Senior Software Engineer

State College, Pennsylvania, United States, Remote Worker- N/A

At KCF, we are committed to providing best-in-class benefits, engaging development opportunities, and powerful perks that are focused on bringing out the best in you.

Full-time benefits include:

• 100% company-paid Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance premiums
• Health Savings Account with generous employer contributions
• Flexible work model for most positions, "work from home, work from anywhere"
• Competitive compensation & bonus opportunities
• 401(K) with company match
• Monthly cell phone and internet stipend
• $500 annual wellness reimbursement
• Learning culture committed to growth and continuous development

Mission & Values:

KCF Technologies exists to solve the world's machine health problems to drive safety and sustainability for our communities. We empower industry to eradicate downtime, waste, and injuries with KCF's Machine Health Solutions Platform. Learn more at

Curious about what working at KCF is really like? Explore Life at KCF here! If you’re an A-player who wants to be part of one of the most important companies revitalizing machine health across the world, KCF is the place for you. If our values resonate with you, please keep reading!

Core Values:

• Smarts: We are humbly aggressive lifelong learners.
• Grit: We are scrappy, proactive problem solvers who don’t stop until the job is done.
• Drive: We demonstrate an insatiable hunger to serve others.
• Responsibility: We do the right thing and contribute to the greater good.
• Autonomy: We own our work and define how we do it, while aligned with the greater mission.

Where You Come In:

• Are you an impatient, reasonably proactive person who excels in knowledge in your area of expertise?
• Are you driven to be accurate and feel it's your responsibility to share with others "how it should be"?
• Are you restless in your pursuit of factual information?
• Are you reserved and introspective with a communication style that is quick and filled with data?

This is starting to sound like your next challenge, right? Read on for more info!

We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team! At KCF, you will operate as part of a cross-functional squad with other engineers (Software, Hardware, DevOps, UX/UI, and Machine Learning). As a Senior Software Engineer , you will help build and maintain KCF’s SMARTdiagnostics machine health platform, which stores and processes industrial IoT sensor data to provide analytics and insights to our users. This will help us achieve our goal of zero waste, zero downtime, and zero safety incidents for all of industry.

This role can be 100% remote-based. With our Work From Home, Work From Anywhere model, KCF employees are spread across 27 different U.S states. We advocate for owning your work - you define how you do it and where you do it. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and maintain KCF’s software products (e.g. SMARTdiagnostics)
• Actively participate as a senior member of a cross-functional engineering squad
• Attend meetings (standups, planning and refinements, progress reviews, etc.) and use project tracking and management tools to manage tasks and issues
• Collaborate with other squad members (front end, back end, firmware, UX/UI, QA, etc.) and engineering leadership
• Produce high-quality, well-documented code
• Architect and design systems for data ingest, storage, processing, and analytics and create supporting design and requirement artifacts
• Assist in the creation of standards, best practices, and procedures for the Software department
• Mentor and manage other software engineers
• Participate in code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, promote code quality and validate architectural best practices
• Collaborative approach to working with stakeholders to identify business/product requirements, incorporating feedback and actionable metrics into scalable technical solutions
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor and other KCF leadership staff

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• 7+ years relevant experience and 2+ years in a senior or leadership role
• Strong grasp of system design fundamentals, patterns, and best practices in distributed systems architecture
• Demonstrated ability to write code in modern programming languages such as Go, Rust, Python, Scala, .NET or similar languages
• Experience developing and scaling cloud-hosted, data-centric applications:
• API design (REST and GraphQL)
• Data pipelines and streaming (Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and other related tools)
• Data lakes and lakehouses
• SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• NoSQL, time series, and other non-relational databases
• Modern Authentication (SAML, OAuth, and OIDC)
• Experience with one or more major cloud providers (AWS preferred)
• Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies and tools
• Strong understanding of modern software development tools and practices:
• Scrum, Kanban, or other agile development methodologies
• Experience with Spotify model preferred
• Git and version control best practices for continuous deployment
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing (Unit, Integration, etc.)
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
• Experience in event-driven and microservices architecture preferred
• Experience with IoT and time series data preferred
• Understanding of Data Science, Machine Learning, and MLOps preferred
• Ability to adapt to new programming languages and tools as needed

At KCF Technologies, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. The only things we require for employment, compensation, advancement, and benefits are performance and a good team attitude. No one will be denied opportunities or benefits, and no employment decisions will be made, on the basis of race, religion/creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions, protected veteran status, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, possession of a general education development certificate (“GED”) as compared to a high school diploma, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal or state laws. KCF complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which KCF has facilities.