Software Engineer, AI & Automation

Software Engineer, AI & Automation — Ace Marketing Services

Location:

In-person in Winter Park, FL, five days per week

Reports to:

Stephan, Systems, Automation, and Data

Employment:
Full-time, hourly W-2 employee

Compensation: $55–$65 per hour, depending on experience and demonstrated ability; no performance bonus

Ace is an Orlando-area creator marketing and growth agency. Our in-office team operates high-volume creator portfolios using internal software, automation, connected platforms, reporting, and AI-assisted workflows. We are a small team where engineers own working outcomes from the first requirement through production support.

We are hiring a Software Engineer, AI & Automation to work alongside Stephan and build, improve, and support the software that runs Ace's internal operations.

This is a hands-on coding role. You will build and maintain dashboards and internal web tools, connect systems through APIs and webhooks, improve data and reporting workflows, investigate failures, and use AI development tools where they help. You will be expected to read an existing codebase, build new features from incomplete business requirements, test your work, release it safely, monitor it, and support it after launch.

The right person can create a practical internal application from the ground up and improve software that is already in use. This is not a business-analysis, project-management, prompt-writing, or no-code-only role.

Build dashboards, portals, administrative tools, and workflow interfaces from initial requirements through production use.

Write maintainable front-end and back-end code in Python and/or JavaScript or Type Script.

Design clear interfaces for operations teams and make complex system states easy to understand and act on.

Add authentication, permissions, forms, validation, search, filtering, reporting, and exports when the business workflow requires them.

Improve existing code without breaking the daily work that depends on it.

Build and maintain REST APIs, webhooks, scheduled jobs, third-party integrations, and database-backed workflows.

Design and query relational data using SQL.

Handle duplicate events, missing records, rate limits, expired access, partial failures, and upstream service changes.

Reconcile dashboard results to the controlling source and prevent misleading information from silently reaching the team.

Reproduce defects, identify root causes, implement repairs, and verify the affected business outcome.

Write useful automated tests and use controlled test data before changing a live workflow.

Release changes with appropriate review, monitoring, rollback, and recovery steps.

Add logs, alerts, health checks, ownership, and documentation so failures are found and resolved quickly.

Improve systems that currently depend too heavily on one person's knowledge or access.

Use ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, or comparable tools to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and investigation where useful.

Review AI-generated code for correctness, security, privacy, maintainability, licensing concerns, and unintended behavior.

Build practical AI-assisted features when the business problem calls for them, with source checks and human approval for consequential actions.

Keep production changes and sensitive information in approved company environments.

Maintain setup instructions, diagrams, data definitions, release notes, recovery steps, and handoff documentation.

Explain confirmed facts, unknowns, risks, and decisions in plain language.

Train approved teammates on the correct workflow and leave…