Product Engineer (AI-Augmented & Full-Stack Systems)

Motion Recruitment; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Product Engineer for a contract role with a leading global bank in Tampa, FL. Hybrid schedule: 3 days onsite per week, with a 6+ month duration and strong extension probability.

You will join a team focusing on building resilient, cloud-based systems, leveraging AI-assisted development workflows, and delivering end-to-end features from UI to backend. The role emphasizes technical leadership, mentoring, and product thinking, with ownership across design,

Qualifications

• 2-8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Ability to lead and mentor other engineers while remaining hands-on.
• Demonstrate strong curiosity, observance, and drive.
• Strong proficiency in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Build, prototype, and ship end-to-end features from design to production.
• Work with product managers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Architect scalable cloud services and modular systems.
• Mentor engineers, establish testing strategies, and uphold coding standards.

Skills

2-8+ years of experience

Lead and mentor

Hands-on engineering

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

UI/UX

Node.js

Python

Java

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Data Modeling

System Design

Microservices

Modular Architecture

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AI-assisted Development

GitHub Copilot

Technical Leadership

Mentoring

Product Thinking

Tools

React

Node.js

Python

Java

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Grow your career as a Product Engineer with an innovative global bank in Tampa, FL. Contract role with strong probability of extension and conversion. Will require working a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite per week.

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration: 6+ months

Required Skills & Experience

• 2-8+ years of professional software engineering experience, depending on technical depth, seniority, and leadership scope.
• Ability to lead and mentor other engineers while remaining hands-on
• Demonstrate strongcuriosity, observance, and drive.
• Strong technical proficiency in:
  • React, JavaScript, TypeScript, UI/UX
  • Node.js, Python, Java, REST APIs
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Data Modeling
  • System Design, Microservices, Modular Architecture
  • AWS, Azure, GCP
  • CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
  • AI-assisted Development, GitHub Copilot, AI Workflows
  • Technical Leadership, Mentoring, Engineering Standards
  • Product Thinking, Technical Discovery, End-to-End Ownership

What you'll be doing:

1. Build, Prototype & Ship End-to-End

• Act as a primary hands-on builder in an autonomous pod, taking features from whiteboard design through full-stack implementation to production deployment.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to rapidly prototype, iterate on user interfaces, and build high-performance backend services.
• Deliver resilient, clean, and maintainable code across the entire stack—spanning responsive React frontends, Python microservices, and cloud-native backends.

2. Drive Hypothesis-Driven Product Engineering

• Partner closely with product managers and domain experts to deconstruct complex user journeys and identify the highest-leverage technical solutions.
• Design quick, low-cost technical experiments and interactive prototypes that generate high-signal user feedback before committing to full-scale architecture.
• Challenge assumptions at every stage—focusing relentlessly on solving the right problem and measuring real product outcomes rather than raw engineering activity.

3. Architect Scalable, Resilient Cloud Systems

• Design robust, modular system architectures and clean API contracts that scale cleanly across enterprise workloads.
• Make deliberate build-vs-configure-vs-orchestrate decisions, leveraging modern serverless primitives (AWS Lambda, S3, CloudFront), PostgreSQL, document/data stores (PostgreSQL / RDS PostgreSQL), and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Establish lightweight architectural patterns, reusable UI components, and shared service utilities that enable the pod to move with high velocity without accumulating unsustainable technical debt.

4. Provide Technical Thought Leadership & Rigorous Validation

• Serve as the technical benchmark and final line of validation for complex codebases and system architectures—whether authored by engineers or generated by AI tools.
• Maintain deep technical fluency to spot correctness bugs, security vulnerabilities, edge cases, and performance bottlenecks in AI-generated output.
• Define and champion automated testing strategies (unit, integration, and end-to-end), CI/CD governance, and modern observability practices.
• Mentor fellow engineers through pair programming, architectural discussions, and sharing reusable mental models.