Senior AI Product Engineer – Full Stack
Location: Remote – India
Experience: 7–11 years
Employment: Full-time
About the Role
Traction is an Australian AI product studio building AI-powered products and solutions for businesses across professional services, financial services, government and technology.
We are hiring our first Senior Engineer in India. This is a hands-on, end-to-end product engineering role where you will own solutions from understanding the business problem through development, deployment and production.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand client business problems and identify opportunities where AI can create real value.
- Translate ambiguous requirements into practical product and technical solutions.
- Design and build end-to-end software products, including data models, APIs, interfaces and AI workflows.
- Build and deploy AI/LLM-powered applications such as agents, RAG systems and tool-calling workflows.
- Own applications in production and continuously improve them based on real-world usage.
- Make key technical decisions around architecture, build vs. buy and implementation approach.
- Work closely with clients and senior stakeholders and communicate technical decisions clearly.
- Use AI coding agents effectively as part of the development workflow.
What We're Looking For
- 7–11 years of software engineering experience, with strong hands-on development experience.
- Strong full-stack / product engineering background with experience building software end-to-end.
- Proven experience building and shipping production systems used by real users.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying production AI/LLM applications.
- Experience with AI agents, RAG, tool calling or similar LLM-based workflows.
- Strong practical experience with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
- Excellent engineering judgement, including the ability to identify and validate incorrect AI-generated code or output.
- Ability to take ownership, work independently and challenge unclear or incorrect requirements.
- Strong problem-solving and product thinking skills.
- Ability to quickly understand new businesses, domains and customer problems.
- Excellent spoken and written English with confidence in client-facing discussions.
Technology
The team primarily works with TypeScript, Python and React, along with modern AI/LLM technologies.
Strong engineers from other technology backgrounds can also be considered if they demonstrate strong product engineering capability and the ability to learn quickly.
Work Arrangement
- Fully remote – anywhere in India
- Full-time role
- Minimum 4 hours of overlap with Australian working hours
- In practice, the role generally requires availability from around 8 AM IST