Principal Software Engineer (Agentic AI)
full-time•Western Province
About this role
HeyMilo helps recruiters deploy multimodal AI agents that interview and evaluate candidates at scale. We're a fast-moving team backed by prominent investors growing at an unprecedented rate.
You'll own architectural decisions, ship end-to-end, and lead technical direction across our platform. This is a high-ownership role, not a ticket queue.
Requires flexibility to work evenings (IST) for overlap with our New York/Toronto teams.
What you'll do
Lead system design and architecture decisions
Build and scale real-time AI infrastructure
Ship full-stack features across backend and frontend
Drive reliability, performance, and observability
Mentor engineers and set technical standards
What we're looking for
5–7+ years of software engineering experience
Strong distributed systems and AWS experience
Experience building agentic AI systems; prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, LLM orchestration
Familiarity with vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation patterns
You use AI tools (Cursor, Devin) to write code daily
You ship fast and own outcomes
Comfortable with Python, FastAPI, React, Next.js
Experience with MongoDB, Redis, and queue-based systems
Role is not for you if
You want narrow scope and predictable roadmaps
You avoid production responsibility
You're not comfortable with evening hours for cross-timezone work
Why you won't regret it
Real-time AI systems in production
Small team, high ownership, no bureaucracy
Awesome culture with a global team across New York 🇺🇸, Toronto 🇨🇦, and Colombo 🇱🇰.
Competitive salary with benefits/allowances
What you'll do
- You will lead system design and architecture decisions, build and scale real-time AI infrastructure, and ship full-stack features across backend and frontend. Additionally, you will drive reliability, performance, and observability while mentoring engineers and setting technical standards.
About HeyMilo
HeyMilo AI takes the guesswork out of the screening process and allows companies of all sizes to hire the right people for the job.
HeyMilo AI is a generative AI-powered voice agent that allows companies to automate the screening process and engage candidates with an always-available voice agent. The agent can be tuned for your role and interview needs and is designed to evaluate candidates in a bias-free manner.
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As a Principal Software Engineer (Agentic AI) at HeyMilo, you will: you will lead system design and architecture decisions, build and scale real-time AI infrastructure, and ship full-stack features across backend and frontend. Additionally, you will drive reliability, performance, and observability while mentoring engineers and setting technical standards..
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The Principal Software Engineer (Agentic AI) position at HeyMilo is based in Western Province, Sri Lanka. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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