Lead Software Engineer in Mundelein

• Full-stack experience: 8 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant full-stack work on customer-facing applications. \n

• Strong front-end experience: for example React, Next.js or TanStack, using JavaScript and TypeScript, or equivalent. \n

• Strong back-end experience: for example Python (FastAPI) or the Node.js ecosystem, or equivalent. Proven experience designing secure, scalable REST and GraphQL APIs is essential. \n

• Cloud experience: hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP, including relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL or DynamoDB, or equivalent. \n

• AI and LLM experience: experience building applications that consume LLM APIs, with working knowledge of prompt engineering and patterns such as chain-of-thought, ReAct and RAG, plus context window management. Experience integrating AI and ML models into production systems is .

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web applications and APIs across the front end, back end and cloud infrastructure. \n

• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions. \n

• Provision, manage and optimise cloud infrastructure, including government cloud environments where applicable. \n

• Design and implement robust integrations with LLMs and other ML models, including autonomous agents where appropriate. \n

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and follow infrastructure-as-code practices. \n

• Take part in code and design reviews, upholding standards for code quality, security and testing. \n

• Work with product management and other engineers to define requirements and deliver high-quality products. \n

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