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# AI - First Lead Software Engineer

- **Company:** Governmentjobs.Com, Inc.
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Artificial Intelligence, High-Level Architecture, Integration Tests
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=72daa3411377f0a4

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Tooling?

## Description

Dedicate the majority of your time to driving high-level design, making critical architectural decisions, and troubleshooting complex systems, while guiding AI tools to handle the bulk of the implementation.Be a role model for design reviews, code, shift-left process and test casesUtilize AI tools like Claude Code, and agents as your primary mechanism for software creation, significantly minimizing manual coding to 5%. Write clean code with Unit and Integration tests; playwright is nice to have.Collaborate with product, dev, support, & design teams in the planning & execution of the workWork closely with engineering partners and stakeholders to drive organizational alignment


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