AI Development Lead

Everest Technologies, Inc.

$138K — $165K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in full-stack engineering with 2+ years in technical leadership roles.
  • Expertise in React.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend management.
  • Proficient in Java (Spring Boot) and Python (FastAPI/Django) for backend services.
  • In-depth understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI orchestration techniques.
  • Advanced knowledge of Azure cloud services, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
  • Experience mentoring teams and driving technical architecture discussions.
  • Familiarity with compliance and governance frameworks in enterprise AI.

Responsibilities

  • Establish the technical architecture and best practices for AI applications.
  • Mentor and manage a team of 5-10 engineers, resolving technical challenges as they arise.
  • Design RAG pipelines and frameworks for advanced AI functionalities.
  • Oversee development of scalable Microservices in Java and Python.
  • Define cloud architecture strategy focusing on high availability and security on Azure.
  • Implement AI governance measures to ensure model reliability and performance monitoring.

Benefits

  • Access to a cross-functional team environment.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship.
  • Chance to work on cutting-edge AI technologies.
  • Flexible work arrangements promoting work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Job Summary
We are looking for a Lead AI Full-Stack Engineer to define the technical vision, architecture, and execution strategy for our next-generation AI-native platform. In this high-impact role, you will lead a cross-functional team of developers while remaining hands-on in code.
You will own end-to-end technical direction across our Java and Python Microservices, enterprise React applications, cloud systems (Azure), and advanced LLM/RAG orchestration pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
  • Technical Leadership & Strategy: Establish end-to-end AI application architecture, establish best practices for prompt engineering, latency optimization, cost control, and set engineering standards across frontend, backend, and AI stacks.
  • Team Mentorship & Delivery: Guide and mentor cross-functional engineers (5-10 team members), conduct code reviews, unblock technical issues, and partner with Product and Design leaders to map product roadmaps into technical deliverables.
  • AI & RAG System Architecture: Architect resilient Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, multi-agent frameworks, and real-time semantic search using tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or AutoGen.
  • Full-Stack & Microservices Design: Oversee robust, scalable Microservices engineered in Java (Spring Boot) and Python (FastAPI/Django), integrated with component-driven React/TypeScript frontends.
  • Enterprise Azure Infrastructure: Own cloud architecture strategy on Microsoft Azure (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, AKS, Container Apps), prioritizing high availability, strict security protocols, and cost governance.
  • AI Governance & Reliability: Implement guardrails for LLM safety, PII detection, fallback mechanisms, hallucination evaluation metrics, and continuous performance monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience: 7+ years in full-stack engineering, including 2+ years leading engineering initiatives or technical teams and building AI-native applications in production.
  • Frontend: React.js, TypeScript, state management architectures, micro-frontends, and web performance optimization.
  • Backend: Mastery of Java (Spring Boot) and Python (FastAPI, Flask); expertise in Microservices design, asynchronous patterns, and API gateways.
  • AI / LLM Orchestration: Deep expertise with RAG architectures, Vector DBs (Pinecone, Qdrant, Azure AI Search, pgvector), agentic workflows, model routing, and token optimization.
  • Cloud & DevOps: Advanced skills in Azure cloud infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep), and CI/CD automation.
  • Leadership: Track record of mentoring developers, driving architectural decisions, and communicating complex AI tradeoffs to executive leadership.
  • Proven experience fine-tuning open-source models (Llama, Mistral) or building enterprise-wide semantic caches.
  • Experience with multi-agent design patterns (AutoGen, CrewAI) and complex function-calling structures.
  • Deep knowledge of enterprise AI compliance, data privacy, and Responsible AI frameworks.

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