Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

About the role

Shield AI, a venture-backed defense-tech company, is hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer for its Shared Services Engineering team. The team builds and operates common services, SDKs, APIs and customer-facing applications that connect Shield's products, reducing duplicated engineering and giving a consistent experience across product types. The role spans customer-facing web applications, backend services and product integrations, with ownership from design through production operation.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs and APIs
• Contribute to shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal and future public telemetry APIs
• Partner with product and engineering teams to understand shared needs and develop reusable capabilities
• Establish secure, reliable, documented and versioned interfaces for internal engineering teams and external customers
• Own solutions through design, implementation, testing, deployment and production support
• Contribute to technical direction through design reviews and collaboration with other engineers

Required profile

• 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated technical judgment in designing and operating full-stack applications, backend services, APIs or distributed systems
• Ability to turn recurring or ambiguous needs into coherent, reusable solutions
• Track record of owning production software from design through operation and continuous improvement
• Effective collaboration and communication across engineering, product and organizational stakeholders

Preferred qualifications

• Experience creating shared capabilities adopted across multiple products or engineering teams
• Depth in identity and authentication, public APIs and SDKs, or OpenTelemetry and high-volume telemetry data
• Experience building modern web applications and their backend services
• Experience building secure, reliable software in regulated or compliance-driven environments