Lead Engineer - Consumer Intelligence & Engagement
PUMA SE (company site, opens in a new tab)10+ yrsPuneOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 28–45 LPA
Posted 13h ago
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About This Role
- Provide technical leadership and own architecture for backend services powering AI-based personalisation, search, and recommendation features in consumer digital channels.
- Design and build scalable, low-latency microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems for real-time consumer experiences with a focus on AI-driven product discovery, semantic search, and agentic AI capabilities.
- Champion engineering best practices including code quality, observability, reliability, and continuous improvement while collaborating with AI/ML, Data Engineering, and Product teams.
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum 10 years experience designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems on cloud-native platforms.
- At least 3 years leading a technical capability, platform, project, or engineering team.
- Hands-on experience with semantic search, vector search, retrieval, recommendation, or product discovery platforms at scale using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Redis, SQL/NoSQL, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience integrating AI-powered applications using LLM APIs, agentic AI frameworks with enterprise systems; knowledge of AI evaluation and responsible AI practices.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced technical leader capable of driving architectural decisions and mentoring engineers in a fast-paced, AI-driven ecommerce or retail environment.
- Strong expertise in building scalable backend systems that deliver personalized consumer experiences using modern AI-powered search and recommendation technologies.
- Proficient in integrating advanced AI/ML capabilities with enterprise commerce platforms and operationalising agent-based AI systems within real-time workflows.