Eligibility Requirement

Due to the nature of work with our client, applicants must be either:

U.S. Citizen

or
Green Card holder

(Permanent Resident)

Unfortunately, we are unable to transfer / sponsor new

H-1B

visas or accept applicants who require future visa sponsorship. We are also

unable to consider candidates currently on OPT

even if you have started the H-1B process.

role = "Lead ENGINEER" if raises_bar(team) and depth >= LEGENDARY and ships_code else "SENIOR

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one. It’s for engineers who want to stay close to the code, go deep, and build software where AI is becoming part of the system. If that sounds like you - App

**ly.

What the work looks**

likeWe can't promise which problem you'll pick up, but the menu right now looks something like t

his:Redesign a ClickHouse schema so an ad buyer can query 85 billion rows in under two seconds, and discover that pre-exploding the rows 168x is actually the right ans
wer.Keep a vehicle telemetry platform moving billions of messages a day without the Kafka consumers falling o
ver.Build the engineering spine of a mobile wallet used by more than two billion people across four contine
nts.Ship the data product behind peer-review submissions for one of the world's largest scientific publish

ers.The list changes. The pattern doesn't: data-heavy, distributed, and often sitting on top of something that already exists and isn't perf

**ect.

What you will actual**

ly doDesign and build systems that deal with real-world complexity (not toy prob
lems)Write production code frequently, not just review or d
irectBuild services and applications that interface with modern AI stacks - model APIs, embeddings, vector databases and other AI capabil
itiesShip robust, production-level AI-powered sy
stemsWork across languages when needed, not just your comfort
zoneBreak down messy problems into clean, maintainable sy
stemsPush back on bad ideas, including

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codeSomeone whose job is primarily model training or ML res

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about:Code th

at is simple, testable, and built to
changeEngineers wh

o can explain their design decisions c
learlyTDD, refactoring, and continuous impro

vement - not as rituals, but as
toolsChoosin

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right technology, not the fashionab
le oneSoftware engineers who underst

and AI - not necessarily ML researchers who happen to write so

ftwareWe don’t care much

about:Buz
zwordsFramework l
oyaltyWhether you’ve used our exact stack

**before

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cklist)TypeScript, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Go, Elixir, Python, .NET, Node.j

s, RustYou don't need to have shipped all of these. You do need the ability to learn what the problem d

**emands.

What yo**

u’ll getA place where Lead Engineers still write code
- dailyOne designation across the company: **Solution Consultant**. "Lead Engineer" is just the translation for the outsi
de worldSmall teams, high ownership, large impact, minimal process
overheadNo reporting managers. Decisions happen where the c
ode doesFind your balance between work and life’s ups and downs with unlimited leave when you really
need it**Open salaries.** Inside Sahaj, every Sahajeevi can see every other Sahajeevi's pay, including the founders'. The annual hike is voted on collectively in a room where the whole company reads the

P&L

Lead Software Engineer

Visa & sponsorship

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