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Acquia is an open digital experience company. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with technology that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

Headquartered in Boston, we have been named as one of North America’s fastest growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine, and have been rated a leader by the analyst community and named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web, and we want you to be a part of it.

We are looking for a skilled Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our AI Services team to help build and maintain AI services on AWS platform to be used by Acquia products.

Role Overview

Acquia is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our AI Services team focused on building Application and APIs around AI which can be leveraged by other teams and Acquia Product to enhance the value of the overall digital experience platform (DXP). We thrive on innovation, collaboration, and an agile mindset and processes. An ability to quickly prototype, learn, and iterate on concepts is critical for this role.

The AI Services team is part of Foundation Services group and builds product offerings on top of Foundation Infrastructure services.

Key Responsibilities

Work with Product, Engineering and Architecture teams to understand requirements and break them down into user stories.
Contribute to RFCs and solution design. Participate in discussions with other stakeholders to get reviews and reach a consensus.
Contribute in coding, PR reviews, documentation, and automated tests that deliver on Sprint goals.
Ensure compliance requirements, CICD, coding, operations, security best practices are followed.
Participate in experimentation and prototype building in a collaborative environment, iterating on concepts based on feedback
Contribute as needed to the core architectural platform and libraries used by all teams in the interest of the stability, robustness, cost effectiveness, and performance of consuming applications and services.
Encourage a culture of observability by ensuring logging and monitoring of applications and services is being configured appropriately to provide visibility into system performance consistent with SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and enable effective troubleshooting
Address security vulnerabilities as needed
Work with your team to understand and implement R&D Standards.
Participate in team meetings, pair programming, lunch 'n learns, etc. as needed.
Collaborate with the architecture team to ensure the platform we are building is consistent with the overarching architectural goals at Acquia
Ensure software systems comply with contractual RTO and RPO requirements

Preferred Qualifications

You will be successful if you:

Are a continuous learner who is able learn through online trainings, books and podcasts as the AI landscape is rapidly evolving
Are comfortable with ambiguity and working in a fast-paced environment
Balance critical thinking with creative problem-solving
Make informed decisions, balancing quantitative and qualitative reasoning
Have ability to drive desired customer outcomes by learning and understanding the problems being solved.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant experience
Experience working with Python, Java and SQL
1+ years of experience working with artificial intelligence
Experience writing and consuming REST APIs
Experience managing applications in a kubernetes environment
Experience with Git

Experience working with any cloud platform AWS/ Azure/ GCP

Experience working with CI/CD tools (i.e. Jenkins)
Experience writing automated tests
Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly and become productive in their use
Working knowledge of software design principles and programming languages and frameworks in use
Strong knowledge of software development security principles, concepts and best practices
Strong understanding of software architecture and the tradeoffs between different architectural patterns

Nice to have…

Experience working with Snowflake
Experience writing SaaS applications in a distributed microservice ecosystem
Experience working with Elasticsearch or other NoSQL data stores
Experience with PHP and Drupal
Experience working with Gradle
Experience in RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Personal Attributes

Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Strong attention to detail and a commitment to quality.
Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently and quickly adapt to new technologies.
A passion for continuous learning and personal growth, especially through online training, books, and podcasts, to keep pace with the rapidly evolving AI landscape.
Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment.
Balance critical thinking with creative problem-solving and make informed decisions using both quantitative and qualitative reasoning.

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.

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