Principal Full-Stack Engineer: AI-Driven Enterprise Apps

raymondjames; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James is seeking an experienced Principal Full Stack Application Developer to architect and build enterprise Agentic AI solutions that automate business processes. The role blends hands-on development with leadership across Angular, Java, Spring Boot, and AI-enabled workflows.

You will define standards, evaluate new AI frameworks, and drive best practices while collaborating with Architecture, Security, and Product teams to deliver scalable automation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise software applications.
• 5+ years of technical leadership experience leading development teams and enterprise software initiatives.
• Expert knowledge of Java (17+), Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Angular (16+), RESTful APIs, and microservices.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, software architecture, design patterns, and secure coding practices.
• Experience designing scalable enterprise applications and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise Agentic AI solutions that automate complex business processes across the organization.
• Define technical standards and architectural patterns for intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, orchestration workflows, and AI-enabled enterprise applications.
• Design and develop agentic workflows that combine deterministic business rules, enterprise integrations, retrieval systems, and AI reasoning to deliver reliable and scalable business automation.
• Evaluate, prototype, and integrate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and tools to continuously improve engineering productivity and business capabilities.
• Drive the firm's adoption of AI engineering best practices, including prompt engineering, model evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Model Context Protocol (MCP), vector search, tool calling, and AI governance.
• Lead full stack development efforts using Angular, Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Design reusable frameworks and platform capabilities that enable development teams to rapidly build and deploy intelligent agents.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to identify automation opportunities and define scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers in modern AI engineering techniques, full stack development, and enterprise software architecture.
• Lead technical design sessions, perform architecture reviews, conduct code reviews, and establish engineering standards.
• Apply AI-assisted software development tools to accelerate development, testing, debugging, documentation, and delivery while maintaining high engineering quality.
• Participate in production support, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and continuous platform improvement.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architectural design

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Science

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Framework

Angular

REST APIs

Microservices

Kafka

IBM MQ

Job description

Raymond James is seeking an experienced Principal Full Stack Application Developer to architect and build enterprise Agentic AI solutions that automate business processes. The role blends hands-on development with leadership across Angular, Java, Spring Boot, and AI-enabled workflows.

You will define standards, evaluate new AI frameworks, and drive best practices while collaborating with Architecture, Security, and Product teams to deliver scalable automation.