Software Engineer — Lead Tooling & Growth, Flexible Schedule

Investment Strategies Group; Livonia (MI); On-site; USD 50,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Investment Strategies Group in Livonia, MI seeks a Software Engineer to help shape the next product line. You will decide when to buy Nginx versus build, wire gRPC feature flags for safe testing, and build internal tools to boost developer velocity.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations and postmortems, turning noise into actionable alerts. The team values initiative, technology ownership, and collaborative problem solving, with a starting salary range of $50,000–$69,000 and strong backing for

Qualifications

• Leadership experience guiding junior initiatives and teams.
• Ability to learn quickly when to adapt and when to break rules.
• Comfort working across different functions (engineering, marketing).
• Demonstrated gRPC expertise in fast-moving tech environments.
• Curiosity to go beyond the stated role and propose improvements.

Responsibilities

• Decide when to buy nginx versus build it for the Livonia stack.
• Wire up gRPC feature flags for risk-free testing on Livonia traffic.
• Build internal tooling to boost developer productivity and velocity.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in postmortems.
• Turn on-call noise into meaningful alerts in written communication.
• Own edge cases in billing and other unfussy items nobody else touches.

Skills

Leadership experience

Learning agility

Cross-functional ease

gRPC expertise

Curiosity

Tools

.NET Core

Kafka

gRPC

Job description

Investment Strategies Group in Livonia, MI seeks a Software Engineer to help shape the next product line. You will decide when to buy Nginx versus build, wire gRPC feature flags for safe testing, and build internal tools to boost developer velocity.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations and postmortems, turning noise into actionable alerts. The team values initiative, technology ownership, and collaborative problem solving, with a starting salary range of $50,000–$69,000 and strong backing for