AI Developer - Full-Stack & Secure AI Apps

swingtech-careers; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 PTO days

Medical Insurance with 3 options

401k with company match

Annual training budget

Referral bonus

Job summary

Swingtech seeks an AI Developer to design and build secure, accessible AI-enabled applications, APIs, and workflows for federal missions. You will operationalize models, RAG services, and data products while collaborating in an agile, cross-functional team.

The role emphasizes full-stack development, secure coding practices, accessibility compliance (Section 508/WCAG 2.1), and on-site work three days per week in Washington, DC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related technical discipline.
• At least three years of experience in software development, full-stack development, application integration, API development, or cloud-native development.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, or other modern programming languages.
• Experience with REST APIs, relational and/or NoSQL databases, Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and modern software-development practices.
• Experience integrating AI/ML, LLM APIs, RAG, NLP, search, automation, document intelligence, or comparable AI-enabled capabilities.
• Familiarity with application-security principles and secure-coding practices.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional agile environment.
• Must be willing to work 3 days onsite at customer site in Washington, DC.

Responsibilities

• Develop full-stack AI-enabled applications, APIs, microservices, dashboards, workflow automations, and enterprise-system integrations.
• Implement capabilities using approved LLMs, RAG pipelines, classification models, document intelligence, predictive analytics, generative AI, agentic workflows, and MCP-based services.
• Develop backend services that integrate with approved models, vector stores, data platforms, identity providers, enterprise systems, and Government-approved cloud services.
• Build accessible web interfaces and dashboards that meet Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 Level A/AA requirements.
• Implement user-facing human-in-the-loop controls, including review queues, decision-support displays, overrides, approvals, escalation mechanisms, correction/feedback workflows, audit trails, and role-based access.
• Ensure AI outputs are clearly identified, appropriately grounded in approved sources, and presented with citations, limitations, and required user controls.
• Develop modular, maintainable, testable code using secure software-development practices, code reviews, version control, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Implement application security controls, including authentication, authorization, input validation, API security, secrets management, encryption, logging, error handling, and rate limiting.
• Support AI-security controls, including prompt-injection defenses, safe prompt/context handling, output validation, controlled tool use, and audit logging.
• Develop and maintain unit, integration, API, regression, performance, security, and accessibility tests.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture records, configuration documentation, deployment scripts, runbooks, release notes, and knowledge-transfer artifacts.
• Support production monitoring, release activities, incident response, defect resolution, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

REST APIs

CI/CD

Agile

Secure coding

On-site work

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related

Tools

React

Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

LangChain

FastAPI

Django

Job description

Swingtech seeks an AI Developer to design and build secure, accessible AI-enabled applications, APIs, and workflows for federal missions. You will operationalize models, RAG services, and data products while collaborating in an agile, cross-functional team.

The role emphasizes full-stack development, secure coding practices, accessibility compliance (Section 508/WCAG 2.1), and on-site work three days per week in Washington, DC.