IN Gurgaon, India
Hybrid
Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its innovative SaaS platform, empowering telco operators worldwide to effortlessly launch innovative digital brands or refresh existing ones, accelerating their transformation into techcos.
Today, Circles partners with leading telco operators across multiple countries and continents, including KDDI Corporation, Etisalat Group (e&), AT&T, and Telkomsel, creating blueprints for future telco and digital experiences enjoyed by millions of consumers globally.
Besides its SaaS business, Circles operates three other distinct businesses:
Circles is backed by renowned global investors, including Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia), Warburg Pincus, Founders Fund, and EDBI (the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board), with a track record of backing industry challengers.
Sr Software Engineer - Platform (AI-Accelerated)
Company: Circles.Life – Jetpac
Location: Delhi-NCR or Pune (Hybrid)
Type: Full‑time
About Jetpac
Jetpac, from Circles, is building a seamless way for travelers to stay connected globally. We offer eSIMs across 200+ destinations with a fast-growing consumer platform spanning web, mobile, and partner channels targeting the travel essentials segment.
We operate as a high-velocity product team. Small teams, fast decisions, and direct ownership. We ship continuously, iterate quickly, and measure what matters.
The Role
The nature of software development has changed significantly in the last year, and we’ve evolved how we build products. Our platform team builds and scales the core systems that power Jetpac’s consumer experience across 200+ countries.
This role is for engineers who:
think in systems, not just features
operate with high ownership
can define what “good” looks like across reliability, performance, and developer velocity
We’ve reached meaningful scale and are rebuilding key parts of the platform to support the next phase of growth. You’ll work closely with engineers, product, design, and business teams to deliver foundational capabilities that unlock entire categories of product development.
What You’ll Do
Build and scale core consumer platform systems across web and backend
Own features end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and iterate
Use AI-assisted workflows across coding, testing, debugging, and review
Structure workflows where AI can reliably generate and improve code
Identify and solve bottlenecks in performance, reliability, and developer productivity
Build shared components and internal tooling to improve team velocity
Improve observability, debugging, and system reliability
Focus areas include:
API performance and backend systems
Caching and data access patterns
Experimentation, analytics, and event pipelines
Localization and global readiness
Required Skills and Experience
3 –5 years of professional software engineering experience
Strong backend or full-stack fundamentals with experience building production systems
Experience designing APIs, services, and scalable data models
Strong product judgment able to balance speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
Comfortable working in modern stacks (Python / Go)
Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
Critical requirement:
Hands-on experience using AI-assisted or agent-based development workflows in real projects
Ability to review, debug, and improve agentic AI-generated code
Understanding of how to structure workflows so AI-generated output is reliable and production-ready
Familiarity with:
Postgres, Redis or similar data stores
Caching and performance optimization techniques
Authentication and identity systems
Observability and monitoring tools
Event pipelines and analytics systems
Example Projects You’ll Work On
Redesign and scale the cart and checkout system to support multi-product flows and high concurrency
Build a shared platform layer for rewards, pricing, and promotions across multiple product lines
Improve page load performance and API latency across global markets
Design observability systems to detect and debug issues in real time
Build internal workflows where AI systems assist in generating, testing, and validating production code
Reduce development cycle time by creating repeatable AI-assisted engineering workflows
Evolve platform architecture to support new product categories and integrations
What Success Looks Like
You deliver high-quality features in days, not weeks
You reduce system complexity while improving performance and reliability
You proactively identify and solve bottlenecks
You increase overall team velocity through better systems and workflows
Hiring Process
Technical Intro with CTO
Live Practical Assignment (build + explain your approach, including AI usage)
Why Jetpac
High ownership, low bureaucracy
Real product impact at global scale
Fast-moving team with strong engineering culture
Flexible work setup across global teams
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