Job Title: AI Engineer
 

Location: Phoenix, AZ/ Charlotte, NC/ Bay Area, CA
 

Duration: Long Term Contract
 

• Core Skill Requirements
 

• 6-8 years of strong experience in Java development, including proficiency in Spring
   
• SpringBoot
   
• 2-3 years of experience with Python, focused on backend or data-driven development
   
• Strong experience in building and consuming RESTful APIs
   
• Strong understanding of Reactive Programming (WebFlux, etc.)
   
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka for event-driven architecture
   
• Database expertise in both MongoDB (NoSQL) and Oracle (RDBMS)
   
• Experience with Flink for stream processing and data pipelines
   
• GraphQL knowledge
   

• AI / Conversational Platform Exposure
 

• Strong understanding of Google Dialogflow CX or similar conversational AI frameworks
   
• Exposure to LLM (Large Language Models), agentic architectures, and prompt
   
• engineering concepts
   
• Familiarity with ADK (Agent Development Kit), Playbook, or similar agentic
   
• frameworks
   
• Conceptual understanding of machine learning fundamentals and model telemetry.
   

• Additional Skills
 

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
   
• Experience with microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native
   
• environments (OCP, Kubernetes, etc.)
   
• Excellent communication skills; ability to collaborate across engineering and product
   
• teams
   

• Preferred Qualifications
 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
   
• Prior experience in banking, fintech, or digital assistant platforms is an advantage.
   

Evaluation proficiency Metrics:
 

• High Priority
 

• Python
   
• Context Engineering
   
• Google ADK
   
• MCP
   
• A2A
   
• Multi Agent Set Up
   
• General AI/ML
   

• Low Priority
 

• Arize
   
• Architecture thinking/other ADK frameworks