Senior Java & AI Engineer Career Opportunity
We are currently seeking a dynamic individual with high energy and drive to join our Workforce Management (WFM) software development team as a Senior Software Engineer. This engineer will primarily focus on server-side component design, development, testing, and implementation. Experience with client-side development is a plus. This engineer will work in an agile development environment and follow agile processes and practices. As part of our AI-forward engineering culture, this role also takes ownership of the AI development environment including coding agents, tools, workflows, and infrastructure to maximize engineering velocity, quality, and consistency.
Senior Java & AI Engineer Role and Responsibilities
- Design and develop quality, proficient, and well-documented technical solutions that satisfy business requirements and meet corporate architectural standards.
- Own and continuously improve the AI development environment including coding agents, tools, workflows, and infrastructure to maximize engineering velocity, quality, and consistency.
- Design, build, and optimize coding agents, prompts, and workflows.
- Define and maintain instructions, skills, plugins, and tool integrations.
- Connect tools into a cohesive agentic development pipeline.
- Enable Spec-Driven Development using AI (from idea to spec to implementation to validation).
- Develop solid unit, integration, and automation tests according to organizational standards.
- Assist in troubleshooting and maintenance of existing software applications; identify and implement additional improvements when warranted; work with external stakeholders as needed.
- Develop technical models/designs for assigned components.
- Contribute to and drive technological and architectural decisions.
- Participate in reviewing design and code for other team members.
- Gets team to a high-performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
- Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision-making and support organizational project or product teams.
- Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
Senior Java & AI Engineer Experience and Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of Java web application development experience.
- Deep interest and hands-on experience with AI coding tools and LLM-based systems.
- Experience working with agents, prompts, MCP/tools, or similar ecosystems.
- Comfortable working at low-level detail including tokens, context windows, latency, and tool orchestration.
- Expertise in server-side development using Hibernate, Spring, Web Services (REST) in Java including server-side testing using JUnit, Mockito/EasyMock.
- Experience in web application development using Angular, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Spring MVC, and in Unit/E2E testing with Cucumber, Selenium, Playwright is a huge plus.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) and ability to effectively integrate generative AI into the software development lifecycle for code generation, debugging, and optimization.
- Good to have experience in "Vibe Coding" methodologies including rapid prototyping, iterative development, and creative problem-solving approaches that leverage AI assistance to accelerate development velocity.
- Proven track record of driving technical innovation within development teams, including evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies, process improvements, and mentoring others on cutting-edge development practices.
- Experience with AWS is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience with multi-tier web application development.
- Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Test-Driven Development.
- Experience with JBoss or Tomcat.
- Prior experience with MAVEN and Jenkins is a plus.
- Good knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
Senior Java & AI Engineer Desired Personal Attributes
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated and flexible.
- Demonstrates resilience and adaptability when working within organizational constraints, legacy systems, or established processes that cannot be immediately changed.
- Shows ability to find creative solutions and deliver value within existing limitations while building consensus for future improvements.
- Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Maintains a positive attitude and constructive approach when faced with bureaucratic processes, technical debt, or resistance to change.
- Leads, collaborates, and coordinates with others to ensure significant results.
- Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills.
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