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The Role
Build and maintain production full-stack features across Python backends, APIs, AI/LLM workflows, and React frontends. Design integrations, data persistence, event-driven services, and secure cloud-native workloads. Translate designs into accessible interfaces, write tests, participate in reviews, support CI/CD and observability, and diagnose issues across the stack. Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering teams to deliver iterative features in an enterprise AI platform.
Summary Generated by Built In
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
We’re hiring a full stack engineer who is comfortable across all parts of the stack (Python, JavaScript, React/Vue, APIs, AI/LLM integration) and can help ship production-grade UI using established designs and component libraries. You must be able to own and deliver full end-to-end features across the stack.
What You'll Do
- 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).
- Work across our agentic platform stack to connect services, tools, and data sources into reliable, observable workflows.
- 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 while meeting business timelines.
- Write readable, testable code with appropriate unit/integration tests and participate in code reviews.
- Help ensure engineering standards, tooling, and CI/CD practices for secure, scalable AI workloads.
- Diagnose and resolve issues across the stack (backend, integrations, and frontend behavior).
- Use agentic development for rapid quality code and be excited about staying at the forefront of AI skills.
Core Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in Python building production services.
- 2+ years hands-on with an agentic coding harness — Cursor, Windsurf/Devin, or Claude Code — used as a daily driver on production work, not occasional or trial use.
- Ready to hit the ground running with agentic development: a solid, practical command of agent skills, rules, prompt engineering, and loop engineering, and the judgment to know when each applies.
- Hands-on experience integrating with LLMs or AI services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, AgentCore, or similar).
- Strong experience with API design and implementation (REST/JSON; GraphQL a plus).
- Solid understanding of data modeling, persistence, and integration (SQL/NoSQL, queues, event-driven patterns, etc.).
- Working proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (React preferred; Vue/Angular acceptable with willingness to work in React).
- Ability to take Figma/wireframes/design specs and implement responsive, accessible UI using a component library / design system (e.g., Tailwind + component kits).
- Experience with cloud-native development on at least one major cloud (AWS preferred) and containerization/orchestration concepts.
- Familiarity with secure coding practices, authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth/OIDC, RBAC), and observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Comfortable working in an agile environment with iterative delivery, backlog tracking (e.g., Jira), and collaboration tools.
- Experience building or integrating with agentic AI workflows (multi-agent graphs, tools, guardrails, human-in-the-loop flows).
- 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.
- Familiarity with design systems and reusable UI component libraries (e.g., shadcn, Material).
Must have
Nice to have
Preferred Certfications
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)
- AWS Agentic AI Demonstrated
- AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional (AIP-C01)
- Anthropic Academy developer path
- Also valued: AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C02), Claude Certified Architect – Foundations , and GitHub Copilot GH-300.
Preferred, not required. We hire based on demonstrated ability. A certification on its own is never a substitute for hands-on experience.
What Success Looks Like
- You can own a feature end to end: from API design and AI integration through to a functional UI, without heavy supervision on the frontend.
- You move quickly but safely, shipping incremental value while maintaining code quality, reliability, and security.
- You collaborate well with product, UX, and other engineers, and you’re comfortable operating in an evolving Enterprise AI platform context.
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. 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.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
Use of AI:
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.
If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at [email protected].
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. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant production Python experience
- 2+ years using an agentic coding harness such as Cursor, Windsurf/Devin, or Claude Code as a daily production-work driver
- Practical command of agent skills, rules, prompt engineering, and loop engineering
- Hands-on experience integrating LLMs or AI services
- Strong REST/JSON API design and implementation experience; GraphQL is a plus
- Experience with data modeling, persistence, SQL/NoSQL, queues, and event-driven patterns
- Working proficiency with React, Vue, or Angular, with willingness to work in React
- Ability to implement responsive, accessible UI from Figma or design specifications using component libraries or design systems
- Cloud-native development experience with at least one major cloud provider, preferably AWS
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration concepts
- Familiarity with secure coding, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC, and observability
- Experience working in an agile environment with iterative delivery and backlog tracking tools such as Jira
- Experience building or integrating agentic AI workflows
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures, message buses, and workflow engines
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, and cloud CI/CD
- Experience with platforms or shared services used by multiple product teams
- Familiarity with reusable UI design systems and component libraries
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner, AWS Agentic AI Demonstrated, AWS Certified Generative AI Developer, Anthropic Academy developer path, AWS Machine Learning Engineer, Claude Certified Architect, or GitHub Copilot GH-300 certification
AHEAD Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AHEAD and has not been reviewed or approved by AHEAD.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) contributions are matched dollar-for-dollar on the first $5,000 each year, with matching made each pay period and immediate 100% vesting. This structure signals above-standard employer support for retirement savings.
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Affordable Benefits — Medical options include low employee premiums for PPO and HDHP plans, and the HDHP adds employer HSA funding plus a dollar-for-dollar HSA match up to stated amounts. Dental and vision plans list very low per-paycheck costs, helping keep overall healthcare spend manageable.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — No-cost telemedicine (including virtual mental health when enrolled), free Calm access for the employee and dependents, and an EAP with counseling are included. Company-paid life and disability plus voluntary protections (legal/ID, pet insurance) and other extras round out a comprehensive set of supports.
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What We Do
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
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