Senior Software Developer (AI Solutions)

The Senior Software Developer, AI Solutions is a hybrid role responsible for developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-level applications while building and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions.

This role covers the full scope of software development and legacy product support, including designing user interfaces, object-oriented coding, unit and integration testing, troubleshooting, and resolving software bugs, while expanding further into AI-driven initiatives.

In addition, the position is tasked with developing tools that automate data monitoring, enhancing research workflows, and integrating diverse external and internal data sources into scalable systems.

The Senior Software Developer, AI Solutions combines strong software engineering fundamentals with modern AI/ML expertise to deliver innovative capabilities that expand product value and enable new customer insights.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Data Integration & Automation

• Connect, clean, and normalize multiple external and internal data sources into a unified system.
• Build APIs, ETL pipelines, and data workflows that make new datasets available across the platform.

• AI & System Development

• Apply AI/ML techniques to automate data monitoring and research tasks.
• Develop internal tools that improve efficiency for team workflows.

• Web Scraping & Monitoring

• Design scalable scraping systems to capture public data (permits, filings, interconnection queues).
• Implement monitoring and alerting to detect new signals of market activity.

• Product Enablement

• Partner with product and research teams to turn raw data into customer-facing features.
• Create new insights from our various datasets that directly expand platform value and revenue opportunities.

Additional Duties

• Additional duties as assigned.

Critical Competencies:

• Ownership & Execution - Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the use of existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others
• Customer-Centric – Works to understand customer pain points to effectively align technical solutions with customer’s business, anticipate customer needs, and sets high standards for customer service
• Manages Ambiguity & Change - Makes decisions with available information that align with strategy, embraces and manages change, challenges the status quo and champions new initiatives, comfortably handles risk and uncertainty

The Individual:

• Strong software engineering background
• Demonstrated knowledge of Python, Node.js, or similar languages
• Hands-on experience building ETL pipelines, APIs, and system integrations
• Ability to design and maintain scraping systems (BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, or equivalent)
• Experience applying AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, or modern LLM APIs) to real business problems
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and data pipelines (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Entrepreneurial builder who thrives in fast-moving environments, can spot opportunities, prototype quickly, and scale what works
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with product managers, researchers, and sales teams

Qualifications:

• Ability to work in our Dallas, TX office full-time
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the technical knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. 
• At least 5-8 years of hands-on experience with a combination of the following technologies:

• Programing Languages: Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL
• Libraries & Frameworks: Spring (Java), Hibernate (Java), ArcGIS (optional but highly recommended), VueJS (optional but highly recommended)
• Servers: MySQL, Tomcat, Apache
• SCM: Git/Github

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All external applicants must be legally eligible to immediately work in the country of hire without current or future sponsorship.

If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act or similar law in order to apply for employment at Simplify Compliance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team 1.800.727.5257, ext. 8101.

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