Title:
Application Modernization Engineer
Job Type:
Full-Time
Location:
Remote
Company Description:
Mechanized AI is at the forefront of AI innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technology to transform legacy systems into modern, efficient, and scalable solutions. We work with enterprise clients to breathe life into their existing software, ensuring that they can meet the demands of today’s fast-paced, digital landscape. Our team thrives on solving complex challenges and delivering innovative solutions. As an organization, we are committed to fostering an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning.
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Application Modernization Engineer to join our internal delivery team. This hands-on, non-client-facing role reports to the AppMod Specialist and plays a key part in executing our modernization projects using Mechanized AI’s AI-powered solutions.
The ideal candidate will have a background in software architecture and proven experience modernizing legacy applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute client application modernization projects using our AI-driven solutions and processes
- Analyze legacy codebases to understand business logic and identify dependencies and risks during migration
- Design and implement modern solutions that preserve legacy functionality while improving performance and maintainability
- Implement code transformations and refactoring strategies aligned with modern architectural best practices
- Collaborate with internal team members to document designs, migration strategies, and project learnings
- Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies, and help develop mitigation strategies to keep projects on track
- Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in software modernization to continuously improve our methodologies and tools
Required Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or related field or — or equivalent experience (5+ years in software development)
- Proven experience modernizing legacy applications (e.g., COBOL, VB.NET, Ruby on Rails, ASP) and migrating them to modern languages such as Java, C#, or Python
- Strong understanding of software architecture, refactoring techniques, and design patterns
- Experience with tools and methodologies for code analysis, refactoring, and automated testing
- Experience working with or prompting AI tools
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive mindset
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, remote team environment
- Upper intermediate (B2) English proficiency
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) in the context of modernization projects
- Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture
- Full-stack development experience across front-end and back-end technologies
Contact:
Camila Farias
Recruiting team
Mechanized AI
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What We Do
Our mission is to help companies unlock the power of enterprise AI and accelerate their application modernization journeys.
Why Mechanized AI?
Founded in 2023, Mechanized AI is built and backed by a team with over four decades of combined AI/ML experience and more than 20 industry certifications.
Our product suite enables end-to-end AI development and deployment, and transforms traditional modernization workflows by automating complex, manual processes. Learn more about our solutions below:
AI Factory
The AI Factory platform enables the buildout of Fortune 500-quality production AI for both enterprise and mid-market businesses.
Insights: Build your blueprint for AI value while assessing and minimizing risk
DataLab: Accelerate data preparation for ML and GenAI while optimizing storage costs
AI Studio: Deploy ML models faster on your own cloud environment with security and flexibility
> mAI Modernize
The mAI Modernize suite of products provides AI-powered code modernization for any tech stack, empowering clients to understand and modernize legacy code in hours versus months.
CodeMap: Gain rapid insights into your portfolio of applications in any legacy code language while extracting valuable business rules
CodeGen: Refactor legacy code into modern programming languages with any-to-any tech stack matching
VMShift: Accelerate infrastructure modernization from months to weeks and enable mass migration of VMs to *any* container or cloud platform using the first-ever AI-powered VM-to-container migration solution
Reach out to our team of experts to set up a demo at [email protected] or by visiting www.mechanized.ai.
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