Bonterra aims to increase the giving rate as a percentage of GDP from 2% to 3% by 2033. To achieve this, they need to strengthen trust in the social good industry by providing better technology and expertise. Specifically, social workers and non-profit organizations require enhanced support, tools, and coaching to maximize their community impact. The AI Lead Software Engineer will help build AI solutions to deliver services more efficiently through workflow optimization, adaptive case management, and predictive analytics, ultimately freeing up social workers to focus on direct human connection.
Requirements
- Building and shipping code to production in "startup mode" - releasing frequently, incorporating user feedback, continuous refactoring to preserve code quality while moving fast.
- Using AI-assisted development tools like Cursor, Windsurf or Claude Code.
- Building and deploying LLM-based production systems, including MCP connectors and RAG solutions.
- Experience with AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.) or equivalent experience with complex software systems and eagerness to learn AI-specific tools.
- AWS knowledge, particularly managed AI services.
- Open source AI contributions.
- Experience with AI evaluation and observability at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AI agents using LLMs, vector databases, orchestration frameworks and connect to external systems using MCP.
- Define architectural patterns for prompt engineering, agent workflows, and system integration.
- Build on AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, DynamoDB).
- Establish and execute testing and evaluation strategies for non-deterministic AI systems.
- Partner with product teams to scope and plan, interview customers to gather feedback and boost adoption.
- Work directly with our Chief Architect and SVP of Engineering, they are both contributing code to our AI solutions.
- Write code 90%+ of the time and iterate with the frequency of a startup.
Other
- This job does NOT have a "years of experience" requirement and not all requirements are mandatory.
- While we do expect software engineering experience with AI/ML systems and AWS, we value passion and curiosity about AI's transformative potential over years of experience, and that is why we are warmly encouraging you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed.
- At this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require current or future sponsorship for employment authorization.
- US Base Salary Range: $95,000 - $140,000
- The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.
