Lead Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

Interface with team members across one or more domains, executives and stakeholders across the business to provide context, direction setting and technical guidance.

Collaboratively contribute to and/or author high level designs and partner with key leaders to ensure strategic alignment.

Serve as lead engineer for major initiatives, working across teams to develop and implement low level designs.

Facilitate quick-turnaround solutions to address urgent business needs, striking the right balance between delivery speed, scalability, and reliability.

Collaborate with Product & Engineering leadership to help shape the AI strategy.

Assess technology options to establish fit for purpose and make selections to optimize ROI for the business.

Build scalable solutions and systems that are secure, cost-effective and performant at very large scale.

Deep understanding of and experience with RAG pipelines, MCP, AI agents, multimodal LLMs, prompt orchestration, LLM telemetry and inspection, etc.

Upskill the organization by evangelizing technologies and identifying opportunities for experimentation and education.

Who Are You

5+ years of coding experience in one or more server-side languages (Python, GoLang, Java, etc)

Education: Preferred minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience

Proven experience architecting and building AI/ML systems, especially in production environments dealing with structured and unstructured data

Experience building product solutions with LLMs and GenAI technologies

Experience working with product data pipelines and familiarity with e-commerce taxonomies, schemas, is highly preferred

Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure (e.g., vector databases, model orchestration tools, inference frameworks, cloud-native ML workflows) is preferred

Hands-on leadership experience with cross-functional teams – engineering, product, design, data science, driving both vision and execution.

Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), API architecture, and modern MLOps practices.

Solid experience with SQL, in-memory storage and similar data storage solutions

Familiarity with Angular, React and other similar Frontend frameworks

Work Where You Thrive

For candidates based in the Austin or Atlanta metro area, the position follows a hybrid work model with three days per week in the office, balancing focused individual work with meaningful in-person collaboration.

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(Pay Transparency Range: $110,000.00 - $216,000.00)

Skills Required
5+ years coding experience in server-side languages (Python, GoLang, Java)
Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS or equivalent experience
Proven experience architecting and building AI/ML systems in production
Experience building product solutions with LLMs and GenAI technologies
Experience with product data pipelines and familiarity with e-commerce taxonomies and schemas
Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure (vector databases, model orchestration, inference frameworks, cloud-native ML workflows)
Hands-on leadership experience with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, design, data science)
Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), API architecture, and modern MLOps practices
Solid experience with SQL and in-memory storage solutions
Familiarity with Angular, React or similar frontend frameworks