{"id":1473573,"url":"https://alion.io/job/focused-senior-engineer-agent-academy","title":"Senior Engineer: Agent Academy","company":{"id":699762,"name":"Focused","domain":"focused.io","url":"https://alion.io/company/focused-3","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":84,"open_postings":14,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.643,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Denver, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":60,"max":85,"currency":"USD","period":"hour","gross":null,"usd_annual":170000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"A/B Testing","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"Django","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"FastAPI","optional":false},{"name":"Honeycomb","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"Prisma","optional":false},{"name":"Pydantic","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Ruby","optional":false},{"name":"SQLAlchemy","optional":false},{"name":"Svelte","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Vue.js","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":true},{"name":"Docker Compose","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"LangChain","optional":true},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":true},{"name":"LangSmith","optional":true},{"name":"LLM","optional":true},{"name":"Node JS","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T16:42:29Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T04:08:38Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Who we are:\nAt Focused, we move quickly to deliver quality software that achieves client outcomes and meets their customer's needs. We strategically partner with our clients to leverage our expertise in design and software, while our clients bring their own domain expertise. We work with a variety of clients from different industries, collaborating as we get new products to market, modernizing legacy systems, or helping teams learn the skills they need to be successful.\nOur values:\nListen first • We are experts in product practices but life long learners in the domain of our customers. We research, collaborate, and understand.\nLearn why • We ask questions and talk to users to understand problem spaces, objectives, and goals, which allows us to deeply invest and drive towards the outcomes of our clients.\nLove your craft • We love diving into a variety of domains and solving problems. We take pride in delivering value, in communicating progress, and guiding our clients to success.\nAt Focused, our Engineers are both practitioners and experts in their craft. This role would play a crucial role in shaping and implementing engineering best practices and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software projects. With clients, we develop trust and influence - we are unintimidated and unintimidating. With colleagues, we set the standard for how we deliver success for clients.\nWhat would you be doing?\nWriting lots of code\nDelivering features end to end across the stack, from backend services and APIs to modern web UIs.\nPair program daily with teammates and clients to share knowledge, improve code quality, and grow together.\nPractice TDD and continuous refactoring to ensure code is reliable, maintainable, and understandable.\nBuild APIs with FastAPI, Express, or similar, with clear schemas and validation using tools like Pydantic, JSON Schema, or zod.\nContainerize, deploy, and monitor apps in the cloud using Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools like Honeycomb or Datadog.\nCollaborate closely with designers, product managers, and stakeholders to continuously deliver valuable software.\nHelp define metrics and run experiments, including A/B tests, so we know what's actually working.\nStay curious through experimenting with new patterns in the GenAI space, share what works (and what doesn't), and help evolve how we build AI-powered software.\nWe are excited about you, because you:\nYou're a hands-on, full stack engineer with a strong track record of delivering software in collaborative, agile environments.\nYou're proficient in Python and/or JS/TypeScript (Ruby or similar works too) and have solid OOP and design fundamentals.\nYou understand async/await and the event loop as well as thread-based concurrency, and you know when to use which.\nYou believe that code quality matters, and that TDD and pairing help build better systems and stronger teams. You're comfortable with unit and integration tests, regression suites, and CI gates.\nYou know your REST fundamentals (HTTP verbs, status codes, CORS) and have modeled data with ORMs like SQLAlchemy, Django ORM, ActiveRecord, or Prisma.\nYou can jump into an existing React, Vue, or Svelte frontend and ship changes, with or without a coding agent.\nYou've deployed containerized apps to a cloud provider and have a working understanding of IAM, scaling, logging, and observability.\nYou've worked directly with clients or product stakeholders and can explain technical work in language anyone can understand.\nYou're excited about what's happening in the AI space but stay focused on delivering value.\nYou love to share what you're learning and make the team around you better.\nNice to have:\nExposure to LLM APIs or agent frameworks\nExperience building AI-enabled applications with LangChain and LLMs that deliver production-ready outcomes for clients\nHands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith\nIf you had worked at Focused over the last 3 months you may have:\nPaired with a teammate to build a FastAPI service with Pydantic validation and solid test coverage\nTracked down and fixed a race condition in an async background worker\nRefactored a flaky test suite to support continuous delivery with confidence\nSet up Docker Compose for a client team so new devs could get running on day one\nAdded tracing in Honeycomb that helped a client find and fix a slow endpoint\nShipped a React feature in an existing client frontend alongside a coding agent\nContributed to our internal playbook on building with LLM APIs\nHelped write this job req\nWhat to know before you apply:\nThis is a contract-to-hire role. It starts with an 8 week program followed by a one month evaluation period, for a total of about 3 months.\nDuring the program, you'll be required to earn the LangChain Certified Agent Engineer certification and the Claude Architect certificate.\nFocused is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this program.\nThis role requires being in our Denver office three days per week.\nThis is an hourly position for the duration of the contract, with a pay range of $60 to $85 per hour. 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