Lead Software Engineer Distributed Systems

Role: Lead Software Engineer Distributed Systems (Python Gen AI / Agentic AI)

Location: Leawood Kansas or Denver CO (Travel to office is once per quarter)

Job Description:

Experience coordinating with offshore teams and managing multiple initiatives (bandwidth permitting).

Ability to collaborate with product teams to gather requirements work with engineering teams to design solutions break down work into actionable tasks and drive end-to-end delivery of projects.

Strong architectural thinking with the ability to clearly articulate system designs trade-offs and technical decisions to large technical audiences.

Critical thinking - The engineer should be able to able to think coherently ask appropriate clarifying question and provide solution to given problem by interviewer.

Communication - Concisely communicate and answer the questions asked by interviewer. Stay on topic when communicating.

Nonfunctional aspects of project - Candidate should be able to share his experience and answer questions around non-functional aspects like scaling monitoring and operations Load and performance testing Code Quality and maintenance (This is a big positive - using AI for self-productivity)

Exposure to Ascend equivalent projects - Candidates should have exposure to large distributed systems project implementation working in bigger teams experience in collaboration with cross functional team member to execute the project.

Extensive experience in distributed systems - Designing microservice architecture and building microservices using REST API using distributed messaging like Kafka or other.

Logic Thinking & Problem Solving - The person should be able to solve medium complexity coding problem (Leet code style medium).

Flexibility to provide sufficient overlap with onsite teams in a fast-paced environment.

Basic awareness of LLMs and Generative AI concepts for future integration.

Preferred experience with Python and FastAPI; open to candidates with Java experience in building distributed microservice-based systems.

Gen AI / Agentic AI - It s as definite plus if the person and has done basic training in Gen AI and Agentic AI programming.

Pi-square technologies is a Michigan (USA) Headquartered Automotive Embedded Engineering Services company Synergy Partner for major OEMs and Tier 1s and their implementation partners in Automotive Embedded Product Development Projects Requirements Analysis Software Design Software Implementation Efficient Build Release Process and turnkey software V & V Services. We have more than 20 years of industry expertise with specialization in the latest cutting-edge automotive technologies such as Infotainment connected vehicles Cyber security OTA and Advanced Safety/ Body electronics.