Lead Software Engineer (Potential to Grow into Team Leadership)

Описание

At Bluevine, we're building the next generation of AI-powered engineering capabilities to accelerate innovation across the company. As a Lead Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping our backend architecture, AI platform, and internal developer tooling while solving complex engineering challenges at scale. This is a highly autonomous, hands-on technical leadership role where you'll influence architecture, drive strategic technical initiatives, and help engineering teams adopt modern AI workflows responsibly and effectively. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, and hands-on implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable backend services and core platform capabilities that solve complex architectural and distributed systems challenges
• Build proprietary AI-powered internal tools and standardize backend infrastructure to improve engineering productivity across teams
• Drive technical strategy for AI-enabled engineering solutions, establishing best practices around reliability, security, privacy, observability, and cost efficiency
• Lead complex technical initiatives from design through production, partnering closely with Product, Data, Risk, and Infrastructure teams
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and hands-on software development
• Influence engineering standards, technical direction, and long-term platform strategy across multiple teams
• Define engineering processes, execution plans, and technical approaches for high-impact initiatives
• Build internal platforms, frameworks, and infrastructure that enable other Bluevine engineering teams to deliver faster and more reliably
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify practical opportunities to improve software development workflows

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree (or 6+ years with a Master's degree)
• Proven experience leading complex technical initiatives and mentoring engineers as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, or similar role
• Strong Python development skills and deep expertise in distributed systems design
• Extensive experience building scalable cloud-based systems, APIs, databases, and production services
• Hands-on experience using AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or Claude to improve engineering workflows
• Strong understanding of modern LLM application architectures, including prompt management, structured outputs, tool/function calling, agentic frameworks, and semantic routing
• Experience working with vector databases (such as Pinecone, Milvus, or pgvector), event streaming platforms (Kafka or RabbitMQ), and modern AI frameworks such as AWS Bedrock AgentCore or MCP
• Ability to evaluate AI solutions from an engineering perspective, considering scalability, security, privacy, latency, reliability, maintainability, and cost
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with a demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions across teams
• Self-driven, pragmatic, and comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Nice to have

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and production operations
• Experience in fintech, banking, payments, compliance, fraud, or other regulated environments
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Apache Spark, Flink, AWS EMR, Databricks, Snowflake, or Apache Iceberg
• Background in Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering, or MLOps, with familiarity in model training pipelines, evaluation metrics, feature engineering, and statistical modeling

We offer

• Excellent group health coverage
• Flexible hybrid work model
• Large Study Fund contribution
• Salary Benchmarks and Checkpoints
• Monthly meal card of TenBis or CiBus (your choice) with generous balance
• Free parking for cars, scooters, and bikes
• Free gym membership
• Company-sponsored Mental Health Benefits
• PTO, Company Holidays, and Flexible Holidays
• Community-based volunteering opportunities