Senior Software Architect - AI-Driven Systems

Concord; Minneapolis, Saint Paul (MN, MN); On-site; USD 96,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

HSA employer contributions

FSA and LSA options

Disability insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

401(k) employer match

Career growth opportunities

Team engagement activities

Job summary

Concord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to bridge business goals and scalable software solutions. You will own full-stack features, spanning backend, data systems, and UI, with a focus on AI-assisted development practices and architecture leadership.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, prototype quickly, and design robust systems while upholding secure-by-design principles and CI/CD practices. This role offers autonomy and leadership opportunities.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience with architecture ownership and leadership.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience with AI-assisted/agentic development tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code).
• Experience with automation, CI/CD, and DevSecOps (secure-by-design, observability, monitoring/alerting).
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading project teams.
• Experience communicating technical strategy to executives and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable, robust technical architectures, anticipating edge cases and operational concerns.
• Make pragmatic technology decisions and design systems for long-term maintainability.
• Work with stakeholders to prototype and validate concepts, accelerating feedback cycles.
• Own features end-to-end across backend services, data systems, and user interfaces.
• Use AI tools throughout the development lifecycle with quality controls and deterministic validation checks.
• Evaluate AI tools critically rather than adopting them by default.
• Build secure-by-design software with CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Serve as technical lead: define architecture, guide design, mentor engineers, and communicate with executives.

Skills

Python

Cloud platforms

AI-assisted tools

CI/CD/DevSecOps

Mentoring engineers

Executive communication

Tools

Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Concord is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to bridge business goals and scalable software solutions. You will own full-stack features, spanning backend, data systems, and UI, with a focus on AI-assisted development practices and architecture leadership.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, prototype quickly, and design robust systems while upholding secure-by-design principles and CI/CD practices. This role offers autonomy and leadership opportunities.