nucleo
Website:
nucleohq.com
Job details:
Role OverviewWe are looking for a highly accomplished Software Engineer with deep hands-on expertise and system design mastery to drive the architecture, scalability, and execution of our end-to-end platform.
In this role, you will be the technical backbone of our engineering efforts—solving complex software challenges, designing resilient systems, and delivering business-aligned solutions. While this is primarily an individual contributor role requiring heavy hands-on coding, we are seeking a candidate with natural technical leadership qualities who can mentor team members, establish engineering SOPs, and step up to act as a Lead Engineer as our team grows.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & System Design- Technical Design & Documentation: Draft technical design documents, maintain architecture decision matrices, and continuously update the end-to-end platform architecture map.
- High Availability & Resilience: Design robust failure and recovery mechanisms to ensure platform stability, fault tolerance, and zero downtime.
- Observability: Architect and implement multi-layered observability across applications, databases, infrastructure, and third-party integrations.
Hands-On Execution & AI Integration- Full-Stack Development: Write clean, maintainable, high-performance code across the entire stack using modern frameworks and microservice architecture.
- Practical AI Engineering: Integrate AI capabilities, LLMs, and intelligent workflows into core business applications rather than building isolated GenAI experiments.
- Product & Engineering Bridge: Collaborate with product managers to evaluate feature feasibility, refine user flows, and translate functional requirements into scalable technical implementations.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship- Growth & Mentorship: Act as a technical anchor for the team—conducting thorough code reviews, pair programming, and mentoring junior/mid-level engineers.
- Leadership Trajectory: Serve as the primary technical voice on projects, balancing technical debt with rapid execution, and stepping into lead engineer duties when coordinating cross-functional technical initiatives.
- Executive & Stakeholder Alignment: Help communicate trade-offs, timelines, risks, technical constraints, and dependencies to business and product stakeholders in clear, non-technical language.
Quality, DevOps & Operations- Best Practices & SOPs: Define and enforce engineering, coding, testing, and documentation best practices across the team.
- CI/CD & Infrastructure: Design and maintain continuous integration and build/deployment pipelines. Work with cloud infrastructure (AWS) to optimize system performance and manage resource utilization.
- Production Ownership & FinOps: Own production issue resolution, maintain release stability, uphold strict SLAs, and collaborate on operational frameworks such as FinOps (including monitoring AI runtime/cloud infrastructure costs).
Required Technical Skills & Qualifications- Experience: 6 to 8+ years of core software engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing, building, and running production systems at scale.
- Full-Stack Mastery: Exceptional proficiency in Node.js, Python, Next.js, MongoDB, RESTful Services, microservices, and API design/integration.
- Cloud & DevOps: Strong hands-on experience with AWS Cloud services, containerization, and automated CI/CD build pipelines.
- AI Ecosystem: Solid understanding of AI engineering principles, specifically integrating LLMs and AI services into end-to-end software applications.
- Security & Privacy: Deep understanding of data privacy rules, application security best practices, and secure coding standards.
- Leadership Potential: Demonstrated capability or strong desire to lead technical initiatives, drive architecture strategy, and step into a Lead Engineer role.
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