AI-Native Software Engineer

This is not a traditional software engineering role centered around a specific language or framework. The team is looking for a strong senior engineer who remains highly hands-on technically, thinks in systems, and uses AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery of production-ready software.

The environment is highly integration-focused and product-oriented, with an emphasis on building scalable internal platforms and operational tooling rather than isolated AI demos or prototypes.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build AI-enabled internal applications and workflow experiences across desktop and mobile contexts
• Develop secure API-first integrations across enterprise systems, SaaS platforms, and internal services
• Design and implement agentic workflows capable of retrieving knowledge, calling tools, and automating operational tasks
• Work closely with architecture, product, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous operational challenges into working software
• Use AI-assisted development tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to accelerate engineering delivery
• Review, validate, and harden AI-generated code for production use
• Contribute to scalable engineering patterns, integration standards, and platform architecture decisions
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• 4 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong background in application, platform, or full stack engineering
• Experience building production-grade enterprise applications, integrations, or internal platforms
• Strong API and systems integration experience
• Familiarity with API gateway or service gateway platforms such as Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, or similar technologies
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and operating in ambiguous environments
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development workflows in real-world software delivery
• Strong systems thinking and product mindset
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure engineering practices

Preferred Experience

• Agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar
• MCP, tool-calling, or function-calling workflows
• RAG, vector search, embeddings, or enterprise knowledge retrieval systems
• AWS Bedrock or enterprise LLM platforms
• Experience with enterprise automation or orchestration tooling
• Familiarity with Workato, MuleSoft, Boomi, or similar iPaaS platforms
• Exposure to retail, restaurant, field operations, or enterprise support environments
• Experience integrating platforms such as Zendesk, Workday, Teams, Snowflake, Datadog, or similar enterprise systems
• Mobile application exposure is helpful but not required

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.