Agentic Platform Architect (Founding Team / Full-time, Hands-on)

Agentic Platform Architect (Founding Team / Full-time, Hands-on) Location : Hyderabad

Compensation : Competitive salary + meaningful ESOP

Start : ASAP

About FN7

We’re building a lean, high-speed platform for agentic AI — a multi-tenant Brand Brain + Scout (social listening & engagement) + growth modules (ad creatives, Google PMAX, Meta, budget allocator).

Our mission : help brands grow with AI-native autonomy, not dashboards.

Our approach : a tiny core, massive leverage surface — we ship the foundation, and the ecosystem builds on top.

The Role — You’ll Be the Platform Owner

You’ll own the architecture and technical design of FN7’s agentic platform — from the SDK to the orchestrator. You’ll be both architect and builder : defining patterns, writing ADRs, mentoring engineers, and still shipping code weekly.

This is not a role for a passive leader. It’s for a product-minded technologist who’s been a founder, 0→1 builder, or early tech lead , and is hungry to shape the next agentic platform from the ground up.

What You’ll Drive

Architecture & Patterns :

Evolve the agent architecture (Google ADK), module lifecycle, and micro-frontend shell.

Define core design patterns and write ADRs that set the tone for the platform.

Developer Platform :

Build the Module SDK (templates, local dev, emulators) and CI / CD pipelines.

Make it effortless for external teams to ship plug-in modules fast and safely.

Data & Orchestration :

Design evented backends (GCP Pub / Sub, Firestore) and containerized agent runners on Cloud Run / GKE.

Keep latency sub-second where it matters.

Search & Retrieval :

Productionize hybrid search (Elasticsearch vector + keyword) and RAG pipelines for Brand Brain & Scout.

Quality & Safety :

Define evaluation scorecards, golden datasets, and guardrails for reliability and brand safety.

Performance & Cost :

Own profiling, SLOs, and budget control — balance speed, reliability, and efficiency like a craft.

Technical Leadership :

Mentor a strong Senior TL toward Head-of-Platform readiness.

Drive a weekly release train and light steering cadence.

What Success Looks Like (First 90 Days)

External module integration time ≤ 5 days from hand-off to staging.

Weekly release train ≥ 95% pass rate .

Scout / Brain latency and retrieval quality measurably improved (dashboards live).

Platform SDK + docs cut support load by 50% across two hackathons.

You’ll Thrive Here If You…

Have started or built something yourself — a product, a tool, a startup — that got real users and traction.

Think in systems : architecture, economics, and creative constraints.

Enjoy complex conversations and thrive in ambiguity.

Believe execution >

slides — ship, measure, evolve.

Value efficiency, clarity, and momentum over process.

Want to work in a place where speed, honesty, and craft matter more than headcount.

Must-Have Experience

8+ years building production platforms or systems; 3+ years with cloud-native architecture.

Hands-on with GCP (Vertex AI, Pub / Sub, Cloud Run / GKE) , Kubernetes, CI / CD.

Strong in Node.js and Python .

Elasticsearch (vector + keyword, HNSW / KNN) in production.

Firestore / Firebase data modeling, security rules, emulator-driven dev.

Observability at scale (OpenTelemetry / logging / metrics).

Built and shipped at least one LLM / agent system in production.

Nice-to-Have

Google ADK and multi-agent orchestration patterns.

Ads domain experience (Google Ads, PMAX, Meta) or RL for budget tuning.

Micro-frontend shells (React / Next) and feature-flag frameworks.

BigQuery, data pipelines, experimentation frameworks.

How We Work

Tiny core, big surface : lean in-house team; feature expansion via paid hackathons.

Quality gates : evaluation scorecards and release flags; metrics decide go / no-go.

Fast loops : weekly release cadence, mid-week architecture huddles, Friday demos.

Compensation & Growth

Competitive base + meaningful ESOP (size based on scope / seniority).

Clear path to Head of Platform or Founding Engineer → CTO trajectory.

Interview Process (1 Week)

30-min intro (Founder)

60-min deep-dive on your past platform / agent work

Practical architecture exercise (24–48h) : design a plug-in agent module

60-min pair session (coding + debugging)

Final culture / offer conversation

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Send your LinkedIn / GitHub and a short note on an agentic or LLM system you’ve shipped — what worked, what didn’t — to lakshmi.ng@fn7.io