NeGD is currently inviting applications for the Full Stack Developer (AI/ML & Web Applications) position on a contractual basis, initially for three years, with possible extensions based on project requirements.

Responsibilities

Application Development
• Design and develop responsive, accessible web applications using React and Next.js with TypeScript
• Develop backend services and APIs in Python (FastAPI) and Node.js, with clear contracts (OpenAPI or GraphQL) and versioning
• Design data models and optimise queries across relational and NoSQL databases, and implement caching and background job processing
• Translate functional requirements into well-structured, maintainable and production-ready code

AI & LLM Integration
• Integrate LLMs in a provider-agnostic manner across commercial APIs, cloud AI platforms and self-hosted open-weight models, through an abstraction or gateway layer, so that models can be switched or compared without application changes
• Build LLM-powered features, including streaming conversational interfaces, retrieval augmented generation with source citations, structured extraction and tool-calling agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Implement retrieval pipelines covering document ingestion and parsing, chunking, embeddings, hybrid vector search and re-ranking
• Implement routing, caching, rate limiting and fallbacks across providers to control quality, cost and latency

Model Integration & Serving
• Integrate and serve pre-trained models (such as OCR, speech, classification and embedding models, including Indic language models) behind production APIs
• Fine-tune or adapt models where required (for example, LoRA fine-tuning of an LLM or embedding model), in coordination with data scientists
• Build evaluation suites for AI features (golden datasets, regression tests and LLM-based evaluation) and run them in CI as release gates

Security, Privacy & Responsible AI
• Implement authentication and authorisation (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and role-based access control), and secure handling of APIs, secrets and personal data
• Apply OWASP Top 10 and OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications controls, including defences against prompt injection and data leakage
• Apply data-minimisation practices in compliance with applicable data protection law, including for data sent to external model providers, and design human review for consequential AI outputs

Quality, Deployment & Operations
• Practise test-driven development with unit, integration and end-to-end tests, and maintain adequate coverage
• Containerise applications and manage deployments through CI/CD pipelines on Kubernetes or serverless platforms, using infrastructure as code
• Instrument applications with logging, metrics and tracing, including LLM traces, token usage and cost, and participate in incident resolution
• Ensure accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.2 and GIGW) and support for Indian languages in user interfaces

Collaboration & Mentoring
• Participate in Agile delivery, code reviews and architecture discussions
• Mentor junior developers, and document designs, APIs and operational runbooks

Important Links

About National e-Governance Division (NeGD)

The National e-Governance Division (NeGD) is an independent business division under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. NeGD has been playing a pivotal role in supporting MeitY in Programme Management and implementation of e-Governance projects and initiatives undertaken by various Ministries/ Departments, both at the Central and State levels.

NeGD has been spearheading several innovative initiatives under the aegis of the Digital India Programme. Those have been developed keeping the vision areas of Digital India at the core- providing digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and in particular, digital empowerment of the citizens of our country; some of these initiatives include DigiLocker, UMANG, Poshan Tracker, OpenForge Platform, API Setu, National Academic Depository, Academic Bank of Credits, Learning Management System.