Lead I Software Engineering
Job Location:
Job Location:
Aliso Viejo, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
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Posted on:
16 hours ago
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation information technology and services
Position: Lead I - Software Engineering
Location: Aliso Viejo CA
Duration: 9 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description :
- Client is building founding Forward Deployment Engineering team and were looking for seasoned engineers to set the bar.
- As a Senior/Staff FDE you sit at the intersection of engineering and the customer.
- You embed directly with internal business teams and external partners to take powerful platforms - AI/GenAI tools data products and custom integrations - and turn them into working solutions that deliver real outcomes.
- You are part builder part problem-solver and part trusted advisor: writing production code one day mapping a messy real-world workflow the next and advising senior stakeholders on strategy by the end of the week.
- This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineer who has done the work before thrives in ambiguity and operates with little oversight.
- As one of the first FDEs you wont just deploy solutions - youll define how this team works: the playbooks the standards the tooling and the bar for everyone who follows.
- Youll also mentor more junior engineers as the team scales.
What Youll Do
- Embed with internal teams and external customers to understand their workflows pain points and goals - then design and deploy solutions that fit.
- Build production-quality code integrations and automations across AI/GenAI data and software platforms to solve concrete business problems.
- Prototype rapid prototypes and proofs-of-concept iterate based on direct user feedback and move them into reliable scalable production.
- Integrate data pipelines APIs and third-party systems handling the real-world messiness of enterprise environments.
- Partner with end users and stakeholders - running demos gathering requirements troubleshooting live and translating technical concepts into business value.
- Feed recurring pain points and friction back to product and engineering teams to influence the core roadmap.
- Monitor and improve solutions for reliability performance and adoption after launch - you own outcomes not just deliverables.
- Establish the playbooks standards and tooling for the FDE function and mentor junior engineers as the team grows.
What Youll Bring
Experience:
- 8 years building and shipping software in production including significant time owning complex ambiguous projects end-to-end with minimal supervision.
- Technical depth: Deep hands-on programming expertise (e.g. Python JavaScript/TypeScript Java or Go) strong system design judgment and fluency working across the full stack and with APIs.
- Platform fluency: Proven experience with data tools (SQL pipelines warehouses such as Snowflake/Databricks) and/or AI/GenAI tooling (LLMs RAG agentic workflows). You bring real breadth and adapt quickly to the right tool for the problem.
- Customer-facing track record: A track record of customer-facing or forward-deployed work - youve shipped solutions directly with end users navigated enterprise complexity and earned the trust of senior stakeholders.
- Leadership: Youve led projects set technical direction and raised the bar for those around you - formally or informally.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication; you translate fluidly between deep technical detail and executive-level business value.
- Bias for action: You ship learn and iterate quickly at a high quality bar and you bring order to ambiguous fast-moving situations.
Nice to Have
- Experience deploying AI/ML or LLM-based solutions in an enterprise setting.
- Cloud experience (AWS GCP or Azure) and familiarity with CI/CD and containerization.
- Experience as a founding or early member of a new team or function.
- Telecommunications or large-scale enterprise data domain knowledge.
Engagement
- This is an initial contract engagement (typically 6 12 months) with the potential to convert to a full-time role based on fit and impact.
- Its an ideal opportunity for a seasoned engineer who wants to help stand up a brand-new function prove the model and shape what a permanent FDE team looks like at client site.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
