Software Engineer

Ardent Principles is a technology company focused on delivering cutting-edge capabilities across various domains including data science and software engineering. They are seeking a mission-driven Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy software systems in a Lean Agile environment, with a focus on cloud engineering and AI solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Working in a Lean Agile development environment
• Building or integrating LLM-based solutions including RAG, semantic search or AI-assisted retrieval systems
• Developing detailed design and associated deliveries
• Translating customer and systems requirements into design
• Designing system interfaces
• Developing Single Page Applications using React (modern hooks‑based architecture), HTML5, and CSS3
• Hands‑on experience developing RESTful APIs using Node.js and Express (or comparable modern backend frameworks)
• Hands‑on experience with and troubleshooting Internet and web‑related protocols and technologies such as Tomcat, Node.js, Web Services, or SSL
• Working with testing platforms such as Jest or Karma
• Hands‑on experience working with DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Nexus
• Hands‑on experience with Elasticsearch (index design, querying, relevance tuning, and scaling)
• Designing or implementing data pipelines to support search and/or RAG workflows (e.g., ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search)