Principal Innovation Full Stack Engineer

We are looking for a Former Founder with an emphasis on bringing an entrepreneurial approach to an Innovative team! 7 years of experience building AI powered applications.

About Variable:

We are an innovation team within a Fortune 100 company. Our mission is to discover, experiment, and build disruptive opportunities that leverage evolving frameworks, markets, and emerging technologies.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where innovation thrives. We believe in long-term, strategic investment in innovation and talent, and we provide a stable and resilient platform for our team to grow their careers.

Join us in our mission to shape the future through innovation.

The Role:

• This role provides the rare opportunity to ignite change and disrupt the financial services industry.
• Every member of this growing team is empowered to explore emerging, next-generation technologies, trends, and complementary startups that we believe are poised for exponential growth and align with our core ethos.
• As a full-stack developer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining innovative web applications and software solutions. It is a unique opportunity to rapidly build with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Collaborate closely with operation and strategy leads, UI/UX designers, developers, and researchers.
• Be able to effectively prototype in rapid development cycles and communicate development efforts and key findings to senior leadership.

*The Skills:
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• Take initiative, work independently, strategize, and execute
• Track record of building out full-stack applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, and lead development efforts
• Fluent with newest technologies and modern tech stacks
• Desire to work autonomously. Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
• Implement responsive and user-centric interfaces, ensuring an optimal user experience.
• Create and maintain server-side and client-side code.
• Build efficient backend frameworks, serving content through custom built REST or GraphQL API’s
• Experience integrating with 3rd party API’s, and the ability to effectively communicate to seamlessly integrate into our internal stack
• Experience with NodeJS, Express, NextJS, and ReactJS frameworks. Further experience is preferred that aligns with our stack of pythonic backend frameworks (Starlette, FastAPI, Flask, Django). Mastery of HTML/CSS/JS, and versioning tools (ie. Git).
• Experience with server-less infrastructures such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Deep database experience, whether in an agile setting using systems such as Supabase and Firestore, or other systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Stretch Skills:

• AI Domain Expertise: We are particularly interested in candidates with a strong background in ML/AI. Many of the products we build cover the entire surface of being full stack applications with a heavy underlying emphasis on Machine Learning.
• Experience in developing AI-driven solutions and working with machine learning models, as well as familiarity with AI platforms, tools, and frameworks
• Strong fundamental understanding of machine learning models, feed-forward neural networks, and transformer models
• Deep knowledge of statistical analysis and model explainability
• Experience in vector databases like Pinecone for tasks such as Document Retrieval or Semantic Search, and is familiar with model hosting solutions.
• Former Founders: Founder experience ideal with an emphasis on bringing an entrepreneurial approach along with the ability and desire to build 0-1.
• Web3: Exposure to web3 and blockchain technology, having developed decentralized applications from front-end to balancing off and on-chain infrastructure on the back-end.

Benefits:

• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
• Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus
• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program

If you don’t tick every box above, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.