Senior Full Stack AI Engineer w/Node.js TypeScript | Onsite-Des Moines - IA | 6 Months

Genius Business Solutions (GBSI); Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Genius Business Solutions Inc. (GBSI) is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer with strong Node.js/TypeScript, AWS Cloud, and Generative AI expertise.

You will design, develop, and deploy enterprise-grade apps with cloud-native architectures and AI-powered capabilities. The ideal candidate has 6–8 years of software engineering experience, strong backend focus, and hands-on work with API development, IaC (CDK), with Bedrock experience preferred.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of software engineering experience, including backend/Full Stack.
• Strong expertise in Node.js/TypeScript and APIs, with cloud deployment know‑how.
• Hands-on AWS services (API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CDK).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) and AWS CDK is required.
• At least 1 year building Generative AI solutions (RAG/chatbot exposure).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale applications and AI-powered solutions.
• Lead backend development, APIs, services, databases, and cloud deployment.
• Implement infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply prompt engineering and grounding techniques to improve reliability.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, QA, and security stakeholders.

Skills

Node.js/TypeScript

AWS Cloud

Generative AI

APIs & backend

IaC (CDK)

Bedrock

RAG/Chatbot

Prompt engineering

Embeddings/Vector search

CI/CD

Collaboration

Testing & debugging

Tools

AWS CDK

API Gateway

Lambda

S3

EventBridge

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

CloudWatch

Fargate

Job description

About Genius Business Solutions Inc. (GBSI)

Featured in CNBC, Digital Journal, Fox News, and CIO Review, GBSI is a globally recognized IT services leader with 20+ years serving Fortune 500 organizations. Our teams deliver solutions across automotive, manufacturing, retail, and pharmaceutical industries. Headquartered in Moline, IL, GBSI supports clients and consultants throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and India.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Full Stack Engineer with strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Cloud, and Generative AI to design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale applications and AI-powered solutions. The ideal candidate will have 6-8 years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development, cloud-native architectures, API development, infrastructure automation, and AI-driven applications.

What are the top skills required for this role?

• Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript; this is the non-negotiable primary language requirement for the role.
• Strong experience building backend/platform-oriented full-stack solutions, including APIs, services, databases, cloud deployment, and operational support.
• Strong AWS experience is required. Candidates should have hands-on experience with services such as API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, EventBridge, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, CDK, and Fargate. Bedrock is required.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) is required, ideally with strong hands-on use of AWS CDK. CDK is explicitly requiredfor this role.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, ideally in RAG/search-based AI, chatbot/copilot experiences, or enterprise knowledge assistants. RAG/chatbot experience is sufficient for this hire

Job Description/ Responsibilities

• 6–8 years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on development experience in modern application engineering. (Overall 12 years required)
• Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript; this is the non-negotiable primary language requirement for the role.
• Strong experience building backend/platform-oriented full-stack solutions, including APIs, services, databases, cloud deployment, and operational support.
• Strong AWS experience is required. Candidates should have hands-on experience with services such as API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, EventBridge, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, CDK, and Fargate. Bedrock is required.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) is required, ideally with strong hands-on use of AWS CDK. CDK is explicitly requiredfor this role.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, ideally in RAG/search-based AI, chatbot/copilot experiences, or enterprise knowledge assistants. RAG/chatbot experience is sufficient for this hire
• Practical understanding of prompt engineering and how prompt design impacts grounding, reliability, usability, and output quality.
• Working knowledge of retrieval and generation concepts such as embeddings, chunking, semantic retrieval, vector search, top-k, top-p, and related controls that influence response behavior and quality.
• Basic hands-on familiarity with guardrails / safety controls / output validation, including awareness of risks like hallucinations, prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, and content-safety concerns.
• Experience building and shipping enterprise- grade APIs/services that connect AI capabilities into real business workflows.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, debugging, source control, and CI/CD.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; we need a collaborative, high-output builder who works well with product, engineering, QA, architecture, security, and business stakeholders.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GeniusBSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.