Contract Llm Developer Jobs in Florida (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Royal Caribbean Group is a leading vacation-industry company with global brands such as Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises. They are seeking a Principal Engineer to serve as a technical visionary responsible for shaping the architecture and long-term roadmap of their digital commerce platform, while leading the integration of AI-assisted development practices across engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
• Own and drive the end-to-end technical roadmap for the ecommerce platform, spanning frontend, backend, infrastructure, and integrations.
• Define and enforce architectural standards across our micro-frontend architecture — governing the interplay between React SPAs, AEM headful pages, and shared platform services.
• Establish integration patterns and design contracts that allow different application domain owners (e.g., booking, search, content, personalization) to build independently while composing seamlessly.
• Identify and resolve architectural conflicts and overlaps across teams before they become rework — serving as the central technical authority for cross-cutting design decisions.
• Champion scalable, maintainable, and high-performance architectures across the full stack, balancing pragmatism with long-term platform health.
• Lead technical discovery, POCs, and architectural reviews for new capabilities, platform modernization efforts, and emerging technology adoption.
• Define and enforce frontend architectural standards for all SPAs, micro-frontends, and AEM-integrated experiences.
• Own the technical strategy for React/AEM interoperability — including component authoring models, client-side hydration, AEM Editable Templates, and content-driven experiences.
• Drive end-to-end frontend performance ownership: Core Web Vitals, bundle optimization, lazy loading, SSR/SSG strategies, and AEM component efficiency.
• Govern the Design System’s technical evolution, ensuring consistent implementation across all frontend surfaces and teams.
• Optimize AEM workflows for developer productivity, including local development environments and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Enforce frontend coding standards, accessibility (a11y), and testing practices (unit, integration, E2E) across all teams.
• Provide technical leadership and standards for backend services powering the ecommerce platform, including GraphQL API layers, Node.js/Fastify microservices, and Java-based services.
• Define integration patterns between frontend and backend that minimize coupling, reduce duplication, and enable teams to iterate independently.
• Set standards and best practices for caching strategies (including Redis), data persistence (MongoDB), and service reliability.
• Guide infrastructure decisions in partnership with platform/DevOps teams — including AWS, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipeline design using GitHub Actions and related tooling.
• Ensure backend services meet performance, security, and compliance standards (SOX, DevSecOps) consistent with operating in a highly regulated, high-transaction environment.
• Serve as the organization’s AI champion — leading by example in adopting AI-assisted coding and development practices across all engineering teams.
• Architect, design, and implement end-to-end agentic AI solutions — including autonomous multi-agent systems, tool-integrated reasoning workflows, and LLM orchestrated pipelines — that deliver personalized, intelligent, and seamless customer experiences across the ecommerce platform, from cruise discovery and search to booking and post-purchase engagement.
• When not architecting world-class consumer-facing experiences, you are building internal tooling and agentic AI systems that optimize the entire SDLC — researching, evaluating, and standardizing GenAI tooling (e.g., Claude Code, AI code review tools, LLM-assisted development workflows) to drive engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity at scale.
• Develop and share best practices, playbooks, and workshops that enable engineers across the organization to effectively leverage AI in their daily workflows.
• Drive the cultural shift toward AI-augmented engineering — reducing friction, building confidence, and positioning our engineering community as leaders in AI assisted software development within the travel and ecommerce industry.
• Collaborate with engineering managers and product leaders to identify high-impact opportunities where AI/GenAI can accelerate platform development, improve quality, or unlock new customer experiences.
• Stay at the forefront of AI/GenAI advancements relevant to software engineering and bring recommendations to leadership on emerging tools, techniques, and risks.
• Partner with engineering managers, product managers, UX designers, and QA leads to design cohesive end-to-end solutions across the platform.
• Advise application domain owners on technical feasibility, trade-offs, and integration approaches — ensuring platform-level concerns are not sacrificed for local team velocity.
• Act as a bridge between technical complexity and business goals — translating strategic priorities into actionable technical direction and communicating technical constraints in terms stakeholders can act on.
• Proactively surface and resolve cross-team dependencies before they block delivery.
• Elevate the technical craft of the engineering organization through code reviews, architecture reviews, technical writing, workshops, and hands-on pairing.
• Define and maintain platform-wide engineering standards, patterns, and documentation that reduce ambiguity and accelerate onboarding.
• Identify and develop the next generation of technical leaders across the ecommerce engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
• Lead tech debt reduction initiatives with measurable outcomes and clear prioritization frameworks.
• Establish and monitor platform health metrics — performance, reliability, security posture, and developer experience — and drive continuous improvement against these benchmarks.
• Champion long-term platform investments alongside near-term delivery, ensuring the codebase remains a competitive advantage rather than a liability.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated depth across both frontend and backend disciplines.
• Proven track record as a technical leader and senior individual contributor — setting standards, driving architecture, and influencing across teams without direct management authority.
• Expert-level knowledge of modern frontend technologies: React, Next.js, micro frontend architecture, SPAs, and component-driven design.
• Deep experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) — including headful/headless integration patterns, Editable Templates, component authoring, and frontend/AEM interoperability.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing production-grade agentic AI solutions — including autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen), tool-integrated reasoning workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines — with demonstrated ability to take agentic systems from proof-of-concept through scalable production deployment.
• Strong backend proficiency: Node.js, Fastify, GraphQL (federation and schema design), and Java services.
• Solid understanding of caching strategies (Redis), database design (MongoDB), and API performance patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, container-based deployments, and GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong grasp of DevSecOps practices, compliance requirements (SOX), and security standards in regulated environments.
• Exceptional ability to communicate technical vision, trade-offs, and architectural decisions to both engineering and non-engineering audiences.
• Strong experience with frontend performance optimization: Core Web Vitals, bundle strategies, SSR/SSG, lazy loading, and observability.
• Demonstrated experience with Design Systems — governance, implementation standards, and cross-team adoption.
Preferred:
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM-integrated workflows) and a passion for advancing AI adoption in software engineering practices.
• Experience with AI/ML model integration — from POC through production deployment.
• Background in ecommerce, travel, or other high-transaction digital platforms.
• Experience defining and driving developer experience (DevEx) improvements at scale.
Company:
Royal Caribbean Group is a cruise vacation company with a global fleet of 63 ships traveling around the world. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered in Miami, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.