Associate Engineer – Gen AI Integration

About Goonj

We are an early-stage, stealth-mode AI product company building a voice-first conversational

platform for young professionals from diverse backgrounds. Our vision is to help users make

more money, elevate their careers, and improve their social standing, all while nurturing

emotional well-being. We want to deliver real-world impact to underserved communities who feel

left behind.

Role Overview

We are hiring a full-time Associate: Quality & Release Engineer - AI Product to be the go-to

person for delivering our product to our users. You will own three things end-to-end: (1) testing

across web and voice surfaces, (2) running CI/CD and deployment, and (3) helping wire the

React/TypeScript client to backend services as features develop.

You will work directly with an external development vendor who handles core engineering and

an external development vendor who handles design and UI/UX. Your job is to make sure their

output reaches our users intact — bugs caught early, builds delivered cleanly, and the front-end

faithfully connected to the back-end.

The stack is current (Python, React/TypeScript, AWS, voice AI), the team is small, and the work

moves fast.

The role is based out of Lucknow.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Testing

Run end-to-end test passes on each release — voice conversations, web client

flows, curriculum behaviour, edge cases around interruption, latency, and audio

quality.

Validate that user progress tracking, state management, and safety systems

behave exactly as specified.

Verify AI-driven features (modules, conversational simulations, content) adapt

correctly to the regional and cultural context our users come from.

Reproduce reported bugs cleanly, file tight reports with repro steps and logs, and

verify vendor fixes before they deliver.

Build out a regression checklist over time and grow it into automated coverage

where it makes sense.

Confirm vendor-delivered features actually match the product spec — not just the

ticket.

• CI/CD and Deployment

Own the build, packaging, and deployment workflow across our services (Python

backends + React client). Keep it boring, repeatable, and fast.

Manage Docker images, environment configs, and deploys to staging and

production on AWS.

Triage build and deploy failures, investigate root cause, and improve the pipeline

so the same failure doesn't happen twice.

Keep '.env'-style configs and secrets clean across environments.

• UI Integration

Help wire the React/TypeScript client to backend APIs (REST and WebSocket)

as features are delivered.

Fix integration bugs on the client side — auth flows, session state, voice events,

error states.

Pair with the vendor team when the boundary between frontend and backend is

the source of an issue.

• Vendor Coordination & Communication

Serve as the primary technical point of contact between the vendor and our

internal team on quality, release, and integration matters.

Translate technical issues and trade-offs into accessible language for

non-technical stakeholders (founder, content team).

Flag risks early — escalate before they become release blockers.

Stay current with GenAI advancements and flag opportunities to strengthen the

product.

Required Skills & Experience

1+ year of professional experience building or delivering software.

Comfortable in **Python**— can read and modify backend code well enough to debug

an integration issue.

Comfortable in **JavaScript/TypeScript and React**— can wire a component to an API,

handle async state, and deliver a small UI fix.

Hands-on with **Git, Docker, and at least one CI tool** (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI,

CircleCI, etc.). If you've never run a deploy yourself, this isn't the right role.

YAML/JSON literacy — our product is configuration-driven; you'll need to read and

validate complex YAML specs to test what the product actually does.

Working understanding of how LLM-based applications fit together end-to-end (prompt

assembly, context management, model calls, safety layers) — enough to test them, not

necessarily build them.

Solid bug-reporting instincts: clear repro steps, expected vs actual, environment, logs.

Honest, direct communication — especially when something is broken or unclear. We

work with an external vendor; clean communication is a daily requirement.

Preferred Skills (Not Required)

Exposure to **LLM APIs** (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic) — prompt engineering, API

integration, or conversational AI pipelines.

Basic understanding of voice AI pipelines (ASR/TTS, WebRTC, voice-bot frameworks).

AWS hands-on (DynamoDB, Redis, Lambda, ECS, Cognito) and operational monitoring.

Familiarity with state machines and event-driven architectures.

Experience working with external development vendors or vendor-delivered codebases.

Exposure to regional language processing or culturally adaptive AI products.

A working side project you actually delivered — tutorials don't count.

What Success Looks Like

First 30 days: You can run the full stack locally, you've delivered one production deploy,

and you've filed your first solid bug report against a vendor delivery.

First 90 days: Our release process is documented, our regression checklist is real, and

the UI is no longer where most integration bugs hide.

First 6 months: You're the person on the team everyone trusts to deliver safely. New

features can't go to production without your sign-off, and you've earned that role through

judgment, not gatekeeping.

How We Work

Small team, in-person in Lucknow, direct collaboration with the founder.

Stealth product — you'll see the full architecture and roadmap from day one, but

everything stays internal.

AI-literate culture: use the tools (Claude, Cursor, Gemini, etc.) openly and well. We care

that you understand what you deliver, not whether you typed every character.

We assume good faith, straight talk, and a delivery-focused mindset.

Seniority level: Entry level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Technology, Information and Internet