Lead AI Software Engineer

Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan (Hybrid)
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Industry: Financial Services

Job Summary

Seeking a Lead AI Software Engineer to design and build backend services, APIs, and governance components that support enterprise AI and agentic systems. This role focuses on distributed architectures, cross-service enforcement patterns, observability, and platform engineering using modern cloud technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and APIs.

• Build enforcement, validation, and filtering mechanisms across distributed systems.

• Define cross-service architecture patterns and interface contracts.

• Develop shared platform tooling and governance components.

• Implement observability solutions including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.

• Mentor engineers on defensive programming and resilient system design.

• Collaborate across engineering teams to establish scalable development standards.

Required Skills

• Python

• TypeScript

• AWS

• AWS Lambda

• AWS Fargate

• API Gateway

• Backend Development

• REST APIs

• Microservices

• Distributed Systems

• Platform Engineering

• Software Deployment

• Observability

• Structured Logging

• Metrics & Monitoring

• Distributed Tracing

Preferred Skills

• AWS Bedrock

• Agentic AI / Multi-Agent Systems

• LangChain

• LangGraph

• LLM Integration

• Prompt Injection Detection

• AI Guardrails

• Output Filtering

• Developer Tooling

• Platform Engineering Experience

Required Experience

• 5 - 8+ years of software engineering experience.

• Strong hands-on experience with Python and TypeScript.

• Experience building production systems on AWS.

• Experience designing scalable backend services and APIs.

• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.

• Experience defining technical standards, contracts, or reusable engineering patterns.

• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.

Domain Experience

• Banking

• Financial Services

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.

• Equivalent experience considered.

Additional Information

• Work Model: Hybrid

• Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan

• Travel Requirements: None

• Team Structure: AI Engineering / Platform Engineering Team

• Interview Process: To be discussed

This role is ideal for engineers with deep backend expertise who are interested in building enterprise-scale AI platforms, governance frameworks, and agentic workflow systems.