Job Description
• Participate in all Lean Agile scrums, sprint planning, and grooming sessions.
• Consult and coordinate with stakeholders for problem resolution, task scheduling, resource needs, and task clarification.
• Work in partnership with an integrated team of staff and contractors.
• Coordinate and collaborate with security, operations, engineering, testing, and other teams to provide system information and technical support.
• Understand and work within approved cloud environments (e.g., AWS).
• Design, develop, and modify software systems.
• Unit test software and perform code reviews.
• Design and implement scalable search and retrieval systems leveraging Elasticsearch.
• Develop and integrate LLM powered capabilities, including Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Document and track vendor software roadmaps for software and patch version updates.
Required Skills
• Demonstrated experience working in Lean Agile Development environment.
• Demonstrated experience translating customer and system requirements into actionable design specifications.
• Demonstrated experience designing system interfaces, including defining integration points, data flows, and data exchange workflows.
• Demonstrated experience building or integrating LLM-based solutions, including RAG pipelines, semantic search, and AI-assisted retrieval systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing data pipelines for hybrid search (BM25 + vector search) in RAG workflows, covering ingestion, chunking, embeddings, and vector retrieval.
• Demonstrated experience with Elasticsearch, included index design and optimization, query development, relevance tuning, and cluster scaling.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in frontend Single Page Applications (SPA) development using React (hooks), HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript best practices.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in backend development, including designing and building RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express.js (or comparable modern backend frameworks).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience troubleshooting web protocols and server technologies, including Apache Tomcat, Node.js, Web Services, and SSL/TLS security configurations.
• Demonstrated experience using modern testing platforms such as Jest or Karma.
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps tools including Git, Jenkins, and Nexus.
Desired Skills
• Experience with the customer's Lean Agile methodology.
• Experience evaluating, selecting, or integrating LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, open-source models) into enterprise applications.
• Experience with vector databases, hybrid search (keyword + semantic), and relevance optimization.
• Experience with or exposure to RAG, LLM integrations, or semantic search.
