Lead AI Software Engineer

Seeking a Lead AI Software Engineer to design and build backend services, APIs, and governance components that support enterprise AI and agentic systems. This role focuses on distributed architectures, cross-service enforcement patterns, observability, and platform engineering using modern cloud technologies., * Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs.

• Build enforcement, validation, and filtering mechanisms across distributed systems.
• Define cross-service architecture patterns and interface contracts.
• Develop shared platform tooling and governance components.
• Implement observability solutions including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
• Mentor engineers on defensive programming and resilient system design.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to establish scalable development standards.

• Python
• TypeScript
• AWS
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Fargate
• API Gateway
• Backend Development
• REST APIs
• Microservices
• Distributed Systems
• Platform Engineering
• Software Deployment
• Observability
• Structured Logging
• Metrics & Monitoring
• Distributed Tracing

Preferred Skills

• AWS Bedrock
• Agentic AI / Multi-Agent Systems
• LangChain
• LangGraph
• LLM Integration
• Prompt Injection Detection
• AI Guardrails
• Output Filtering
• Developer Tooling
• Platform Engineering Experience

Required Experience

• 5 - 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and TypeScript.
• Experience building production systems on AWS.
• Experience designing scalable backend services and APIs.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience defining technical standards, contracts, or reusable engineering patterns.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.

Domain Experience

• Banking
• Financial Services

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• Equivalent experience considered.