Software Engineering, Full Stack - AI

Fitch Group is currently seeking a Full Stack-AI Engineer based out of our office in Chicago. As an Associate Director on our External Application Development Chapter, you will have the opportunity to be a part of an exceptionally talented, agile team dedicated to delivering world-class solutions to Fitch customers. Our team focuses on building cutting-edge, cloud-native applications, comprising of data ingestion pipelines, microservices, data visualizations and customer-facing web products using modern front-end technologies.

• Innovative Technological Environment
• High Impact and Visibility
• Professional Growth and Development
• Supportive and Collaborative Culture

• Demonstrate technical expertise in full-stack technologies, AI-enabled solutions for enterprise-scale applications and applications.
• Demonstrate technical experience in design best practices, build modern AI/ML solutions, including generative AI/LLM-based applications aligned to business and product outcomes, providing effective translation to code artifacts, and implementing an appropriate integration approach for API/data layer.
• Contribute to and guide the development of GenAI applications using frameworks such as Lang Chain and Lang Graph, including agent workflows, memory/state handling, and graph-based orchestration.
• Work as part of an agile team in design, development, debugging, and deployment efforts while addressing security, cross-browser, and cross-platform expectations and concerns.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to understand business needs, define and develop applications/architecture, design, review, implement, and optimize Engineering processes.
• Build data expertise and a deep understanding of business domain knowledge and own data quality for allocated areas of ownership.
• Maintain and enhance microservices-based components for the application suite.
• Recommend, create, and maintain development best practices and guidelines to be used across various applications.
• Write automated unit, integration, performance, and visual regression test cases .
• Integrate test case execution with the CI/CD pipeline to better align with the Dev Sec Ops  strategy.
• Promote, implement, and evolve development best practices , especially on commits, versioning, and dependency management.

• 7+ years of experience designing and developing distributed application architecture of moderate-to-high complexity.
• 7+ years of experience designing and developing distributed application architectures of moderate-to-high complexity.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong backend development expertise in Java and Python.
• Strong hands-on experience building scalable backend services using technologies such as Spring Boot, Fast API, or similar frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing scalable web applications using modern front-end frameworks such as React, Type Script.
• Proven experience building and supporting microservices-based architectures in cloud-native environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI/ML solutions in production.
• Strong knowledge of generative AI concepts, including experience with embeddings, vector stores, RAG, and LLM integration.
• Experience building GenAI applications using tools and frameworks such as Lang Chain, Lang Graph, and leading LLM providers or open-source models.
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle or PostgreSQL, and familiarity with No
  
  SQL and search technologies such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, or Solr.
• Expertise in modern package management, test frameworks (e.g., NPM, Yarn, Webpack, Jest, Enzyme, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Wraith), CI/CD pipelines using GIT and modern Dev Sec Ops  practices, including automation, testing, and secure software delivery.
• Experience working in high-performance teams using Agile methodologies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience building AI-enabled features for customer-facing enterprise applications.
• Exposure to AWS services such as EC2, S3, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, and networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets, and security groups.
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration technologies.
• Familiarity with data engineering and modern data architecture patterns.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and production support for distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical standards across teams.
• Exposure to business intelligence or data visualization tools.

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