What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer position at Steelhead Technologies?
Hiring people to build the future of manufacturing at Steelhead.
We want engineers to want the ball: they want to deliver ambitious valuable product and are willing to run through a wall to get it done. Engineers own the product plan, the database migration, the api, and the UI.
Three things we want you fired up about:
One: AI-first development is the most interesting thing to happen to software engineering in our careers. Our team runs Claude Code all day and ships at velocities that were impossible 24 months ago. Generating code is a given, good judgement is not.
Two: reading code is underrated, and about to be the most valuable skill in the field. If you find a hairy diff more interesting than a greenfield feature, if you're the bug-spotter on every team you've been on, that instinct is what's scarce right now.
Three: manufacturing is real, and the software running it has stakes. We build the ERP for metal finishing shops and fabricators. About 250 industrial customers anodizing, plating, powder-coating, and fabricating the parts the rest of the economy is built on. When our software breaks, our customers can't process parts.
Engineers here means you own the vision of what gets built, not tickets. You'll talk to the deployment team, support team, and customers yourself, figure out what a feature actually should consist of, ship it (AI-first), and become someone who actually understands an industrial problem space. If "B2B SaaS for marketing teams" sounds suspiciously frictionless to you, you'll like it here.
Early-career, 0-3 years in. CS grad, bootcamp grad, self-taught with a real portfolio, all welcome. The filter isn't credentials. It's whether those three things above light you up, and whether you actually want to learn a real industry.
One hard requirement: a lot of our customer work is ITAR-controlled, so the role is U.S. Persons only (citizens or permanent residents). Not something we can flex on.
To apply, send us two things:
- A code sample you didn't write, one you reviewed or debugged, with notes on what you noticed
- Why you care about manufacturing.