Software Engineer - AI

Lendi GroupSydneyHybridTemporary2 weeks ago

Lendi Group is seeking a Software Engineer – AI to join its AI Engineering team, building AI-powered products and agentic systems. The role involves full-stack development with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and AWS, and requires enthusiasm for AI and agentic systems. This is a 12-month fixed-term maternity leave cover position based in Sydney with hybrid work (2 days in office).

What you'll do

Design, build and maintain AI-powered applications, agentic systems and supporting services across Lendi Group's technology platform.
Develop full-stack solutions using TypeScript, Node.js and React, working across frontend experiences, backend services, APIs and integrations.
Build and integrate AI agents and intelligent workflows, applying concepts such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, orchestration, structured outputs and evaluation.
Contribute to Greenfield engineering projects, helping shape technical designs, architecture and implementation approaches from the ground up.
Develop and maintain scalable, event-driven services using AWS technologies, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Kafka and cloud-native infrastructure.
Take ownership of engineering work from initial design and development through to testing, deployment, production verification and ongoing improvement.
Work closely with engineers, product teams and stakeholders to understand business problems, challenge requirements and identify practical technical solutions.
Investigate and resolve complex technical issues using logs, tracing, debugging and evidence-based problem-solving.
Contribute to technical design discussions, code reviews and collaborative problem-solving, sharing ideas and constructively challenging approaches.
Deliver solutions iteratively, breaking complex problems into smaller, testable releases while balancing speed, quality, scalability and maintainability.
Use AI-assisted development tools as part of your engineering workflow, applying sound judgement to validate outputs and maintain code quality.
Stay across emerging AI technologies, tools and engineering practices, bringing new ideas and opportunities into the team.

What you need

Must-have

TypeScriptNode.jsReactAWSAWS LambdaAWS Step FunctionsMongoDBDynamoDB

Soft skills

CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingOwnershipProduct thinkingCommercial awarenessProactiveCuriosity

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