About this role
Senior AI Engineer
Job description: Mid-Level Full Stack Developer - SLED About the Company Thoriva is an AI product company that delivers intelligent, data-driven solutions to transform government operations. We combine AI solutions, commercial expertise, and complex business logic to address federal, state, and local government agencies’ biggest challenges. Job Summary As a Mid-Level Full Stack Developer, you will build and maintain modern, end-to-end web applications for Thoriva’s AI-enabled enterprise solutions. This role spans front-end engineering, backend services, cloud-native development, accessibility, performance, and secure digital delivery in support of AI-enabled grants and benefits program management. You will work closely with senior engineers, product, data, security, and domain teams to turn well-defined requirements into reliable, secure, and maintainable features across the stack. The ideal candidate has solid hands-on experience building user interfaces and APIs, is comfortable working in an Agile team, and is eager to grow into broader technical ownership. Key Responsibilities
• Develop, test, and maintain full stack features spanning responsive web interfaces, backend services, APIs, and integration components.
• Implement capabilities supporting eligibility review, fraud detection, case management, reviewer queues, audit trails, alerts, and reporting workflows.
• Build reusable front-end components and screens aligned to established design patterns, along with RESTful API endpoints and backend business logic.
• Work with data, AI/ML, product, and design teams to display model outputs, risk scores, confidence ratings, evidence packages, and reviewer actions in the application.
• Follow established patterns for secure data access to sensitive program, eligibility, claims, provider, transaction, and case data.
• Implement authentication flows, role-based access, logging, exception handling, and validation under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Build interfaces that meet accessibility (Section 508 / WCAG), usability, responsiveness, and performance standards.
• Support integration with databases, message queues, external APIs, identity providers, and cloud services.
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests, and participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and release activities.
• Create and update technical documentation, API specifications, and implementation notes.
• Troubleshoot defects and production issues, and contribute to performance and reliability improvements.
• Continuously build depth across the stack with mentorship from senior engineers and architects.
Required Qualifications
• 3–5 years of experience in full stack, front-end, or backend software engineering, or a closely related role.
• Hands-on experience building web user interfaces and backend services or APIs in a production environment.
• Working proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern front-end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue.
• Working proficiency in at least one backend language such as Node.js, Java, Python, C#, .NET, Go, or similar technologies.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar platforms, including writing queries.
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, authentication and authorization concepts, logging, and error handling.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, responsive design, and cross-browser behavior.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery, CI/CD practices, source control (Git), and automated testing.
• Ability to take well-defined requirements and deliver working, tested features with limited supervision.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with product owners, designers, senior engineers, and QA.
Preferred Qualifications
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Familiarity with containers, Docker, serverless services, API gateways, or message queues.
• Interest in or exposure to AI/ML model integration, risk scoring, reviewer queues, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries, dashboards, or data visualization.
• Awareness of secure data handling, PII/PHI, encryption, and compliance requirements.
• Experience working with onshore/offshore delivery teams.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
Key Skills
• Full Stack Development
• React / Vue
• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Node.js / Java / Python
• REST APIs
• SQL and NoSQL Databases
• HTML / CSS / Responsive Design
• Accessibility
• Git and CI/CD
• Automated Testing
• Cloud Fundamentals
• Integration Services
• Case Management
• Public-Sector Program Integrity