Forbes advisor

Overview

We're hiring an Associate Innovation Engineer to support our Lead Innovation Engineer in building, maintaining, and evolving our internal platform of LLM-powered tools, used daily by SEO, Content, SEM, and Editorial teams. This is a hands-on full-stack role.

About Forbes advisor

Forbes Advisor is a platform that helps consumers make financial decisions with confidence, providing unbiased reviews, news, and advice.

Requirements & Eligibility

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 1.5+ years of professional experience.
• Solid foundation in Python; some exposure to FastAPI or a similar framework (Flask/Django) is a plus.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript; exposure to React/Next.js.
• Basic understanding of SQL and relational databases.
• Basic understanding of REST APIs and asynchronous programming concepts.
• Comfortable using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, etc.) as part of daily development.
• Working knowledge of Git/GitHub and a basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features across our Next.js frontends and FastAPI backends.
• Support the ongoing maintenance of our production tool suite — bug fixes, small enhancements, data validation, and monitoring.
• Write clean, testable Python and TypeScript code.
• Build and maintain pipelines connecting third-party APIs to our LLM workflows.
• Set up and manage scheduled jobs using AWS ECS Scheduled Tasks, EventBridge, and Redis-based job queues.
• Work with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs to integrate LLM functionality into tools.
• Support prompt iteration and testing under the team's guidance.
• Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of services running in ECS.