Lead Full-Stack Engineer for AI Platforms

Relha LLC; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Target is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer - Advanced AI in Minnesota. The role designs, builds, deploys, and maintains full-stack solutions that embed AI/ML capabilities into core workflows.

You will collaborate with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and product partners to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable applications. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on software engineering, strong full-stack expertise, and the ability to mentor others while driving architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including experience building and operating production applications.
• Strong experience building full-stack applications, including user-facing experiences, backend services, APIs, integrations, and data-driven workflows.
• Strong proficiency with modern backend and frontend development.
• Experience with modern web application frameworks, API design, service-oriented architectures, data integration patterns, and production application development.
• Experience building applications that integrate with AI/ML capabilities, including model APIs, LLM-powered workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, intelligent automation, or data science outputs.
• Strong understanding of system design, application architecture, security, performance, scalability, reliability, accessibility, observability, testing, and production deployment considerations.
• Experience building scalable, maintainable, and well-tested services, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, applications, or platforms.
• Experience with version control, CI/CD, code review practices, documentation, operational monitoring, and production support.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business and user needs into clear technical approaches and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver practical solutions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to engineers, AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, business stakeholders and leaders.
• Ability to mentor engineers, contribute to technical direction, and raise the quality of full-stack engineering practices within a team.
• Self-driven and results-oriented, with strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to move quickly while maintaining high technical standards.
• Collaborative team player with a commitment to continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and building reliable AI-powered applications that create business value.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain the application layers, services, APIs, and user experiences that bring AI/ML capabilities into core business workflows.
• Work closely with AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, product partners, platform teams, security teams, and business stakeholders to turn complex AI capabilities into practical, intuitive, and scalable applications.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for full-stack engineering initiatives across Advanced AI applications and help establish strong engineering practices.
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions, build production-quality code, create APIs and services, and ensure security, reliability, and performance.
• Mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and raise the quality of full-stack practices within the team.
• Operate in a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day setup, coordinating onsite and virtual work to meet project needs.

Job description

Target is seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer - Advanced AI in Minnesota. The role designs, builds, deploys, and maintains full-stack solutions that embed AI/ML capabilities into core workflows.

You will collaborate with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and product partners to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable applications. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of hands-on software engineering, strong full-stack expertise, and the ability to mentor others while driving architectural decisions.