84.51˚ · 1 hour ago
Lead Software Engineer (P4475, P4477)
Cincinnati, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$121K/yr - $201K/yr
4+ years exp84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Agentic Foundations team, responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the agentic backbone of the Kroger enterprise. The role involves providing hands-on technical leadership and collaborating with product management, data science, and engineering teams to deliver enterprise-grade capabilities.
Management Consulting
Hiring Manager
Sarah Small-Sadler
Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, and operation of core agentic platforms, services, and tooling used across the Kroger enterprise
Own technical outcomes for a more specific product area, such as registries (agent/MCP/scorer/prompt), evaluation frameworks, observability/monitoring, SDKs/APIs/UIs, and low-code/no-code agent platforms
Provide in-depth technical leadership to scope and implement scalable, secure, and reliable solutions
Uphold standards for architecture, code quality, testing, and documentation
Partner with the Agentic Foundations leadership, as well as engineering and data science leads, to plan quarters/cycles/sprints and ensure efficient, predictable delivery
Work with offshore reliability engineering teams to ensure SLAs are upheld
Occasional participation in level 2 on-call support for production systems
Abstract complex capabilities into developer-friendly interfaces (APIs, Python packages, CLIs, and UIs) to reduce friction and accelerate adoption
Drive operational excellence across platforms, including incident management, on-call support, capacity planning, and cost optimization
Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and pairing; contribute to team growth, onboarding, and enablement
Qualification
Required
Professional experience with cloud-based software architecture focused on scalability, performance, and reliability
Professional experience with end-to-end SDLC leveraging CI/CD and AIOps/MLOps, including experience with agentic SDLC tooling
Professional experience with large-scale AI/ML systems, including 1+ years with GenAI and deep learning methods
Professional experience with AI/ML frameworks and tooling (PyTorch, OpenAI SDK, LangChain, autogen)
Professional experience with AIOps/MLOps tooling and concepts (MLflow, Model Registry, Model Monitoring)
Professional experience with scaling and deploying AI/ML systems using tooling in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, including CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, and API development (in particular FastAPI)
Professional experience with Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm
Professional experience with Python
Professional experience in ambiguous environments
Skilled in problem solving, analytic thinking, and creativity
Skilled in planning, organization, and verbal/written business communication
Skilled in maintaining a positive leader persona in ambiguous and changing environments
Demonstrated excellence as a teammate and leader
4-6 years relevant experience
Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
Benefits
Health: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health. Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit. Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
Wealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution. Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan). AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.
Happiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year. Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.
Company
84.51˚
84.51° helps companies create sustainable growth by putting the customer at the center of everything.
1001-5000 employees
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