Senior AI Full-Stack Engineer — React, Python, Azure

First Solar, Inc.; Perrysburg Township (OH); On-site; USD 151,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

First Solar, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to design, develop, and maintain full stack AI-powered web applications for internal business units.

The role emphasizes React/TypeScript frontends and Python/FastAPI backends on Azure, with a focus on scalable, containerized architectures and CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate with data scientists to integrate LLMs and AI agents, build ETL pipelines, and lead engineering standards across multiple product workstreams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field is required.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in full stack software development with modern web frameworks and cloud-native architectures is required.
• Experience with AI/ML integration, LLM-based application development, Azure cloud services, and DevOps practices is highly preferred.
• Experience designing and building ETL/ELT data pipelines, data ingestion workflows, or data platform architectures is preferred.
• Strong proficiency in React with TypeScript and modern frontend tooling (Vite, Tailwind CSS).
• Advanced backend development skills in Python (FastAPI), with the ability to design and build RESTful APIs and asynchronous services.
• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services including Container Apps, Blob Storage, Cognitive Search, Key Vault, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Identity, and Azure Data Factory or equivalent data integration services.
• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, and experience building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or Azure Pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Strong knowledge of SQL databases (Microsoft SQL Server preferred), ORM frameworks (SQLAlchemy), and database migration tools (Alembic).
• Data engineering skills including designing ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, data ingestion from heterogeneous sources (SQL, Excel, flat files, APIs), and data quality validation.
• Demonstrated experience integrating AI/ML models and large language models (LLMs) into production-grade applications.
• Solid understanding of application security best practices including OWASP principles, input validation, secrets management, and RBAC/OAuth/OIDC authentication and authorization patterns.
• Experience with testing frameworks and methodologies including unit testing, integration testing, and test automation (Pytest, Jest, React Testing Library).
• Knowledge of caching strategies (Redis), query optimization, and application performance tuning for high-availability systems.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, structured logging, and alerting frameworks.
• Familiarity with event-driven and message-driven architectures (Azure Service Bus, Event Grid) for asynchronous processing and agent-based workloads.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, Git, and agile methodologies.
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions, establish coding standards, and create reusable design patterns for scalable systems.
• Experience with data visualization libraries (Recharts, Plotly, Matplotlib) and data processing frameworks (Pandas, NumPy).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship to team members, setting industry-standard engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full stack AI-powered web applications that support the organization's digital transformation and product engineering initiatives.
• Build and deploy production-grade applications using React/TypeScript frontends and Python/FastAPI backends on Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Architect scalable, containerized solutions and establish reusable design patterns across multiple AI product workstreams.
• Collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to integrate LLMs, AI agents, and ML models into business applications.
• Design and implement data engineering pipelines to ingest, transform, and serve data from heterogeneous sources.
• Oversee architectural decisions, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code for reliability and security across the SDLC.
• Provide technical leadership by researching and adopting industry-standard engineering practices and mentoring team members.

Skills

React with TypeScript

Python (FastAPI)

Azure cloud

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

SQL Server

ORM (SQLAlchemy)

Pandas/NumPy

LLM integration

ACID data pipelines

Unit/Integration testing

Security best practices

Data visualization (Recharts/Plotly)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IT

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Azure DevOps/Azure Pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure Data Factory

Cognitive Search/Blob Storage/Key Vault

React tooling (Vite, Tailwind)

Job description

First Solar, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to design, develop, and maintain full stack AI-powered web applications for internal business units.

The role emphasizes React/TypeScript frontends and Python/FastAPI backends on Azure, with a focus on scalable, containerized architectures and CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate with data scientists to integrate LLMs and AI agents, build ETL pipelines, and lead engineering standards across multiple product workstreams.