Full Stack Engineer

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.

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

Must have

• 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.

Nice to have

• 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).

Preferred Certfications

Preferred, not required. We hire based on demonstrated ability. A certification on its own is never a substitute for hands-on experience.

• 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.

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 privacy@ahead.com.

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.