System Engineer

Maven Machines; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401k

Generous Vacation Policy

Job summary

Maven Machines, a fast-growing tech startup in Pittsburgh, seeks a fulltime Systems Engineer to oversee engineering and business aspects of projects. Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years of back-end system management experience and a Bachelor's degree. The role emphasizes collaboration and quality control in the delivery of solutions.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k plan, and a generous vacation policy. Join a diverse team dedicated to fostering innovation and personal development.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in back-end system management.
• Strong communication and business writing skills.
• Excellent time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with various stakeholders to create and maintain systems.
• Create control features to meet quality standards.
• Engage in quality control procedures for efficiency.

Skills

Back-end system management

JavaScript

JSON frameworks

Postman

RESTful APIs

SQL

JIRA

Firebase

Git commands

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Maven is reimagining how the world moves freight. We are a fast-growing tech startup based in Pittsburgh that is working on building the next era of fleet management, dispatch, and infrastructure technologies for the transportation and service industries.

Over the past eleven years, Maven’s cloud-based solutions have been successfully deployed to thousands of drivers and companies across the country, with many of the nation’s top 100 trucking fleets running their operations on our software platform. We are looking for exceptionally bright and talented individuals to add to our growing world-class team of professionals.

As a fulltime Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for overseeing the engineering, business and management aspects of a project or a system, and make sure that all the parts work properly together. You must be able to perform direct and advisory roles in oversight, planning and implementation of projects and initiatives. As a systems engineer you are concerned about the big picture of a project in addition to engineering aspects and must consider details like cost, schedules, and customer’s needs. The ideal candidate is based in Pittsburgh, PA or elsewhere in the continental U.S.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Speaking to and collaborating with a variety of people, such as clients, vendors, management and other team members during the creation and maintenance of a system.
• Creating control features to ensure systems effectively meet the organizations’ quality standards.
• Engaging in quality control procedures to ensure that systems are efficient and operational.
• Develop a cost-efficient system for projects by performing a cost-benefit analysis
• Ensuring that an organization’s solution is operating at maximum efficiency.

More About You

• Minimum of 3 – 5 years’ experience in back-end system management.
• Bachelor’s Degree Required.
• Rudimentary level understanding of JavaScript
• Understanding of JSON frameworks
• Experience Using Postman
• Experience integrating RESTful APIs
• Experience using SQL
• Experience using JIRA
• Experience using Firebase
• Basic Git commands
• Experience leading projects focused on delivery customer value through technology.
• Customer-focused and business-oriented.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Strong communication and business writing skills.
• Proficient in producing presentations and reports using office suite tools.
• Ability to identify, resolve and follow up on issues leveraging subject matter experts.
• Team player - strong initiative, independent thinker, driven to succeed, high energy with a commitment to work and follow-through.
• Willingness to travel (25%).
• Experience in deployment of SaaS software preferred.
• Trucking Industry experience a plus.
• Agile experience is a plus.

Benefits and Perks

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401k
• Generous Vacation Policy

Healthy, Diverse Teams Breed Innovation

Maven is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We deeply believe that diverse backgrounds and experiences make better products, and we seek to attract talent from all walks of life. The team at Maven is smart, friendly, and passionate and we value a healthy work environment to foster personal development and opportunities to move within our small but quickly growing organization.