Principal Full-Stack Architect – GenAI & Cloud Platforms

Four Ways Consulting; Richardson (TX); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Four Ways Consulting seeks a Principal Full-Stack Engineer to lead design and development of cloud-native, GenAI-powered enterprise applications in Richardson, TX. You will drive architecture decisions, build scalable backend services in Java/Python, and create responsive front-ends with ReactJS within a hybrid/onsite environment.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, Deep expertise in AWS/Azure, and hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and vector databases.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Java 17+ application development.
• Advanced Python programming experience.
• Strong front-end development experience using ReactJS.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of enterprise-scale full-stack applications.
• Develop high-performance backend services using Java 17+ and microservices architectures.
• Design and implement responsive front-end applications using ReactJS and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Build and maintain scalable APIs, business services, and distributed systems.
• Architect cloud-native solutions on AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Integrate Generative AI capabilities into enterprise applications using LLMs and foundation models.
• Design and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and knowledge retrieval systems.
• Develop AI-powered applications utilizing embeddings, vector databases, and Agentic AI workflows.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical roadmaps and engineering standards.
• Mentor engineering teams and contribute to technical leadership initiatives.
• Drive software development best practices, code quality, and DevOps excellence.

Skills

Java 17+

Python

ReactJS

Node.js

Microservices

AWS/Azure

SQL/NoSQL

API design

LLMs/GenAI

RAG architectures

Embeddings/VectorDB

Team leadership

Cloud architecture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

VectorDBs

Job description

Four Ways Consulting seeks a Principal Full-Stack Engineer to lead design and development of cloud-native, GenAI-powered enterprise applications in Richardson, TX. You will drive architecture decisions, build scalable backend services in Java/Python, and create responsive front-ends with ReactJS within a hybrid/onsite environment.

The role requires 10+ years of experience, Deep expertise in AWS/Azure, and hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and vector databases.