Senior Full-Stack Engineer - AI for Construction Platform

Foresight Works; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

401(k)

PTO

Job summary

Foresight is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build the core platform that accelerates large-scale construction projects. You will design APIs and data models, implement interfaces for risk predictions and AI recommendations, and own features from database to browser in a hands-on role.

The position emphasizes end-to-end ownership, performance tuning, and collaboration with ML, product, and customers. Location flexibility exists across major US cities with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping web products with ownership on frontend and backend.
• Proficient in Python on backend (FastAPI/Django) and TypeScript with React on frontend.
• Strong relational data modeling in PostgreSQL: schema design, indexes, migrations.
• Experience with async work: queues, background jobs, retries, idempotency.
• Hands-on with AWS services (S3, RDS, queues or event services, containers or serverless).
• Commitment to correctness: permissions, concurrency, and multi-tenant isolation.
• Proficient in tests and debugging production issues via logs/metrics.
• Excellent written communication and ability to trade off in a small fast team.

Responsibilities

• Own features from design through release and beyond, measuring adoption and iterating.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to turn models into production features customers rely on.
• Partner with product, design and customers to identify the most impactful problems.
• Tune performance across the stack: page load, API latency, and query speed.
• Raise the bar on architecture, testing, observability and how the team ships.
• Help shape the product and technical roadmap.

Skills

Python backend

TypeScript frontend

PostgreSQL modeling

AWS cloud

Testing & debugging

Tools

FastAPI

Django

React

SQLAlchemy

Temporal

Airflow

Terraform

CDK

Job description

Foresight is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build the core platform that accelerates large-scale construction projects. You will design APIs and data models, implement interfaces for risk predictions and AI recommendations, and own features from database to browser in a hands-on role.

The position emphasizes end-to-end ownership, performance tuning, and collaboration with ML, product, and customers. Location flexibility exists across major US cities with travel as needed.