The Role
Lead the engineering team in SDLC, using AI tools to enhance SaaS product delivery, ensuring quality and collaboration across teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
The world’s largest organizations rely on Evident to help them protect their business and brand from third-party risk. Our game-changing technology - which enables the secure exchange of risk data like proof of insurance, identity, business registration, and other information - helps our customers verify that their partners have all of the required credentials to do business.
In today’s new remote-first, ever-changing regulatory environment, our secure, privacy-first enterprise platform, accessible via web portal or API, provides a highly scalable and configurable solution to manage communications, storage, decisioning, and ongoing monitoring of credentials.
Evident is a VC-backed technology startup, headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Learn more at evidentid.com.
We’re looking for a highly skilled Lead Software Engineer who will be a hands-on builder of the product and lead a small team (2–3 engineers) in an AI-first development environment. The core of this role is using AI tools as a primary force multiplier across the software lifecycle to accelerate delivery of SaaS products without sacrificing quality. You’ll set direction, raise engineering standards, and guide the team through modern, AI-enabled ways of building.
The role will be based in our office in Atlanta (hybrid work model with two days in the office and three days remote).
Key Responsibilities
- Hands-On Product Engineering
- Design, build, test, and ship high-impact SaaS features and services
- Drive architecture decisions and technical execution from requirements to production
- Set and uphold standards for code quality, reliability, observability, and security
- AI-First Development Leadership
- Evaluate, implement, and standardize AI tools across the SDLC (coding, review, testing, docs, incident analysis)
- Build “AI-in-the-loop” workflows for:
- Define guardrails for safe and effective AI use (security, privacy, IP, data handling)
- Team Leadership & Coaching
- Lead and mentor a team of 2–3 engineers through planning, execution, and delivery
- Coach engineers on strong fundamentals and high-leverage AI-assisted workflows
- Provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with product, design, and leadership to deliver the right solutions quickly
- Communicate progress, risks, and opportunities clearly and proactively
- requirements/spec drafting
- design exploration and architecture docs
- code generation, refactoring, and migrations
- test creation and regression detection
- documentation, runbooks, and onboarding
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading small teams or acting as a player/coach
- Proven ability to build and ship SaaS products end-to-end in fast-moving environments
- Strong system design and problem-solving skills; able to articulate tradeoffs clearly
- Deep, practical experience using AI/LLM tools in daily engineering work, with clear opinions on what drives real leverage
- Excellent communication and mentorship skills; comfortable leading change
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating LLM-based features into production systems
- Background in developer productivity, platform engineering, or SDLC automation
- Familiarity with AI privacy, security, and compliance considerations
Why Evident?
• Our team solves a crucial problem with huge business potential together, and we are able to see exactly how our contribution affects customers!
• Competitive pay package, including base pay and stock options
• Full medical, dental, vision benefits and 401K
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave to support you and your family
• Home internet stipend, virtual events, & more!
• Recently named one of Atlanta's Coolest Companies & 50 on Fire by Atlanta Inno
• Recently named one of the Top 10 Fastest Growing Companies in Atlanta & one of the Best Places to Work in Atlanta by Atlanta Business Chronicle
Top Skills
Ai Tools
SaaS
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The Company
What We Do
Evident's privacy-first secure enterprise platform enables the safe and private exchange of data to help businesses manage risk across their customers, employees, and extended ecosystem. Evident's customers use the platform to make critical decisions such as who to allow into their ecosystem of vendors, partners, and franchisees, and to demonstrate compliance in a remote-first, ever-changing regulatory environment. For more information, visit www.evidentid.com.
