Lead Software Engineer; Python, LLM - AskGartner

About the Role

Ask Gartner is building toward becoming the AI-powered strategic advisor for enterprise clients. As a Lead Engineer on the Ask Gartner core platform team, you will shape the chat and embedded AI experiences that serve as the product’s primary surface. This role demands an engineer who can independently drive complex initiatives end-to-end, make sound architecture decisions, and collaborate across teams to deliver high‑quality, scalable solutions.

• Drive technical initiatives end-to-end— from requirements and design through delivery and post-launch iteration—with minimal guidance.
• Own architecture and design decisions for complex systems, demonstrating strong judgment on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to align on technical direction.
• Mentor and elevate fellow engineers through thoughtful code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead solution‑ing sessions and proactively surface technical risks, trade‑offs, and recommendations.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for cross‑functional teams, articulating complex engineering decisions clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Self-motivated and hands‑on professional—operates independently, completes work without follow‑ups, and navigates ambiguity and challenges with minimal assistance.
• Proactively picks up design, development tasks, drives them to completion, and communicates progress and blockers without prompting.
• Participates actively in solution‑ing, contributes ideas, and raises issues early.
• Adaptable and eager to learn—our team uses a wide array of technologies and the right candidate embraces new tools with confidence.
• Thrives in a fast‑paced environment and is comfortable supporting production releases.

• Python—expert‑level proficiency
• Python backend services: development, APIs, deployment, and scaling
• Python FastAPI and asynchronous programming
• Cloud technologies: AWS (primary), Azure
• AWS Sage Maker Pipelines (end‑to‑end ML workflows)
• Python unit testing (pytest)
• Git
• AWS S3 and data formats (Parquet, JSON, CSV)
• Postgre
  
  SQL / SQL
• Pandas

• Lang Graph / Lang Chain
• Large language models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)
• Load testing frameworks (e.g., Locust, JMeter)
• AWS Athena
• AWS S3 (bucket policies), IAM roles and policies
• Splunk
• AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store
• AWS EMR (PySpark‑based ETL)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Open Search / Search Engine indexing, retrieval (RAG systems)
• Cache technologies

• AWS Kinesis (live structured log ingestion to S3)
• AWS SQS
• AWS Glue (data catalog, crawlers)
• AWS Quick Sight
• Sonar Qube
• Jenkins / Groovy
• Argo CI/CD
• Snyk

• Competitive compensation (base salary range 116, USD, depending on experience and location)
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities
• Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more
• Collaborative and positive culture with a diverse, high‑performing team
• Chance to make a direct impact on strategy
• Hybrid work environment—flexible work‑from‑home and on‑site collaboration
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in the first year
• Extensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401(k) with corporate match and immediate vesting
• Health‑and‑wellness‑related allowance programs
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Gartner Gives Charity Match and additional perks

Gartner is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity and provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.