Senior Fullstack AI Engineer

TechDigital Group; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TechDigital Group is looking for a skilled software engineer with 6–8 years of experience in modern application engineering. You will work extensively with Node.js and TypeScript to build robust platforms, including API development and cloud-based solutions.

Strong AWS capabilities and experience with Generative AI solutions are critical for this role, alongside collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-output solutions.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on development experience in modern applications.
• Experience building and shipping enterprise-grade APIs/services.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

API development

Infrastructure as code (IaC)

Generative AI solutions

Collaboration

Tools

AWS CDK

PostgreSQL

CloudWatch

Job description

Job Summary

• 6–8 years of software engineering experience with strong hands‑on development experience in modern application engineering.
• 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 required for 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.

Required Skills

• 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 required for 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.