Senior Software Engineer (AI & Automation)
About The Position
Transform technology into opportunity as a Senior Software Engineer (AI & Automation) at GDIT. Shape what’s next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what’s next for your engineering career. As a Senior Software Engineer (AI & Automation), the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the United States Postal Service through the application of agentic AI to the software development lifecycle. Work in a unique environment and stack, offering challenging problems and interesting opportunities. Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination. Help identify system bottlenecks or flaws in business logic and work with the team to address them. Take ownership over product problems, develop solutions you're proud of, and prove through data that they deliver impact. Work across the stack to solve problems -- there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you. Mentor junior developers and contribute to the technical growth of the team. Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively within your team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- 4+ years of hands-on AI software development experience
- Demonstrated track record of delivering impactful, production ready, software solutions of varying complexity
- Experience designing and implementing components of distributed systems (multi-tier architectures) including storage layers, caching layers, and application layers
- Working experience with microservice architectures, with exposure to high-throughput systems
- Familiarity with system transformation patterns and ability to contribute to modernization efforts
- Strong proficiency in Java
- Solid understanding of cloud engineering paradigms, asynchronous systems, and service integration patterns
- Working knowledge of design patterns, reliability, and scaling principles
- Ability to contribute to architectural discussions and system design
- Demonstrated propensity for taking ownership of problems and their solutions
- Quality driven, owns their output from communication, to code, to documentation
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to teammates and stakeholders
- Experience mentoring peers or junior developers
- Willingness to advocate for sound engineering practices within your team
- Track record of learning and adapting to new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies
- Demonstrated embrace of AI and automation tools to enhance productivity and engineering outcomes
- Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to venture into new problem domains
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting.
- This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.
Responsibilities
- Deliver new features and improve reliability of our core services including the major read/write paths for customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination
- Help identify system bottlenecks or flaws in business logic and work with the team to address them
- Take ownership over product problems, develop solutions you're proud of, and prove through data that they deliver impact
- Work across the stack to solve problems
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to the technical growth of the team
- Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs effectively within your team
Benefits
- 401K with company match
- competitive pay
- paid time off
- Full-flex work week
- variety of medical plan options
- some with Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
- variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
- Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
