Senior AI Developer & Tech Lead — Remote

Datacom; Tauranga; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote working

Flexible hours

Professional development

Social events

Job summary

Datacom is seeking Senior/Tech Leads and Senior Developers to join its AI journey within the Digital Engineering team in New Zealand. You will design, develop and deploy AI-driven software solutions using cutting-edge models and tooling, delivering real value to clients and communities.

You will collaborate across cross-functional teams, leverage LangChain, LlamaIndex and cloud platforms to build robust AI systems, and contribute to a dynamic, inclusive workplace that values learning and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development with Python and Typescript, with production ML/AI experience.
• Delivery of at least one generative AI solution in production (e.g., chatbot, summariser, code assistant).
• Deep familiarity with transformers and orchestration stacks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel).
• Experience deploying or fine-tuning models on Azure OpenAI / AWS Bedrock / SageMaker.
• Hands-on with RAG patterns, vector databases and evaluation metrics (BLEU, ROUGE-L, GPTScore).
• Cloud-native engineering: Docker, Kubernetes, infra-as-code and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI-driven software solutions addressing complex business challenges.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement AI models and pipelines.
• Work on cutting-edge AI projects and iterate based on real-world feedback.
• Contribute to scalable, maintainable AI architecture and tooling.

Skills

7+ years Python/Typescript

GenAI in production

Transformers

Model deployment (Azure/AWS)

RAG patterns

Docker/Kubernetes

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Azure OpenAI

AWS Bedrock/SageMaker

Job description

Datacom is seeking Senior/Tech Leads and Senior Developers to join its AI journey within the Digital Engineering team in New Zealand. You will design, develop and deploy AI-driven software solutions using cutting-edge models and tooling, delivering real value to clients and communities.

You will collaborate across cross-functional teams, leverage LangChain, LlamaIndex and cloud platforms to build robust AI systems, and contribute to a dynamic, inclusive workplace that values learning and