Staff AI Software Engineer

At Nextiva were reimagining how businesses connect bringing together customer experience and team collaboration on a single conversation centric platform. Powered by AI driven by human innovation.

Our culture is forward thinking customer obsessed and built on the belief that meaningful connections drive better business outcomes. Whether its through our signature Amazing Service the technology we create or the experiences we cultivate connection is at the core of who we are.

If youre ready to collaborate with incredible people make an impact and help businesses everywhere deliver truly amazing experiences this is where you belong.

Location:This is an onsite role based at Nextivas Bengaluruoffice (Wilshire III by MFAR 492HobliRHB Colony Mahadevapura Bengaluru Karnataka 560048). Working together onsite strengthens how weoperate enabling faster decisions clearer communication and stronger execution so you can make a greater impact and move work forward with speed and clarity.

In-Office Expectation: This role is expected to work onsite four days per week withthepotential toincreasetofive days per weekas required by the business. Specific scheduling and flexibility will be guided by your leader to support both team collaboration and individual productivity.

Nextiva is looking for a Staff AI Engineer to help build an internal AI platform that will shape how we work across engineering and the broader organization.

This is a Staff-level hands-on individual contributor role at the intersection of backend/platform engineering system architecture AI cloud infrastructure and developer productivity. Youll design and build production-grade agentic workflows across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and intelligent automation that improves engineering and business processes across Nextiva.

Working across Nextivas technology platform youll identify high-value opportunities architect solutions and take them from concept through deployment operationalization security observability and scale. Youll also provide technical leadership and influence across engineering teams.

We are looking for an engineer who understands that AI is a means to a business outcomenot the outcome itself and can turn promising capabilities into reliable systems that create measurable value.

Top 3 Outcomes (first 12 months)

1. Build and operationalize agentic SDLC capabilities: Architect and deliver production-grade AI workflows that materially improve how Nextiva engineers design build test review deploy operate and maintain software with measurable improvements in engineering effectiveness.
2. Establish a scalable internal AI platform: Develop reusable architecture services infrastructure patterns and guardrails that enable AI-powered workflows to move reliably from experimentation into secure observable production-scale operation.
3. Deliver measurable business impact through AI and automation: Identify and execute high-value automation opportunities across engineering and business processes establishing clear success metrics and demonstrating tangible improvements in productivity quality velocity cost or customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect build deploy and operateproduction-grade AI systems and agentic workflows across the SDLC and broader business processes.
• Design scalable internal platform capabilities that enable teams across Nextiva to safely and efficiently adopt AI-powered automation.
• Own solutions end-to-endfrom problem definition and architecture through implementation deployment observability security scaling and ongoing operation.
• Build robust integrations between AI models agents developer tooling internal platforms enterprise systems APIs data sources and engineering workflows.
• Apply strong software engineering principles to AI systems including modular architecture testing reliability performance maintainability and fault tolerance.
• Design approaches for AI evaluation observability quality measurement failure handling and continuous improvement in production.
• Make pragmatic architectural and technology decisions based on business outcomes engineering constraints risk and total cost of ownership rather than technology trends.
• Work deeply within GCP and/or AWS designing cloud-native architectures and infrastructure capable of supporting secure reliable scalable production workloads.
• Partner with infrastructure DevOps security architecture and engineering teams to establish reusable engineering patterns technical standards and operational guardrails for AI-powered systems.
• Understand complex software systems and large codebases to identify opportunities where AI can improve developer workflows across the end-to-end SDLC.
• Evaluate emerging AI models frameworks agent architectures and developer technologies to determine where they can create meaningful value for Nextiva.
• Provide Staff-level technical leadership through architecture reviews design decisions technical mentorship and influence across engineering teams.
• Translate ambiguous business and engineering problems into clear technical strategies and executable solutions measuring and optimizing impact based on production data user feedback and business results.

Requirements

Must-have

• 10 years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated experience designing building and operating complex production-scale systems.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience designing and building AI/ML or generative AI solutions that have reached production and/or delivered measurable business outcomes.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills including experience making consequential technical decisions for distributed or large-scale systems.
• Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals in one or more production languages such as Java Python Go or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience working with LLMs generative AI AI agents or AI-enabled application architectures beyond simply consuming AI productivity tools.
• Experience taking AI solutions beyond prototypes into deployment operationalization monitoring security reliability and scale.
• Deep hands-on experience with GCP and/or AWS including designing and operating cloud-native production systemsnot solely familiarity with cloud services or consoles.
• Strong understanding of DevOps CI/CD infrastructure as code observability reliability and production operations.
• Strong understanding of application infrastructure data and AI security considerations and the ability to incorporate appropriate controls into system architecture.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle developer workflows and the challenges of working within large software systems and codebases.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and select technologies based on the problem desired business outcome operational requirements and long-term maintainability.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous cross-functional problem spaces.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams without relying solely on organizational authority.

Preferred

• Experience designing or implementing agentic AI systems multi-step AI workflows tool-using agents or autonomous/semi-autonomous engineering workflows.
• Experience applying AI to developer productivity software engineering code generation testing code review incident management or other stages of the SDLC.
• Experience building internal developer platforms engineering productivity platforms or enterprise automation capabilities.
• Experience with AI evaluation frameworks model/agent observability prompt and context management retrieval architectures and production AI quality measurement.
• Experience spanning traditional software engineering and AI engineeringfor example a strong backend platform or distributed-systems engineering foundation combined with substantial hands-on AI engineering experience.
• Experience driving technical initiatives that span multiple teams systems or organizational domains.

Tools & Tech Stack

The exact stack will evolve as we select technologies based on the problems and outcomes we are solving. Relevant experience may include:

• Cloud: GCP and/or AWS
• Languages: Java Python Go and/or equivalent production engineering languages
• AI: LLMs generative AI agentic frameworks and architectures model APIs evaluation and observability tooling
• Platform & Infrastructure: Containers Kubernetes infrastructure as code CI/CD cloud-native services
• Engineering: APIs distributed systems event-driven architectures observability and developer tooling
• Security: Cloud security identity and access management secrets management secure application and AI architecture

Nextiva DNA (Core Competencies)

Nextivas most successful team members share common traits and behaviors:

• Drives Results: Action-oriented problem solvers who quickly bring clarity andsimplicity to ambiguity challenge the status quo and lead meaningful change; celebrating wins to fuel momentum. They act swiftly and pragmatically learning and improving as they go.
• Critical Thinker: Data-drivenforward-thinkingindividuals who identify key drivers anticipate risks and deliver clear recommendations. They confidently leverage AI and automation to reduce friction improve decision-making and focus on higher-value work.
• Right Attitude: Collaborative competitive and resilient team players who jump in to solve tough problems learn from setbacks and foster a culture of service respect andcarefor customers and teammates.

Total Rewards

Our Total Rewards offerings are designed to allow our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can be their best in and out of the office.

Our compensation packages are tailored to each role and candidates qualifications. We consider a wide range of factors including skills experience training and certifications when determining compensation. We aim to offer competitive salaries or wages that reflect the value you bring to our team. Depending on the position compensation may include base salary and/or hourly wages incentives or bonuses.

• Medical - Medical insurance coverage is available for employees their spouse and up to two dependent children with a limit of 500000 INR as well as their parents or in-laws for up to 300000 INR. This comprehensive coverage ensures that essential healthcare needs are met for the entire family unit providing peace of mind and security in times of medical necessity.
• Group Term & Group Personal Accident Insurance - Provides insurance coverage against the risk of death / injury during the policy period sustained due to an accident caused by violent visible & external means.
  • Coverage Type - Employee Only
  • Sum Insured - 3 times of annual CTC with minimum cap of INR
  • Free Cover Limit - 1.5 Crore
• Work-Life Balance - 15 days of Privilege leaves per calendar year 6 days of Paid Sick leave per calendar year 6 days of Casual leave per calendar year. Paid 26 weeks of Maternity leaves 1 week of Paternity leave a day off on your Birthday and paid holidays
• Financial Security - Provident Fund & Gratuity
• Wellness - Employee Assistance Program and comprehensive wellness initiatives
• Growth - Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities and career advancement

At Nextiva were committed to supporting our employees health well-being and professional growth. Join us and build a rewarding career!

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