Senior Full Stack AI Engineer Full Time

Senior Full Stack AI Engineer

Location

Iselin, NJ

Job Details

• Position Type: Direct Placement
• Salary: $110k – 190k/year

Job Summary

The ideal candidate is a high-agency engineer with strong expertise in React-based front-end systems, modern backend frameworks, and secure public-facing application architecture, combined with hands-on experience using AI-driven development tools and agentic coding workflows. Domain experience in Insurance or Financial Services is a big plus. If you are excited about using tools like Claude Code, GitHub CoPilot, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and other AI-native development tools to dramatically accelerate product development, we want to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities

Build and Ship Production Applications:

• Architect and develop enterprise-grade full stack applications
• Design and build high-quality React front-end systems
• Develop scalable backend services using modern server-side frameworks
• Deploy secure public-facing applications in production environments
• Ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability of distributed systems

AI-Accelerated Development:

• Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code, CoPilot, Cursor, Replit, Lovable and similar environments to dramatically accelerate development cycles
• Implement AI-driven development workflows including agentic coding, prompt-driven engineering, and automated code generation
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new product ideas
• Evaluate and integrate emerging AI developer tools

Rapid Prototyping and Product Development:

• Quickly build and validate new front-end applications and internal tools
• Partner with business stakeholders to transform ideas into working software
• Develop prototypes that evolve into production-ready enterprise systems
• Help establish modern AI-first engineering culture

Security and Production Readiness:

• Design and implement secure architectures for public-facing applications
• Implement authentication, authorization, and secure API design
• Apply best practices in application security, cloud security, and compliance
• Ensure secure handling of sensitive financial and customer data

Required Experience

• 7 years of professional software engineering experience
• Significant experience designing and deploying enterprise-grade applications
• Experience building and deploying secure public-facing applications

Required Skills

• Expert-level proficiency with React and modern front-end frameworks
• Strong experience with at least one server-side framework such as Node.js / NestJS / Express, Python (FastAPI, Django), or .NET Core
• Strong knowledge of API design, distributed systems, and cloud architectures
• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Replit
• Experience with AI-assisted or agentic development workflows
• Strong ability to prototype quickly and iterate rapidly

Preferred Skills

• Insurance or Financial Services domain experience
• Experience building AI-enabled products or developer tooling
• Familiarity with LLMs, AI agents, and prompt engineering
• Experience with serverless and cloud-native architectures
• Experience deploying applications in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience building internal platforms or developer tooling
• Startup or high-velocity product development experience

What Makes This Role Unique

• Work in an AI-first engineering environment
• Use modern AI developer tools to dramatically accelerate development
• Build production applications from prototype to deployment
• Help shape next generation product platform
• Join a high-impact engineering team focused on rapid innovation

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number

26-03605