Lead Full Stack Engineer

Lead Full Stack Engineer

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We are looking for a Lead Full Stack Engineer to drive end-to-end application engineering for a data analytics platform, acting as the primary gatekeeper for code quality and architecture across containerized Python workers, an LLM orchestration layer running through AWS Bedrock, and a React frontend built natively into an existing component library. You will govern strict static typing across Python and Type Script, own the architectural approach for synthesizing data from You Tube and Google Trends APIs through an S3/Glue/Athena pipeline, and set the standard for responsible AI-assisted development using Claude Code.

Code Governance:
Review all PRs and enforce code quality standards — including strict static typing discipline across both Python and Type Script — preventing "spaghetti code" and scope creep.

System Architecture:
Design and deploy containerized applications and REST APIs, including the Python worker architecture (RQ/Celery + Redis) running on EKS.

Data Orchestration Oversight:
Own the architectural approach for synthesizing disparate sources (You Tube Data/Creator APIs, Google Trends, GQV via MMM Data Hub) into an S3/Glue/Athena pipeline.

AI Integration Governance:
Guide the design of the Claude/Gemini scoring orchestration layer, ensuring all model access routes strictly through AWS Bedrock.

Framework Alignment:
Ensure front-end work is built natively into the existing React framework and Storybook component library, rather than around it.

Infrastructure & Security Partnership:
Drive conversations with Dev Ops and platform teams across Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD, Atlantis, and Terraform/Kubernetes IaC, and on the Auth0 / OpenFGA (ReBAC) / internal RBAC library security model.

Team Leadership:
Guide senior developers and ensure alignment with established engineering practices.

MUST HAVES:

• 7+ years of full-stack engineering experience with a strong track record of architectural ownership.
• Strong production Python — FastAPI, SQL Alchemy, and modern tooling (uv), with static typing applied consistently rather than selectively.
• Strong Type Script/React, including Next.js.
• Comfortable designing and consuming REST APIs, and integrating third-party/external APIs at scale.
• Experience with containerized workloads and asynchronous task processing (Celery, RQ, or comparable) backed by Redis.
• Working familiarity with Kubernetes/EKS and object-storage-backed data lakes queried via serverless engines (S3/Glue/Athena or equivalent) — enough to drive Dev Ops conversations and reason about how data reaches the application. Hands-on pipeline authorship not required.
• Experience integrating LLMs into production applications via a managed platform (AWS Bedrock preferred; comparable experience acceptable if the compliance-boundary thinking transfers).
• Exposure to IaC and Git Ops-style deployment pipelines (Terraform, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD, or comparable).
• Highly comfortable in Mac/Linux terminal-centric environments.
• Practical, hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools — specifically Claude Code, which this project mandates be pointed at AWS Bedrock — paired with the critical judgment to challenge AI output when it compromises long-term maintainability, including the leadership presence to set the standard for how the team uses AI tooling responsibly (e.g., flagging risky AI-driven shortcuts during PR review).
• Strong soft skills (mandatory, not a bonus): the ability to hold and defend a technical opinion — challenging a stakeholder's or a tool's proposed "quick fix" with sound reasoning in pursuit of a solution that scales and is maintainable long-term, while still being pragmatic enough to ship.
• Upper-intermediate English level.

NICEST TO HAVES:

• Direct experience with AWS Bedrock, Glue, or…