Manufacturing Engineer

Filetwigbay; City of Yonkers (NY); On-site; USD 131,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship by senior engineers

Benefits package

Flexible Yonkers hours

Job summary

StartupSphere in Yonkers, NY, seeks a Manufacturing Engineer with a strong track record in improving engineering processes and leading technical initiatives. You will own critical tech work, including database tuning, tooling, and platform enhancements, reporting to a senior leadership team.

The role emphasizes collaboration across NY teams, with mentoring and visible leadership to drive fast, reliable software delivery. Excellent communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of engineering experience.
• Proven ability to improve processes.
• Strong presentation and NY market knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Replace the brittle Written Communication hack with a MySQL solution that survives Yonkers scale
• Build the Initiative tooling that makes every other Yonkers engineer faster
• Pull Initiative telemetry into dashboards StartupSphere leaders actually open
• Carry the Ansible platform work that makes StartupSphere's next NY expansion boring
• Tune Written Communication queries until the NY database stops timing out under load
• Cut Java cold-start times so StartupSphere functions wake before NY users notice
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within StartupSphere

Skills

Process improvement

Public speaking

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

MySQL

Ansible

Java

Job description

StartupSphere needs a Manufacturing Engineer in NY who can argue passionately about Initiative, then commit to whatever the team decides. Read it as a $131,000 - $186,000 invitation to own technology work in Yonkers, backed by a senior title and 6 years of trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Replace the brittle Written Communication hack with a MySQL solution that survives Yonkers scale
• Build the Initiative tooling that makes every other Yonkers engineer faster
• Pull Initiative telemetry into dashboards StartupSphere leaders actually open
• Carry the Ansible platform work that makes StartupSphere's next NY expansion boring
• Tune Written Communication queries until the NY database stops timing out under load
• Cut Java cold-start times so StartupSphere functions wake before NY users notice
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within StartupSphere

What You'll Bring

• A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them
• Judgment seasoned by at least 5 years of real consequences
• Familiarity with the Yonkers market and local technology landscape
• Comfort presenting to a NY-wide audience without a script
• The instinct to ask "what would change your mind?" before debating

As a gloriously-unglamorous leader in technology, StartupSphere draws top talent to its Yonkers, NY headquarters. We pair junior and senior folks on purpose so Java knowledge stops hoarding in one head.

You will grow fastest here, with $131,000 - $186,000, a mentor, benefits, and flexible Yonkers, NY hours clearing the runway in front of you.

Current and accurate as of this visit, the contract opening stands ready.