Senior Full-Stack Engineer – AI Platform & Workflows

Shield; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Mental Health Support

Parental Leave

Pet Insurance

Flexible Hours

Onsite Gym

Gym Discount

Free Parking

Stock Benefits

401K Matching

Competitive Pay

Job summary

Shield is seeking a full-stack engineer to join our team and build an extensible application platform integrated with Forge for AI-assisted workflows. You will collaborate with internal SMEs to deliver end-to-end applications and evolve the platform across frontend, backend, and deployment layers.

You will work to validate the platform with real-world workflows, help engineers understand complex systems, and ship reliable AI-enabled capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, and authentication.
• Experience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components.
• Clear communication skills and ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal subject-matter experts to build an extensible application platform and complete applications on it.
• Evolve Forge into an integrated engineering environment with shared foundations for APIs, UIs, extensions, model integrations, and agent tools.
• Validate the platform through real workflows and help engineers understand complex systems, develop autonomy software, and deliver reliable capabilities faster.
• Build and operate a full-stack platform embedded in the workflows used to train, validate, and deploy the AI Pilot.
• Deliver consistent application behavior across local-development and remote-cluster environments and enable tool integration.

Skills

Web architecture

Distributed systems

APIs & contracts

TypeScript & React

Backend services (Go/Python/Rust)

Full-stack ownership

Communication

Tools

TypeScript

React

Go

Python

Rust

Job description

Shield is seeking a full-stack engineer to join our team and build an extensible application platform integrated with Forge for AI-assisted workflows. You will collaborate with internal SMEs to deliver end-to-end applications and evolve the platform across frontend, backend, and deployment layers.

You will work to validate the platform with real-world workflows, help engineers understand complex systems, and ship reliable AI-enabled capabilities.