KWI

Technical Lead

KWI

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Melville • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $170,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsDynamoDBHibernateJavaMicroservicesMongoDBMySQLNoSQLOraclePostgresRedisSQL

About the role

  • Lead the development and implementation of software projects from inception to deployment.
  • Deep experience in distributed systems, AI development, and software architecture to help us build and scale intelligent, autonomous systems using Spec Driven Development or Agentic Development.
  • You’ll lead the design and development of next-generation AI-driven applications powered by agent frameworks, ensuring performance, safety, and interoperability across our platforms.
  • Lead proof-of-concept development to validate new AI agent workflows, APIs, and interfaces.
  • Evaluate emerging AI agent technologies and contribute to long-term architectural roadmaps.
  • Be a creative problem solver who can draw on an array of expertise and technology to design and implement reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions to challenging problems.
  • Work closely with multiple teams to deliver transformational changes to our processes and technologies.
  • Lead the technical specification, development, integration, testing and release of software components
  • Identify and address technical challenges, optimize code for performance, and participate in ongoing code refactoring.
  • Design and implement scalable software systems aligned with organizational architecture and security best practices.

Requirements

  • BS Degree in Computer Science/Engineering related degree or equivalent work experience
  • Expertise in Service-oriented architecture, microservices, advanced database schemes, relational and nonrelational databases, highly scalable and available web services.
  • 6+ Years of production coding experience, preferably in server-side Java and/or other object-oriented languages.
  • Hands-on experience in building RESTful Web Services
  • Prior experience using SQL, Hibernate, and one or more DB (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, etc)
  • Prior experience using NoSQL. (Redis, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc)
  • Hands-on experience with Agent OS, Cursor or similar frameworks.
  • Experience with automated testing frameworks (TDD, Mocking, Unit/Functional/Integration)
  • Extensive experience with Agile methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum or SAFE
Benefits
  • Full Medical, Dental and Vision
  • Annual bonus eligible
  • Free gym in the building
  • Generous PTO policy
  • Summer Fridays....all year round
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Discount from building café
  • 401(K) with a 50% company match (up to 6% of employee contribution)
  • Employee Referral Program
  • (1) Volunteer day each year

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
distributed systemsAI developmentsoftware architectureSpec Driven DevelopmentAgentic DevelopmentRESTful Web ServicesSQLNoSQLautomated testing frameworksAgile methodologies
Soft skills
creative problem solvingleadershipcollaborationcommunication
Certifications
BS Degree in Computer ScienceEngineering related degree