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The Guitar Center Company · 18 hours ago

Software Engineer - Full Stack, AI

Westlake Village, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$150K/yr - $170K/yr

3+ years exp

The Guitar Center Company is the world’s largest multichannel musical instrument retailer, and they are seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to help build and evolve enterprise-scale, customer-facing applications. This role involves designing and maintaining applications with AI-assisted capabilities, ensuring reliability and performance in complex workflows.

Retail

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Chase Tenen

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications using TypeScript

Develop and support session-managed, customer-facing experiences with complex state and workflows

Build backend services and APIs using Node.js and frameworks such as NestJS

Implement modern frontend experiences using React or Next.js

Integrate AI-assisted features (e.g., search, recommendations, assistants) into frontend and backend systems

Build and maintain search functionality using OpenSearch or Elasticsearch

Work with vector or semantic search pipelines to improve relevance and discovery

Ensure data consistency, session integrity, and performance across distributed systems

Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code aligned with engineering best practices

Debug and resolve issues across client, server, and production environments

Collaborate closely with product, design, and data teams to deliver intuitive, reliable experiences

Participate in code reviews and contribute to shared engineering standards and practices

Qualification

TypeScriptNode.jsReactOpenSearchSQLAI integrationAPIsCollaborationProblem-solvingMentoring

Required

3+ years of professional software development experience

Strong experience with TypeScript on the frontend and/or backend

Experience building backend services with Node.js (NestJS or Express)

Experience developing customer-facing applications with complex UI state or session management

Solid understanding of APIs, service integration, and distributed data flows

Hands-on experience integrating third-party services or AI-powered APIs

Familiarity with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or similar search platforms

Exposure to vector databases or semantic search concepts

Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React or Next.js

Working knowledge of SQL and/or NoSQL databases

Ability to collaborate effectively within an enterprise engineering environment

Preferred

Experience working on large-scale enterprise applications with long-lived user sessions

Experience contributing to system or architectural design decisions

Experience with agent-based or workflow-driven AI systems (e.g., LangGraph or similar)

Experience tuning search relevance, ranking, or retrieval strategies

Experience combining keyword search with vector-based semantic search

Experience with AI prompt design, evaluation, or observability

Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading small technical initiatives

Company

The Guitar Center Company

Glassdoor3.0

We exist so music can persist. Our family of brands has put more instruments into the hands of more people than anyone on the planet.

Founded in 1964

Westlake Village, CA, US

10001+ employees

http://www.guitarcenter.com

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