[Remote] Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Law School Admission Council (LSAC) advances access, equity, and fairness in law school admission and supports the legal education community. LSAC is seeking a full stack Software Engineer to develop and maintain scalable web applications within an autonomous agile team, support backend operations, and contribute to continuous delivery. The role also involves using AI-assisted development tools and building Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation features with Azure OpenAI Service while applying Responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with partners within the company to design, configure, maintain, and promote a variety of internally- and externally facing applications, while ensuring compliance with accessibility standards
• Continuously monitor, test, and optimize software while ensuring application reliability and coding to architectural standards
• Contributes as part of the team to continuous code delivery with deployment tools and automated testing
• Scale software to support dynamic teams in a fast-paced environment
• Build and maintain scalable applications
• Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet customer expectations
• Use GitHub Copilot and other AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, testing, and debugging, following team prompting standards and code-review practices for AI-generated code
• Contribute to the design and development of Generative AI features, such as chat interfaces, document summarization, intelligent search, and automated content generation, using Azure OpenAI Service and related APIs
• Help build and integrate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with vector databases (e.g., Azure AI Search, Pinecone, pgvector) to ground AI outputs in enterprise data
• Apply Responsible AI practices, including bias awareness, PII handling, and content-safety review, when building or maintaining AI-powered features

Skills

• Excellent time management, prioritization, attention to detail and organization skills
• Values the success of the team over personal objectives
• Experience working in a high precision environment to ensure highest accuracy of work products
• Ability to listen to stakeholders and form solutions
• Comfortable working in an agile environment and are comfortable challenging yourself and your team to improve their ways of working
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal as well as experience with MS Teams
• Proven ability as a servant leader
• Must be able to work effectively on a cross-disciplinary team
• Working knowledge of GitHub Copilot (LSAC's current AI-assisted development tool) or comparable AI coding assistants, including writing effective prompts and reviewing AI-generated code for quality and security
• Familiarity with Generative AI / LLM concepts, including Azure OpenAI Service, prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and vector databases
• Awareness of Responsible AI principles, including bias, PII handling, and content safety, in AI-assisted development
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as computer science, engineering, or similar or a minimum of 5 years of experience required
• Experience with a variety of object-oriented languages
• Experience with web and cross platform technologies
• Hands-on experience with Git and code management methodologies
• Experience with continuous delivery and automated testing
• Experience with relational and unstructured data repositories
• Knowledge of modern development practices and the development lifecycle with experience using Scrum, Kanban, Lean or other agile methodologies
• Experience in the following areas are required:
• React
• MS VB and C# .NET frameworks, including Web Forms and Windows Forms, .NET , .NET WEB API, Entity Framework 6.4, MVC Pattern, SPA Framework
• JavaScript and frameworks (React JS)
• Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. Stored Procedures/Scripts
• Azure stack: Azure functions, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage Account, Azure Key Vault, Azure Cosmos db, Service bus, Azure App Service, Azure VMs, Azure Table Storage, etc
• Azure DevOps CI/CD
• Knowledge of modern development practices and the development lifecycle with experience using Scrum, Kanban, Lean or other agile methodologies
• There is no travel expected for this position
• The ability to work weekends may be necessary
• Experience with confidential data a plus. Must be able to ensure confidentiality of products and data
• Experience with any of the following disciplines is a plus:
• Dapper
• RESTful API, Web API
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 and ARIA standards
• Power BI
• Selenium or comparable automated testing frameworks
• (Preferred) Azure AI certification (AI-102 Azure AI Engineer Associate) or Microsoft Certified: Azure OpenAI certification, or equivalent demonstrated proficiency
• (Preferred) Coursework, certifications, or project experience in machine learning fundamentals, natural language processing, or applied AI/ML (e.g., DeepLearning.AI, fast.ai, Coursera ML Specialization)

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement

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