Senior GenAI Engineer - Java

About Velotio :

Velotio Technologies is a product engineering company working with innovative startups and enterprises. We have provided full-stack product development for 110+ startups across the globe building products in the cloud-native, data engineering, B2B SaaS, IoT & Machine Learning space. Our team of 400+ elite software engineers solve hard technical problems while transforming customer ideas into successful products.

• Design, develop, and maintain cutting-edge AI solutions using Generative AI and Machine Learning.
• Should have extensive experience in algorithms and statistics and expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, and data mining.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge and ability to operationalize and integrating leading machine learning and data technologies implementing best practices.
• Should have extensive experience with web technologies and building full-stack web applications.
• Developing and promoting machine learning models for tasks, as well as building and training working versions of those models.
• Design, implement, and integrate applications with internal and third-party API services.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Should have 5+ years of experience preferably a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Daily hands‑on with generative‑coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, CodeWhisperer, etc.).
• 5–10 years of experience in Java/Spring Boot backend development (Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, REST APIs, Microservices, Maven/Gradle).
• Good understanding of test frameworks (JUnit, Mockito), Swagger/OpenAPI, and REST API design.
• Proven experience building at least one of:
• Vector DBs (e.g., Pinecone, Redis, Elasticsearch with kNN)
• Azure OpenAI, Cohere, or open-weight models via API
• RAG or question-answering apps inside a Java microservice
• Knowledge of prompt engineering, LLM evaluation (GPT‑Score, human eval), and latency/cost optimisation.
• Ability to explain GenAI concepts to engineers and non‑tech stakeholders.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and design patterns.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, and agile development
• Should be Passionate for technology and eager to learn new trends
• Excellent communication skills with business stakeholders and team members

Preferred Skills :

• Fine‑tuning experience (LoRA, RLHF) on open‑weights models (Llama‑3, Mistral).
• Prior enablement/teaching experience: brown‑bags, internal courses, community blogs.
• Familiarity with LangChain4J or equivalent orchestration in JVM.
• Prompt engineering or tuning experience for large-scale GenAI use cases.
• Contributions to open‑source GenAI repos or published AI case studies/blogs

• We have an autonomous and empowered work culture encouraging individuals to take ownership and grow quickly.
• Flat hierarchy with fast decision making and a startup-oriented “get things done” culture.
• A strong, fun & positive environment with regular celebrations of our success. We pride ourselves in creating an inclusive, diverse & authentic environment.

We want to hire smart, curious and ambitious folks so please reach out even if you do not have all of the requisite experience. We are looking for engineers with the potential to grow!

At Velotio, we embrace diversity. Inclusion is a priority for us, and we are eager to foster an environment where everyone feels valued. We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.