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NLP Engineers build production language systems — Indic-language models, automatic speech recognition (ASR) and synthesis (TTS), document understanding for enterprise paperwork, IVR and voice-bot stacks for Indian customer support, named-entity recognition and information extraction, and the increasingly common multimodal pipelines that fuse text with vision and speech. The work blends applied research, production engineering, and dataset craft: you train and fine-tune transformer models for low-resource Indic languages, curate parallel corpora and labeled datasets, optimize inference for cost, debug failure modes that only show up in code-mixed Hindi-English speech or in handwritten Tamil documents, and own quality SLOs that mix accuracy, latency, and fairness across 22 official Indian languages. In India through 2026, NLP is one of the highest-impact applied-AI specializations because the global English-first NLP literature transfers poorly to Indic languages — concentrated demand sits at AI-native startups (Sarvam AI, Krutrim, Ola Krutrim, Yellow.ai), the public-good NLP groups at AI4Bharat (IIT-Madras) and Bhashini (Government of India), enterprise SaaS (Freshworks, Zoho ZIA, Postman, Verloop, Haptik), fintech (Razorpay, Cred, Paytm, M2P, IDfy), and the GCCs of Microsoft, Google, Adobe, and Amazon.

Power BI Developers design, build, and maintain the BI layer that turns raw enterprise data into decision-grade dashboards for finance, operations, sales, and supply-chain teams. The core loop is: connecting heterogeneous sources via Power Query (M language), modelling star schemas with fact and dimension tables, writing DAX measures and calculated columns for time-intelligence and KPI logic, publishing to Power BI Service workspaces, enforcing row-level security policies, and tuning slow reports by reducing visual-query counts and optimising DirectQuery folding. In India, this role is the Microsoft-stack alternative to Tableau development — deeply embedded in the M365-heavy enterprises: TCS, Infosys Nia practice, Wipro's Microsoft Business Applications unit, Mahindra Group, Tata Group digital, L&T Infotech (LTIMindtree), HCL, and every banking captive running Azure Synapse or Fabric. Demand spiked in 2024-2026 as Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Semantic Model, Dataflows Gen2) expanded the Power BI surface area and pushed experienced developers into the ₹18-40L band.

Keep production systems fast, available, and observable for millions of users — by writing software that automates operations, runs capacity planning, designs SLOs and error budgets, and owns the on-call rotation for critical services. The role sits between software engineering and operations: you write Go / Python / Rust code, build reliability tooling, design distributed systems for resilience, run incident response, and push back on product launches that risk SLOs. In India, SRE is a premium specialization concentrated at FAANG-IN (Google SRE Bengaluru, Amazon, Microsoft IDC, Netflix India), product unicorns (Razorpay, Flipkart, Swiggy, Dream11, PhonePe, Zerodha), and the GCCs of high-traffic US firms (Uber, LinkedIn, Atlassian, GitHub, Cloudflare, Stripe). The work overlaps with DevOps but skews more toward software engineering: reliability is a product, not a process. Senior SRE pay in India sits at the very top of the technology bracket, often above equivalent SDE-3 backend roles.

Build and operate the internal developer platform — the CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, service mesh, secrets management, observability stack, and IaC modules — that every other engineer in the company ships on. Platform engineers turn raw cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) into a paved road: a developer pushes code, the platform takes it from commit to canary to production with logs, metrics, and rollback baked in. In India, the role is concentrated at product unicorns (Razorpay, Zerodha, CRED, PhonePe, Swiggy), GCCs of global firms (Microsoft, Atlassian, Stripe, Walmart Global Tech), and SaaS companies scaling past 200 engineers — typically the point at which a dedicated platform team starts paying for itself in shipping velocity.

Solutions Architects are the customer-facing technical role that bridges what a product can do and what a customer actually needs. They design end-to-end deployments, integrations, and migrations on behalf of the customer's engineering team — sizing infrastructure, mapping data flows, picking the right product modules, drafting reference architectures, and partnering with sales and customer-success to win and expand accounts. The role is genuinely hybrid: it requires deep technical depth (cloud, networking, security, distributed systems) and high verbal craft (workshops, executive presentations, written design docs that survive procurement and security review). In India through 2026, Solutions Architect is one of the highest-paid customer-facing technical roles, concentrated at the GCCs of cloud vendors (AWS India, Microsoft Azure India, Google Cloud India, Oracle, IBM), enterprise SaaS companies (Salesforce India, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Databricks, MongoDB, Confluent), B2B Indian product companies (Freshworks, Postman, Atlan, Hasura, Chargebee), and the systems-integrator giants (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Accenture) where the role sits closer to delivery. Top-tier Solutions Architects in India routinely cross ₹1Cr total comp by L6+ and the role is a common path into VP-Engineering and Field-CTO seats.

Prompt Engineers design, evaluate, and ship LLM-powered features — system prompts, RAG flows, agent orchestration, structured-output schemas, and the eval harnesses that prove a prompt is actually better. The role sits between product, applied ML, and software engineering: you write prompts the way other engineers write code, run cost-quality-latency trade-off experiments, instrument grader pipelines, and own the part of the product that the LLM actually 'speaks.' In India through 2026, the role is one of the fastest-growing AI hires — concentrated at AI-native startups (Sarvam AI, Krutrim, Ola Krutrim, Atlan, Yellow.ai), product SaaS shops with a serious AI feature surface (Freshworks, Postman, Chargebee, Whatfix, Zoho ZIA), fintechs (Razorpay, Cred, Paytm), and the GCCs of Microsoft, Google, Adobe, and Salesforce. The salary band is unusually wide because the title is new and JDs vary from 'wrote one ChatGPT integration' to 'owns the eval harness for a frontier model.' Sarvam AI made several public crore-level offers to senior prompt and LLM engineers in 2025.

PHP / Laravel Developers build web applications and REST APIs using Laravel's Eloquent ORM, Blade templating engine, queue workers (Redis + Horizon), Sanctum/Passport auth, and Livewire or Filament for reactive interfaces — all within the PSR-12 coding standards enforced by Laravel Pint. In India, this is the dominant backend stack for SMB-facing SaaS, logistics startups, edtech portals, and the sprawling web-agency market: firms like Konstant Infosolutions, Iflexion, Aalpha Information Systems, and hundreds of boutique agencies in Ahmedabad, Surat, Pune, and Kochi run Laravel as their primary delivery stack. The freelance-to-agency pipeline is unusually accessible — a solid Laravel portfolio on GitHub lets a developer command ₹500-2,500/hour on Upwork with no corporate experience. Senior developers move into team leads at agencies, product engineers at funded startups, or independent agency owners serving international clients at global rates.

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WordPress developers build, customise, and maintain websites on the world's largest CMS — powering 43% of all websites globally. The role spans custom theme and child-theme development, Gutenberg block authoring in React, plugin development using WordPress hooks and filters, WooCommerce store customisation, ACF-driven content architectures, performance hardening via object cache (Redis) and page cache (WP Rocket, W3TC), and security hardening with Wordfence or Sucuri. In India, demand is driven by three distinct markets: the massive SMB freelance economy (Upwork, Fiverr, PeoplePerHour), domestic digital agencies (rtCamp, Multidots, WPWeb Infotech, AccessPress), and enterprise WordPress via WordPress VIP or Pantheon for media and e-commerce clients. The rtCamp-to-Automattic pipeline is the most visible career ceiling in the Indian WP ecosystem — rtCamp contributes significantly to WordPress core and has been a launchpad for engineers at Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) who earn dollar salaries while working remotely from Indian cities.

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React Native Developers build cross-platform iOS and Android apps from a shared JavaScript/TypeScript codebase, bridging React components to native Kotlin and Swift APIs through the New Architecture's JSI and Fabric renderer. In India through 2026, the role dominates the mobile teams at Razorpay, Zomato, Swiggy, CRED, BookMyShow, Vedantu, and BYJU's — companies that chose RN because it lets web engineers ship native-quality mobile experiences without splitting into separate iOS and Android squads. Day-to-day work is a mix of RN component architecture, native module bridging, Hermes engine tuning, React Navigation setup, and shipping via EAS Build or Fastlane pipelines to App Store and Play Store — often with OTA code-push deployments via Expo Updates or Microsoft App Center to skip review cycles for hotfixes. The supply-demand gap is real: senior RN engineers with strong native bridging experience are consistently short-listed faster than equivalently experienced Flutter or pure-native engineers at Indian product startups.

Senior: ₹60.0L

Web developers in India build the full-stack web applications that power D2C brands (Mamaearth, boAt, Lenskart, Nykaa), agency-built marketing sites for Indian enterprises (HDFC, Tata, Reliance), Indian SaaS products (Razorpay dashboards, Cred app web flows, Zoho web suite), and a large freelance/agency segment serving US/EU clients on dollar contracts. The work spans React/Next.js or Vue front-ends, Node.js/Python/PHP back-ends, Postgres or MongoDB, and deployment on Vercel/Netlify/AWS. India-specific patterns include the agency-services freelance economy (Upwork, Toptal, Fiverr earnings in USD), e-commerce build-outs on Shopify/Magento/Adobe Commerce for D2C brands, 4-8 PM IST overlap with US clients, and a wide spread in pay — agency salaries cluster low while product-co and remote-USD income runs 3-5x higher. The web-developer label is broad: at one end it's freelance landing-page work; at the other it's senior full-stack engineering at Razorpay or Postman.

Senior: ₹60.0L

Coffee roasters transform green coffee beans — sourced from single-origin estates in Chikmagalur, Coorg, and Wayanad, or from international lots — into the specific roast profiles that define a brand's cup. The craft sits at the intersection of food chemistry (Maillard browning, Strecker degradation, development time ratio) and sensory science (SCA cupping protocol, 0-100 scoring, tasting for defects). India's third-wave revolution — built by Blue Tokai, Third Wave Coffee Roasters, Subko, and Araku Coffee — has created a viable domestic career path that did not exist before 2015: entry roasting roles at specialty cafes, head roaster positions at multi-outlet brands, and founder-roaster operators building direct-trade supply chains from Kalledevarapura Estate to the cup.

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