realfast is India's first post-AI IT services company, built from scratch around one metric: how quickly a signed contract becomes working software a client is paying for. Founded by the team that scaled Gojek and backed by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India & SEA) and RTP Global.
Our platform, Exo, powers the entire delivery operation. It ingests client documentation, codebases, and requirements within hours, compressing weeks of traditional discovery into days, then works alongside our teams to deliver production-ready solutions. We've delivered production-ready solutions in days that traditionally take months. The methodology behind this is Real Agile, built specifically for how IT services works in the AI era.
We hire for judgment, because everything that doesn't require it is already automated. What's left is the job.
Everything an FDE is - a hacker-coded engineer who ships fast and understands why the business cares - but you've done it before. Shipped in ambiguous environments. Led teams through complexity. And you still write code every day. You don't just manage. You build.
You'll lead a team of FDEs on client projects, working alongside AI Transformation Leads. You own high-complexity projects end-to-end - product design, technical architecture, trade-offs, delivery. The problems are messy. The timelines are aggressive. You figure it out. You're deeply embedded in client work. But you also bring back learnings, patterns, and insights that shape the platform we're building. You spend your days figuring out how to use AI agents and coding assistants to make your whole team faster.
Lead client engagements - drive delivery and raise the bar on what your team ships
Partner with AI Transformation Leads to deliver software that moves client metrics
Work with customers, consultants, and cross-functional teams to build relationships, deliver software, and spot what comes next
Operate in cockpit mode. You steer. Your agents execute. Claude Code, Codex, and others write code, run tests, open PRs, update tickets, read and prioritise your email - GitHub, Jira, Salesforce, Ashby, calendar, all of it. You engage with these systems through your agents, not around them. And you set that standard for your team
Break hard engineering problems into shippable pieces and get them out the door
Make smart trade-offs between elegant code and shipping fast
Unblock your team. Remove obstacles that slow delivery
Build AI-powered solutions - LLMs, agents, automation. Whatever the client needs
Feed learnings back to the platform - what worked, what broke, what to build next
Help build the team by mentoring engineers and spotting people who can operate at this speed
7-10 years of software engineering experience
You've led a team of IC makers - dev, QA, design, PM, BA, whatever the function - and kept them shipping
Experience building applications from scratch - language and paradigm don't matter, but discipline and craft do
Experience solving 0-to-1 problems - identifying product-market fit, iterating with users, shipping
Strong software engineering fundamentals and architectural judgement
Hands-on across the full stack - front-end, back-end, data pipelines, AI models
You understand how businesses make money with software
You lead from the code. Your team sees it
Experience mentoring engineers and growing a team
You can explain technical trade-offs clearly to engineers, clients, and operators
Comfort working without a map in ambiguous environments
Grit. You don't wait for perfect clarity to make progress
You're comfortable in a terminal. Not a shell wizard - but you live in one, and it doesn't faze you
At realfast, everyone codes - just like everyone communicates. You're already building small apps, scripts, or tools to make your own life better. Here you take that all the way
You already spend hours every day using AI coding assistants - Claude Code, Codex, or the equivalent. If you don't, the pace here will feel alien
Git is how we collaborate - not just engineers, everyone. You don't need to walk in fluent, but you need to be comfortable learning fast
Clear, precise prose. You can reason through a problem in writing, explain your thinking to a colleague, and direct an AI agent with the same clarity. The quality of your reasoning on paper directly determines the quality of your output
Engineering lead or tech lead at a startup or product company who's kept a team of IC makers shipping while still writing code every day — and who's had exposure to design, sales, or client delivery alongside the engineering
Senior developer who's led a cross-functional delivery team (dev, QA, design, BA) and elevated the craft of everyone on it — not by managing, but by setting the standard with their own work
Full-stack engineer who's moved into a player-coach role, owns client relationships as well as technical outcomes, and has strong opinions about quality that come from having built and shipped across disciplines
Engineering manager who never stopped being a developer — someone whose team ships at a high bar because they pair, review, and architect alongside their people, not from a distance
Lead at a consultancy or agency who's run delivery on ambiguous, high-stakes engagements and brought craft discipline to fast-moving, client-facing work — bonus if they've also done design thinking, pre-sales, or solution architecture
Other equivalent roles where you've led IC craftspeople, stayed hands-on, and brought breadth beyond pure engineering — design sensibility, commercial awareness, or both
AI tools are already part of how you work - you use them for research, drafting, analysis, and can't imagine going back
You're a polyglot engineer who loves to create working solutions, not just write code
You want to use AI to drive concrete business outcomes
You want to turn state-of-the-art research into reliable production systems
You're obsessed with quality and craft - and you're figuring out how to use AI to elevate both
You want to lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-calibre engineers
You enjoy turning client-facing experience into platform improvements that scale
You find terminals anxiety-inducing
You don't code and don't intend to start
You're not willing to learn git
You struggle to express your reasoning clearly in writing
You haven't woven AI tools into how you work
You need detailed specs, clear boundaries, and extensive guidance to be productive
You're looking for a purely coding-focused role
You'd rather specialise narrowly than be dangerous across the stack
You prefer to manage from a distance rather than lead from the code
Panel: Razorpay FTX 2026 — Going AI-Native
Podcast: The Ken Zero Shot — Infosys and Cognizant's Message to Microsoft
Yourstory: How realfast.ai is helping the IT services industry cut delivery times
