Senior Lead Software Engineer- AI Engineer

What you'll do

• Define architecture and deliver agent-ready portal workflows and AI-enabled support experiences.
• Build secure external API, authentication, and credential-management capabilities; establish production standards for AI systems.
• Lead and coach engineering teams, remain hands-on in critical-path work, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

What they ask for

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience; demonstrated coaching or mentoring experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams and delivering complex platforms or products with measurable outcomes.
• Hands-on backend development experience in Java (other modern backend stacks acceptable); expertise in external-facing APIs and production AI capabilities.

Nice to have

• Developer portal or developer-experience platform experience; workflow or orchestration systems experience.
• Search and relevance experience; cloud-native delivery with containers/Kubernetes and event-driven architectures; payments or financial-services platform experience.

Pay

USD 175,750.00-$260,000.00 base salary

Tools

Java, OpenAPI, OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, PKI, Kubernetes, webhooks

AI focus

Builds AI-enabled support and agent-ready workflows, including grounded retrieval, structured tool/action execution, guardrails, evaluation, monitoring, and auditability.