APPSIXER · 5 hours ago
Digital Engineering-Software Architect (W2 and 1099 Candidates only)
St Louis, MO
Contract
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expAPPSIXER is a company focused on innovation in clinical product development. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive hands-on innovation, explore new technologies including AI, and ensure high-quality delivery of software solutions.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Closely collaborate with engineering teams to architect and develop resilient, reliable, scalable, secure, compliant, and highly available products, while specifically researching and prototyping new architectural patterns for AI integration
Contribute toward technical roadmap refinement by researching new technologies, tools, and frameworks for potential adoption, particularly those related to Generative AI and Agentic Architectures
Identify, document, communicate, champion, and drive adoption for standards, policies, processes, best practices, and aligned software architecture/software engineering points of view, including new paradigms introduced by AI systems
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and feedback to team members to grow overall team capabilities, especially in emerging technical areas
Display ownership of outcomes. Provide trusted expertise for effort estimates and offer alternate approach recommendations along with associated tradeoffs/risks where appropriate
Keep current on industry standards and bring insights back to the team
Qualification
Required
10+ years of overall hands-on software engineering experience
6+ years of experience and expertise in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs
Experience in architecting, designing, and developing complex, cloud-native, scalable, performant, and highly available distributed systems
Expertise in microservice architectural patterns and design
Expertise in Java/Spring Boot
Experience in Python
Expert understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, MongoDB, Neo4j), SQL, and database/schema design
Experience with GCP compute platforms, including container orchestration (Google Kubernetes Engine - GKE) and serverless (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)
Experience with message broker/event queue technologies (e.g., Rabbit, GCP Pub/Sub)
Experience working with API management platforms (e.g., Apigee X)
Strong verbal and written communication skills
The role requires a strong foundation in core software engineering and distributed systems, coupled with experience in AI-focused platforms
Computer Science Bachelor's degree or degree in related field of study
Preferred
Experience with Google Cloud's AI platform services, such as Vertex AI, Agent Builder, and related Generative AI tools (e.g., LangChain)
Experience with data warehousing and analytics platforms, particularly Google BigQuery
Experience with healthcare data standards, such as HL7 and FHIR
Demonstrated ability to drive innovation, research emerging technologies, and build rapid prototypes/proofs-of-concept
Company
APPSIXER
About Appsixer At Appsixer, we specialize in Core IT and Professional Staffing Solutions designed to help organizations build high-performing teams and achieve sustainable growth.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase