Jahnel Group's mission is to provide the absolute best environment for software creators to pursue their passion by connecting them with great clients doing meaningful work. This is a full-time position with one of our closest startup clients building an innovative platform focused on economic development, investment intelligence, and AI-driven analytics.
Who We're Looking ForWe're looking for a highly motivated Mid-Level to Senior Software Engineer who enjoys building products from the ground up and wants meaningful ownership over both the technology and the product.
This is an opportunity to join an early-stage engineering team where you'll work directly with the founder, help mentor junior developers, influence technical direction, and build software that has the potential to impact how governments, investors, and businesses make investment decisions.
The ideal candidate is comfortable moving quickly, thrives with ambiguity, embraces AI-assisted development, and enjoys collaborating closely with product leadership.
- Builds production-ready software with minimal oversight
- Enjoys startup environments and high ownership
- Mentors junior developers naturally
- Thinks beyond individual tickets and considers overall system design
- Uses AI tools daily to improve engineering productivity
- Communicates well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Design, build, and maintain full stack web applications
- Develop scalable backend APIs and services
- Build modern React-based user experiences
- Collaborate directly with the founder to shape product direction
- Mentor junior engineers and help establish engineering best practices
- Build integrations with public and third-party data sources
- Develop analytics dashboards and reporting experiences
- Participate in architectural decisions as the platform evolves
- Leverage AI-assisted development workflows throughout the software development lifecycle
- Help scale the engineering organization as the company grows
- 4+ years (Mid-Level) or 7+ years (Senior) professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience building production web applications
- Experience with Python and modern backend development
- Strong React and TypeScript experience
- Experience designing RESTful APIs
- Experience working with PostgreSQL
- Experience building cloud-native applications on AWS
- Comfortable working in startup environments
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude, Cursor, or similar as part of daily development
- Python (FastAPI)
- React
- TypeScript
- AWS Lambda
- PostgreSQL / Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
- SQLAlchemy
- Amazon Cognito
- REST APIs
- Git / GitHub
- Cloud-native application development
- Modern AI-assisted development workflows
- Experience with AI agentic development workflows
- Experience building analytics or dashboard-heavy applications
- Experience integrating public APIs and large datasets
- Startup experience
- Experience mentoring junior engineers
- Exposure to data science or analytics platforms
- Infrastructure and DevOps experience on AWS
- Interest in economic development, fintech, or investment platforms
Where We’re Looking For It
- Albany, New York
Skills Required
- 4+ years (Mid-Level) or 7+ years (Senior) professional software engineering experience
- Experience building production web applications
- Python (FastAPI) and modern backend development
- React and TypeScript
- Designing RESTful APIs
- PostgreSQL / Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
- AWS Lambda and cloud-native application development on AWS
- SQLAlchemy
- Amazon Cognito
- Git / GitHub
- Experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor) and AI-assisted development workflows
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Comfortable working in startup environments
- Mentoring junior engineers and establishing engineering best practices
- Experience with AI agentic development workflows
- Experience building analytics or dashboard-heavy applications
- Experience integrating public APIs and large datasets
- Infrastructure and DevOps experience on AWS
- Exposure to data science or analytics platforms
- Interest in economic development, fintech, or investment platforms
What We Do
No matter the complexity of the application, we have the skills and the tools to build it. Jahnel Group brings well over a decade of web development experience with a great eye for design and an impressive set of technical skills. We work hard to stay on the cutting edge of our industry and are absolutely obsessed with making our customers happy. We've seen exponential growth in the past few years. So much so that we have appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for three consecutive years! We specialize in the design and development of web-based applications, websites, mobile applications and anything digital with extensive experience in the full software development life-cycle. This includes gathering requirements, project management, wire framing, prototyping, development, and quality assurance. We're proud to be a culture-first company. Our dedication to our employees is why we've appeared on the Times Union Top Workplaces and Albany Business Review Best Places to Work for three consecutive years. If you have a complex project you'd like to discuss, please call us at 518-356-0039 or email [email protected], we'd love to hear from you!
