Software Engineer

Location: Urbandale, IA
Salary: $60.00 USD Hourly - $65.00 USD Hourly
Description:
Software Engineer - Job Description (Anonymized & Rewritten)

Duration: 03/09/2026 - 03/12/2027

Position Overview

We are seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to the development of advanced automation and autonomy solutions for complex off-road equipment and distributed control systems. The role is ideal for engineers or applied scientists who thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy working on technically challenging, data-intensive, cloud-based platforms.

The successful candidate will support product development through coding, testing, planning, and cross-team collaboration. This position is geared toward individuals who can work independently, demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, and contribute novel ideas to enhance system performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, test, and deploy software components within a modern cloud-based architecture.
• Propose and implement enhancements to improve quality, performance, and maintainability of applications.
• Translate functional requirements into technical specifications and execute on deliverables.
• Prepare relevant documentation as needed throughout the development lifecycle.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to ensure solutions meet user and business needs.
• Follow Agile software development methodologies, contributing to planning, iteration execution, and retrospectives.

Qualifications & Core Competencies

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Ability to analyze and translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including negotiation and cross-functional collaboration.
• Knowledge of engineering principles and their practical application in software design.
• Proficiency in managing multiple priorities in fast-moving environments.

Education

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Engineering, Technology, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Experience

• 1-3 years of professional experience in software development.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and iterative development processes.
• Hands-on background in modern programming practices and deployment workflows.

Role-Specific Technical Expectations

Candidates should demonstrate strong, production-level coding abilities and experience working with large-scale data and cloud-native architectures.

Essential Technical Experience

• Demonstrated ability to develop and deploy production-grade software.
• Experience handling large-scale datasets (terabyte or petabyte-level).
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies such as identity/access management, serverless compute, object storage, and managed database services.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (e.g., Terraform).
• Building, optimizing, and scaling backend workflows for cloud efficiency.
• Developing and maintaining REST APIs and serverless backend functions.
• Containerization experience (e.g., Docker).
• Working with relational or spatial databases (e.g., PostgreSQL/PostGIS).
• Experience with MLOps workflows (e.g., deploying ML or CV models, tracking experiments, or working within cloud-based ML stacks).
• Ability to support data scientists by building scalable data access and transformation pipelines.

Preferred/Additional Skills

• Experience working with observability platforms (e.g., monitoring, alerting, and logging tools).
• Migration or support of CI/CD pipelines, preferably to GitHub-based workflows.
• Ability to support field operations by diagnosing and resolving data and system issues.
• (Optional, humorous legacy reference) Experience creating software plugins for niche or legacy industrial devices.

General Expectations

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate technical experience.
• Strong initiative and comfort with independent problem-solving.
• Ability to adapt quickly within a high-speed development environment.

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