At Rite-Hite, your work makes an impact. As the global leader in loading dock and door equipment, we design and deliver solutions that keep our customers safe, secure, and productive. Here, you’ll find innovation, stability, and the chance to grow your career as part of a team that’s always looking ahead.
Technical Leadership and Modernization
- Lead technical direction for a critical application area through hands-on design and implementation.
- Assess legacy systems, identify technical debt and risk, and define pragmatic modernization plans (stabilize, refactor, re-platform, or rebuild based on value).
- Drive incremental improvements to legacy systems while introducing scalable, cloud-native approaches and consistent patterns.
- Establish and reinforce architectural patterns, coding standards, and design principles that improve maintainability and consistency.
System Design and Engineering Practices
- Design scalable, maintainable systems and APIs; define clear boundaries and integration patterns.
- Raise engineering discipline: code review quality, testing strategy, dependency management, and upgrade practices.
- Ensure systems are built for operability (resiliency, error handling, observability, configuration, secrets management).
Delivery, Reliability, and Operations
- Partner with DevOps/platform teams to improve CI/CD reliability, release processes, and environment consistency.
- Lead troubleshooting of complex production issues; drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Define and monitor service health signals (logs/metrics/alerts) and improve runtime reliability.
AI-Enabled Engineering
- Promote effective use of AI-assisted tools across design, coding, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation.
- Define guardrails for responsible AI use (security, confidentiality, human review, code quality).
- Validate AI-assisted outputs for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability before adoption.
Collaboration, Influence & Mentorship
- Partner with product management to align technical decisions with business priorities and delivery constraints.
- Communicate tradeoffs and risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers on system design, production-ready engineering, and strong team communication.
- Influence across teams without formal authority; facilitate alignment when priorities or opinions differ.
Supervisory Responsibilities
No direct reports. Serves as the technical leader for a software engineering team and drives technical direction, engineering practices, and high-quality delivery.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience delivering production systems.
- Demonstrated experience working with legacy systems (stabilization, refactoring, modernization, migration).
- Strong system design skills (APIs, modular design/service boundaries, resiliency patterns).
- Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and observability practices.
- Strong debugging/problem-solving skills in complex systems.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly (validation and security awareness).
- Strong collaboration, facilitation, and stakeholder communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred) and distributed systems.
- Experience with event-driven systems/messaging.
- Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes.
- Experience defining engineering standards and mentoring engineers.
What We Offer
At Rite-Hite, we take care of our people – because when you’re supported, you can do your best work. Our benefits are designed to support your health, your future and your life outside of work:
Health & Well-being: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life and disability insurance. A robust well-being program with an opportunity to receive an extra day off and more.
Financial Security: A strong retirement savings program with 401(k), company match, and profit sharing.
Time for You: Paid holidays, vacation time, and personal/sick days each year.
Join us and build a career where you’re supported – at work and beyond.
Rite-Hite is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. In accordance with VEVRAA, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for protected veterans. We are also committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace for the safety of our employees and customers.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of software engineering experience delivering production systems.
- Experience working with legacy systems (stabilization, refactoring, modernization, migration).
- Strong system design skills (APIs, modular design/service boundaries, resiliency patterns).
- Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, and observability practices.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in complex systems.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly, including validation and security awareness.
- Strong collaboration, facilitation, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred).
- Experience with event-driven systems and messaging.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience defining engineering standards and mentoring engineers.
Rite-Hite Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Rite-Hite and has not been reviewed or approved by Rite-Hite.
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Retirement Support — Retirement program includes a 401(k) with company match alongside a separate profit‑sharing component. This combination is consistently positioned as a standout element of the total rewards package.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits materials describe multiple medical plan options with dental and vision, plus HSA/FSA support and company‑paid disability and life insurance. The breadth of core health coverage and protections enhances overall perceived value.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off offerings include paid vacation, paid holidays, personal days for eligible roles, paid parental leave, and company‑paid short‑term medical leave. The depth of leave programs contributes meaningfully to total compensation appeal.
Rite-Hite Insights
What We Do
Rite-Hite, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA is a world-wide leader in the development, manufacture, and sale of loading dock safety systems, industrial door solutions and in-plant products. All of our products are designed for maximum safety, productivity, efficiency and reduced energy costs at your facility. Rite-Hite's complete product line includes hydraulic, mechanical and air-powered dock levelers, vehicle restraints, light communication systems, truck levelers, dock seals and shelters, high speed doors, cooler/freezer doors, traffic/impact doors, machine safety doors, safety barrier systems, industrial HVLS ceiling fans and a complete line of aftermarket parts, accessories, and service. Rite-Hite is focused on providing solutions for you. From developing the Dok-Lok in 1980 to prevent premature trailer separation to the innovative Rite-Vu Light Communications system introduced in 2009 to protect pedestrians and forklift drivers, we're innovative to make you safer, more efficient and productive. Careers If you would like to explore career opportunities with Rite-Hite, please apply online at www.ritehite.com
