Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bonterra is a technology company focused on empowering democratic and progressive causes. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the technical health and quality of the product, utilizing AI tools to enhance the software development lifecycle and mentor other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical health and quality of existing features and new AI-powered features, ensuring alignment with overall product goals while maintaining high engineering standards
- Contribute and support successful sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives for features. Own release cycles, ensuring high-quality releases and coordinating sprint reviews and demos
- Work closely with product management, data science teams, and other engineering teams to define product features, manage project scope, and align on priorities
- Collaborate with Lead Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Architects: work closely with others to design, develop, and deliver large-scale data applications utilizing LLMs and other AI tools to enhance product delivery
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of product technologies, ensuring the team remains at the forefront of emerging trends in AI, machine learning, and data science
- Create comprehensive documentation and training materials to improve team efficiency, ensure knowledge sharing, and facilitate onboarding, particularly in AI technologies
- Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning
- Contribute high-quality code to the product, including optimizing algorithms, maintaining high availability and uptime, and implementing AI-driven features
- Regularly evaluate and refine engineering processes, with a particular focus on improving workflows for development, AI technologies, testing, and deployment
- Collaborate with DevOps and SaaS Teams: work together with DevOps and SaaS teams to implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Cultivate a Positive Company Culture: Foster a company culture that values cross-team collaboration and trust
Skills
- 5+ years of full stack Software Development experience, including design patterns and data structures
- Proficiency with key application technologies: Django, Python, Postgres databases, and AWS ECS. Expertise with AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment models, including automation, orchestration, and scale
- Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to work closely with data science teams, product managers, and other engineering teams
- Strong experience with Agile methodologies, including Kanban, stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering solutions to complex technical challenges in AI and software engineering
- Proficient at using AI tools and prompt engineering methods to solve software engineering problems
- Experience incorporating AI technologies, such as LLMs, into existing software products
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and driving a collaborative, team-first culture
- Fine attention to detail and encouraging approach in communicating concerns and suggestions in Code Reviews
- Strong front-end experience with React, Typescript, and Node
- Experience with deep learning, NLP, or reinforcement learning
- Proven experience in developing and deploying AI models, machine learning algorithms, or data-driven solutions in production environments
- Familiarity with introducing AI applications into DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery using industry standard tools such as Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Windsurf
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being and growth
- Bonuses
- Incentives
- Equity
- A comprehensive benefits program
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