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# Software Developer (E3)

- **Company:** Hays Specialist Recruitment LLC
- **Location:** Jacksonville, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Artificial Intelligence, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, Databases, Continuous Integration, Persistent Data Structure, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Github, Machine Learning, MongoDB, MySQL, Nginx, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Circleci, Delivery Pipeline, Backend, Deployment Automation, Machine Learning Operations, Front End Software Development, Human in the Loop, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/65950676-08ed-4314-b315-44c998eae5e2

## About the Role

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship not available., Need a hands-on Software Developer with strong full-cycle development experience, especially CI/CD, infrastructure, distributed/scalable systems, databases, debugging, and production reliability. AI/ML integration is an important part of the role, particularly agentic systems and ML-powered applications. Please focus on candidates who are still actively building/coding rather than primarily managing teams., 5-8+ years of software development experience
Strong hands-on software engineering background. They need someone who can actually build, troubleshoot, test, and improve systems, not someone who has moved primarily into management.
Experience across backend/frontend applications, databases, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
Strong experience with CI/CD and deployment automation, including tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, or AWS CodePipeline.
Experience with databases/data persistence technologies such as MySQL and MongoDB.
Exposure to Apache/Nginx and highly available infrastructure.
Strong debugging, root-cause analysis, performance engineering, reliability, and scalability experience.
Experience designing/testing software for secure and robust deployments.
Comfortable owning work across the software lifecycle, including design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and ongoing improvement.
Building or integrating AI/ML-powered applications
Understanding of ML principles
Experience integrating agentic systems / AI models into engineering workflows
Human-in-the-loop or automated AI validation/feedback systems
Ability to translate AI/model reasoning into reliable real-world software workflows
Interest or experience with AI autonomy and model reasoning.