OVERVIEW

We’re hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to turn our AI and machine learning capabilities into real products used by millions of consumers and internal teams.

This is a product engineering role,not model training. You’ll focus on delivering AI through scalable, intuitive applications.

You’ll report to the Associate Director, AI/ML & Data Science and work closely with AI/ML engineers and data scientists to bring models, APIs, and data pipelines into production-ready experiences.

You’ll own the full stack, from frontend to backend to cloud—ensuring performance, reliability, and usability at every layer. You’ll also partner with product and design to create AI experiences that are clear, trustworthy, and impactful.

If you enjoy turning complex technology into products people actually use, this is your role.

This is a hybrid position; it is not eligible for sponsorship or relocation assistance.

How You'll Make An Impact

You’ll help power a multi-year AI strategy focused on consumer value, employee tools, and responsible AI.

In this role, you will:

• Build full-stack applications, data APIs, and AI-powered dashboards
• Develop backend services (Python: FastAPI/Django, Node.js)
• Integrate with Databricks and AWS SageMaker
• Create responsive frontends (React, Next.js, TailwindCSS)
• Deploy cloud-native apps (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Connect RAG pipelines, vector databases, and model endpoints
• Implement authentication, data access, and API management
• Build CI/CD pipelines, testing, and performance optimization
• Collaborate with product and design on AI-driven experiences

ABOUT YOU

You’ll Be Highly Rated If:

• You have the experience. 5+ years building production full-stack applications with Python, JavaScript, and SQL/NoSQL systems.
• You've earned the degree. Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• You've integrated software with AI/ML services, data APIs, or model endpoints — as a consumer of those services.
• You've deployed on AWS, GCP, or Azure, ideally with Databricks or SageMaker.

You'll Be One of Our Top Picks If:

• You love turning complex AI models into products people actually use.
• You move fluently across frontend, backend, and cloud.
• You're as comfortable debating UX as you are optimizing a data pipeline.

FAIR PAY AND A JUST WORKPLACE

At Consumer Reports, we are committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation.The target salary range for this position is $100K-$140K. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall near the middle of this range. Compensation for the successful candidate will be informed by the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience.  We have three locations: Yonkers, NY, Washington, DC and Colchester, CT. We are registered to do business in and can only hire from the following states and federal district: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington, DC.

Salary ranges

• NY/California: $120K-$140K annually
• DMV/Massachusetts: $115K-$135K annually
• Colchester, CT and additional approved CR locations: $100K-$120K annually

Location: Austin (Domain), TX (In-office 4x per week)

Company: Kizen, www.kizen.com

OTE - $207,000-$253,000K 

About Us

Kizen’s Platform, AI Agents & True Context Technology (TCT) power millions of mission-critical experiences for leading organizations in highly regulated industries (insurance, healthcare, financial services).

Our platform helps organizations automate the workflows that matter most — from helping insurance agents manage contracting and commissions, to enabling healthcare providers to deliver proactive patient care, to empowering financial institutions to classify documents and extract data automatically.

And that’s just the beginning. With Kizen, developers can build new enterprise applications and impactful AI agents, while business users can customize dashboards and agents using natural language, low-code, or code — all on the same platform.

What used to take months or years to build, configure, and connect now takes just days. Kizen combines powerful pre-built agents and use cases with an enterprise platform for automation and data connection — all built on an AI-first architecture that’s easy to adopt, scale, and trust.

We’re solving real operational problems and helping the world’s most complex organizations work faster, smarter, and more humanely.

Join us in transforming how industries work — one workflow, one agent, and one customer success story at a time.

About the Role

Want to help create the future of work? We’re putting AI and intelligent automation to real use in the hands of real people.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer with a history of focusing on user outcomes and rapidly delivering reliable, scalable systems as we bring our next-gen platform to the world. 

This is an opportunity of a lifetime for someone who wants to be at the heart of the AI movement to better humanity. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll be working directly with our Director of Platform Engineering to build new user-facing features and enhancements, and to scale the core Kizen platform with our users’ growing needs.

Our core values are the heart of Kizen’s DNA. They are baked into our culture, drive our decisions, and manifest in how we treat our customers, partners, and each other. We are:

• Customer Obsessed. We are fanatical about making our customers wildly successful. We adopt our customers’ missions as our own, and do not rest until they have made their mark on the world and achieved every last goal.
• Fiercely Kind. Kindness is a way of life, so we strive to be a force for good in all we do. We value all people, treating others with unwavering respect, compassion, and understanding. In the spirit of stewardship, we aim to leave things better than they were.
• Relentlessly Excellent. We build amazing teams and unleash their talents. We approach our work with a sense of urgency, always giving our best effort, then trying to do a little better. We operate with complete transparency, creating trust and resolving issues faster. 
• Amazingly Fun. Doing the job of your dreams should be outrageously fun. We laugh a lot, and celebrate early and often. We embrace an attitude of optimism and genuinely enjoy collaborating.

Key Responsibilities 

• Work with Engineering leaders to ensure we’re building scalable, maintainable software
• Partner with the product team to design feasible features, create consumable tickets, and assess implementation
• Work with the Frontend Engineering Team Lead(s) to ensure that the backend tickets keep the frontend team fully enabled
• Craft elegant, reliable, and scalable code
• Write tests to ensure stability as the codebase evolves over time
• Meet technical issues head on: troubleshooting and quickly creating resolution plans to rapidly address acute customer impact, while also planning for long-term success

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or greater required in Computer Science (preferred), Information Technology, or related field (Physics, mathematics, engineering)
• Ability to facilitate a task’s entire lifecycle, going from product requirements to deployment
• 7+ years of professional development experience (Python preferred)
• 2+ years developing on Django
• 2+ years of experience developing and/or managing enterprise-scale PostgreSQL implementations
• 2+ years of direct experience with database optimization techniques like indexing, clustering, and sharding
• Experience deploying and optimizing cloud-hosted applications (AWS preferred, Kubernetes Preferred)
• Exceptional collaboration, organizational, time management, and communication skills
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to a quickly changing environment
• Driven and self-motivated with a track record of finding and solving difficult problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing with Django REST Framework
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience deploying applications with Kubernetes
• Experience with RabbitMQ
• Experience with ClickHouse
• Experience with data replication technologies/redundancy to ensure High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• You’ve made or contributed to open-source projects and have your fair share of side projects
• Passion for data warehousing, business intelligence, and predictive analytics

Why Kizen

We’re a fast-growing company that values innovation, growth, and continuous improvement. By joining Kizen, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the company while enjoying a supportive, dynamic, and collaborative workplace. You’ll have opportunities for professional development, impact, and career advancement.

What We Offer

• Career Growth Opportunities
• Engaging Work Culture
• Top-Tier Compensation
• Equity Package
• Healthcare Coverage
• Professional Development Stipends
• PTO 

Kizen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Kizen, we fully comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We are dedicated to embracing challenges and creating an accessible, inclusive workplace for all individuals. 

The base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $220,000k. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to base salary, we also offer generous equity and benefits packages.

If you’re excited about creating impactful experiences and contributing to a fast-paced, people-focused team, we’d love to meet you!

OTE - $207,000-$253,000K 

Location: Domain (Austin office)

Visa Sponsorship: Not available for this role

Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Early-stage, venture-backed

About Reflex

Reflex is building the infrastructure that powers modern retail labor. By 2030, Reflex will look like the largest retail workforce in the world without owning a single store.

More than sixteen million Americans work in retail stores today, yet staffing remains reactive, inefficient, and costly for both retailers and workers. Retailers struggle with unreliable coverage and limited visibility into labor performance, while workers face unpredictable schedules and inconsistent income.

Reflex addresses this problem through a real-time, on-demand retail labor marketplace that connects national retail brands with trained, high-performing workers. The platform enables stores to flex staffing dynamically as demand changes, while creating performance-driven opportunities for workers. We’re scaling fast with some of the most notable brands in retail and are live in over 1,200+ active stores in the US.

This is a structurally complex, two-sided marketplace with real-world operational constraints. Reflex has demonstrated that the model works, with national retailers, growing marketplace liquidity, and rapid expansion. Backed by leading investors and operating at the Series A stage, the company is now focused on building durable systems that scale.

Notable Investors: Indicator Ventures, Canaan Partners, Precursor Ventures, Sugar Capital, ATX Venture Partners, Clutch VC, Active Capital, Red Swan Ventures, Gaingels, and several industry thought leaders.

The Role

Reflex is hiring a Head of Engineering to own the technical strategy, delivery execution, and operational maturity required to scale our platform for the next stage of growth.

This is a foundational builder role, not a caretaker position. You will partner directly with the Founder/CEO, and lead an existing engineering team of approximately 5-8 engineers. There is no CTO layer today, as such this is a high-visibility role, including Board/Investor exposure.

What You Will Build

Your mandate is to architect and implement a resilient foundation of systems and processes that allows Reflex to scale and carry us into our next stage of growth.

You will be responsible for:

People & organizational leadership:

• Build and Lead the Team: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of five engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide meaningful feedback, and create growth paths that retain top talent.
• Establish Engineering Culture: Define and model engineering best practices, code review standards, and technical decision-making frameworks that scale as we grow.
• Drive Technical Hiring: Partner with leadership to recruit exceptional engineers, from writing job descriptions to conducting technical interviews to closing candidates.
• Strategic Technical Partnership: Collaborate with the Technical Lead to navigate the complexities of a two-sided marketplace, including real-time dispatching, matching algorithms, and high-concurrency data processing.
• Refine the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Partner with Product to optimize how features are defined, scoped, tracked, and delivered to ensure high velocity without burnout.

Technical leadership:

• Engineering Excellence & Standards: In collaboration with the technical lead, define and enforce the standards for code quality, documentation, and system reliability. You own the accountability for the team’s adherence to these best practices.
• Operational Oversight: Lead the strategy for DevOps and infrastructure (CI/CD, cloud spend, security compliance), ensuring the foundation is stable enough for the team to ship rapidly and safely.
• System Health & Risk Management: Own the technical debt backlog and incident response protocols.
• Pragmatic Hands-on Contribution: Contribute to feature implementation and code reviews alongside the team.

How You Will Work

This role requires hands-on ownership and fast, high-quality decision-making.

You should expect to:

• Personally ensure the stability of the system through sound technical decision making
• Work daily with exec team & engineering on priorities, tradeoffs, and technical direction
• Move quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and leverage

Why This Role Matters Now

Reflex has validated its model and is scaling rapidly. At the same time, marketplace complexity is increasing.

Decisions made in the next product strategy phase will determine whether Reflex compounds its advantage or accumulates long-term friction. This role exists to take the engineering team to the next step in operational maturity and technical excellence, transforming a high-growth group of builders into a disciplined, scalable organization ready to tackle the next frontier of innovation.

What Success Looks Like (12–18 Months)

• You have built a predictable delivery engine where the CEO and stakeholders have full confidence in roadmap timelines and the trade-offs required to meet them.
• You have implemented clear career paths and a culture of continuous feedback, resulting in high team engagement and the successful retention of top engineering talent.
• The platform remains resilient and performant under increasing marketplace load, with a clear strategy for managing technical debt and infrastructure costs as we scale.

About You

We are looking for an exceptional technical leader with high standards.

You likely bring:

• 9+ years in software development, including senior leadership experience
• 6+ years managing and growing high caliber engineering teams
• Deep, battle-tested experience in modern backend ecosystems (e.g., Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, Go)

You are someone who:

• Is passionate about growing engineers and their careers
• Is a strategic thinker, you see the Big Picture
• Loves technology and applying it to solve challenging problems
• Is comfortable owning ambiguous, high-stakes decisions
• Moves quickly with a strong bias toward action
• Cares deeply about craft, clarity, and outcomes

This role is not a fit for:

• Desire for pure management with no participation in implementation
• Desire for pure development without people management
• Candidates who prefer consensus-driven, low-intensity environments
• People unwilling to engage deeply with technical and operational details
• Anyone optimizing primarily for title or stability

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity at a stage where ownership can compound materially
• Direct influence on the company’s long-term trajectory
• Significant autonomy, trust, and access to leadership
• Learning velocity across product, data, and systems that few roles can match
• Full health benefits and a flexible, trust-based unlimited vacation policy.
• Hybrid work environment with an energetic, collaborative office in downtown Austin, TX

For the right person, this will be a challenging, high-impact role with outsized career leverage.

Our customers and workers come from every background, and our team does too. Reflex is proud to be an inclusive employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.