Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Build Shared Services & APIs

Shieldai; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI in San Diego is seeking a seasoned Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Shared Services Engineering team. You will design, build, and operate full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs, and APIs that connect Shield’s products.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to define shared needs, turn ambiguous problems into durable solutions, and own your work from design through production operation in a product-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated technical judgment in the design and operation of full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems.
• Systems thinking and the ability to turn recurring or ambiguous needs into coherent, reusable solutions.
• Track record of owning production software from initial design through operation and continuous improvement.
• Effective collaboration and communication across engineering, product, and organizational stakeholders.
• Experience creating shared capabilities adopted across multiple products or engineering teams.
• Depth in one or more relevant domains, such as identity and authentication, public APIs and SDKs, or OpenTelemetry and high-volume telemetry data.
• Experience building modern web applications and the backend services that support them.
• Experience building and operating secure, reliable software in regulated or compliance-driven environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs, and APIs.
• Contribute to shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal, and future public telemetry APIs.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to understand shared needs and develop reusable capabilities.
• Establish secure, reliable, documented, and versioned interfaces for internal engineering teams and external customers.
• Own solutions through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Contribute to technical direction through design reviews, thoughtful tradeoffs, and collaboration with other engineers.

Skills

Full-stack

Systems thinking

Production ownership

Collaborative communication

OpenTelemetry

Telemetry data

Tools

REST APIs

Git

Job description

Shield AI in San Diego is seeking a seasoned Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Shared Services Engineering team. You will design, build, and operate full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs, and APIs that connect Shield’s products.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to define shared needs, turn ambiguous problems into durable solutions, and own your work from design through production operation in a product-focused environment.