Lead AI Platform Engineer — On-Site, Stock Options

Moring AI; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Job summary

Moring AI is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to guide engineers building an AI platform for a large financial services enterprise. You will design APIs, write substantial production Python code, and ensure reliability, cost efficiency, and security.

Expect leadership, code reviews, and platform ownership as you ship real systems in customer environments. You will mentor the team, drive CI/CD, and collaborate with customer engineers on security reviews and deployments.

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of software engineering shipping production systems.
• Expert Python; APIs and services; testing and packaging.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, API design, distributed systems.
• Full-stack ability or backend focus; frontend knowledge preferred.
• AWS (EKS/ECS, Lambda, IAM) and Kubernetes; IaC experience.
• AI engineering familiarity: agents, RAG, model APIs.
• Experience in large enterprises or regulated industries is a plus.
• Ability to explain trade-offs to non-engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 3-5 engineers: break down work, set priorities with architect/CEO, review code, ensure timely delivery.
• Write production code across the platform: LLM gateway, agent runtime, MCP servers, registry, evals, and developer APIs.
• Design and build APIs and services in Python with production-grade testing, observability, and robust interfaces.
• Develop the developer-facing platform components (CLI/SDK/web UI) to enable customers to deploy agents end-to-end.
• Own coding standards, review processes, test strategy, and CI/CD practices for the team.
• Extend the evaluation harness to ensure AI changes ship with evidence.
• Deploy into customer environments (AWS, EKS, private networks) with reproducibility.
• Collaborate with customer engineers in design reviews and security assessments.
• Maintain production ownership, on-call rotation, and cost/performance tuning.
• Mentor engineers to raise engineering and AI practices.

Skills

Expert Python

API design

Full-stack knowledge

AWS & Kubernetes

AI engineering familiarity

Team leadership

Communication

Tools

FastAPI

Terraform

CDK

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Moring AI is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to guide engineers building an AI platform for a large financial services enterprise. You will design APIs, write substantial production Python code, and ensure reliability, cost efficiency, and security.

Expect leadership, code reviews, and platform ownership as you ship real systems in customer environments. You will mentor the team, drive CI/CD, and collaborate with customer engineers on security reviews and deployments.