Senior Software Developer: AI-Driven Modernization Leader

Kyndryl Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus program

Comprehensive benefits: medical,Dental

Paid leave and PTO

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Developer with leadership responsibilities to guide AI-enabled application modernization for client engagements. You will design, code, review, and mentor while shaping technical direction and delivery patterns.

You’ll collaborate with architects, product owners, and client teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions. You will drive modernization of legacy systems, evaluate AI-assisted tooling, ensure secure, maintainable code, and

Qualifications

• 7 years experience with hands-on software development delivering production-quality applications.
• Lead a team of developers, including mentoring, code review, technical planning and guidance.
• Set technical direction for software delivery projects, architecture decisions and risk management.
• Experience with at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Go, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with either new application development, application modernization, or both.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to support coding, refactoring, testing, documentation, debugging, and architecture exploration.
• Review and validate AI-generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, performance, and alignment with requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers through new application builds and modernization programs while remaining actively involved in design, coding, review, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Set technical direction for projects, including architecture, integration patterns, modernization strategy, engineering standards, delivery approach, and risk management.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate code comprehension, generation, refactoring, testing, documentation, and migration planning while ensuring outputs are validated by experienced engineering judgment.
• Architect and build fit-for-purpose agents and agentic workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph, A2A, MCP-enabled tools, or comparable technologies.
• Guide modernization of existing applications by analyzing legacy code, identifying business logic, assessing constraints, defining target architecture, and creating incremental transformation roadmaps.
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions across APIs, data models, cloud services, security, observability, integration, DevSecOps, and user experience considerations.
• Mentor developers in software engineering practices, AI-assisted delivery techniques, secure coding, automated testing, maintainable design, and code review.

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Developer with leadership responsibilities to guide AI-enabled application modernization for client engagements. You will design, code, review, and mentor while shaping technical direction and delivery patterns.

You’ll collaborate with architects, product owners, and client teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions. You will drive modernization of legacy systems, evaluate AI-assisted tooling, ensure secure, maintainable code, and