation needs with rate-limited APIs (100 calls/min for Zoho, unpredictable for GST Portal)

Must-Have Technical Skills

Machine Learning

• 3+ years

  of production ML experience (preferably in OCR, NLP, or document processing)
• Hands-on with

  AWS Textract, Tesseract

  , or similar OCR engines
• Experience with

  GPT-4/LLM fine-tuning

  for domain-specific tasks
• Strong understanding of

  anomaly detection

  , statistical analysis, and fraud detection algorithms
• Proficiency in

  Python

  (scikit-learn, TensorFlow/PyTorch, pandas, numpy)

Backend Engineering

• 4+ years

  of backend development in

  Python

  (FastAPI/Django) or

  Node.js

• Strong

  REST API design

  and

  OAuth 2.0

  implementation experience
• Database expertise:

  PostgreSQL

  (transactional integrity, audit logs) and

  Redis

  (caching, queues)
• Experience with

  ODBC connections

  and

  XML/SOAP APIs

  (for legacy system integration)
• Understanding of

  workflow orchestration

  (Temporal.io, Celery, or Airflow)

Integration & Data

• Built integrations with

  unreliable third-party APIs

  (rate limiting, retry logic, error handling)
• Experience with

  webhook systems

  and

  real-time data sync

• Knowledge of

  data consistency patterns

  (atomicity, idempotency, rollback mechanisms)
• Comfortable with

  ETL pipelines

  and data validation at scale

Nice-to-Have (But Not Required)

• Prior experience with

  Indian accounting systems

  (Tally, Zoho Books, Busy, Vyapar)
• Understanding of

  Indian tax compliance

  (GST, TDS, e-invoicing)
• Familiarity with

  on-premise connector agents

  or desktop application deployment
• Experience in

  fintech

  or

  financial auditing

  domains
• Knowledge of

  Benford's Law

  and financial fraud detection
• Background in

  security compliance

  (SOC2, audit trails, access controls)

Startup Expectations

• Ownership

  : You'll own entire subsystems end-to-end (no hand-holding)

• Speed

  : Ship features in weeks, not months; iterate based on pilot client feedback

• Pragmatism

  : Choose "build vs wrapper"

• Documentation

  : Write clear technical specs; you may hand off modules to junior engineers as team scales

• On-Call Rotation

  : Be available for critical production issues (after Month 6)