[Remote] Lead Platform Engineer, API & AI Services (W2 Only)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nasscomm is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer for their API & AI Services. In this role, you will own the production API gateway for CoCounsel, an AI platform for legal research, while leading a team of engineers and ensuring the platform's reliability, security, and evolution.ResponsibilitiesGateway Ownership Own and operate the production multi-tenant API gateway: CIAM/OIDC authentication, per-tenant routing, rate-limiting, fault isolation, and rolling deploys on AWS ECS FargateMaintain and evolve JWT validation — JWKS key management, claim validation, tenant identity propagation, and key rotationDrive reliability through circuit-breaking, latency budgets, and graceful degradationSecurity & Authentication Own the CIAM/OIDC/OAuth 2.0 integration at the gateway layer — this is the primary security perimeter for enterprise customer trafficImplement and maintain JWT validation, tenant-scoped authorization, and API key lifecycle managementPod Leadership Lead a pod of 3–4 engineers: code reviews, architectural decisions, delegating concrete pieces of work with clear ownership, and mentoringResolve cross-team design questions peer-to-peerHold a clear distinction between DEV iteration (fast, reversible, learn by breaking) and PROD discipline (coordinated, observable, controlled rollout)Production Engineering Maintain CI/CD pipelines and IaC (CDK or Terraform) for the gateway and its supporting infrastructureOwn AWS infrastructure — ECS Fargate task lifecycle, multi-region rollout, ElastiCache Redis for distributed state, and RDS for quota and analyticsBuild and maintain observability: distributed tracing, latency dashboards, per-tenant usage metricsAI Services Engineering Participate in the design and engineering of LLM-backed sub-services the team builds and operates: contract analysis pipelines, RAG architectures, agentic workflowsContribute to decisions about how AI service results propagate across the platform — async job patterns, structured outputs, webhook delivery — and bring a platform engineer’s perspective to reliability, observability, and integrationEnterprise AI Integration Define and build how enterprise customers access CoCounsel’s capabilities beyond REST APIsEnterprise customers are already asking for MCP servers, callable tools, and programmatic interfaces their own AI agents can invokeThis is an open design problem on a near-term roadmap — you will shape the answer, building directly on the gateway and auth infrastructure you ownSkillsPython/FastAPI in production. You have built and operated a FastAPI service handling real external traffic — not just internal tooling or AI-app backendsAWS. Hands-on with ECS Fargate, CloudFormationCompany OverviewNasscomm expertise in consulting services along with deployment of technical solutions. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://nasscomm.com.