Software Engineer Advisor

Federal Express Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 94,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Express Corporation is seeking a proactive engineering leader to coordinate designs, develop and troubleshoot highly complex software programs across the full development life cycle. You will guide testing, interfaces and systems, while coaching less senior engineers.

You will work with modern UI frameworks, migrate legacy architectures to cloud platforms, and apply cutting-edge evaluation pipelines to measure performance and latency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering/IS or related field.
• Four years of IT/engineering experience required; advanced degree may offset.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate designs and lead full development life cycle of complex software programs.
• Prepare and conduct tests; system programming and interfacing.
• Coach junior staff and contribute to team collaboration.

Skills

LLM apps

Autonomous agents

Deterministic tool calls

JSON outputs

GCP Vertex AI

Cloud Run

Cloud Functions

Cloud SQL

Java backend

Spring Boot

RAG

Vector databases

SQL optimization

Google Cloud Certified

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

React

Angular

Spring Boot

.NET/Java migration

Job description

Provide leadership and initiative in the overall coordination of designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs highly complex software programs for enhancements and new products.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for highly complex concept design through the full development life cycle.
• Prepares and conducts systems programming test requiring interfacing and software tests.
• Coaches others in less senior positions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Preferred Skills:

• *2+ yrs building LLM apps & autonomous agents with LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or ReAct loops. Strong expertise in deterministic tool/function calling & structured JSON outputs.
• *2+ yrs deploying & scaling on GCP with strong expertise in Vertex AI, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions (2nd Gen), and Cloud SQL. Solid grasp of GCP IAM, Workload Identity, & Secret Manager.
• *Experience with modern UI frameworks (React/Angular) for seamless team collaboration, plus a proven track record migrating legacy .NET/Java architectures to modern cloud setups.
• *Background in building production evaluation pipelines (measuring hallucination, precision, and latency).
• *Experience integrating agents with enterprise platforms (Microsoft Teams, Slack, internal ERP/CRM systems).
• *Strong background in modern Java (17/21+) backend development using Spring Boot to build, optimize, and deploy high-throughput microservices and REST APIs to the cloud.
• *Expertise in Advanced RAG, vector databases (Vertex AI Vector Search, pgvector), chunking strategies, semantic reranking, and hybrid search (keyword + vector).
• *Proven skill optimizing SQL queries and stored procedures to reduce compute/memory overhead, accelerate execution, and control cloud database costs during migrations.
• *Google Cloud Certified: Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Machine Learning Engineer.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, or information systems or related field and/or equivalent formal.

Minimum Experience

Four (4) years qualifying work experience in information technology or engineering environment. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Domicile Information:

This position can be domiciled anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.

Preferred Qualifications:

Pay Transparency:

USA: $8,007.29/mo - $18,149.85/mo, CO: $8,007.29/mo - $17,393.61/mo, CA: $8,452.14/mo - $14,413.11/mo, NJ: $8,452.14/mo - $13,523.42/mo, ME, OH & VT: $8,452.14/mo - $15,124.88/mo, MN: $8,452.14/mo - $16,637.36/mo, IL & NV: $8,452.14/mo - $17,393.61/mo, MD, NY, VA & WA: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, MA: $8,896.99/mo - $18,149.85/mo, RI: $9,786.68/mo - $16,637.36/mo, CT: $9,786.68/mo - $17,393.61/mo, DC & HI: $10,231.53/mo - $17,393.61/mo, NYC: $10,231.53/mo - $18,149.85/mo

Pay: Pay: USA Pay Transparency Range: $8,007.29/mo - $18,149.85/mo

Pay Transparency:

The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location or locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the ranges for each level in that job family. Actual pay is determined by several job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, including, but not limited to, experience relative to the job, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. In California, the compensation listed reflects the range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position upon hire. In New Jersey, any compensable Security and Walk time will be paid to non-exempt/hourly employees at the state minimum wage.

Federal Express Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer including, Vets/Disability.

Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact [e-mail].

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws:

• Know Your Rights
• Pay Transparency
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act

• E-Verify Notice (bilingual)
• Right to Work Notice (English) / (Spanish)