Lead Software Engineer – AI & Cloud Applications – 409447
Job Description
Client Overview Our client is a growing technology organization developing enterprise SaaS products designed to improve and automate complex business processes. The organization is continuing to expand its cloud-based product suite and is seeking a hands-on technical leader to help drive application architecture, engineering best practices, AI initiatives, and team development. Our client is seeking a Lead Software Engineer – AI & Cloud Applications to help drive technical strategy, application scalability, and engineering excellence across its product portfolio.
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- Design and develop scalable enterprise SaaS applications and features.
- Partner with Product and Technology leadership on technical design, architecture, and project prioritization.
- Design and implement AI-powered and agentic systems that integrate with existing applications.
- Evaluate and implement AI engineering tools to improve development workflows and team efficiency.
- Provide technical guidance around architecture, technology selection, implementation, and scalability.
- Scale cloud applications with an emphasis on serverless AWS infrastructure where appropriate.
- Improve engineering standards around code review, automated testing, CI/CD, and QA.
- Identify technical deficiencies and recommend improvements across applications and engineering processes.
- Mentor and manage engineers while supporting their technical and professional development.
- Collaborate across Engineering, Product, UX, Quality, and Release teams.
- 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on development experience with Python, Node.js, and React.
- Strong AWS experience, including Lambda, SNS, API Gateway, and EC2.
- Experience designing and implementing AI/agentic systems.
- Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, LangFuse, OpenAI Agents SDK, or similar AI frameworks.
- Experience with PostgreSQL and/or AWS Aurora.
- Experience building and scaling enterprise web applications.
- Strong understanding of automated testing, code review, CI/CD, and software engineering best practices.
- Experience working in Agile product development environments.
- Previous technical leadership, mentoring, or engineering management experience.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- AWS AppSync and GraphQL experience.
- Golang experience.
- SSO and authentication experience.
- Experience scaling serverless application architectures.
- Experience defining engineering standards and development best practices.
- Experience managing or coaching software engineers.
- Experience partnering closely with Product and UX teams.
- Experience evaluating and implementing emerging AI development tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field preferred.
- Equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
- Health and additional benefits for eligible employees.
