# Associate Director, Software Engineering

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Xi'an, Shaanxi
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.

**Principal Responsibilities**

- Design, build, and ship production-quality services in line with technology standards, governance, and business controls.

- Assist with the design, iteration, and optimisation of prompts for a wide range of LLM use cases,instruction following, structured output generation, classification, summarisation, code generation, and reasoning tasks.

- Build and manage prompt libraries and versioning strategies, treating prompts as first-class engineering artefacts.

- Collaborate with product and domain teams to translate business requirements into precise, well-structured prompt specifications.

**Agentic AI & LLM Integration**

- Support and drive the implementation, and maintenance of agentic systems,autonomous agents, multi-agent pipelines, tool-use workflows, planning loops, and memory-augmented reasoning.

- Implement LLM observability (logging, tracing, evaluation pipelines, and guardrails) to maintain quality and reliability in production AI systems.

- Advise on responsible AI deployment, including output validation, human-in-the-loop design, and risk mitigation for agentic workflows.

**Team Leadership, Product/Agile Partnership & Global Engagement**

- Serve as part of the local team engineering leadership, helping set direction, priorities, and delivery standards for the engineering pods within Fincrime Investigations value stream.

- Partner closely with Product Management to clarify value, scope, and success measures; contribute to discovery, solution options, and delivery plans.

- Work day-to-day with agile delivery partners (e.g., Scrum Masters/Delivery Leads) to maintain a healthy delivery cadence, manage dependencies, and ensure transparent reporting of progress, risks, and blockers.

**Requirements**

- **Full-Stack Engineering**

+ Strong proficiency in Java / Spring Boot,REST APIs, event-driven services, security, and performance optimisation. 	+ Solid React development skills and API integration. 	+ Experience with relational and in-memory databases (PostgreSQL, Redis). 	+ Messaging and streaming platforms,Kafka (or equivalent).

- **Prompt Engineering**

+ Demonstrable, hands-on experience engineering prompts for production LLM applications (not just prototypes). 	+ Understanding of tokenisation, context limits, temperature tuning, and model-specific behaviours across major LLM providers. 	+ Experience structuring prompts for tool/function calling, structured JSON output, and multi-turn conversations.

- **DevOps & Infrastructure**

+ Kubernetes,deployments, services, ingress, Helm, Kustomize, HPA, and RBAC. 	+ CI/CD pipelines,GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent. 	+ Infrastructure as code,Terraform. 	+ Cloud platforms,AWS, AliCloud, GCP, or Azure.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- React
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipelines
- Terraform
- AWS
- AliCloud
- GCP
- Azure
- LLM applications
- Prompt Engineering

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