Senior Software Engineer, IT Software Engineering

Ascensus


Job Location:

Lake Mary, FL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 12 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America providing products and expertise that help nearly 16 million people save for a better today and tomorrow.

Section 1: Position Summary

As aSoftware Engineerin the Ascensus AI Program you will help turn modern LLM capabilities into reliable observable production-grade software used byreal businessteams every day.

This is amid-level software engineering rolefor someone who is strong in core engineering fundamentals and excited to build practical AI-powered systems.

Section 2: Job Functions Essential Duties and Responsibilities

You will work on:

  • AI-powered applications and agents

  • Retrieval-augmented generation or RAG pipelines

  • Agent workflows and orchestration

  • Prompt strategies and tool integrations

  • Secure integrations with enterprise systems

  • Observability testing and production reliability

  • AI-assisted software development using tools such as Cursor Claude Code or similar platforms

We are looking for engineers who:

  • Move quickly

  • Take ownership

  • Learn fast

  • Communicate clearly

  • Care about quality

  • Build secure maintainable software

  • Are excited to work in a fast-moving AI environment

You do not need to be an expert in every part of the AI stack on day one but you should be curious technically strong and motivated to grow.

Section 3: Experience Skills Knowledge Requirements

Required Qualifications

  • 3-7 years of professional software engineering experience.

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Information Systems Business Information Systems a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

  • Strong experience with one or more modern programming languages such as:

  • Python

  • JavaScript / TypeScript

  • SQL

  • Similar modern development platforms

  • Experience building production applications APIs integrations backend services workflow logic or similar software components.

  • Familiarity with LLM-powered systems such as:

  • RAG

  • Chatbots

  • Agent workflows

  • Tool use

  • Prompt engineering

  • AI-enabled application development

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including:

  • Clean code

  • Source control

  • Unit testing

  • CI/CD

  • Refactoring

  • Design patterns

  • Maintainability

  • Working experience with SQL for data inspection analysis troubleshooting or integration.

  • Ability to read application logs traces and telemetry to investigate issues andidentifyroot causes.

  • Strong problem-solving skills.

  • Clear communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Comfort working in ambiguous fast-moving environments.

  • Curiosity ownership and the ability to learnnew technologiesquickly.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with one or more of the following is helpful but not:

  • Building or contributing to AI/LLM-based systems

  • RAG pipelines

  • Chatbots or conversational AI products

  • Agentic applications

  • Prompt strategies

  • Tool-calling workflows

  • Agent orchestration

  • Durable workflows or platforms such as Temporal

  • Model Context Protocol function calling or enterprise tool integrations

  • REST APIs service-oriented architectures or event-driven systems

  • Azure Azure AI Foundry Azure DevOps or related Microsoft cloud tools

  • Salesforce or other enterprise platforms

  • Observability tools such asLangfuse New RelicOpenTelemetry or similar platforms

  • AI-powered development tools such as Cursor Claude Code GitHub Copilot or similar tools

  • Technical documentation diagrams decision records or design notes

  • Working with quality engineers SDETs operations engineers support teams and product owners

What Success Looks Like

You will be successful in this role if you:

  • Turn ambiguous business needs into simple working software.

  • Use AI-assisted development tools to move faster without sacrificing quality.

  • Build AI systems that are observable testable and reliable enough for production use.

  • Care aboutretrievalquality prompt behavior tool accuracy user experience and measurable business outcomes.

  • Learnunfamiliar systems quickly.

  • Communicate clearly and ask good questions.

  • Makepracticaltechnical recommendations.

  • Take ownership fromideathrough design implementation deployment monitoring and improvement.

  • Help the team improve how it builds testsoperates and evolves enterprise AI software.

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Everyone deserves to feel financially secure. We help more people save through partnerships with leading financial institutions and state governments.

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