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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud/AI Developer :: Washington DC (Remote/Hybrid) - **Company:** ARK Solutions, Inc. - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $87,100.0 - $157,450.0 - **Contract:** Temporary to permanent - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Applications Architecture, Computer Vision, Audit Trail, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Spring Framework, Key Management, Meta-Data Management, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Cloud Services, Systems Integration, Management of Software Versions, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Spring Cloud, Spring-boot, Backend, Git, Restful APIs, Terraform, Serverless Computing - **Published:** August 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us188dbbe946a72986c8fe923836e7b2fc/eaa ## About the Role * Strong professional experience developing backend services and APIs using Java. * Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, or similar Java frameworks. * Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and service integrations. * Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). * Experience with serverless and/or container-based application architectures. * Experience with image-centric workflows, including ingestion, object storage, transformation, and metadata management. * Experience integrating AI capabilities into applications, such as computer vision, OCR, extraction, classification, redaction, or similarity search. * Understanding of AI evaluation and monitoring concepts. * Knowledge of cloud security practices, including IAM, service accounts, least privilege, secrets management, encryption, and audit logging. * Experience with CI/CD and Git-based development workflows. * Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code (IaC) technologies. * Strong cloud application troubleshooting, defect-isolation, root-cause-analysis, and performance-tuning skills. * Experience with application observability, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting. * Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and business stakeholders. ## Description Seeking for an experienced Cloud/AI Developer to design, develop, deploy, and support secure, cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate will have strong backend development experience using Java and Spring/Spring Boot, along with expertise in RESTful APIs, cloud services, image-processing workflows, and AI-enabled application capabilities. * Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java and Spring/Spring Boot. * Build and operate secure, scalable, cloud-native applications on GCP. * Develop applications using serverless and/or container-based architectures. * Design and implement RESTful APIs, including authentication, authorization, documentation, versioning, and backward compatibility. * Develop image-based processing workflows covering capture/ingestion, object storage, transformation, metadata extraction, and lifecycle management. * Integrate AI capabilities into applications, including computer vision, OCR, classification, extraction, redaction, and similarity search. * Support evaluation and monitoring of AI-enabled application capabilities. * Implement secure engineering practices, including IAM, least-privilege access, service accounts, secrets management, encryption in transit and at rest, and audit logging. * Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Git-based development workflows. * Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or equivalent technologies. * Create repeatable deployment processes and maintain consistency across application environments. * Implement application observability using logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and operational runbooks. * Troubleshoot cloud applications, perform defect triage and root-cause analysis, and resolve production issues. * Perform application and service performance tuning and recommend preventive improvements. * Collaborate with engineering, QA, DevOps, product, and security teams throughout the application delivery lifecycle., * Secure and scalable Java-based cloud-native services on GCP supporting image-processing workflows. * Well-designed RESTful APIs with appropriate documentation, versioning, and backward-compatibility support. * Image-processing pipeline components supporting ingestion, transformation, metadata extraction, and lifecycle management. * AI-enabled capabilities including classification, OCR, redaction, extraction, and/or similarity search. * CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code assets supporting repeatable deployments. ## Related Videos - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) - [Architecting the Future: Leveraging AI, Cloud, and Data for Business Success](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1096-architecting-the-future-leveraging-ai-cloud-and-data-for-business-success) ## Related Articles - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers) - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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