Full Stack AI Application Developer

Job Description

Location: Falls Church, VA

• Remote

Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Company: Serry Systems

Job Title: Full Stack AI Developer

Job Description: The ideal candidate is a strong systems thinker with experience across front-end development, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and emerging AI technologies. This role will support the development of modern AI-powered applications, integrations, and automation capabilities while ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Required

• DoD Clearance Required
• CompTIA Security+ certification Required

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience building production web applications with TypeScript and a modern React framework (React/Next.js)
• Experience building and operating backend services or APIs (e.g., FastAPI, Node) that a frontend consumes
• Experience with real-time or streaming interfaces (Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, or equivalent), including handling reconnection and out-of-order events
• Experience with automated testing at the unit and end-to-end level (e.g., jest, Playwright) as part of the definition of done
• Experience diagnosing defects across the stack — from a client-side symptom to the backend route or payload that caused it — using logs and traces as evidence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building interfaces for AI/agentic or other long-running, streaming systems (token-by-token output, tool-call visualization, document classification result rendering, run/trace inspection)
• Experience with GenAI/LLM integration: prompt engineering workflows, model evaluation dashboards, fine-tuning pipeline UIs
• Experience deploying applications in AWS GovCloud or classified (IL5/IL6) environments
• Experience integrating with DoD identity providers and CAC/PIV authentication
• Experience with client and server state management and optimistic-update patterns
• Proficiency using AI coding assistants as a daily driver, with the judgment to verify their output against tests and traces before merging
• Experience with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) from the application side
• Experience with AWS services: Amazon Bedrock, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, CDK
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience