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AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
The Senior Software Engineer helps build, evolve, and operate the platforms that power AHEAD's business across cloud, data, AI, security, and software delivery. This role takes meaningful work from problem definition through production, makes sound technical decisions, and helps the team deliver software that is secure, reliable, and maintainable.
Key Responsibilities
- Own well-scoped initiatives from understanding the user need and business outcome through design, implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement.
- Design and build secure, scalable solutions across web applications, services, APIs, MCP servers and integrations, data pipelines, and platform integrations.
- Use AI tools and coding agents to accelerate exploration, scaffolding, refactors, tests, documentation, and research, then review, test, secure, and harden everything shipped.
- Participate across analysis, design, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, observability, debugging, and support.
- Contribute to architecture reviews and code reviews, and help improve engineering standards for quality, security, reliability, and maintainability.
- Partner with product, design, data, security, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into executable plans.
- Identify technical risk, unclear ownership, data quality issues, security gaps, operational blind spots, and technical debt, then help address them.
- Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to a culture of clear ownership, continuous learning, and accountable delivery.
- Perform other job duties as assigned.
Education & Experience
- Minimum Required - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred - 7+ years of software engineering experience, with experience taking significant work from idea through production and contributing to technical direction or project leadership.
Knowledge, skills & abilities
- Strong software engineering judgment, including the ability to break down complex problems, explain tradeoffs, and make pragmatic decisions that support long-term maintainability.
- Experience with modern web and service development, especially JavaScript or TypeScript, Next.js, and/or Golang. Experience with Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Elixir, Kotlin, or similar technologies is welcome.
- Experience with relational systems and data workflows, including schema design, query performance, migrations, data quality, and data integrity. Experience with dbt, Snowflake, or PostgreSQL is valuable.
- Strong foundation in automated testing, continuous integration, deployment automation, observability, secure development, and containerization.
- AIDLC-first mindset and practical fluency with AI development tools or coding agents, paired with the discipline to inspect, test, secure, and own everything shipped.
- Clear, direct communication with engineers, stakeholders, and the AI tools used throughout the development lifecycle.
- Ability to lead projects, mentor peers, collaborate across functions, and raise the quality of the people and systems around you.
- Ability to learn new languages, frameworks, and technical domains quickly.
Why AHEAD
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
India Employment Benefits include:
Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents
Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy
Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance
Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling
Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being
Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations
Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership