Senior AI Application Engineer

Lean Solutions Group; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Technology Services in Long Beach, CA seeks a Senior AI Application Engineer to build modern web apps with React, Node.js and TypeScript. You will contribute to AI-driven software initiatives, including AI agents and MCP, designing scalable APIs and distributed services.

The ideal candidate has extensive full-stack experience, e-commerce familiarity, and strong CI/CD practices for high-performance systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering with full-stack focus.
• Hands-on React, Node.js, and TypeScript experience.
• Design and build RESTful APIs and distributed services.
• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput APIs.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.
• Experience with Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
• Design of scalable microservices and API performance considerations.
• Experience in e-commerce platforms and related domains.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, testable code, and code quality practices.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and MCP concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop modern web applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript.
• Contribute to AI-driven software initiatives including agents and MCP.
• Design and implement scalable APIs and distributed services.
• Collaborate across teams to integrate e-commerce domain components.

Skills

React

Node.js

TypeScript

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Kafka

AWS SQS/SNS

RabbitMQ

Microservices

CI/CD

E-commerce

Tools

Kubernetes

GraphQL

Job description

Company Overview:

Global Technology Services is a rapidly expanding organization situated in Medellín, Colombia. We pride ourselves on possessing one of the most influential networks within software development and IT services for the entertainment, financial, and logistics sectors. Our corporate projections offer a multitude of opportunities for professionals to elevate their careers and experience substantial growth. Joining our team means engaging with expansive engineering teams across Latin America, Philippines and the United States, contributing to cutting-edge developments in multiple industries.

Position Title: AI Application Engineer

Category: Software Engineering

Seniority: Senior

Location: Long Beach, CA, USA.

What you will be doing:

We are looking for a AI Application Engineer with strong hands-on experience building modern web applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript. The ideal candidate has a strong background in e-commerce platforms, event-driven architectures, and the development of high-performance, low-latency APIs.

This role will contribute to AI-driven software development initiatives, including AI agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AI-assisted development workflows. Candidates should understand how these technologies work and be comfortable applying them to real-world software engineering problems.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant full-stack development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with React.
• Strong backend development experience with Node.js.
• Advanced knowledge of TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and distributed services.
• Experience building low-latency, high-throughput APIs.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous processing.
• Experience with messaging/event-streaming technologies such as Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Experience designing scalable, distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong understanding of API performance, caching, concurrency, resiliency, and scalability.
• Professional experience working on e-commerce systems or platforms.
• Familiarity with e-commerce domains such as product catalog, inventory, pricing, shopping cart, checkout, orders, payments, customers, or fulfillment.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, testing, code quality, and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with spec-driven development or contract-first approaches to software development.
• Experience using modern AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Understanding of AI agents, tool calling, LLM integrations, and agent orchestration.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it can connect AI agents to tools and data.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with GraphQL.
• Experience with Kafka at scale.
• Experience with Kubernetes.

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects
• Strong communication skills.
• Process ownership