Technical / Dojo Software Engineering Coach

Eliassen Group; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 137,760 - 151,536; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Technical / Software Engineering Coach to join a Software Dojo for a major airline. You will work hands-on with engineers to upskill them in XP, paired programming, mutation testing, and code craftsmanship, guiding modernization efforts.

This consulting role (W2 or Corp-Corp) offers rate flexibility and a comprehensive benefits package. Interviews and starts are planned for July 2026.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering background required.
• Experience coaching software teams to improve practices and skills.
• Familiarity with transitioning large monoliths to cloud/digital technologies.

Responsibilities

• Create a software Dojo environment to practice and master technical excellence.
• Coach on XP, code smells, mutation testing, and Code Craftsmanship principles.
• Help upskill developers, shifting ownership from hands-on tasks to technical leadership.
• Guide architecture modernization to support cloud-ready solutions.
• Advise on Jira usage and governance within controls/compliance.

Skills

Coaching

XP

Mutation Testing

Code Craftsmanship

Mentoring

Cloud modernization

Tools

Jira

Job description

Eliassen Group is hiring for Technical / Software Engineering Coaches to join a Software Dojo for a major airline. The preferred profile is someone who is currently hands‑on with coding, comes from a software engineering background, and can work with software engineers to help them upskill and coach them on XP, Paired Programming, Code Mutations/Mutation Testing, Code Craftsmanship.

Positions are available on a Consulting basis (W2 Employment or Corp-Corp) in support of a Fortune 100 airline that wants to teach technical staff how to develop software and products using software engineering best practices like XP, Code Smells, Code Sniffs, and Mutation Testing.

Positions are available interview, hire, and begin work in July 2026.

Responsibilities

• Helping to create a technical / software Dojo environment ("technical accelerator") where technical excellence and best practices can be practiced and mastered
• Seeks experience doing and coaching XP, code smells, mutation testing, and principals related to Code Craftsmanship
• Biggest desire is for the Tech Coach to up‑skill the developers to include technical and cultural components
• The Coach will coach through optimizing current architecture to support modernization efforts
• Experience with transitioning large monoliths/legacy environments into cloud/modern/digital technologies
• Knowledge of Jira would be great along how to handle the controls and compliance that is baked in
• Shifting the mindset from "I'm just a pair of hands, tell me what to do" to ownership from the technical team member seat
• Seeking a Technical Agile Coach who has a programming background and experience (specific language not a priority)
• Code craftsmanship / being a software artisan with the desire to upskill other technical team members – highly sought after

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401(k) with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $100 - $110/hour

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre‑tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked‑in state/locality.