Technical Lead - Full-Stack AI Engineer - Private Equity SaaS
Technical Lead - Full-Stack AI Engineer - Private Equity SaaS
Location: Chicago, IL | Compensation: $170,000-200,000+ base salary plus equity
Our client, a cutting-edge SaaS platform for private equity and venture capital, is seeking a Full-Stack AI Engineer to design and deliver intelligent, end-to-end solutions that power workflows across investment, compliance, and talent management. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious software engineer that wants to partner with a CTO that boasts a high-caliber background within electronic trading to help take build products from 0-1 in a high-octane team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build scalable full-stack applications integrating AI agents into a secure SaaS platform.
- Develop and optimize LLM pipelines, prompts, and backend systems (Supabase, Postgres, vector DBs).
- Architect APIs and microservices for data processing and retrieval.
- Implement responsive, high-performance frontend interfaces for complex workflows.
- Ensure compliance with SOC 2, GDPR, and SEC standards.
- Collaborate with product and design teams to translate requirements into seamless user experiences.
Key skills:
- 6+ years in full-stack development
- Strong skills in Go, Python, Node.js, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js).
- Hands-on with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic preferred) and vector search (Pinecone, pgvector).
- Experience deploying in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Startup-ready: thrives in ambiguity and owns projects end-to-end while moving fast and not overthinking.
Nice to have: SaaS experience, financial services knowledge, agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
No C2C Candidates.
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