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This position serves as a senior individual contributor with broad full-stack ownership and is accountable for translating ambiguous business and technical requirements into secure, reliable, production-ready solutions. The role supports the continued scale of a digital experience platform used by education, workforce, and justice-sector programs and is expected to expand in technical scope, mentorship, and leadership responsibility as the engineering organization grows.\nEssential Functions:\nDesign, develop, test, deploy, and support production features across the full technology stack, including a React and TypeScript front end, Node.js and Express APIs, PostgreSQL, a Rust network-proxy layer, and the AchieveDXP content-integration framework. \nOwn significant platform components and technical initiatives from architecture and design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and ongoing improvement. \nDevelop and operationalize AI-enabled capabilities, including large language model features, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, model selection, guardrails, and secure data-handling patterns. \nMaintain secure and reliable services for multi-tenant, per-facility deployments in Azure Kubernetes environments using technologies such as Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD, containers, and CI/CD pipelines. \nContribute to architecture decisions, engineering standards, code reviews, testing practices, technical documentation, and the identification and resolution of platform risks. \nPartner with product, implementation, customer-facing, and engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements, explain technical tradeoffs, and deliver solutions that address user and business needs. \nParticipate in the redesign and continued scaling of AchieveDXP to support increased usage and expansion into adult education and workforce development programs. \nMentor engineers, share technical knowledge, and help strengthen a distributed, high-trust engineering culture. \nPerform other duties and responsibilities as assigned. \nRequirements\nMinimum of six years of professional experience building and supporting production software, including substantial full-stack development responsibility. \nDemonstrated experience independently owning complex or ambiguous technical problems from definition through production delivery. \nDemonstrated experience delivering AI or large language model capabilities to production, including experience with agents, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluations, and pragmatic model selection. \nAdvanced proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, relational database design, API design, and PostgreSQL. \nExperience with cloud-native development and operations, including containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices. \nAbility to communicate technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders. \nAbility to work effectively with customers and internal partners in a distributed work environment. \nMust be based in and authorized to work in the United States. \nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:\nExperience with Rust, Tokio, or Actix, or demonstrated ability and willingness to learn Rust. \nExperience with browser automation, browser extensions, Manifest V3, proxy technologies, or network filtering. \nExperience working with distributed or India-based engineering teams. \nExperience in education technology or in secure, regulated, restricted, or air-gapped environments. \nExperience mentoring engineers or assuming technical leadership responsibilities. \nOTHER SKILLS / ABILITIES:\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. \nAbility to balance product outcomes, user needs, security, reliability, and delivery priorities. \nAbility to work independently, manage competing priorities, and exercise sound judgment with limited oversight. \nCollaborative approach, professional communication style, and commitment to documentation and knowledge sharing. \nInterest in expanding access to education and economic opportunity through technology. \nPHYSICAL DEMANDS:\nAbility to remain in a stationary position and work at a computer for extended periods during the workday. \nFrequent keyboarding and use of standard computer and office equipment. \nAbility to communicate and exchange information with coworkers, customers, and other stakeholders through virtual meetings, telephone, and written channels. \nNear-vision ability sufficient to review detailed information on computer screens and in technical documentation. \nWORK LOCATION AND SCHEDULE:\nRemote position within the United States. 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