About the Role

Summit Human Capital is seeking a Full-Stack Software Development Engineer & Product Owner to help us build a modern-day recruitment platform to fundamentally change how recruiters, clients, and candidates work together.
As a Full-Stack Software Development Engineer & Product Owner, you'll partner with the executive leadership team, recruiters and business function leaders to drive cutting-edge, LLM-powered solutions that drive outcomes. This isn't a human replacement solution it's a human supported, AI-powered platform that will drive industry disruptions and production not yet seen.
As an engineer, you'll develop across the entire stack implementing use cases co-developed by you and the team. You'll create Python and FastAPI services on the backend, LLM-powered features driving the smart parts of the product and polished React/TypeScript experiences on the front end all running on AWS and EKS.
Recruitment is a domain ripe for reinvention & disruption, and we're building it with the people who live in it every day. You won't just be writing code you'll be driving the very tool that has an impact on the industry and Summit Human Capital.
This is a hands-on role for someone who loves owning a product end-to-end: shaping ideas, shipping them, watching how users react, and drive continuous improvements.

What You'll Do

• Partner with internal stakeholders across product, design, engineering, and the business to shape the product development process from problem definition through delivery.
• Design, build, and ship full-stack features across Python/FastAPI backends and React/TypeScript frontends.
• Develop and integrate generative AI capabilities (LLMs, agents, tool use) into core recruitment workflows candidate matching, intake, communication, and beyond.
• Own services running on AWS, with a focus on EKS including deployment, scaling, observability, and reliability.
• Engage directly with recruiters, hiring teams, and candidates: run discovery conversations, demo work-in-progress, gather feedback, and translate it into the next iteration.
• Move quickly from prototype to production taking ambiguous problems and turning them into shipped, measurable outcomes.
• Raise the engineering bar: thoughtful code review, pragmatic testing, and steady investment in developer experience.

What We're Looking For

• Strong communication skills illustrative, dialog and debate that will drive creative solutions to challenging problems
• Experience engaging the end user: (in our case, recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates): running interviews, demos, and feedback sessions, and turning that input into product decisions while filter noise and racking/stacking features with high impact outcomes.
• Strong professional experience with Python (web frameworks, async, data/ML tooling, or backend services).

• Production experience with FastAPI for building APIs and backend services.

• Solid command of React and TypeScript, with a track record of building production-quality user interfaces.
• Hands-on AWS experience across common services (e.g., IAM, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch).
• Working expertise with Kubernetes on EKS Helm/Kustomize, autoscaling, networking, deployments, and debugging running workloads.
• Real-world experience building with generative AI and LLMs: prompt design, evaluations, RAG, tool/function calling, and agentic workflows.
• Proven product development experience you've shipped features to real end-users and iterated based on what you learned.
• Bias toward shipping: you balance pragmatism with quality and know when to move fast vs. when to harden.

Nice to Have

• Experience building HR tech, ATS, CRM, or other recruitment/talent products.
• Familiarity with vector databases, embeddings, and LLM evaluation tooling.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs common in recruiting (job boards, ATSs, calendar/email, sourcing tools).
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, CDK, Pulumi).
• Background working in early-stage or fast-moving product environments.
• Experience with observability tooling (Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).

How You Work

• You think in terms of practical user outcomes balance of quick wins and scalability, not just tickets closed.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and can scope your own work when the path isn't fully defined.
• You communicate clearly in code, in writing, and in conversations with non-engineers and end-users.
• You collaborate well with internal stakeholders you can translate between business goals and engineering tradeoffs, and pull people into the right conversations at the right time.
• You care about craft, but you ship.

The salary range for this position is $170,000-180,000, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k)/retirement plan; and other benefits in accordance with applicable laws.