Full Stack Lead Engineer

Capgemini is seeking a Full Stack Lead Engineer to partner with product design, product owner, and leadership to shape products, define and build MVPs, and evolve their modular AI platform. The role involves working across the stack, developing custom middleware and backend features, and designing integrations with third-party SaaS platforms. The ideal candidate will set the tone for engineering culture, combining autonomy, ownership, and technical excellence, and contribute to infrastructure, DevOps, and scaling strategy.

Must Have

• Partner with product design, product owner, and leadership.
• Define and build MVPs and evolve the modular AI platform.
• Set the tone for engineering culture: autonomy, ownership, technical excellence.
• Work across the stack: backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, front-end components.
• Develop custom middleware and backend features for AI systems.
• Design and build integrations with third-party SaaS platforms.
• Fluent in modern full-stack development: React, Tailwind, Node.js/NestJS, GCP/cloud.
• Comfortable with backend technologies like Java, .NET, building robust APIs.
• Experienced in connecting frontend and backend services.
• Ready to build a team and culture; led engineers previously.
• Shipped real products at product companies.
• Strategic thinker and hands-on coder.
• Curious, exploring new tools, ideas, and better ways to build.

Perks & Benefits

• Working in cutting-edge cloud IT technology with high performance capability team
• Career Growth & Global Exposure
• Focus on Innovation
• Inclusive Culture & Strong Support System

Your Role

• Partner with product design, product owner, and leadership to shape the products. You will define and build MVPs, iterate on prototypes, and evolve our modular AI platform into a powerful experience.
• Set the tone for engineering culture — combining autonomy, ownership, and technical excellence.
• Work across the stack: backend APIs, cloud infrastructure, complex front-end components.
• Develop custom middleware and backend features that bridge the front-end with AI backend systems — including session management, prompt handling, permissions logic, and data workflows.
• Design and build integrations with third-party SaaS platforms. Building connectors, agents, and task automation will be part of your daily coding challenges.
• The tech stack includes React, Tailwind CSS, Jest, Cypress, Mico-Frontends (Module Federation), Nx and a deep understanding of Reacts Re-rendering process, Node.js, GCP, Tailwind. Contribute to both front-end and back-end development, ensuring that the AI prompt interface operates smoothly across the entire stack.
• Embrace ambiguity: you’ll thrive in the grey, make decisions without all the data, and help guide the team through uncertainty.
• Bring curiosity, hunger, and creativity to everything you do. Explore, prototype, and keep us on the frontier of AI tooling.
• Contribute to decisions on infrastructure, DevOps, and scaling strategy. Help build out the engineering team with e.g. mobile app and native desktop app divisions.

Works in the area of Software Engineering, which encompasses the development, maintenance and optimization of software solutionsorapplications.1. Applies scientific methods to analyse and solve software engineering problems.2. Heorshe is responsible for the development and application of software engineering practice and knowledge, in research, design, development and maintenance.3. Hisorher work requires the exercise of original thought and judgement and the ability to supervise the technical and administrative work of other software engineers.4. The software engineer builds skills and expertise of hisorher software engineering discipline to reach standard software engineer skills expectations for the applicable role, as defined in Professional Communities.5. The software engineer collaborates and acts as team player with other software engineers and stakeholders.

Your Profile

• Fluent in modern full-stack development: React, Tailwind, Node.js or NestJS, GCP or other cloud platforms.
• Comfortable with backend technologies like Java, .NET, and building robust APIs and middleware systems.
• Experienced in connecting frontend and backend services — with an eye for both performance and flexibility.
• You're ready to step into the next version of yourself. You are hungry to build a team, a culture and a technical revolution. You have led engineers before — maybe informally, maybe officially.
• You’ve shipped real products at product companies.
• Strategic thinker and a hands-on coder. You love the craft of building, exploring emerging tech, but you also zoom out and think about the bigger picture.
• Curious by default. You chase new tools, new ideas, and better ways to build.

What will you love working at Capgemini

• Would be working in cutting-edge cloud IT technology with high performance capability team
• Career Growth & Global Exposure
• Focus on Innovation
• Inclusive Culture & Strong Support System