Software Engineer

What You'll Do

• Read the whole stack, then change it.
• Diagnose production issues across the mainframe (COBOL, DB2, CICS), the Java/Spring services tier, and Cloud Run microservices.
• Ship the fix on the money-path and the corresponding improvement to agent tooling and knowledge substrate in the same change set.
• Design and operate the MCP tools layer.
• Build least-privilege, per-call-audited MCP servers over DB2, Splunk, and GCP.
• Provenance, PII handling.
• Build production multi-agent workflows on Google ADK — SequentialAgent and LoopAgent compositions, creating and managing Agent workflows, including escalation-containment patterns — for Splunk → DB2 → GCP error triage, ADR authoring, and originations debugging.
• Own the knowledge graph and retrieval work end-to-end. Model the loan originations ontology (VIN, dealer, offer, program eligibility, environment topology). Implement hybrid vector + graph retrieval.
• Every RAG-produced answer must be defensible under audit.
• Ship deterministic backend services in Java/Kotlin + Spring Boot on GCP — the audit envelope, provenance store, and human-in-the-loop review surfaces where non-determinism is unacceptable.
• Author ADRs in ADR-driven-development, OKF business-logic documents, skill files, and Splunk saved-search catalogs. Pair with teammates on the hard debugging sessions.
• Track mean time from "agent cannot handle this" to "agent handles this autonomously," and publish the trend monthly.
• Create evaluations and an evaluation runner for all AI tools and agents built by you and the team.
• Publish, monthly, the change types you've made cheaper — mean time from "agent doesn't know this" to "agent handles it autonomously."
• Automate test-case generation, evaluation, and grading for both brownfield and greenfield applications, ensuring coverage, repeatability, and measurable quality improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years building and operating production-grade backend systems as a hands-on engineer.
• 5+ years in Python and Java (Kotlin, TypeScript a plus).
• At least 1 year of experience in shipping AI-enabled applications in production — agent frameworks, retrieval systems, or LLM-backed services.
• Demonstrated experience with agent orchestration frameworks — Google ADK, LangGraph, LangChain, or comparable.
• Practical experience implementing MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool integrations, agent communication patterns, and AI observability.
• Strong backend fundamentals: Spring Boot, relational databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or similar) including query and schema design, REST/OpenAPI, TDD, modern CI/CD.
• Production experience on Google Cloud Platform (Vertex AI, Cloud Run, BigQuery) or an equivalent cloud.
• Comfort operating in complex, multi-tier, legacy-integrated environments where change control and auditability matter.

Qualifications

• Semantic technologies, ontology engineering, or graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, or similar).
• Experience integrating with mainframe systems (COBOL, DB2 for z/OS, CICS) or comparable long-lived transactional cores.
• Splunk SPL proficiency, including saved-search and dashboard authoring on large indexes.
• Event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka); containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Benefits

This position is a salary grade 5 and ranges from $68,300-$114,800.

This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $85,400-$143,200.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99,600-$166,600.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115,000-$192,900.

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