Senior Product Engineer (Contract)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Engineer (Contract) based in India.

This role is designed for a highly autonomous engineer who uses AI as a core part of their development workflow to create meaningful business impact. You will identify opportunities, define solutions, and take products and systems from discovery through production and continuous iteration. The position spans the full engineering lifecycle, with opportunities to work across full-stack applications, backend services, automation, data, cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered workflows. You will collaborate directly with technical and business stakeholders to solve ambiguous problems and deliver measurable outcomes. The environment emphasizes ownership, rapid experimentation, engineering quality, and practical use of modern AI tools. It is an opportunity to make a broad impact within a lean, distributed engineering organization.

• Use AI-assisted development practices to rapidly prototype, validate, and deliver production-ready software solutions.
• Identify opportunities where software, automation, data, or AI can improve operational efficiency, products, or revenue outcomes.
• Own solutions end-to-end, from discovery and scoping through architecture, implementation, deployment, measurement, and ongoing iteration.
• Work directly with business stakeholders to understand challenges, define solutions, communicate trade-offs, and measure results.
• Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications, backend services, automations, and internal tools that deliver measurable business value.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, technical strategy, and the long-term evolution of platforms and systems.
• Work with cloud infrastructure and edge platforms such as AWS and Cloudflare.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Conduct thoughtful code reviews, maintain high engineering standards, and support other engineers through technical mentorship and problem-solving.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, AI capabilities, and engineering practices that can increase team effectiveness and development leverage.
• Follow an outcome-focused engineering culture centered on frequent delivery, infrastructure ownership, automation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous business problems and independently turn them into deployed software solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Proven experience delivering complex production systems with minimal oversight and strong end-to-end ownership.
• Strong product thinking and judgment, including the ability to assess build-versus-buy decisions and leverage existing platforms, automation, and AI where appropriate.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively in production while maintaining high standards for quality, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Strong systems thinking and architectural judgment, particularly when validating, refining, and extending AI-generated solutions.
• Experience building and maintaining production web applications.
• Familiarity with modern application frameworks such as Laravel or comparable technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing experimentation or A/B testing frameworks using tools such as PostHog or similar platforms.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Cloudflare, or comparable platforms.
• Strong experience with relational databases and writing and optimizing queries both within and outside of ORMs.
• Proficiency with Git-based development workflows, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment practices.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders in globally distributed teams.
• Highly self-driven and autonomous, with strong prioritization skills and a consistent track record of delivering results in remote environments.
• Experience with PHP, Python, TypeScript, Laravel, Astro, AWS, Cloudflare, MySQL, Datadog, PostHog, LLM APIs, embeddings, RAG architectures, agent frameworks, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, or orchestration is helpful, but exact technology matches are not required.

Benefits:

• Hourly compensation of ₹1,621–₹2,290 INR.
• Remote work from India.
• Contractor arrangement with flexible remote working.
• Opportunity to work across software, automation, data, AI, cloud infrastructure, and internal business systems.
• High level of autonomy and ownership over solutions from concept through production.
• Opportunity to use AI-powered engineering tools as a core part of the development workflow.
• Exposure to modern technologies, AI capabilities, cloud platforms, and experimentation frameworks.
• Opportunity to make a direct impact on business outcomes within a lean, high-leverage engineering environment.
• Please note: As this is a contract position, no additional perks or benefits are included.

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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