Director of Software Engineering at Acuity leading AI - enabled digital commerce platform development and transforming user experience with modern architecture.
About the role
- Full-Stack Engineer developing features from React UI to APIs in a defense technology company. Engaging in meaningful work that strengthens national security and contributes to U.S. forces.
Responsibilities
- Own features across the stack—from React UI to APIs, data models, and pipelines that feed AI-driven capabilities.
- Build intuitive, performant web experiences; translate wireframes into accessible, production-ready interfaces that handle large datasets.
- Design, implement, and operate APIs (GraphQL/REST) and database schemas; write clean, well-tested Python and SQL, including high-performance queries.
- Ship reliable software with unit/integration tests, CI, and thoughtful code reviews; uphold cross-browser compatibility and front-end performance best practices.
- Deploy and run services with containers/orchestration (Kubernetes) and IaC (Terraform) on AWS; contribute to ETL jobs and data integrations.
- Partner closely with product, design, and data teams to iterate quickly and deliver measurable outcomes for users.
Requirements
- 3+ years building production web applications across front-end and back-end.
- Fluency in Python and SQL; experience designing and shipping APIs.
- Strong React fundamentals (state management, async patterns, component design) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript (ES6+).
- Clear, pragmatic communication of trade-offs; habit of writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
Benefits
- Employee Stock Option Plan
- Comprehensive health insurance benefits
- Access to 401K plan
- Team-oriented work environment
- Regular company outings
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