Sr Software Developer Engineer/ Technical Lead (AI Focus)

Job Title: Sr Software Developer Engineer/ Technical Lead (AI Focus)

Location: Remote

Duration:06 months on W2 contract

Description:

Also, note:

• It should be obvious, but so I do not assume - AI assistants/transcription agents or other agents are not allowed into the interview calls by corporate cybersecurity policy for both Kyndryl and the customer. Any candidate joining with AI (and not immediately removing it) will be automatically disqualified.
• Any candidates making it to the customer interviews, their resumes should take this into account:

Candidates must clearly demonstrate:

Ownership of business and technical outcomes, not just participation in projects.

• Examples of decisions they personally made and the impact of those decisions.
• Lead developer experience including technical direction, mentoring, and engineering leadership.
• Evidence of translating ambiguous business requirements into working solutions.
• Product-engineering mindset with examples of driving initiatives from concept through production delivery.
• Ability to work independently with limited direction and quickly establish context in a new environment.
• Clear examples of problems owned, decisions made, solutions delivered, and measurable outcomes achieved.
• The customer is hiring 1-2 people weekly until they have their official number for Q127 (they did not state what this number is).
• The customer is being very selective with candidates based both on resumes and interviews.

Lead Developer

Process / Engagement Expectations

• 12-month staff augmentation engagement supporting the customer Analytics team.
• Contract-to-hire mindset. We are looking for candidates that we would be excited to have join our team long term.
• Candidates should be comfortable working directly with business and technical stakeholders.
• Customer prioritizes both technical capability and leadership/communication skills.

Candidates should expect a four-step evaluation process:

• Kyndryl technical panel interview
• Kyndryl VP interview
• Customer manager interview
• Customer technical lead interview (at customer discretion)
• Advancement is based on both technical depth and the ability to demonstrate leadership, engineering judgment, communication skills, and customer-facing presence.

Technical Must-Haves

• Lead software developer with substantial hands-on coding experience
• Full-stack experience (backend-heavy is acceptable; does not need to be an equal split)
• Lead developer experience with responsibility for technical direction and mentoring developers
• Some application architect or solution architect experience
• Must still be actively coding and delivering software (not a dedicated architect)
• Strong hands-on Python development experience in enterprise applications
• Vue.js preferred; React or similar modern JavaScript framework acceptable
• AWS and/or GCP experience
• API and microservices experience
• AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
• Agentic AI, MCP, LangGraph, or RAG experience

Technical Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with both AWS and GCP
• Terraform / infrastructure as code
• Kubernetes / containerization
• CI/CD and DevOps experience
• Application modernization experience

Non-Technical Must-Haves

• Engineering judgment and decision-making
• Architecture ownership
• Technical leadership and mentoring
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs
• Strong communication skills
• Customer-facing presence
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions

Compensation:

The hourly rate for this position is between $61.00-$64.00 per hour.

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].

Benefits:

Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.

Contact:

Vinay Kumar: Vinay.c@sunrisesys.com Direct: (732) 837-0448 | URL: Sunrise Systems Inc.