Sr/Lead Full Stack AI Studio
Cadre Inc · Redwood City, CA
$145,000–$219,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Redwood City, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack engineering role focused on building and evolving an enterprise AI application-development platform. Day-to-day work spans frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Java/Spring Boot) development, API and distributed-systems design, and — at the Lead level — architecture decisions and engineer mentoring. The role suits experienced engineers with a track record of shipping production-grade, interactive developer tools or enterprise SaaS products end-to-end.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 680 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 510–890
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The posting covers two levels simultaneously — Senior (5–8 years) and Lead (8–12 years) — with separate comp bands ($145K–$190K for Senior, up to $219K for Lead). The advertised title and seniority are anchored to the Senior level as the lower gate; the Lead level is an upward variant of the same role.
Redwood City, CA falls within the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward CBSA (41860); the CBSA name is used accordingly.
The Lead-level requirement for 'leading technical design reviews, driving architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers' is explicitly parenthetically scoped to Lead only — it is not a universal gate for all applicants.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … required' with Master's preferred. Because the JD does not offer an equivalent-experience substitution, Bachelor's is treated as a hard minimum.
Vue and Angular are listed as acceptable alternatives to React in the Hard Skills section ('Vue or Angular also considered'), so they are captured as alternatives rather than separate required skills.
Skills such as distributed systems, data structures & algorithms, object-oriented design, performance optimization, testing, and Agile development appear in the Hard Skills list but name no specific technology or tool and are therefore omitted per extraction rules.
The 'Nice to Have' section items (developer platforms, AI/ML platforms, low-code/no-code, visual builders, LLMs) are marked preferred.
Prior experience shipping highly interactive UX or developer productivity tools is described as 'highly preferred,' not required — treated as preferred accordingly.
The top of the pay band of $219,000 reflects the Lead-level ceiling ('Up to $219,000'); the Senior floor of $145,000 is used as the minimum. Equity and bonus are mentioned but not quantified.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): low-code/no-code platforms, drag-and-drop/visual application builders.
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