Staff Software Engineer Job at Utilimarc in Minneapolis

Utilimarc is a small, agile team driven by a shared passion for cutting-edge solutions and exceptional client experiences. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical leader across the organization.

About the Role: As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll be our go-to technical expert and architect, working across multiple engineering teams to solve our most complex challenges and shape the technical direction of our platform and products. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll remain deeply involved in code and system design while providing guidance and mentorship.

Your primary responsibilities will include providing technical leadership, know-how, and technical cohesion across the organization: the data ingestion platform, web / application platform, data modeling and models, analyst and presentation workflow. You'll work with our technology stack that includes modern data infrastructure, tools for client-facing analyst teams, and established Java systems applications. Your experience demonstrates all-around leadership, software engineering leadership, problem solving, and a history of designing and delivering quality software. Our ideal candidate will have extensive software design, data engineering, and web platform implementation experience.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain a SaaS platform on top of existing data processing and analytics

• Lead the development of AI/LLM-powered features and products while establishing best practices for AI-augmented development workflows

• Support business goals by defining technical strategy through understanding business requirements and priorities

• Design and implement LLM integration patterns, and AI product features within our data platform

• Define, design, build, and maintain all aspects of data delivery and governance

• Plan and conduct work requiring judgment in the evaluation, selection, and adaptation or modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria

• Independently perform assignments to meet outcome based goals

• Provide and discover technical guidance on unusual or complex problems

• Work closely with analysts and data scientists to build tools to turn data into knowledge for making sound business decisions

Why Utilimarc:

• Innovative Environment: Be part of a team that thrives on creativity and cutting-edge technology

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly influence our clients' success and drive industry advancements in fleet optimization

• Collaborative Culture: Join a group of passionate professionals who support and inspire each other every day

• Tech Stack Modernization: Lead the evolution of our platform as we integrate AI capabilities into fleet analytics

• Flexible Work: Partial work-from-home available (3 days/week in office)

Qualifications:

• Enjoy solving difficult problems

• Significant experience (10+ years) designing, building, and maintaining data & software workflows in a production environment

• Experience with columnar database use

• Expert knowledge of at least one programming language, familiarity with python, Git, SQL, Java, and managed cloud environments

• Adherence to, and ability to balance between, software engineering principles - requirements gathering, prototyping, testing, CI/CD, sprints, DRY, YAGNI, KISS, IaC

• Experience building and maintaining platform APIs

• Familiarity with foundation LLM use and prompt engineering

• Ability to work autonomously as well as collaborate with team members

• Demonstrated experience enhancing a team with technical and cohesive leadership

• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to translate requirements into implementation

Nice to Have:

• Previous engineering management or tech lead experience

• dbt knowledge

• Fleet/logistics/IoT domain experience

• Experience with analytics and data visualization, comfort with the language of mathematics

• Experience building data platforms and teams