Lead AI-Native Engineer

You still get a kick out of understanding a tricky system, tracking down a stubborn bug, or shipping something people use. AI has made you more ambitious about what you can build.

We are looking for engineers who love the craft and know how to use AI to move faster. You’ll solve real client problems, make architectural decisions, and help your team find better ways to build software. If you are looking to give your career a real boost with a global leader in digital transformation, EPAM is the perfect choice. If you’d like to learn more about this position and project, apply now.

Responsibilities

• Take a goal and make it happen Understand the problem, challenge assumptions, choose an approach, and follow through The result might be a production feature, a validated architecture, or an AI workflow that makes the team more effective
• Put coding agents to work Use them to explore codebases, implement features, tests, debugs, and review changes Decide what to delegate, where to intervene, and how to verify the result
• Make agents more useful Configure and extend their harnesses: context, skills, specialized agents, hooks, tools, execution environments, and feedback loops Connect them to real repositories and engineering workflows
• Help good ideas spread Try things on real problems, measure what improves, and help teammates adopt approaches that work

Requirements

• Engineering depth You've shipped and maintained production software You can write code, reason about architecture, debug unfamiliar systems, and explain your technical decisions
• Daily experience with coding agents You're fluent with tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or equivalents You understand their capabilities, limitations, and failure modes
• Hands-on harness experience You've configured and adapted the systems around an agent, using building blocks such as skills, specialized agents, hooks, and tool integrations You understand context, execution loops, state, failure recovery, and how to verify completion
• Focus on outcomes You turn an open-ended goal into practical steps, work through blockers, and bring others along You take responsibility for the result, including code an agent wrote
• Building a coding-agent harness from scratch is a big plus So are custom tools or MCP integrations, agent evaluations, and experience coordinating multiple agents

Benefits

• Diverse multicultural, multi-functional, and multilingual work environment
• Global scope, international projects in different business domains: life sciences and healthcare, retail, and distribution, software and hi-tech, etc.
• Outstanding career development opportunities with a transparent career path and a roadmap to accelerate your journey
• Great learning and development opportunities, including in-house professional training, career advisory and coaching, sponsored professional certifications
• Knowledge-sharing with colleagues from EPAM's global tech communities
• 25 days holiday per annum
• 5 days of sick leave without medical certification
• Private health insurance for employees and discount for private health insurance for family members
• Discount for Fit Pass program
• Comfortable modern offices in Belgrade and Novi Sad or remote work from any location in Serbia
• Regular corporate, social and wellbeing events (parties, sport events, advanced CSR programs etc.)