Software Developer

Job Title: Node.js / AI Engineer

Department: Technology

Location: Remote

Company: Mercer Talent Enterprise

Company Overview:Mercer Talent Enterprise is a leading provider of talent management solutions, dedicated to helping organizations optimize their workforce. We foster a collaborative and innovative work environment where our team members can thrive and contribute to our mission of enhancing talent strategies for our clients.

Position Overview:We are looking for a skilled Node.js / AI Engineer to join our Lighthouse Tech Team. This role is focused on application development, where you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying intelligent, AI-powered applications. You will leverage your expertise in Node.js and modern AI technologies to build sophisticated systems that feature Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Agents, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust and scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js.
• Design, build, and integrate AI-powered features into our core applications.
• Implement and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to ensure accurate and context-aware responses.
• Develop and orchestrate autonomous AI agents to automate complex tasks and workflows.
• Work with third-party LLM APIs (like OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and open-source models, fine-tuning and adapting them for specific use cases.
• Collaborate with product managers and developers to define application requirements and deliver high-quality, AI-driven solutions.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of AI-powered applications.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in backend application development with a strong focus on Node.js.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in AI-related development, including building applications that integrate with Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Demonstrable experience developing AI agents and implementing RAG patterns.
• Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and libraries relevant to application development (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate) is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Professional development opportunities.

Job Description

Job Purpose 

We work in the latest technology, and our foundations are data structures, algorithms, strong logical reasoning, and mathematics. We are looking for very strong engineers who love coding, optimizing, and making sure their code is the most efficient possible.

You will be involved with hardcore development. If you are an assembler of code or packages from different places to build something, you may not find our team to be the right fit.

You must be someone who can build anything from the ground up. Programming language should not be any barrier for you, as you should be able to pick up any programming language or underlying technology within a week.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Core development. Ready to participate in designing, brainstorming, and development process. You must give sleepless nights to meet deadlines whenever required.

Desired Candidate Profile

Essential Skills 

• Reliable, Accountable and Trustworthy
• Ability to understand software requirements based on a wireframe/program specification
• Familiarity with GoLang / PHP / Python / Java / C / C++ / Linux Shell and Scripting / HTML / CSS / JS / Node.js is a plus
• Effective communication skills to ensure smooth coordination of tasks with Team Leader
• Knowledge of MongoDB, MySQL, and PL/SQL is a plus
• Familiarity with ML, TensorFlow, and Keras is a plus
• Knowledge of web servers such as Apache, NGNIX, and the HTTP protocol is plus
• Knowledge of multi-process, threads, memory, and filesystem on Linux is desirable

If you are an analytical problem solver with a strong Web Development knowledge and a passion for teamwork and innovation, we have the perfect job for you!

We are looking for a Web Developer to join our award-winning, talented team, building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers.

As a front-end developer, you will implement a complete user interface in the form of a web app. A thorough understanding of all of the components of FlytBase platform and infrastructure is required. You will need to take ownership of your projects, which involves detailing requirements after discussion with the Product Owner, building user interfaces, developing and maintaining web apps with a focus on user experience. 

We offer an outstanding team environment, flexible working hours, and various opportunities to advance your career. We are looking for a long-term relationship and committed individuals to join our team. This position is based out of our development centre in Pune, India.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team developing applications and services using Agile development methods
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
• Effectively use tools and ingenuity to identify and fix defects before they become a problem
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Learn about the domain and competitors to propose new drone apps as well as improvement for existing apps
• Collaborate on projects with a closely knit team

As a Front End Developer

• Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested and documented TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the backend developers, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful APIs
• Make design and technical decisions for Angular projects.
• Communicating with external web services
• Develop and maintain web apps using our FlytAPIs

As a Back End Developer

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and high-performance applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

Skills/Experience

• 1-4 yr experience as an Angular 2+ or React or Ionic Developer.
• Strong expertise with NodeJS, HTML5, CSS, JSON, jQuery, Bootstrap and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Knowledge of NodeJS frameworks such as ExpressJS etc.
• Knowledge of Creating RESTful services with Node.js and Experience with Socket.io
• Good understanding of HTML Dom manipulation Techniques
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Proficiency working with source control (git) / versioning systems, continuous integration in an agile development setup
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving aptitude
• Attention to details
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Good to Have

• Understanding of how to deploy Mean stack applications in AWS/Azure deployment environment, considering security, reliability, etc.
• Knowledge of other python-based server side frameworks such as Flask or Django.