Senior Staff Engineer - AI-Driven Platform

Ncontracts; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

11 holidays

Health insurance

Dental and Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with match

Volunteer time off

Pet Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Mental Health Benefits

Job summary

Ncontracts, based in Nashville, seeks a Level 5 Senior Developer to set platform direction across multiple squads and define standards that guide the engineering organization. You’ll architect distributed systems, enable high availability, and drive strategic technical initiatives with leadership and cross-functional partners.

You’ll mentor senior engineers, shape patterns and tooling, and champion AI-forward practices while balancing quality and security.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python.
• Proven track record architecting distributed, scalable systems.
• Cloud architecture experience in Azure and/or AWS with infrastructure-as-code.
• Fluency with event-driven architecture and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong API design and security at scale (OAuth).
• Advanced data modeling with SQL and relational databases.
• Experience designing CI/CD and deployment strategies.
• Observability with metrics, logging, and tracing (SLIs/SLOs).
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into production systems.
• Mentoring senior engineers and leading technical strategy across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across multiple squads and define platform standards.
• Architect complex, distributed systems for high availability and scale.
• Mentor senior engineers and create reusable patterns, tooling, and documentation.
• Drive organization-wide improvements and strategic technical initiatives.
• Define how teams use AI assistants and AI-powered capabilities.
• Promote honesty, low ego, and deep curiosity in engineering decisions.
• Balance tradeoffs to align with business goals while ensuring quality.

Skills

C#

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud (Azure/AWS)

API design & security

CI/CD

Observability

AI/LLM integration

Mentoring

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

Vector databases

RAG

Agentic AI patterns

Job description

Ncontracts, based in Nashville, seeks a Level 5 Senior Developer to set platform direction across multiple squads and define standards that guide the engineering organization. You’ll architect distributed systems, enable high availability, and drive strategic technical initiatives with leadership and cross-functional partners.

You’ll mentor senior engineers, shape patterns and tooling, and champion AI-forward practices while balancing quality and security.