Senior Software Developer (AI+Java Experience)

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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!

We’re forming a new squad at Lightspeed focused on building AI-powered tools and capabilities . This includes working with LLMs, agent frameworks , and other emerging AI technologies to build internal tools, extend our product suite with new AI features, and help other teams across the company adopt AI effectively.

You’ll be part of a highly collaborative and innovative team of developers, product managers, and designers. Your role will involve backend engineering—especially in our Spring Boot Java ecosystem—while also exploring and applying modern AI techniques to solve real problems.

This is a hands-on engineering role and we are specifically looking for a versatile Java developer with a passion for Artificial Intelligence. Whether your experience comes from a professional background applying LLMs / AI technologies or from a deep personal curiosity for generative AI projects, we want to hear from you.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Building and maintaining backend services and APIs in a Spring Boot Java environment
• Designing and implementing AI-powered tools and product features
• Collaborating with other teams to help them integrate LLMs and AI patterns
• Exploring and applying LLM capabilities such as summarization, classification, RAG, and prompt pipelines
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested backend code
• Ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability of the systems you build
• Staying up to date with developments in the AI space and sharing insights with your team

Who you are

You’re excited about building practical, AI-enabled systems that make work easier and products better. You enjoy solving hard problems with clean code and clear thinking. You’re curious about AI and open to learning new patterns, frameworks, and tools.

You bring deep backend experience, work well in teams, and care about building things that are actually useful.

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What’s in it for you

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