meridianlink - Development Team Lead/Lead Engineer
Requirements
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or product areas • Proven ability to make and defend architecture decisions at scale • Active daily use of AI-assisted development tools • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience • 3+ years of hands-on experience designing or building systems that integrate large language models or other ML models into production software • Demonstrated experience building shared platform services or internal developer platforms, not just application-level features • Proficiency with cloud-managed AI services (AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or equivalent) and the operational characteristics of running AI workloads in production • Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation architectures, vector search, and embedding pipeline design • Experience designing systems in regulated industries where data handling, audit trails, and compliance constraints shape technical decisions • Experience in fintech, banking, or other regulated financial services environments • Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks and techniques for measuring output quality and detecting model degradation • Experience with prompt management, versioning, and experimentation at scale • Prior work on developer-facing platforms with a focus on adoption and internal developer experience • What Success Looks Like
Responsibilities
• AI Platform Discovery & Design • Partner with product engineering teams and architects to catalog current and near-term AI use cases, identify common patterns, and define the platform services that should be centralized • Produce technical designs — RFCs, architecture decision records, system diagrams — for AI platform components at a level of detail that other engineers can implement and review against • Evaluate third-party AI infrastructure options (model providers, vector databases, orchestration frameworks) and make build-vs-buy recommendations with clear rationale • Platform Build & Standards • Lead development of core AI platform services: model serving and routing, retrieval infrastructure, prompt management, output evaluation, and usage observability • Define and enforce integration standards — API contracts, error handling patterns, cost attribution — so that product teams building on the platform do so consistently • Own the technical roadmap for the AI platform, prioritizing based on what unblocks the most product development and reduces the most duplicated effort • Collaboration & Growing Others • Develop Senior engineers toward Staff-level scope; give them problems and opportunities that stretch them, not just guidance on their current work • Partner with Engineering Managers and Product leadership to align technical decisions with delivery goals • Own the design and maintenance of technical knowledge infrastructure — RFCs, ADRs, runbooks, onboarding paths — so teams can operate without needing to escalate
Benefits
• $126K – $214.9K • Offers Bonus • MeridianLink runs a comprehensive background check, credit check, and drug test as part of our offer process. • It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the salary range. The actual salary will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law including geographical location. • t is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the salary range. • Meridianlink offers: • Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability) • Flexible paid time off • 401(k) plan with company match • All compensation and benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of the underlying plans or programs, as applicable and as may be amended, terminated, or superseded from time to time. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • If above question is "Other" please add the source below. • I prefer not to answer • Black or African American • Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin • Indigenous Peoples, First Nations, Native American, or Alaska Native • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • White / Caucasian • Middle Eastern or North African • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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