Senior AI-Native Full Stack Software Engineer

SRI Resources has an immediate job opportunity for a Senior AI-Native Full Stack Software Engineer with a major corporation in Burbank or Glendale, CA. 4 days per week on-site, Fridays remote. 12+ month contract Pay Rate: $85 - $90/hr DOE

Job Summary:

Every day, we create compelling, impactful creative content for one of the most beloved brands on the planet. Help inspire that magic by being part of a team that exists to push the limits of entertainment marketing and create the never-before-seen! As part of the team, you will serve as a technical pillar and force multiplier within a group of seasoned technologists solving high-stakes architectural, operational, and platform problems across the digital media lifecycle.

As a Senior AI-Native Full Stack Software Engineer, you will own technical direction, architectural governance, and system-wide reliability across our enterprise backend (Java and Kotlin Spring Boot microservices) and frontend (React and Typescript) ecosystems. You will spearhead our engineering evolution by establishing robust patterns for integrating AI developer tooling into production workflows, raising the floor on code quality, and coaching peers.

Crucially, this position demands mature leadership grounded in intellectual humility, blameless post-mortems, transparent cross-functional partnership, and an open, egoless approach to driving technical consensus.

• Architectural Ownership & Systems Strategy:
  Drive the end-to-end design, technical roadmaps, and scalable implementation of distributed full stack systems, event-driven architectures, and domain-driven microservices across Java/Kotlin Spring Boot and modern React Typescript environments.
• AI Tooling Strategy & Developer Ergonomics:
  Lead the adoption and standardization of AI-assisted engineering practices (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor). Design team-level prompt harnesses, contextual rule frameworks, and automated evaluation steps that measurably accelerate delivery cycles while elevating quality standards.
• Human-in-the-Loop Governance & Quality Gates:
  Establish team-wide verification guardrails for AI-assisted outputs. Define policies that prevent hallucinated dependencies, detect subtle concurrency/security flaws, protect confidential studio IP, and enforce deterministic regression testing.
• Cross-Functional & Multi-Team Alignment:
  Partner as an authoritative, empathetic technical counterpart to Product Management, Technical Program Management, UX/Design, and Infrastructure/Cloud Engineering. Clarify ambiguous business goals and de-risk complex technical dependencies early.
• Technical Mentorship & Inclusive Culture:
  Lead by example through radical transparency, active listening, and blameless collaboration. Mentor mid-level and associate engineers, review high-impact system designs, and build a culture where dissenting opinions, questions, and learning from failure are actively welcomed.
• Modernization & Platform Evolution:
  Drive initiatives to modernize legacy frontend systems, optimize complex PostgreSQL and No
  
  SQL data tiers, and continuously refine CI/CD automation pipelines within enterprise monorepo ecosystems.

• 5+ years of full stack software engineering experience designing, deploying, and operating high-throughput, enterprise-scale production applications.
• Deep backend architectural mastery building resilient, distributed services and APIs using Java or Kotlin and Spring Boot, leveraging clean architecture and Domain-Driven Design patterns.
• Advanced frontend expertise in modern React architecture (state management, component life cycles, rendering optimization, shared component management) paired with the architectural vision required to refactor or sunset legacy…