Mesquite, TX 75150 (1 days per week onsite/4 days work from home)
Employment Type:
Full-time
EMAIL RESUMES TO DAVID KELLOGG AT - dkellogg@judge.com
About the Company
Our client is a $200M annual-revenue eCommerce company specializing in lighting products for contractors, distributors, and consumers. The platform is a hybrid B2B/B2C system built on Oracle NetSuite ERP and a custom web application. The company is transitioning from a Rails/PHP monolith to a modern, multi-tier, AI-driven architecture.
Role Overview
We are hiring two Senior AI Engineers to modernize our eCommerce platform and build AI-driven features. You will lead teams of AI developer agents, own full vertical slices of the stack, and deliver incremental business value using the Strangler Fig pattern. Both hires operate at equal seniority with full ownership expectations.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Modernization (50%)
Modernize the existing Rails/PHP platform using the Strangler Fig pattern
Deliver continuous, incremental value without big-bang cutovers
Own full vertical slices: React frontend, API layer, business logic, persistence, and database
Enforce clean separation of concerns across all tiers
Direct AI developer agents (analyst, architect, PM, developer agents) from concept to production
Review and correct AI-generated output for SOLID/DRY violations and poor test design
Recommend frameworks and tools using SCIPAB-format rationale
AI-Driven Features (30%)
Design and implement AI-powered eCommerce capabilities (search, recommendations, catalog intelligence)
Contribute to a plug-in framework enabling governed feature development by external teams
Evaluate AI orchestration tools and APIs with documented pros/cons
Engineering Excellence (20%)
Design CI/CD pipelines for all features (testing, deployment, observability)
Participate in one-week Scrum sprints, including planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives
Work across both new development and maintenance with no team hierarchy
Demonstrate Amazon Leadership Principles in daily work
Required Qualifications
Strong portfolio demonstrating multi-tier, 12-factor applications built with AI developer agents
Experience directing AI agent teams end-to-end
Ability to identify and correct AI-generated SOLID/DRY violations and poor test design
Expert full-stack capability: React, modern backend framework, REST/GraphQL APIs, relational databases, AWS
Strong architectural judgment and ability to defend recommendations
Experience modernizing live systems using the Strangler Fig pattern
Hands-on CI/CD pipeline design experience
Clear, evidence-based communication; camera-on participation for virtual meetings
Texas residency with U.S. work authorization
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (BMad-method, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen)
B2B/B2C eCommerce experience (complex catalogs, variants, faceted search, hybrid ordering)
Ruby on Rails familiarity
NetSuite ERP API integration experience
Experience designing plug-in or extension architectures
Success Traits
You lead AI agents with strong architectural judgment
You make pragmatic, evidence-based technology choices
You think in vertical slices and deliver incrementally
You treat all work as team work-no hierarchy between new and legacy code
You embody Amazon Leadership Principles
Team & Culture
10-engineer AI-first team, growing to 14
One-week Scrum sprints
Dallas engineers onsite Wednesdays; others remote within Texas
Direct, respectful communication with a high bar for quality
Technology Stack
Current:
Ruby on Rails, PHP, server-rendered JS, Oracle NetSuite, AWS
Future:
React frontend, multi-tier API-first architecture, modern backend framework (your recommendation), AI tooling (your recommendation)