AI-Driven Internal Apps Engineer

Arete Associates; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flextime scheduling

Bereavement

PTO

Parental Leave

401(k)

Job summary

Arete Associates seeks a hands-on IT Business Systems developer to design, build, and deploy internal applications and automation across ERP, PLM, HR, and engineering platforms. You will work with AI coding agents, own architecture, and ensure secure, documented code from requirements to production.

You will collaborate with end users and business leaders, demonstrate working software, and train users while maintaining CI/CD pipelines and IaC deployments in Azure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related discipline, or 2 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 3 years building and supporting business applications, integrations, or process automation solutions in a professional environment.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript) and the ability to read and reason about code you did not write.
• Hands-on experience developing with AI coding agents - Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar - working from a written spec, plan, and acceptance criteria, and reviewing and validating agent-generated code before it ships.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL, including the ability to query, model, and troubleshoot data across systems.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs and integrating third-party or vendor platforms.
• Experience deploying and supporting applications in a cloud environment - Microsoft Azure preferred.
• Proficiency with Git and experience working within CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI preferred).
• Strong stakeholder skills: the ability to sit with a non-technical end user and earn their trust, present and demonstrate solutions to business audiences, and produce clear written documentation of systems and interfaces.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance. A clearance is not required to begin this position but may be required in the future.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy custom internal applications and business process automation solutions from requirements through production release.
• Use AI coding agents as a primary development tool - working from written specifications rather than ad-hoc prompting - while owning the correctness, security, maintainability, and documentation of everything produced.
• Build and maintain integrations between disparate business platforms - ERP, PLM, HR, engineering, and SaaS systems - using APIs, connectors, and scheduled data flows.
• Take on occasional smaller builds such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect Arete's internal systems and tools to AI agents and assistants, including the authentication, access scoping, and logging those connections require.
• Assess technical feasibility, size effort, and validate the recommended approach before work begins; own the detailed technical design - data model, integration architecture, and component structure - once an approach is selected.
• Deploy and maintain solutions in Microsoft Azure with Enterprise IT, using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code so environments are reproducible and releases repeatable.
• Apply source control, code review, environment separation, and release practices so solutions are versioned, testable, and recoverable.
• Participate in process discovery sessions alongside the Business Solutions Analyst - interview users and observe real workflows to validate that a proposed solution will work in practice.
• Demonstrate working software, present proposed technical solutions to business audiences, and train and support end users on the applications you build.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation: architecture diagrams, data flow and interface documentation, runbooks, and end-user support material.
• Provide post-deployment support, enhancement, and troubleshooting for applications in service, ensuring solutions meet Arete's security, data handling, and compliance requirements.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Skills

Python

C#

JavaScript/TypeScript

AI coding agents

SQL

REST APIs

Azure

Git

CI/CD

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/IT/SE

2 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Job description

Arete Associates seeks a hands-on IT Business Systems developer to design, build, and deploy internal applications and automation across ERP, PLM, HR, and engineering platforms. You will work with AI coding agents, own architecture, and ensure secure, documented code from requirements to production.

You will collaborate with end users and business leaders, demonstrate working software, and train users while maintaining CI/CD pipelines and IaC deployments in Azure.