Senior Agentic Developer at ION

Compensation

$220,000 – $240,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: New York, New York
Level: not_specified
Posted: Mar 5, 2026

Description

Lab49 is seeking a Senior Agentic Developer to join their team. The successful candidate will be an experienced engineer who leverages large language models (LLMs) to generate and refine production-grade enterprise code, focusing on modernizing and extending complex, legacy systems in highly regulated environments like financial services. This role emphasizes continuous learning, experimentation, and delivering tangible results, operating as a "vibe coder" to optimize development workflows without compromising quality.

Required Skills

Engineering Fundamentals
Enterprise Systems
Continuous Learning
Experimentation
Production Problem Solving
CI/CD Environments
Automated Testing
Regulated Risk-Aware Environments
Correctness, Explainability, Traceability
System Behavior Analysis
Enterprise Language Ecosystem Fluency
AI Adoption Leadership
Scalable AI Software Factory Frameworks

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Strong engineering fundamentals coupled with real-world experience solving difficult production problems.
Hands-on experience manufacturing production-grade software in an AI-assisted way at scale.
Experience working within mature CI/CD environments, with automated testing fully integrated into the delivery pipeline.
Comfort working in regulated, risk-aware environments, where correctness, explainability, and traceability matter.
Ability to reason about system behavior, edge cases, and failure modes, even when the code is AI-generated.
Fluency in at least one major enterprise language or ecosystem.
Strong intuition for when to trust the model, and when not to.
Leading teams through the AI adoption journey and helping enterprises build scalable, robust AI software factory frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience designing or using agentic development workflows (multi-step prompting, tool-using agents, code-generation loops)
Exposure to modernization programs (monolith → services, legacy refactors, platform rewrites)
Opinions about how software engineering should evolve in an LLM-first world - and the ability to defend them