Blend360

data, AI, and marketing consulting

LeadFullStackEngineer

$140–150k Columbia, Maryland, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Lead Full Stack Engineer at Blend360. Skills: Full Stack Architecture, LLM Systems, Engineering Governance, Technical Leadership. Own architecture and delivery across multiple workstreams for Intelligent Applications. Define "how we build" for forward deployed engagements—templates, standards, quality gates”

What You'll Achieve.

Establishes/strengthens standards and reusable assets that improve delivery velocity; Leads a multi-stream delivery track with quality and stakeholder trust; Reduces recurring issues via systemic fixes (tests, observability, templates)

Industry & Context.

data, AI, and marketing consulting
Problems you'll solve

turn complex challenges into competitive advantage; unlock transformational value through data, technology, and human expertise

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years equivalent experience or demonstrated staff-level impact, Demonstrated multi-team or multi-stream technical leadership, full-stack architecture depth (React/Angular + Python services), SQL performance leadership, best-practices governance mindset (systemic standards, not preferences), Demonstrated leadership shipping production LLM systems (RAG, tool use, evaluations), engineering governance around AI-assisted development (verification, secrets/PII, supply chain)

Nice to Have

Experience operating in high-trust client environments and leading transformations, Experience establishing agentic engineering guardrails and templates across teams, Lakehouse/warehouse depth with Databricks and/or Snowflake (secure patterns, performance, operational integration with apps/APIs)

What You'll Do.

Own architecture and delivery across multiple workstreams for Intelligent Applications

Define "how we build" for forward deployed engagements—templates

Mentor and guide multiple engineers

Bring observability/security to the forefront

Operationalize LLM/agent delivery into repeatable

Lead multiple streams (UI/API/data) with clear sequencing

and integration plans

Define reference architectures and standards

Drive performance and data architecture decisions

Create reusable accelerators

Partner with data teams

Operationalize CI/CD and containerization standards

Coach senior + mid-level engineers

Partner with leadership and clients to quantify impact and adoption

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Mentor and guide multiple engineers; Coach senior + mid-level engineers; Partner with data teams; Partner with leadership and clients

Communication Scope

Partner with leadership and clients to quantify impact and adoption

Process & Methodology

Lead multiple streams (UI/API/data) with clear sequencing, risks, and integration plans

Full Job Description

Blend360 is a premier data, AI, and marketing consulting firm that partners with the world's most ambitious organizations to turn complex challenges into competitive advantage. We sit at the intersection of deep analytical rigor and pragmatic business execution—helping Fortune 1000 companies and Private Equity-backed businesses unlock transformational value through data, technology, and human expertise. Role summary Own architecture and delivery across multiple workstreams for Intelligent Applications. You’ll define “how we build” for forward deployed engagements—templates, standards, quality gates—and you’ll mentor and guide multiple engineers. You’ll bring observability/security to the forefront and operationalize LLM/agent delivery into repeatable, safe workflows (evals, guardrails, monitoring, human-in-the-loop where needed). Responsibilities * Lead multiple streams (UI/API/data) with clear sequencing, risks, and integration plans. * Define reference architectures and standards: SOLID/MVC boundaries, error handling, testing, observability, security. * Drive performance and data architecture decisions: SQL/query patterns, indexing strategy, data contracts. * Create reusable accelerators: scaffolds, templates, spec/context packages, PR checklists, CI quality gates—including LLM/RAG reference modules and evaluation scaffolding. * Partner with data teams when engagements lean on Databricks or Snowflake for analytics/ML adjacency (contracts, identity, performance patterns). * Operationalize CI/CD and containerization standards: pipeline guardrails, environment parity, container-first dev workflows, and release verification patterns. * Coach senior + mid-level engineers; improve team throughput and quality. * Partner with leadership and clients to quantify impact and adoption. ## Qualifications Required qualifications * 8+ years equivalent experience or demonstrated staff-level impact. * Demonstrated multi-team or multi-stream technical leadership. * Strong full-stack

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