Lead AI Software Engineer: Build, Deploy, Lead Teams

NYU Langone Hospitals; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

NYU Langone Health is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - AI Coding to drive the design, development, and maintenance of custom software solutions using advanced AI coding tools. You will lead a cross-functional team, ensure high-quality, scalable software, and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

The role requires extensive experience with web technologies, AI toolchains, REST APIs, and full-stack development across frontend and backend.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in engineering or computer science related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of building custom software solutions using at least two modern object-oriented programming and/or scripting languages with a web application framework.
• 2+ years serving as a tech lead on a team directing engineering efforts, delegating work and liaising with onshore and offshore engineers.
• Expert knowledge of web technologies including HTTP/2, TLS encryption, caching, browsers, cookies, HTTP headers, HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
• Expert knowledge of using at least one advanced AI coding tool using spec driven development (SDD) and building harnesses for coding agents.
• Expert knowledge of the Unix operating system (RHEL/Centos, Ubuntu).
• Expert knowledge of GIT version control including branches, code reviews, tags, etc.
• Expert knowledge of using unit testing frameworks and writing unit tests as part of development.
• Expert knowledge of agile scrum methodology and experience on a scrum team.
• Expert knowledge of relational databases designing normalized schemas, creating schemas, indexes, writing SQL queries and performance troubleshooting.
• Expert knowledge of creating REST APIs and REST standards with API documentation.
• Full stack development: frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React) and backend (Python, PHP).
• Experience with cloud and DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Use AI coding tools to create source code as required to implement features during sprint planning.
• Develop test harnesses and quality gates for AI generated code.
• Perform production deployments as needed.
• Participate in daily standups and scrum ceremonies estimating story points for requested work.
• Provide support and guidance for junior developers and offshore engineers.
• Implement code with best practices for operational support, error handling, logging, metrics, and tuning timeouts.
• Lead, direct, delegate work and liaise with a team of engineers to accomplish sprint goals.
• Encourage adherence to standards, security, unit testing, DevOps and instrumentation-driven build-to-operate strategy.
• Facilitate continuous improvement to enhance maturity of custom software products.
• Evaluate tools and technologies and provide analysis and recommendations.
• Participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation and provide production support as needed.

Skills

JavaScript

Python

React

GIT

CI/CD

Agile Scrum

Education

BS or MS in engineering or computer science related discipline

Tools

Git

Jenkins

REST APIs

SQL

Cloud platform

Job description

NYU Langone Health is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - AI Coding to drive the design, development, and maintenance of custom software solutions using advanced AI coding tools. You will lead a cross-functional team, ensure high-quality, scalable software, and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

The role requires extensive experience with web technologies, AI toolchains, REST APIs, and full-stack development across frontend and backend.