Full-Stack Engineer Lead

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Were hiring a hands-on Full Stack Engineer Lead to serve as a senior technical leader across multiple product teams and strategic initiatives. This role combines deep software engineering expertise with architecture guidance AI-enabled engineering practices DevSecOps excellence and engineering governance.

You will help shape technical direction promote reusable engineering patterns accelerate AI adoption and ensure solutions are scalable secure compliant and operationally sustainable. While this is an individual contributor role with no direct people management responsibilities you will influence engineers across squads and act as a trusted technical advisor to Product Security Data Platform and Engineering leadership teams.

• Design and develop enterprise-grade applications across UI API integration data and automation layers using React Python SQL and NoSQL technologies.
• Build and integrate AI-enabled capabilities including LLMs agents retrieval systems prompt orchestration and workflow automation.
• Create reusable frameworks accelerators templates SDKs and engineering patterns that can be adopted across multiple squads.
• Define APIs integration contracts non-functional requirements and operational readiness requirements.
• Contribute to complex architecture decisions and technical solution reviews.

• Act as technical lead across multiple initiatives helping teams align with enterprise architecture standards and engineering best practices.
• Drive architecture discussions design reviews technical debt reduction modernization initiatives and platform evolution efforts.
• Partner with architects product managers security teams and engineering managers to establish scalable and reusable solution approaches.
• Identify opportunities for standardization automation AI adoption and engineering efficiency improvements.

• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development practices throughout the SDLC.
• Guide teams in leveraging AI tools for requirements quality testing code generation documentation and engineering productivity.
• Evaluate emerging AI frameworks agentic architectures and engineering automation opportunities.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of enterprise AI-enabled engineering accelerators.

• Ensure solutions meet enterprise security privacy compliance and operational requirements.
• Drive implementation of secure-by-design and shift-left quality practices.
• Support CI/CD maturity automated testing observability vulnerability remediation and release readiness practices.
• Promote engineering excellence through code reviews technical standards and architecture guardrails.

• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through technical coaching design reviews pair programming and architecture guidance.
• Support onboarding activities and technical enablement initiatives.
• Contribute to engineering communities of practice technical training sessions and knowledge-sharing forums.
• Help elevate engineering capabilities across the broader organization.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of software engineering experience including experience leading technical initiatives or acting as a senior technical lead.
• Strong full-stack development experience with React Python REST APIs GraphQL SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience designing distributed cloud-native solutions on AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong DevOps and CI/CD experience using GitHub Bitbucket Jenkins GitHub Actions or similar platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation or equivalent).
• Experience implementing observability monitoring logging and operational support practices.
• Practical experience integrating LLMs AI agents and external enterprise services into applications.
• Strong understanding of software architecture design patterns scalability security and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication stakeholder management and technical leadership skills.

• Experience with Kubernetes ECS EKS AKS or container orchestration platforms.
• Experience implementing AI/ML operationalization model evaluation monitoring and governance.
• Experience with enterprise architecture reviews and technical governance processes.
• Experience in regulated environments and compliance-driven software delivery.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Playwright Cypress Robot Framework or Selenium.
• Experience with engineering productivity platforms and developer experience initiatives.
• Experience with low-code and workflow automation platforms such as Microsoft Power Apps Power Platform Appian Mendix or similar enterprise low-code solutions.
• Experience developing integrations between low-code platforms and enterprise APIs cloud services or AI capabilities.

• Influence technical direction beyond a single squad and promote adoption of reusable engineering practices.
• Deliver high-quality secure scalable solutions that balance speed cost maintainability and compliance.
• Accelerate engineering productivity through automation AI enablement and standardization.
• Enable teams through mentorship coaching and technical leadership.
• Drive architecture consistency operational excellence and long-term platform sustainability.

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