Job Description

We are seeking a Team Leader - NLP to lead a cross-functional engineering team working on OCR, NLP, AI/ML pipelines, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure. This role blends technical leadership, architecture oversight, mentoring, and delivery ownership for mission-critical document processing and AI-driven platforms.
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team working on OCR, NLP, backend, and cloud components

• Plan sprints, allocate resources, and ensure timely, high-quality deliveries

• Drive coding standards, architecture best practices, and documentation

• Own and enhance OCR and document processing pipelines using Tesseract and OpenCV

• Guide AI/ML and NLP workflows including LLM-based classification and extraction

• Oversee deployment and reliability of backend services and APIs

• Manage cloud infrastructure on GCP including compute, scaling, and monitoring

• Ensure system reliability, performance optimization, and production stability

• Collaborate closely with QA, DevOps, product, and data teams

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience

• Minimum 2+ years in a technical lead or team leadership role

• Strong expertise in Python and Flask-based backend systems

• Hands-on knowledge of OCR systems and document processing pipelines

• Deep understanding of NLP, embeddings, vectorization, and LLM deployment

• Experience managing systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Knowledge of MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and distributed messaging systems

• Strong Linux (Ubuntu) administration and troubleshooting skills

• Exposure to GPU environments, CUDA, and PyTorch is an advantage

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and delivery ownership skills

Skills Required