Junior Agentic Software Engineer

Summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Junior Agentic Software Engineer to join their full-stack product development team focused on innovative travel platform solutions. The role involves developing features, improving code quality, and contributing to a modern distributed architecture while leveraging AI coding tools under the guidance of experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and fix defects for our travel platform as part of a full-stack product development team, with guidance from more experienced engineers
• Use agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of daily development workflows to write, refine, and debug code
• Review AI-generated code for correctness and quality, under the mentorship of more experienced team members
• Contribute to refactoring and modernizing existing services using established patterns and guidance
• Write clean, testable, and well-documented code, whether authored manually or collaboratively with AI agents
• Participate in improving development processes and the operations of a distributed architecture
• Support quality, durability, and technical debt reduction efforts alongside Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Product Designers, and other team members
• Follow established security and privacy practices to safeguard our members' sensitive data, in partnership with our Risk and Security teams
• Contribute to meeting backend and system SLOs as part of the broader engineering team

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of full-stack development experience building web applications and services (internship experience counts)
• Familiarity with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) through professional use, personal projects, or academic work
• Foundational experience in building web applications and RESTful APIs, and in working within a microservices architecture
• Proficiency in .NET
• Hands-on experience with at least one modern frontend framework such as React, Next.js, or Vue
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization concepts
• Understanding of prompt engineering concepts for code generation and development tasks
• Awareness of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it enables AI agents to interact with external tools and data sources
• Working knowledge of Azure AI Foundry, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and LangChain, along with graph-based data technologies (GraphRAG, GraphDB)
• Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD concepts, and Agile software delivery practices
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools (Jira, ADO, GitHub, or similar)
• Strong communicator and collaborator with a team-oriented mindset
• B2 level of English or higher, with an emphasis on technical communication skills
• Experience with ASP.NET Web Forms
• Knowledge of Angular
• Background in Angular Universal
• Familiarity with Docker

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of full-stack development experience building web applications and services (internship experience counts)
• Familiarity with AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) through professional use, personal projects, or academic work
• Foundational experience in building web applications and RESTful APIs, and in working within a microservices architecture
• Proficiency in .NET
• Hands-on experience with at least one modern frontend framework such as React, Next.js, or Vue
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization concepts
• Understanding of prompt engineering concepts for code generation and development tasks
• Awareness of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it enables AI agents to interact with external tools and data sources
• Working knowledge of Azure AI Foundry, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and LangChain, along with graph-based data technologies (GraphRAG, GraphDB)
• Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD concepts, and Agile software delivery practices
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools (Jira, ADO, GitHub, or similar)
• Strong communicator and collaborator with a team-oriented mindset
• B2 level of English or higher, with an emphasis on technical communication skills

Nice to Haves

• Experience with ASP.NET Web Forms
• Knowledge of Angular
• Background in Angular Universal
• Familiarity with Docker

Benefits

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn