Frontend Software Engineer — AI-Driven Angular Expert

Churchill Downs Incorporated; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Churchill Downs Incorporated's TwinSpires team seeks a Software Engineer to design and develop frontend-focused, full-stack solutions with Angular emphasis and solid backend awareness. You will work in an agile environment and contribute to AI-assisted development using LLMs and related tooling.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience, strong Java/Spring, and MySQL skills, delivering consumer-facing web apps in scalable distributed environments while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and industry certifications.
• 5+ years of demonstrated career progression.
• Strong experience in development against relational databases, preferably MySQL.
• Experience developing consumer facing applications in a distributed, scalable environment.
• Deep experience in Angular, CSS, HTML, Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, MySQL, GitHub; frontend is primary.
• Experience in AWS, including Aurora and Lambda-based serverless architectures.
• Experience serving as an Agile Scrum team member.
• Authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis.
• Foundational understanding of LLMs and AI/ML concepts; familiarity with prompt engineering and API integration.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Write and support user-facing, web-based features that further the objectives of the organization.
• Write and support backend services and APIs (Java, Spring Boot, AWS Lambdas) that further the objectives of the organization.
• Manage and support a code base (repo), including deployment orchestration in a highly secure environment.
• Develop reusable, efficient code that lends itself to continual improvement and delivery.
• Collaborate with internal and external team members to design and achieve an optimal design solution.
• Document and troubleshoot bugs as required to maintain a successful application platform; 24x7 operation.
• Investigate new technologies, techniques, and industry developments.
• Integrate AI/LLM-powered features and services; apply AI-assisted coding tools to improve velocity and quality.

Skills

Angular

Java

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

CSS

HTML

MySQL

GitHub

AWS Lambda

LLMs

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Science/Systems

Tools

AWS

MySQL

GitHub

Job description

Churchill Downs Incorporated's TwinSpires team seeks a Software Engineer to design and develop frontend-focused, full-stack solutions with Angular emphasis and solid backend awareness. You will work in an agile environment and contribute to AI-assisted development using LLMs and related tooling.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience, strong Java/Spring, and MySQL skills, delivering consumer-facing web apps in scalable distributed environments while collaborating across teams.