About the Role
Job Description
Senior AI-Enabled Digital Engineer
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Digital Engineer with expertise in AI-enabled software engineering to accelerate digital product and platform development within a retail customer's digital organization. This role will leverage AI coding agents and modern developer productivity tools such as Anthropic Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and similar AI-assisted engineering platforms to improve software delivery speed, quality, and innovation. The ideal candidate will partner closely with retail digital teams to build solutions, establish AI-driven engineering practices, and enable broader adoption of AI-powered development workflows across customer-facing and enterprise retail platforms.
Key Responsibilities
• Collaborate with retail digital teams to accelerate software engineering and digital transformation initiatives.
• Leverage AI-assisted software engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and similar coding agents to improve developer productivity and solution delivery.
• Design, develop, and enhance digital applications, platforms, APIs, and integrations across modern technology stacks.
• Build, customize, and operationalize AI-enabled engineering workflows, reusable agents, and automation capabilities.
• Mentor and upskill engineering teams on AI-driven software development best practices.
• Identify opportunities to optimize SDLC processes using AI-assisted coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and deployment techniques.
• Support development of retail digital capabilities such as eCommerce, omnichannel experiences, customer engagement platforms, loyalty, order management, store systems, and digital integrations.
• Drive engineering quality, scalability, maintainability, performance, and security across digital solutions.
• Work collaboratively across product, architecture, DevOps, UX, and business teams to deliver high-impact retail digital capabilities.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, digital engineering, or application development.
• 1-2 years of hands-on experience using AI-assisted software engineering tools and coding agents.
• Strong experience with modern software development practices, including APIs, cloud-native development, CI/CD, DevOps, and Agile methodologies.
• Proven ability to work across multiple programming languages and technology stacks in digital environments.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Experience working directly with customer or enterprise digital teams.
Preferred Qualifications
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code, Codex, or similar AI coding platforms.
• Experience building or integrating AI agents, developer copilots, or workflow automation solutions.
• Retail industry experience, particularly in digital commerce, omnichannel retail, customer experience, loyalty, merchandising, or store technologies.
• Familiarity with modern cloud platforms and digital architectures.
• Experience enabling enterprise adoption of AI-driven engineering practices.
• Exposure to Generative AI, LLM orchestration, prompt engineering, or agentic workflows.
• Prior consulting or customer-facing delivery experience in retail digital transformation initiatives.
Location
Grand Rapids, MI
• Remote
