Senior Lead Agentic AI Engineer - Construction & Engineering
IFS · Colombo
Job description
About the role
IFS is rebuilding how it ships software around autonomous, AI-native teams and is looking for a person to lead one. You will write production code following agentic engineering principles, own it in production and set the bar for a small team of engineers who do the same. The software powers workforce management, project delivery and scheduling systems used by construction and engineering companies.
Key responsibilities
- Lead a small, autonomous team by setting technical direction, driving delivery and quality, and growing the engineers around you.
- Design and ship full-lifecycle features across front-end and back-end.
- Build and consume the APIs and event-driven services that connect workforce, project, scheduling and financial data across IFS Cloud and customer systems.
- Make performance and scalability decisions that hold under load.
- Work in customer environments, test assumptions against reality and bring the evidence back into the build.
- Document the why behind decisions and help raise the practice of everyone you work alongside.
Required profile
- A strong engineer who enjoys leading people and staying close to the code.
- Depth in at least one area (front-end, back-end, data, quality, security, platform or applied AI) and the range to work across the stack.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
- Nice to have: a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, experience shipping AI-backed features such as LLM integration, RAG or agentic patterns, and experience with agile delivery with globally distributed teams.
Required skills
- Full-stack development on modern general-purpose languages.
- Cloud-native platform with Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC/GitOps and observability.
- Fluency with AI tools and agentic patterns in real engineering work.
The company offers flexibility and hybrid work opportunities.
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