Associate Software Developer
Venerable · PA-West Chester - Dunwoody Dr
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Jul 13, 2026
PA-West Chester - Dunwoody Dr
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hybrid engineering role on an Agile team focused on building and maintaining machine learning models, micro-services, and web applications, primarily on AWS. Day-to-day work spans the full software lifecycle — from design and development through deployment, monitoring, and support — with particular emphasis on AWS-based ML pipelines using tools such as SageMaker and Step Functions. Suited to an early-to-mid-career engineer with 1–3 years of AI/ML and enterprise application experience, ideally in a regulated industry.
Mid level · 1+ years · National
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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The role is explicitly hybrid (not fully remote); no specific city or metro is named in the posting — Venerable is headquartered in West Des Moines, IA, but the location is not stated in this JD.
SOC classification is a genuine toss-up: the role spans full-stack software development (C#, micro-services, CI/CD) and ML/AI model development (SageMaker, ML libraries). 15-1252 Software Developers was chosen as primary because the JD emphasizes full ALM lifecycle software delivery; 15-2051 Data Scientists is a close runner-up given the ML model development emphasis.
The bachelor's degree is explicitly marked 'preferred' in the JD, so the degree requirement is set to None.
The experience range of 1–3+ years is stated in the Technical Skills section (a requirements-style block), so 1 year is used as the minimum.
The extended list of AWS services (EFS, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, Aurora, DynamoDB, RDS Proxy, Glue, Athena) appears in the Technical Skills section alongside the core required services. The core services (SageMaker, Lambda, EC2, S3, Redshift) are called out explicitly in the Principle Responsibilities as required; the broader list is treated as preferred stack context given the breadth and the junior-to-mid level of the role.
Messaging/serialization technologies (Protobufs, Thrift, Avro, JSON, MQ, JMS, Kafka) and UI frameworks (Angular, React) are introduced with 'Familiarity with' language, marking them as preferred.
AWS certification and NLP/computer vision/reinforcement learning/generative models appear under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are marked accordingly.
Azure is listed as 'a plus' and is marked preferred.
Code profiling/optimization tooling and Kanban/Lean/XP practices are explicitly called out as 'a plus' — omitted from skills as they name no specific tool.
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