Lead Software Engineer

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years building and shipping production software.
• Experience delivering production applications built on large language models, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt and context design, and evaluation.
• Experience integrating with enterprise systems of record and working with the data they hold.
• Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with vector databases and embedding models.
• Hands-on experience on Azure, including Azure AI Foundry, along with data services, compute, identity, and networking.
• Judgment about when a large language model is the right solution and when it is not.
• Cost consciousness — weighing model, token, and infrastructure cost as part of the design, and keeping it under control once a solution is running.
• Written and verbal communication skills – ability to present potential solutions, pros and cons to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset with ability to work directly with stakeholders across the business.
• Able to run several efforts at once without dropping quality.
• Project management: scoping, sequencing, estimating, and reporting progress against commitments.