Director, Fullstack AI Engineer

Location: Boston, Chicago, London, São Paulo, or Warsaw

Annual salary: $196,000–$235,250 in Illinois; $204,750–$245,750 in Massachusetts. Additional discretionary bonus may apply.

Company

Bain & Company is a global consulting firm building an internal product platform for agentic decisioning and commercial analytics.

What you will do

• Build and ship full-stack product features across React and TypeScript interfaces, APIs, and production deployments.
• Develop dense analytical dashboards, scenario-planning tools, marketing ROI views, brand analytics interfaces, pricing displays, and real-time visualizations.
• Integrate agentic and LLM-powered recommendations, confidence indicators, streaming responses, and uncertainty into user-facing interfaces.
• Own component libraries, design-system implementation, CI/CD, automated testing, performance, reliability, authentication, authorization, and secure data handling.
• Manage, mentor, recruit, and develop a small team of mid- to senior-level engineers, including performance reviews and professional development plans.
• Work with design, AI engineering, data, product, consulting, and senior stakeholders to improve the platform based on live client usage.

Requirements

• Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Deep proficiency in React and TypeScript, including component architecture, state management, performance optimization, and maintainable large-scale frontend codebases.
• Strong server-side development experience building reliable, versioned, performant APIs and backend services for analytical and AI-generated outputs.
• Experience creating data-dense analytical interfaces, chart-heavy dashboards, real-time scenario tools, comparison views, and allocation displays with modern visualization libraries.
• Experience integrating LLM and agentic AI capabilities into user-facing products, including AI-generated outputs, streaming responses, and confidence indicators.
• Strong engineering fundamentals covering clean and testable code, component library governance, CI/CD, automated testing, debugging, and performance profiling.
• Experience deploying and operating full-stack applications on Azure or AWS with containerization and cloud-native monitoring.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, secure data handling, and DevSecOps in enterprise applications.
• At least 10 years of full-stack software engineering experience with substantial hands-on frontend and backend work, plus direct experience managing engineers, conducting reviews, and planning professional development.
• Experience shipping production applications with analytical interfaces, leading a design system or component library, mentoring engineers, and setting engineering standards.
• Experience with agile cross-functional product teams and production issue resolution. Client-facing or consulting-adjacent experience is a strong advantage.
• Active use of AI-assisted coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent.
• Applications must be submitted in English.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment within a product team operating with early-stage ownership inside an established global firm.
• Annual discretionary performance bonus and possible additional discretionary compensation.
• 4.5% 401(k) company contribution, increasing after three years and fully vested upon start date.
• Company-paid individual medical, dental, and vision premiums, plus paid parental leave, sick leave, holidays, life insurance, and long-term disability insurance.
• Work closely with consulting teams and enterprise clients across live commercial engagements.