Location: Remote
Schedule: Full time (40 hours/week), must be available to work fully in Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Contract: 1-month contract with strong potential for long-term extension
About Uptime Crew
Uptime Crew multiplies technology talent potential to power today's top businesses. We accomplish this by removing barriers to hire diverse talent and upskill them through elite, immersive, outcome-based training. We’re seeking an Engineering Specialist to support internal and external partners/teams.
Do you love being a powerful positive force in the success of others? Are you a Team player who effectively builds relationships with cross-functional team members? If so, Uptime Crew might have the role for you!
At Uptime Crew the role of Engineering Specialist is a bridge between recruiting and training teams. The Engineering Specialist is an integral partner in the Training Organization, assisting the Engineering Manager in the planning, implementation and execution of training activities and building employee expertise while ensuring they have a great experience during their selection process and training.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coach, mentor and guide multiple multi-functional teams of software engineers; providing clarity, communicating team vision, strategy and progress to all team members.
- Conduct daily lab sessions.
- Provide professional and best practice guidance with an emphasis on quality, simplicity, maintainability, and performance.
- Train and establish team culture with emphasis on customer centricity, engineering agility, creativity, collaboration and a continuous learning/growth mindset.
- Capture daily feedback to identify specific roadblocks and individual trainees’ concerns.
- Provide operational oversight to Engineering Projects.
- Guide Engineering Project requirements execution and Use Case building into systems solutions; building experiences that empower our Consultants to showcase their talent.
- Assist the Engineering Manager in planning and execution processes, delivering robust engineering plans and prioritizing work across the team.
- Monitor attendance, regular work assignments and overall performance, escalating any identified performance issues to the Engineering Manager.
- Execute the end-to-end Consultant delivery process
- Be a trusted partner for the Recruitment teams. You will work closely with recruitment coordinators and other team members to make sure we attract and hire the best talent by conducting technical and behavioral interviews with early-career IT professionals.
- Participate in special projects/tasks as assigned
- Support the Technology Operations Team in the creation and maintenance of training plans and course materials across multiple cohorts.
- Assist in the integration of new concepts, courses, products, reporting, and feedback into existing coursework.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5 years of professional technical experience
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in a start-up environment a plus
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to influence across job levels
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ year(s) years of professional technical experience developing and operating software in one or more of the following: Java, Python, JavaScript, DevSecOps
- 1+ year(s) experience architecting, designing, and developing customer-facing software.
- Self-driven and comfortable working in an ambiguous environment with changing priorities
- Ability to think strategically and tactically, with attention to detail
- Proven ability to establish positive working relationships with internal stakeholders
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with multi-functional teams about various topics such as product requirements, user experience, system architecture, APIs, and project schedules
- A deep understanding of software development lifecycle, methodologies, and best practices.
- Familiarity with Agile Software Development Life cycle best practices.
- Previous teaching or training experience
Uptime Crew creates opportunities for populations traditionally underrepresented in the technology sector, such as minorities, women, and veterans. Uptime Crew designs staffing solutions to deliver predictable expert talent pipelines, leading the way to better opportunities, better candidates, and better outcomes. Uptime Crew is a women-owned/ minority-owned business.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5 years of professional technical experience
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Must be available to work fully in Eastern Standard Time (EST)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including ability to influence across job levels
- 5+ years experience developing and operating software (Java, Python, JavaScript, DevSecOps)
- 1+ year experience architecting, designing, and developing customer-facing software
- Familiarity with Agile software development lifecycle best practices
- Previous teaching or training experience
- Experience in a start-up environment
- Deep understanding of software development lifecycle, methodologies, and best practices
- Proven ability to establish positive working relationships with internal stakeholders
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with multi-functional teams about product requirements, UX, system architecture, APIs, and schedules
What We Do
Uptime Crew, a business unit of Smoothstack, specializes in sourcing, training, and deploying safety-conscious and reliable technical talent for mission-critical industries. They provide engineers and technicians to data centers, semiconductor manufacturing, and enterprise AI adoption, utilizing a hire-train-deploy model to bridge the talent gap and ensure operational excellence in advanced manufacturing and critical infrastructure.
