Senior Software Engineer

Effectual’s Office of the CTO sets the company’s technical strategy and delivers the innovation that makes it real. We build and validate new platforms and capabilities, then take the right ones to production. AI and agentic systems remain a core thread of the roadmap, with established production deployments both internally and for customers. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will bring ideas to production on AWS, including integrating LLMs and agents with various platforms and enterprise APIs. This role is primarily internal innovation with occasional support for customer engagements, and the solutions you build will frequently be used both internally and for customer engagements. You will report to the CTO & Chief AI Officer and work with a cross-functional team.

Your days follow an agile rhythm: two-week sprints, daily standups, PR-driven development with code reviews, and end-of-sprint demos to showcase progress. A strong documentation culture keeps work clear and consistent, with design docs, ADRs, and runbooks shaping how the team builds and delivers.

Collaboration is at the heart of your role. You’ll partner with product, sales, solution architecture, delivery, and operations to transform prototypes into scalable platforms. Some days you’ll support sales by identifying client use cases or drafting SOWs, while others you’ll focus on pragmatic experimentation—testing small, measurable ideas that graduate into pilots and production deployments.

You’ll also enjoy protected learning time (about 10% of your week) to explore new tech, research, and prototype. Working in a remote-first environment, you’ll connect with teammates across US time zones, with core hours spanning Pacific through Eastern.

• Build agentic services in Python using frameworks like LangGraph and LangChain, leveraging the latest frontier LLMs from Anthropic, OpenAI, and others.
• Integrate with enterprise platforms, APIs, and developer/data systems to automate workflows and enrich context.
• Design, develop, and deploy web apps, generally leveraging Typescript, React, and Tailwind CSS.
• Design data and retrieval patterns (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, RAG), as well as evaluation and guardrails.
• Build backends in Python using libraries like FastAPI.
• Contribute to CI/CD, collaborate with platform and DevOps engineers to codify infrastructure (Terraform preferred), and instrument services (tests, monitoring, safe rollback).

• 7+ years building production applications from design through release and iteration.
• Hands-on LLM integration (tool use/function calling, retrieval, evaluations, safety/guardrails, tracing/observability).
• Strong Python (APIs, async/concurrency, packaging, testing), and TypeScript with React.
• Comfortable with databases (PostgreSQL and/or DynamoDB preferred) and log/event pipelines.
• Experience with a hyperscale cloud platform (AWS preferred): compute, messaging/queueing, storage, CI/CD, observability, IAM basics.
• Practical use of AI dev tools (Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate delivery.
• Excellent collaboration and communication; able to partner with internal stakeholders and (when needed) customers.

• LangGraph/LangChain (others welcome) and multiagent patterns.
• Terraform; maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• UI/UX instincts for operator workflows.
• LLM evaluation and guardrails (harnesses, red teaming, content filters).
• Experience delivering in enterprise scale or public sector environments.
• Experience in regulated/compliance contexts (HIPAA, PCI DSS) and with change processes.
• AWS Bedrock model fine-tuning customization and/or SageMaker experience; vector stores (OpenSearch, pgvector); prompt caching.
• Experience with prompt and context engineering and structured output from LLMs.
• Business process automation/analysis; consulting/stakeholder management.
• Docker or other containerization technologies.
• Business process automation/analysis; consulting/stakeholder management.

Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our employee benefit programs:

• Medical, dental, and vision health insurances,
• Short term disability, long term disability and life insurances,
• 401k with Company match
• Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year)
• Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year)
• These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management’s discretion and may change at any time. 

The work is generally performed in an office environment.  Physical demands include sitting, keyboarding, verbal communication, written communication.  Employees are occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Salary Range for this position: $150,000-$180,000

Salary ranges provided are for informational purposes only and may vary depending on factors such as experience, qualifications, and geographic location. The final salary offer will be determined based on the candidate's skills and alignment with the role requirements.

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended anytime at the sole discretion of the Employer. Duties and responsibilities are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship. Effectual Inc. is an EEO employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected classification in its hiring, promoting, or any other job-related opportunity.