Lead Application Developer
The Computer Merchant, LTD.
Saint Petersburg, FL
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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$80–$90 Per Hour
JOB TYPE
Temporary, Contractor, Full-time
SKILLS
AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Application Programming Interface (API), Architectural Services, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Building Systems, Cloud Computing, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Integration, Cost Control, Cross-Functional, Customer Relations, Data Modeling, Data Science, Distributed Computing, Documentation Standards, Employee Assistance Plan, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Architecture, Federal Laws and Regulations, Financial Services, Go Programming Language (Golang), High Reliability, Intelligence Gathering, Java, Leadership, Metrics, Power Amplifier, Production Support, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulations, Reliability Engineering, Risk, Scalable System Development, Security Monitoring, Software Development, Software Engineering, Standards Development, State Laws and Regulations, Technical/Engineering Design
LOCATION
Saint Petersburg, FL
POSTED
4 days ago
JOB LOCATION: St. Petersburgh, FL (Hybrid)
WAGE RANGE*: $80-90/hr.
JOB NUMBER: 37086134
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
This is a hands-on engineering role requiring exceptional technical depth, strong design judgment, and a passion for building systems that are both innovative and enduring. You'll collaborate across engineering, data, and governance teams to ensure every solution balances speed, integrity, and long-term impact.
Skills
Technical Strengths:
- Proficiency in Python (with experience in TypeScript, Go, or Java a plus).
- Solid understanding of AWS architecture and services—deployment, monitoring, security, and cost optimization.
- Familiarity with agentic or LLM frameworks such as Strands, CrewAI, LangGraph, Agent Core, or similar.
- Experience with retrieval systems, vector databases, embeddings, and orchestration frameworks.
- Strong grounding in secure API design, data modeling, and CI/CD automation.
- Proven record of writing clean, testable, production-grade code.
Mindset: Deep curiosity, bias toward execution, and respect for precision and reliability.
Financial services experience preferred but not required.
Competencies and Behaviors:
- Analytical Thinking: Deconstruct complex technical and business challenges into clear, scalable solutions.
- Communication: Translate advanced technical concepts into shared understanding across business, technology, and risk partners.
- Judgment: Balance innovation with security, compliance, and long-term maintainability.
- Technical Mastery: Maintain and expand expertise in agentic AI, cloud engineering, and software craftsmanship.
- Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with integrity and respect, ensuring outcomes align with the firm's mission and standards.
- Client Focus and Integrity: Make decisions grounded in what best serves clients and the firm's long-term stability—acting with transparency and accountability.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Our Client is pioneering a new class of agentic AI systems—intelligent, adaptive platforms that continuously learn from firm knowledge and act responsibly to enhance decision-making and client outcomes. These systems will enable real-time knowledge orchestration and insight generation across the enterprise, amplifying the collective intelligence of our advisors, associates, and business units.
As part of the Agentic AI Data Science team, you will architect and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance agentic solutions using and extending frameworks such as Strands, CrewAI, LangGraph, Agent Core, and related technologies. You will help design the foundational infrastructure that allows these systems to learn safely, adapt in real time, and deliver measurable value—all while operating within the disciplined, client-first culture that defines our client.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Architect and Build Agentic Systems: Design and implement agentic AI architectures capable of reasoning, planning, and self-adaptation within firm-approved security and compliance boundaries.
- Leverage and Extend Frameworks: Utilize and enhance frameworks such as Strands, CrewAI, LangGraph, and Agent Core to create standardized, reusable components that accelerate agentic development across teams.
- Cloud Engineering: Develop secure, resilient, and scalable cloud-native solutions using AWS services (Lambda, ECS, S3, API Gateway, SageMaker, Bedrock, etc.) to support production-grade AI operations.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Implement metrics, tracing, and evaluation pipelines that ensure transparency, reliability, and continuous improvement in agentic behavior.
- Integration and Governance: Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance to embed governance, auditability, and ethical safeguards into all systems.
- Collaboration: Partner with data science, enterprise architecture, and application engineering teams to integrate agentic capabilities into firm platforms.
- Innovation Leadership: Research, test, and recommend new frameworks and patterns that responsibly advance the firm's AI capabilities.
- Ownership: Drive full lifecycle delivery—from technical design through deployment and iteration—maintaining high standards of reliability and documentation.
Other responsibilities as assigned.
Impact and Opportunity
This role is at the leading edge of our clients AI evolution—building systems that convert the firm's collective intelligence into secure, adaptive knowledge that serves clients better every day.
It's demanding work—technically complex, mission-critical, and transformative—but it's work that matters. You'll have the opportunity to shape the systems that define how knowledge flows, how teams collaborate, and how the firm competes at the top of the industry for years to come.
Education
Education/Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering, with demonstrated success in building scalable distributed systems or AI-powered platforms.
Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities
* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.
About the Company
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The Computer Merchant, LTD.
About TCM
If you would like to…
- Develop your skills
- Improve your earnings potential
- Gain greater control over your career
The Computer Merchant, Ltd. (TCM) has provided Information Technology Solutions and enterprise staffing services to Fortune 1000, mid to small sized corporations, as well as Federal, state, and local governments for over 30 years.
At The Computer Merchant (TCM), we are committed to your professional and financial success. We'll evaluate your background, experience and qualifications, and then recommend contract jobs that are the best match for your goals.
Fast Facts & Recognition:
- 41 year track record of success deploying over 63,000 consultants and core employees in critical positions for Fortune 1000 companies
- Access to over 11 million unique consultants nationwide
- Centralized and dedicated client delivery team
- Supplier Diversity Certification as a Veteran Business Enterprise
COMPANY SIZE
1,500 to 1,999 employeesINDUSTRY
Staffing/Employment Agencies
FOUNDED
1980
WEBSITE
http://itstaffing.com/