Team Leader -NLP

We are seeking a Team Leader NLP to lead a cross-functional engineering team working on OCR, NLP, AI/ML pipelines, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure. This role blends technical leadership, architecture oversight, mentoring, and delivery ownership for mission-critical document processing and AI-driven platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team working on OCR, NLP, backend, and cloud components
• Plan sprints, allocate resources, and ensure timely, high-quality deliveries
• Drive coding standards, architecture best practices, and documentation
• Own and enhance OCR and document processing pipelines using Tesseract and OpenCV
• Guide AI/ML and NLP workflows including LLM-based classification and extraction
• Oversee deployment and reliability of backend services and APIs
• Manage cloud infrastructure on GCP including compute, scaling, and monitoring
• Ensure system reliability, performance optimization, and production stability
• Collaborate closely with QA, DevOps, product, and data teams

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Minimum 2+ years in a technical lead or team leadership role
• Strong expertise in Python and Flask-based backend systems
• Hands-on knowledge of OCR systems and document processing pipelines
• Deep understanding of NLP, embeddings, vectorization, and LLM deployment
• Experience managing systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Knowledge of MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and distributed messaging systems
• Strong Linux (Ubuntu) administration and troubleshooting skills
• Exposure to GPU environments, CUDA, and PyTorch is an advantage
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and delivery ownership skills