What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Staff Engineer position at Divisions Maintenance Group?
Title: Sr. Staff Engineer
Reports To: VP of Engineering
Department: Product & Engineering - Engineering
Location: Cincinnati, OH or Seattle, WA
Position Status: Salary Exempt
About DMG:
Divisions Maintenance Group provides facility maintenance services to retail chains and distribution and fulfillment centers across the country.
We are leading the way with our technology, creating world-class products that are revolutionizing the industry and fulfilling our brand promise of “Uninterrupted Peace of Mind.”
DMG is a Certified Great Place to Work with a strong, inclusive culture and top-notch benefits.
Job Summary:
Staff engineers form the backbone of the DMG’s engineering team. They are expected to participate in all levels of the software development process from architecture to deployments. Staff Engineers lead DMG’s through example, trust and respect; engineers seek them out and follow their lead not because they are told to but because they understand the value.
DMG’s staff engineering team have a bias for action and are obsessive about working backwards from the customer. They are visible to the entire organization and work together to organize and execute design reviews, setting standards and improving engineering culture and process.
What You'll Do:
- Architecture: Create, implement, and maintain the reference architecture.
- Design: As a team they define the design engineering standards of the enterprise. They ensure that these design standards are adhered to for all services created or modified.
- Code: They code approx. 50% of the time, taking on the most difficult problems the organization faces. Their code is exemplary - it sets the standards for other engineers to emulate.
- Fight Technical Debt: Staff Eng fight technical debt. At the same time, they realize that there’s no such thing as perfect engineering.
- Operational Excellence: They ensure that the teams’ root cause analysis of incidents truly addresses the situation systematically vs a one off. They review every single RCA and don’t rest till the underlying cause is addressed.
- Customer Working Backwards: Staff Engineers understand the needs of their customer and the business.
- Technically Fearless: Staff Engineers are abreast of the latest and emerging technologies.
- Strategic: support the development & implementation of the DMG technical strategy that is complementary to our product strategy.
- Influence the organization: Our engineers seek out Staff Engineers for counsel. Not because of their titles, but because they are role models and inspiring. They will be approachable and supportive to encourage engineers to come to them.
- Develop others: They coach and mentor. Because of their coaching, fellow engineers grow their technical competencies.
- Influence cross-functionally: Staff Engineers influence their partners in Product and the rest of the company.
- Hire the right talent: Along with engineering managers, Staff Engineers define the hiring standards. They actively participate in the hiring process, so we build a cohesive team.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
What You Need:
- Degree or equivalent experience in information technology, computer science or engineering.
- 15 years of experience developing enterprise b2b systems and mission critical applications.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerization, micro-services, observability, distributed systems, streaming, networking, testing and test automation, RPC (gRPC preferred).
- Mastery of SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Excellent in .Net and JVM languages.
- Working knowledge of GenAI and how to leverage related technologies into product development workstreams.
- Familiarity with AI assisted coding tools.
- Ability to manage the stress of a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to meet the in-person requirements of the team and/or business needs.
What You'll Get:
At DMG, you’ll be part of an amazing team that encourages learning, growth, and advancement. Our company has an entrepreneurial spirit that rewards self-starters and encourages employees to take charge of their own careers.
Some of our many benefits include:
- Health, dental and vision coverage on day 1.
- Dollar-for-dollar 401K match up to 4% of salary with immediate 100% vesting.
- Paid Primary and Secondary Caregiver leave.
- Employee Assistance Program to assist with everyday challenges.
- Paid time off to volunteer.
Divisions Maintenance Group is an equal opportunity employer.