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84.51°

Lead Software Engineer

Cincinnati, OH · Remote

Lead Software Engineer - Agentic Foundations (P4475, P4477) LOCATION: Cincinnati / Chicago SUMMARY: The AI Enablement team at 84.51° is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its Agentic Foundations ...

84.51°

Lead Software Engineer

Cincinnati, OH · Remote

Lead Software Engineer - Agentic Foundations (P4475, P4477) LOCATION: Cincinnati / Chicago SUMMARY : The AI Enablement team at 84.51° is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its Agentic Foundations ...

Medpace

Lead Software Engineer

Cincinnati, OH · On-site

They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to modernize and support their internal systems while leading development efforts and mentoring junior team members. Responsibilities : • Lead development ...

Medpace, Inc.

Lead Software Engineer

Cincinnati, OH · On-site

Job Summary Medpace's Information Technology team is looking for a full-time, office-based Lead Software Engineer. Join us in building the digital capabilities that accelerate the global development ...

Medpace, Inc.

Lead Software Engineer

Cincinnati, OH · Hybrid

Job Summary Medpace's Information Technology team is looking for a full-time, office-based Lead Software Engineer. Join us in building the digital capabilities that accelerate the global development ...

Chase

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Kings Mills, OH · On-site

Lead Software Engineer We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the ...

Storage Solutions Inc

Lead Software Developer

Erlanger, KY · On-site +1

$114.40K - $143.50K/yr

Lead Software Developer Department: Automation Location: Erlanger, KY, Atlanta, GA or Westfield, IN, Remote (Eastern or Central Time Zone) The Lead Software Developer is a senior-level technical and ...

Storage Solutions Inc

Lead Software Developer

Erlanger, KY · On-site +1

$114.40K - $143.50K/yr

Lead Software Developer Department: Automation Location: Erlanger, KY, Atlanta, GA or Westfield, IN, Remote (Eastern or Central Time Zone) The Lead Software Developer is a senior-level technical and ...

L3HHCM20

Lead, Software Engineering

Mason, OH

Lead, Software Engineering Job Code: 37206 Job Location: Mason OH Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees ... Software Engineer to join our current team to work on the development of our Infrared Camera ...

L3Harris

Lead, Software Engineering

Mason, OH · On-site

Lead, Software Engineering Job Code: 37206 Job Location: Mason OH Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees ... Software Engineer to join our current team to work on the development of our Infrared Camera ...

GE Aerospace

Staff Software Engineer

Evendale, OH · On-site

In this role, we design, develop, integrate, and lead software solutions for advanced aerospace ... Apply software engineering best practices and (where applicable) control and systems engineering ...

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Lead Software Engineer

84.51°

Cincinnati, OH • Remote

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

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Job description

84.51° Overview:
84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.
Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.
84.51° follows a 5-day in-office work schedule to support collaboration, alignment, and team connection.
Join us at 84.51°!
Lead Software Engineer - Agentic Foundations (P4475, P4477)
LOCATION: Cincinnati / Chicago
SUMMARY:
The AI Enablement team at 84.51° is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its Agentic Foundations team. This team is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the agentic backbone of the Kroger enterprise, including platforms, patterns, and tools to support the best practice development of AI agents.
The Lead Software Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, implementation, and operations of core agentic capabilities, including agent/MCP/scorer/prompt registries, evaluation and monitoring tooling, and low-code/no-code agent platforms that abstract complexity for developers and business users. You will partner closely with product management, data science, and engineering peers and leaders to deliver enterprise-grade capabilities that accelerate time-to-value, improve quality and reliability, and promote compliant, best-practice use of agentic systems.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Lead the design, development, and operation of core agentic platforms, services, and tooling used across the Kroger enterprise
  • Own technical outcomes for a more specific product area, such as registries (agent/MCP/scorer/prompt), evaluation frameworks, observability/monitoring, SDKs/APIs/UIs, and low-code/no-code agent platforms
  • Provide in-depth technical leadership to scope and implement scalable, secure, and reliable solutions;
  • Uphold standards for architecture, code quality, testing, and documentation
  • Partner with the Agentic Foundations leadership, as well as engineering and data science leads, to plan quarters/cycles/sprints and ensure efficient, predictable delivery
  • Work with offshore reliability engineering teams to ensure SLAs are upheld
  • Occasional participation in level 2 on-call support for production systems
  • Abstract complex capabilities into developer-friendly interfaces (APIs, Python packages, CLIs, and UIs) to reduce friction and accelerate adoption
  • Drive operational excellence across platforms, including incident management, on-call support, capacity planning, and cost optimization
  • Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and pairing; contribute to team growth, onboarding, and enablement
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:
  • Professional experience with cloud-based software architecture focused on scalability, performance, and reliability
  • Professional experience with end-to-end SDLC leveraging CI/CD and AIOps/MLOps, including experience with agentic SDLC tooling
  • Professional experience with large-scale AI/ML systems, including 1+ years with GenAI and deep learning methods
  • Professional experience with AI/ML frameworks and tooling (PyTorch, OpenAI SDK, LangChain, autogen)
  • Professional experience with AIOps/MLOps tooling and concepts (MLflow, Model Registry, Model Monitoring)
  • Professional experience with scaling and deploying AI/ML systems using tooling in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, including CI/CD, containerization, orchestration, and API development (in particular FastAPI)
  • Professional experience with Kubernetes (AKS) and Helm
  • Professional experience with Python
  • Professional experience in ambiguous environments
  • Skilled in problem solving, analytic thinking, and creativity
  • Skilled in planning, organization, and verbal/written business communication
  • Skilled in maintaining a positive leader persona in ambiguous and changing environments
  • Demonstrated excellence as a teammate and leader
  • 4-6 years relevant experience
  • Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
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  • The stated salary range represents the entire span applicable across all geographic markets from lowest to highest. Actual salary offers will be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to geographic location, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data and cost of labor. In addition to salary, this position is also eligible for variable compensation.
  • Below is a list of some of the benefits we offer our associates:
    • Health: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health. Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit. Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
    • Wealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution. Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan). AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.
    • Happiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year. Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.

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