Senior Engineer

Our client, a leading education innovation company, is hiring a Senior Engineer on a contract basis.
Job ID: 83873

Work Location:
Ohio (Remote Working Model)

Summary:
The client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr Software Engineer - AI to join our
innovative team. The ideal candidate will possess extensive expertise in building full
stack applications. Since this position entails leading the development of Generative AI
enabled apps, practical experience in generative AI and demonstrating a profound
understanding of its principles, applications, and latest advancements is highly
desirable. This role requires a dynamic individual who can seamlessly integrate AI
solutions across the full stack, driving forward our AI initiatives and ensuring robust,
scalable implementations.
We're looking for people who like problem solving, exhibit independent creativity, and
function cooperatively on a team. As a Sr Software Engineer - AI, you
have a sense of personal accountability, a curiosity to research new technologies and
methodologies, and a pervasive desire to dig into complex issues while respecting
timelines and team commitments.

Responsibilities:
Lead design, development, implementation, and maintenance of AI platform & AI
powered tools / applications.
Stay up to date with the latest advancements in AI technologies, exploring
opportunities to integrate new AI capabilities into existing or new applications.
Work with a team of individual contributors, along with your own hands-on
contributions, to build our web applications, including building entirely new
applications, making major product updates, and maintaining our existing
portfolio. Our products are used by millions of people every day.
Some have an SLA of 99.95% uptime; stability and quality solutions are key!
Work with product, engineering, SRE, and other leadership to understand how
your solutions will be planned, developed, implemented, and supported.
Implement best practices for application security and ensure compliance with
relevant data privacy and protection regulations.
Contribute to CI/CD processes to allow for smoother releases and increasing
team confidence.
Understand the business requirements of products, tasks, and stores, and if you
identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, opportunities, etc., raise
them with the team and with leadership so we can all improve them.
Work with a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively.
Consider the full lifecycle of solutions when building them from initial conception
to launch then maintenance all the way to sunsetting.
Mentor junior engineers to help grow their professional careers.

Required Qualifications:
You have experience developing AI powered solutions at an enterprise level.
You have led a team of individual contributor engineers, having come from an
engineering background yourself. You have empathy for engineers and balance
that with realities of the business.
You interface well with other business units and leadership, being able to
describe situations and technical approaches to foster an environment of trust
and confidence.
You have deep expertise developing both front-ends and back-ends of modern
web applications and have a general understanding what is involved in front-end
development as well.
You build front-ends with the needs of our users in mind, partnering with our UX
team members to build the best experiences for our teachers, students, and
other personas.
You consider the needs of accessible designs in all steps of the engineering
process for those with visual, auditory, sensory, cognitive, and other
considerations.
You design APIs that are meant to be consumed by others, so ease of use,
simplistic design, and other attributes that benefit interoperability are key.
You believe in understanding why work is being done and empathizing with the
users, not just implementing code and moving onto the next task.
You have demonstrated software delivery experience with a distributed product &
engineering team.
You can work in a fast-paced software release environment, where you
continuously deliver production-grade (near-zero downtime, fault-tolerant, etc.)
software daily for a system with millions of users around the world.
You have contributed to the full software development life cycle, including writing
application code, unit/integration/automation tests, documentation, and
performance engineering and security.
We have a very diverse stack that can vary across teams and projects. Some of
the technologies we use include:
Back-end: Python, Go, Node.js
Front-end: TypeScript, Angular, React and Playwright
AI services such as Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI service, Amazon Bedrock or
similar technologies.
Amazon Web Services (AWS): ECS, RDS, Lambda, and many other services
CI/CD and Infrastructure: Docker, Terraform, Github, CircleCI, Sonarqube,
NewRelic and Datadog
Collaboration: JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack, and Office 365
Databases: Relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL; NoSQL
databases such as DynamoDB

Why Work Here?
We firmly believe in the mission of educating students and helping them
succeed.
Our teams operate in a collaborative and safe environment where everyone's
input is valued, trusted, and respected.
You'll have opportunity for horizontal and vertical movement and growth
throughout the organization, including clear career paths for your long term
personal and professional growth. We hire good people rather than filling team
vacancies or checking boxes for technical skillsets.
We have a mindset of deliver value, not features we produce meaningful
products and services for our students, teachers, administrators, and others that
further our educational mission rather than focus on just executing a JIRA ticket number

Pay Rate: $70- $88 /hour W2