Senior Lead Software Engineer Python, Agentic AI Cloud 4-10 Years Experience Must-Have Skills Python strong, production-grade proficiency Databases solid relational/SQL fundamentals; schema design, query optimization, data modeling Cloud platform strong hands-on experience with at least one of: Google Cloud Platform or AWS 4+ years of professional software engineering experience Design Architecture Thinking Strong grounding in modular design clear separation of concerns well-bounded components/services low coupling / high cohesion Ability to design systems that scale horizontally statelessness where it matters partitioning/sharding strategy load distribution avoiding single points of contention Working fluency in core design patterns and principles and knowing when to apply vs. avoid them API & Real-Time Integration Best Practices Strong grasp of RESTful API design resource modeling versioning pagination idempotency for retries, proper status codes/error contracts Practical experience with WebSocket-based real-time communication - connection lifecycle management, reconnection/backoff strategy heartbeat/keep-alive handling and graceful degradation when a socket drops Understands tradeoffs between REST WebSockets and event-driven/streaming integration patterns and picks the right one for the use case Designs integrations for observability and resilience structured logging timeouts circuit breakers and clear failure modes rather than silent drops Highly Desired Java working knowledge candidates comfortable in both Python and Java are ideal Healthcare domain experience prior work on healthcare health-tech or health-data platforms is a strong plus ML/AI exposure enough to reason about model outputs, confidence, and integration patterns Role Expectations by Level Senior Engineer Contributes to architecture discussions; applies design patterns appropriately Mentors junior engineers informally Nice to Have Deep AI/ML research background not required this is an application/systems engineering role that touches AI tooling not a research role What We're Really Screening For Strong in Python SQL databases as a baseline Solid architectural instincts modular scalable design not just make it work Comfortable or curious about Java Open to learning already exposed to agentic AI MCP server patterns