Senior AI Developer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential government technology organization in their search for a Senior AI Developer to lead their ambitious AI transformation initiative. Our client is building AI-powered capabilities from the ground up within their public sector finance platform, and they need an innovative developer who wants to push boundaries while working with exceptional talent.

This is a remote position within the United States, with preference for candidates in the Eastern time zone. You'll own hard technical problems: orchestration patterns that scale under real-world load, developer experiences that enable team velocity, and engineering decisions that transform ambiguous requirements into concrete, operable systems.

Responsibilities

• Platform Ownership: Own the evolution of shared AI components, libraries, and platform capabilities. Set standards for reliability, testability, and developer experience through hands-on delivery.
• AI Feature Development: Design and build AI-powered product features end-to-end, including LLM orchestration, prompt engineering workflows, evaluation, and observability. Carry work from requirements through deployment and iteration.
• Delivery Systems: Design and build CI/CD patterns, deployment pipelines, observability tooling, and developer workflows that make shipping agents to production predictable and repeatable.
• AI Tooling Leadership: Lead the team on AI tooling adoption including coding assistants, agentic development workflows, and evaluation frameworks. Establish patterns that provide real leverage.
• Backend Platform Engineering: Build and optimize core SaaS platform systems including high-scale background processing, scalable APIs, ingestion pipelines, search and discovery, and PostgreSQL performance optimization.
• Technical Vision: Articulate clear engineering direction to team and stakeholders. Translate ambiguous problems into concrete plans and build shared understanding across engineering and product.
• Mentorship: Actively grow engineers around you through technical reviews, establishing best practices, and creating an environment where the team can move quickly with confidence.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on software development with deep proficiency in at least one modern backend or full-stack language
• Strong understanding of agentic system design: orchestration, tool use, memory, retrieval, evaluation, and agent-to-agent communication
• Hands-on experience with production agentic tooling including orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI), LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock), vector databases, and evaluation platforms
• Previous experience building scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications ideally in C#, Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Python or similar
• Demonstrated experience delivering production, client-facing agentic solutions end-to-end
• Strong AWS experience (or Azure) with Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, API Gateway, and CloudWatch
• Deep grasp of SaaS architecture principles and system design tradeoffs
• Proven track record building developer platforms and delivery systems including CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and testing frameworks
• Strong background in background processing systems (Redis-backed job queues, schedulers) and high-scale data pipelines
• Solid understanding of PostgreSQL schema design and performance optimization
• Experience designing and operating production REST APIs
• Understanding of Event Driven Development
• Experience with search and discovery systems (full-text, semantic, or vector search)
• Strong understanding of security best practices (auth, data isolation, secrets management)
• Demonstrated AI-first development approach with concrete examples of using LLMs and agentic tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) across daily engineering work

Nice to Have:

• Experience in government technology, public sector, or compliance-heavy domains

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your application and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication should flow through our recruiting team to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

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