A candidate with deeper experience using AI for software engineering could
provide significant value.
Building coding/development agents
Creating agentic workflows
Automating portions of the software-development lifecycle
Advanced prompting and context management
Using AI agents to execute development tasks from requirements or Jira stories
Building workflows in which AI-generated work moves through human code
review
The ideal AI-oriented candidate understands how to take the tools/models
already available and build useful engineering workflows around them.
A strong candidate might look like: Java + React + strong AWS experience or
Strong Java/full-stack engineer + AWS + Node exposure working in a large
enterprise environment.