Software Engineer Advisor

Federal Express Corporation; Tennessee; Remote; USD 89,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Corporation seeks an experienced software leader to coordinate design, development, and debugging of highly complex software for enhancements and new products. You will guide teams, mentor peers, and drive end-to-end lifecycle from concept through testing.

The role emphasizes modern cloud architectures (GCP), Java Spring Boot, and advanced RAG/vector tech while collaborating with enterprise systems to deploy scalable microservices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or information systems or related field and/or equivalent formal.
• Four (4) years qualifying work experience in information technology or engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and initiative in coordination of designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs highly complex software programs for enhancements and new products.
• Mentor and coach others in less senior positions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

LLM apps

Autonomous agents

LangGraph/LlamaIndex

GCP Vertex AI

Cloud Run

Cloud Functions

SQL optimization

Java Spring Boot

Vector databases

Vertex AI Vector Search

pgvector

REST APIs

Team collaboration tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

React/Angular

.NET/Java legacy 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.

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 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.

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

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 Program Participant: Federal Express Corporation participates in the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ E-Verify program (For U.S. applicants and employees only). Please click below to learn more about the E-Verify program:

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