Title:
Senior Full Stack AI Engineer w/Node.js
TypeScript Location:
Des Moines, IA (Onsite)
Duration:
2 months What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
- 1. Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript; this is the non-negotiable primary language requirement for the role.
- Strong experience building backend/platform-oriented full-stack solutions, including APIs, services, databases, cloud deployment, and operational support.
- Strong AWS experience is required. Candidates should have hands-on experience with services such as API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, EventBridge, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, CDK, and Fargate. Bedrock is required.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) is required, ideally with strong hands-on use of
AWS CDK. CDK
is explicitly requiredfor this role.
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, ideally in RAG/search-based AI, chatbot/copilot experiences, or enterprise knowledge assistants. RAG/chatbot experience is sufficient for this hire Job Description/ Responsibilities
- 6-8 years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on development experience in modern application engineering.
- Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript; this is the non-negotiable primary language requirement for the role.
- Strong experience building backend/platform-oriented full-stack solutions, including APIs, services, databases, cloud deployment, and operational support.
- Strong AWS experience is required. Candidates should have hands-on experience with services such as API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, EventBridge, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, CDK, and Fargate. Bedrock is required.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) is required, ideally with strong hands-on use of
AWS CDK. CDK
is explicitly requiredfor this role.
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, ideally in RAG/search-based AI, chatbot/copilot experiences, or enterprise knowledge assistants. RAG/chatbot experience is sufficient for this hire
- Practical understanding of prompt engineering and how prompt design impacts grounding, reliability, usability, and output quality.
- Working knowledge of retrieval and generation concepts such as embeddings, chunking, semantic retrieval, vector search, top-k, top-p, and related controls that influence response behavior and quality.
- Basic hands-on familiarity with guardrails / safety controls / output validation, including awareness of risks like hallucinations, prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, and content-safety concerns.
- Experience building and shipping enterprise-grade APIs/services that connect AI capabilities into real business workflows.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, debugging, source control, and CI/CD.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; we need a collaborative, high-output builder who works well with product, engineering, QA, architecture, security, and business stakeholders.
Years of Experience:
12.00 Years of Experience