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Senior Engineer, Full-Stack - Forge (R6244)

Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Engineering
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San Diego, CA, San Mateo, CA$130k - $240kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior full-stack engineer to build Forge capabilities for simulation, synthetic data generation, training, and test & evaluation within Shield AI’s Hivemind platform. Role involves frontend and backend work across TypeScript/React, Go/Python services, APIs, data workflows, and Kubernetes deployment in local, cloud, and air-gapped environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build complete features across React interfaces, backend services, APIs, and data storage.
  • Translate complex technical workflows into intuitive applications with clear progress, results, and useful paths to investigate failures.
  • Design and evolve APIs and data models that support applications, automation, and integrations with other teams.
  • Contribute to a platform / application architecture directly through requirements or direct contribution.
  • Contribute to software that is meant to run in a multitude of environments from local workstations, to CICD, to airgapped Kubernetes clusters.
  • Test and support what you build, using logs, metrics, traces, and user feedback to improve reliability, performance, and usability.
  • Work directly with users, product, design, and engineering teams to define scope, make practical tradeoffs, and deliver improvements iteratively.

Qualifications

  • Experience delivering and supporting production applications, with meaningful contributions to both frontend and backend development.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript and React, including component design, state management, asynchronous data handling, and API integration.
  • Experience building backend services in Go, Python, or a comparable language, including API design, validation, and error handling.
  • Experience working with databases and application data models, including querying, persistence, and schema changes.
  • Ability to reason about service interactions, authentication, authorization, background jobs, and failures across application boundaries.
  • Familiarity with containers, CI/CD, and deploying and debugging services in a shared environment.
  • Clear communication, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to work directly with users and carry work from an ambiguous problem to a supported solution.

Skills

Required:TypeScriptReactGoPythonAPIsDatabases

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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