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Hire Software Engineers in India
Software engineers who add AI features to production applications without breaking them, screened on real code and tests, for contract staffing, contract-to-hire or permanent roles.
- AI-integrated products
- Contract · C2H · Permanent
- Remote, hybrid & on-site
Software Engineer Staffing
Engineers Who Put AI Into Products That Ship
Calling a language model from a notebook is easy. Putting that call inside a product that real customers use, with streaming responses, answers grounded in your own data, sensible costs and a fallback when the model misbehaves, is ordinary software engineering done carefully. Zilo AI helps engineering leaders across India hire software engineers who can do both: write clean, tested application code and build AI features into it.
Candidates are screened on real code, API and data design, testing habits and how they handle code review, along with hands-on work with LLM APIs, retrieval and structured outputs. Contract software engineer staffing in India suits an AI pilot or a feature push, contract-to-hire lets you see how someone works in your codebase before an offer, and permanent hiring suits engineers who will own the product.
AI Features in Production
LLM API calls with streaming, retrieval over your own data, structured outputs and guardrails, inside a real product codebase.
Engineering First
We check tests, error handling and code review habits, because an AI feature is only as reliable as the code around it.
Cost and Fallback Aware
Engineers who track token costs, cache sensibly and plan for timeouts, rate limits and wrong answers.
Leads Available Too
Backend team leads and engineering managers who run design reviews, code review and delivery with product stakeholders.
Roles We Fill
Software Engineering Roles We Fill
Hire an engineer to build AI features into your product, a Python developer for the services behind it, or a lead to run the team, each screened against your stack and your roadmap.
Software Engineer (AI-Integrated Products)
Adds AI features to real applications: LLM API calls with streaming, retrieval over your own data, structured outputs, guardrails, cost tracking and graceful fallbacks, all inside a well-tested product codebase.
Python Developer
Builds web backends and services with Django, FastAPI or Flask, along with data processing, integrations and automation scripts, writing typed, tested Python and using async where it pays off.
Backend Team Lead / Engineering Manager
Leads a backend team through design reviews, sprint planning, code review, incident follow-ups and hiring, while owning architecture decisions, technical debt and delivery commitments with product stakeholders.
For Recruiters & Hiring Managers
How to Hire a Software Engineer for an AI-Integrated Product
Teams adding AI to a product often hire for the wrong thing: a research profile when they need a product engineer, or a prompt enthusiast who has never shipped tested code. Use this checklist when you write the role and screen candidates, whether you hire with Zilo AI or on your own.
Writing the job post? Start from our Software Engineer Job Description, a template you can copy and edit.
Interview questions worth asking
- Tell me about an AI feature you shipped to real users. What went wrong after launch?
- How would you let users ask questions over our own documents, and how would you check the answers are right?
- How do you get reliable structured output from a model, and what happens when it returns something invalid?
- The model API times out or hits a rate limit during peak traffic. What does the user see?
- How would you track and reduce the cost of an AI feature as usage grows?
- How do you test code whose output is not the same every time?
Product Engineer or ML Engineer
Most companies adding AI to an app need a software engineer who uses model APIs well, not someone who trains models. Decide which you need before writing the role, because the two candidate pools barely overlap.
Describe the Feature, Not the Hype
Name the feature, the data it will draw on, the users and your existing stack. A software engineer job description built around a real problem attracts people who have solved one.
Ask How They Measured Quality
Good candidates can explain how they evaluated answers, caught regressions after a prompt or model change, and handled wrong or unsafe output.
Probe Retrieval and Data
Retrieval over your own content depends on chunking, search quality and access control. Ask how they kept users from seeing documents they should not.
Check the Unglamorous Parts
Timeouts, retries, rate limits, logging and cost tracking decide whether an AI feature survives real traffic. Ask about each one directly.
Start Small If You Are Unsure
Contract staffing or contract-to-hire suits a first AI pilot. Once the feature proves itself, move to permanent hiring or a dedicated team to own it.
Engagement Models
Flexible Ways to Hire
Choose the model that fits your budget, timeline and team structure, and switch as your needs change.
Contract Staffing
Add vetted professionals for a fixed term or project and scale the team up or down as your roadmap changes.
Best forProject spikes & tight deadlines
Contract-to-Hire
Work with a professional on contract first, then convert them to a full-time employee once you are confident in the fit.
Best forDe-risking critical hires
Permanent Hiring
We source, screen and shortlist candidates for full-time roles on your payroll, and coordinate interviews through to the offer.
Best forBuilding your core team
Dedicated Teams
Get a ready-to-go team of specialists aligned to your goals, working in your tools, processes and time zone.
Best forNew products & long-term programs
How It Works
Hire in Four Simple Steps
A clear, collaborative process that respects your time and gets the right people into your team.
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1
Request
Share the role, must-have skills, experience level, budget and preferred engagement model with our team.
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Shortlist
We source and technically screen candidates, then share only the profiles that genuinely match your brief.
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Interview
You interview the shortlisted candidates and select the best fit, and we coordinate schedules and feedback.
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Hire
Onboard your new expert and start building immediately, with our team on hand as you scale.
Why Zilo AI
Why Companies Choose Zilo AI for IT Hiring
Hiring technical talent takes time your team doesn't have. We take on sourcing, screening and coordination, so your engineers only spend time with candidates worth meeting.
- Role-specific technical screening before every shortlist
- Coverage across AI, data, cloud, software, security and ERP
- Contract, contract-to-hire and permanent hiring from one partner
- Talent for remote, hybrid and on-site roles across India
- A single point of contact from requirement to onboarding
Industries We Serve
- BFSI & Fintech
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- E-commerce & Retail
- SaaS & Product Companies
- Telecom
- Manufacturing
- Semiconductors & Electronics
- EdTech
- Logistics & Supply Chain
FAQs
Hiring Software Engineers: Common Questions
Have a question we have not answered? Talk to our team and we will get back to you quickly.
Talk to Our Team
- +91 77604 02792
- connect@ziloservices.com
- Mon to Fri: 8am to 10pm
- Hebbal Kempapura, Bangalore
What kind of software engineers can Zilo AI help us hire?
We hire software engineers who build AI features into real applications, Python developers on Django, FastAPI or Flask, and backend team leads and engineering managers. We also hire full stack, frontend and backend developers for the wider product team.
Do you offer contract software engineer staffing?
Yes. You can hire software engineers on contract for an AI pilot, a feature push or extra capacity, on contract-to-hire if you want to see their work before making an offer, or as permanent employees.
What AI skills do you screen software engineers for?
We look for hands-on work with LLM APIs including streaming, retrieval over your own data and vector search, structured outputs, guardrails, cost tracking and graceful fallbacks, built inside a well-tested product codebase.
Do we need a software engineer or an AI or ML engineer?
If you are adding features that call existing models, such as search, summaries or assistants inside your app, a software engineer with AI integration experience is usually the right hire. If you need to train, fine-tune or evaluate models in depth, look at AI engineers and data scientists.
How do you screen software engineers?
Candidates are screened on real code, API and data design, testing habits and how they handle code review, and on AI integration work for roles that need it, before their profiles reach your interview panel.
Can you hire for remote, hybrid or on-site roles?
Yes. We hire software engineers for remote, hybrid and on-site roles across India, and can build a product team through the dedicated team model.
Ready to Hire Software Engineers?
Tell us about your product, your stack and the AI features on your roadmap, and get a shortlist of screened software engineers who can build them.