Lead Software Engineer

About the AI Pod

We're building AI Banker, not a chatbot, not a dashboard, not a support tool.

This is a proactive, context-aware financial intelligence layer that sits alongside every user and helps them make better decisions with their money in real time.

Think:

• Systems that understand user behavior deeply
• Systems that act before the user asks
• Systems that continuously learn and adapt

This is backend engineering at the edge of AI, not just serving APIs, but building intelligence into systems.

What you'll do

• Build and scale backend systems powering AI-driven financial experiences
• Design low-latency, high-throughput services that interact with ML/AI systems
• Work on event-driven architectures and real-time decisioning systems
• Collaborate closely with AI/ML, data, and product teams to productionize intelligence
• Own systems end-to-end from design → deployment → iteration
• Solve for context management, orchestration, and system reliability at scale

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of strong backend engineering experience
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, system design, and distributed systems
• Strong experience building scalable APIs and backend services
• Hands-on with databases (SQL or NoSQL) and performance tuning
• Experience with event-driven systems / async processing / streaming (Kafka, etc.)
• Exposure to AWS and containerized deployments

What makes you a strong fit (high signal)

• You've worked on systems with real-time decisioning or personalization
• You've built platforms, not just features
• You understand how to integrate backend systems with ML/AI workflows
• You're curious about LLMs, agentic systems, or AI infra (even if not an expert yet)
• You think in systems, not endpoints

Why this role is different

• You're not building features - you're building financial intelligence
• You'll work on problems where backend meets cognition
• You'll help define what AI-first banking looks like in India

Life at slice

Life so good, you'd think we're kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period.
• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We'll love you and take care of you, our promise.
• Flexible working hours. Just don't call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule.
• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.
• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.
• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.
• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you'll forget the term colleagues can't be your friends.