Ahead
Full Stack Engineer
United States
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$190kDetected 34 days ago
JavaScriptPythonReactVue.jsAngularTailwind CSSBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLNoSQLAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTOAuthLLMsRAGAgentic AIFigmaWireframingDesign Systems
About the role
- We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
- This OTE range may vary based on the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
- Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services in Python, including REST/GraphQL APIs and integrations with internal and external systems.
- Implement and integrate AI/LLM-powered workflows (e.g., RAG, agentic workflows, orchestration, prompt/guardrail patterns).
- Translate UX designs and design systems into clean, maintainable frontend code (React), wiring up APIs, state, and components.
- Collaborate with product, UX, and other engineers to break down requirements, estimate work, and deliver in iterative increments.
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in Python building production services.
- Ability to take Figma/wireframes/design specs and implement responsive, accessible UI using a component library / design system (e.g., Tailwind + component kits).
- from API design and AI integration through to a functional UI, without heavy supervision on the frontend.
- You collaborate well with product, UX, and other engineers, and you're comfortable operating in an evolving Enterprise AI platform context.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience integrating with LLMs or AI services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, AgentCore, or similar).
- Familiarity with secure coding practices, authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth/OIDC, RBAC), and observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
- You must be able to own and deliver full end-to-end features across the stack.
- Strong experience with API design and implementation (REST/JSON
Nice to have
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures, message buses, and workflow engines.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD in cloud environments.
- Background working on platform or shared services used by multiple product teams.
- What success looks like in this role
- You move quickly but safely, shipping incremental value while maintaining code quality, reliability, and security.
- These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment.
- You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application.
- Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field.
Skills
- Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
- Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
Compensation
- The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings ("OTE") for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount.
Benefits
- The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings ("OTE") for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application.
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