--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer at AHEAD' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-ahead-united-states-kpnk6tvfnjfh' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Senior Software Engineer at AHEAD - **Company:** AHEAD - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $160k–$200k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/94245c1a-52ad-4ee6-8717-b20a58c5474a ## Job description AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. Building in the Age of AI AI has changed what great engineering looks like, and we’ve leaned in. We expect engineers to use AI tools and coding agents fluently to prototype, explore, and accelerate the routine, so that human time goes to what matters: framing the right problem, designing the system, exercising judgment, and verifying that what ships is correct and secure. We’re not looking for people who fear the tools, or who trust them blindly. We’re looking for engineers who wield them with taste. - Reach for AI to move faster on scaffolding, refactors, tests, and research, then review every line like you own it, because you do. - Spend your judgment where it counts: architecture, product decisions, edge cases, security, and correctness. - Help push the practice forward with better tooling, prompts, and workflows that make the whole team more effective. What will you be doing? - Own features and problems end to end, from understanding the user’s need through design, delivery, and support. - Design and build full-stack solutions for internal and public web applications, making pragmatic architectural decisions along the way. - Work at high leverage with AI tools and agents, then review, test, and harden everything you ship. - Engage across the full development life cycle: analysis, implementation, integration, testing, debugging, and support. - Lead code reviews and raise the bar on quality, mentoring other engineers as you go. - Work directly with end users and stakeholders to understand the business problem behind each request. - Help set estimates and milestones, balance technical risk against cost and deadlines, and keep work on track. - Help drive the future roadmap of the engineering team and AHEAD. What does the ideal candidate look like? - 5+ years building and shipping software (7+ preferred), with a track record of owning significant work end to end. - Strong engineering judgment. You know what “good” looks like and can tell solid solutions from shaky ones, including code an AI wrote. - A product mindset: you start from the user and the outcome, and you sweat the details that make software useful. - Fluency with modern AI development tools and coding agents, paired with the discipline to verify, test, and own everything you ship. - Stack-agnostic adaptability, so you pick up new languages and frameworks quickly. (Our stack today is Elixir and Phoenix; prior experience is welcome but not required.) - A strong foundation in software design, architecture, and the practices that keep systems reliable, including testing, continuous integration, code review, and containerization. - Clear, direct communication, so you can express intent precisely to both teammates and the tools you work with. - The instincts of a senior engineer: you lead projects, mentor others, and raise the level of the people around you. - A drive to keep learning and to help shape how the team builds. ## Why you'll love it here - Join a progressive team that lives on the forefront of technology, where innovation and curiosity are the norm. - We invest seriously in modern tooling, including the best AI tools, and we’re always looking for the next approach that makes the team better. - Competitive salary, benefits, and an environment where work-life balance is more than just a catchphrase. - You’ll play a crucial role in a platform that enterprises rely on to manage their IT, working alongside a talented and motivated team. Make your voice heard AHEAD recognizes the value of diverse perspectives. In our ever-evolving tech landscape, the insights you bring from your own journey can reshape our collective experience. If you’ve had experiences, both good and challenging, with other platforms, technologies, or ways of working, they’ll become an asset here. Your voice will help refine our products and the way we build them, keeping both innovative, intuitive, and industry-leading. Please include links to anything that shows how you build, whether that’s repositories, projects you led, or pull requests that reflect the breadth of your work. If you’ve built something interesting with AI tools or agents, we’d love to see that too. The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. USA Employment Benefits include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - 401(k) - Paid company holidays - Paid time off - Paid parental and caregiver leave - Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. Use of AI: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at privacy@ahead.com. You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview.  Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out. ## About AHEAD ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AHEAD is an engineering-led digital platform company that accelerates enterprise strategy into execution across AI, cloud, data, security, and infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/PE-backed; no public funding rounds disclosed) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2007 - **Founders**: Dan Adamany (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Digital Transformation, Managed Services - **Target customers**: Fortune 1000 enterprises, large-scale organizations with complex, multi-domain IT estates (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate strategy into execution, engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security — building what others only blueprint. ## Products & Services - **AI Transformation**: A unified AI fabric to accelerate AI from idea to business value, including AI-enabled infrastructure and data readiness. *(Service)* - **AI Enabled Infrastructure**: Scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance workloads from core to edge. *(Service)* - **Data Platform Modernization**: Governed data platforms that turn raw data into trustworthy insight and AI readiness. *(Service)* - **Secure and Resilient Architectures**: Platforms designed to reduce risk, limit impact, and recover quickly. *(Service)* - **Platform and Workload Modernization**: Modernizing platforms and optimizing workloads across cloud, data center, and edge. *(Service)* - **Operational Excellence**: Frictionless operations, predictable performance, and optimized spend. *(Service)* - **Managed Services**: Ongoing management of critical systems over their entire lifecycle. *(Service)* - **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Accelerators, financial models, scorecards, integration-ready code, and policy-as-code. *(Software/Tooling)* - **400+ APIs & Custom Offerings**: Frameworks that integrate multiple platforms for automation, data sandboxes, and ML/AI exploration. *(Platform)* ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company) - **Key Metric**: **Gross Revenue** of **$3.7 billion** (as of 2024, following the acquisition of CDI); **2,500+ employees** across 40 locations globally. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with **200+ technology providers** (e.g., major cloud, data center, security, and automation vendors). The company is backed by private equity (likely a growth/PE structure, though specific investors are not named in the provided materials). - **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a Midwest focus to national and international coverage through **12 acquisitions since 2019**; expanded service portfolio into data, app dev, custom manufacturing, and global logistics via M&A; recent acquisition of CDI (New York-based) added significant scale. ## Competitive Advantages - **Orchestration Expertise**: Ability to stitch together complex, multi-vendor systems into cohesive, scalable architectures — a differentiator in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape. - **Full-Stack Engineering**: Deep expertise across AI, cloud, data, security, infrastructure, and operations, applied in an integrated fashion. - **Unified Delivery Model**: One team, one roadmap, one owner held accountable for driving outcomes, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations. - **Consultative Approach**: Engages early to architect transformation roadmaps, not just as a reseller of hardware/software. - **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Unique accelerators and code libraries that de-risk and speed up client digital initiatives. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Accelerating enterprise AI adoption; expanding managed services; deepening capabilities in data, security, and cloud; continuing M&A strategy to add geographic coverage and new service lines. - **Direction for growth**: Becoming the go-to strategic partner for Fortune 1000 leaders navigating the complexity of modern IT, with a focus on accountability from design to operations. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Engineering-led organization with a strong emphasis on technical depth, ownership, and accountability. Described as a "game-changer in tech" that values innovation and execution. - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of client-facing consulting and infrastructure work; 40 global locations suggest flexibility in location. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, security, and data at massive scale; exposure to Fortune 1000 clients and complex transformations; strong focus on IP development and engineering excellence; clear growth trajectory through acquisitions and expansion. ## Sources 1. [AHEAD Official Website](https://www.ahead.com/) 2. [AHEAD Story Page](https://www.ahead.com/story/) 3. [AHEAD Leadership Page](https://www.ahead.com/leadership/) 4. 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