Senior System Engineer

About Us ASMBL develops tech for companies working at or towards enterprise-level scale, through a conscious use of resources that frees them to focus on their mission. We believe tech that frees people to focus on what really matters is tech that can change the world. We’re a team of digital strategists, engineers, designers, and business analysts, but we’re also brainstormers, big thinkers and dreamers who are driven by potential. Our unique value proposition isn’t in what we do, but how we do it. Our commitment to open collaboration, trust and transparency allows us to continue to build products that go beyond the transactional to meaningfully impact people’s lives, offer a deeper interaction, and elevate how your business or service is experienced as a whole. Founded by technology visionaries, we have over a decade plus of experience working with companies of all shapes and sizes. We have an HQ in Seattle, but we’re a globally remote team. Our people collaborate on equal footing regardless of region, department or title to creative cohesive, collectively vetted processes and products that help our clients achieve true digital transformation. About the Role Client systems can be complex, outdated, and challenging—but that’s where you come in Your mission is to seamlessly integrate our applications into these diverse environments, ensuring they meet the needs of our clients and their stakeholders. You'll anticipate scalability challenges and champion solutions that are not only robust but also easy to understand and implement, even for developers who may not specialize in these systems. At Assemble, you’ll play a key role in shaping and advancing our Systems Engineering practice. You’ll mentor and empower developers within pods, fostering autonomy in maintaining and supporting systems. By streamlining operations across projects, you'll help accelerate onboarding, reduce cognitive load during context switching, and promote clear, transparent solutions that make collaboration smoother for everyone. Responsible For Deliver on architecture-level milestones and roadmap items, such as greenfielding new systems, migrating to new environments, or refreshing existing solutions Pair with developers in a training/mentor capacity as they work through ongoing systems engineering tasks Partner with PMs, POs, and other project stakeholders to manage intake of requirements and ad-hoc requests from clients or internal teams, triaging, prioritizing, and delegating as necessary Engage in 1:1s, mentoring sessions, or guild programming to mentor and enable developers in their systems engineering skills Consult with project architects to align on ops requirements to meet their roadmap milestones and beyond, align on conventions and business strategy Write proposals or provide estimates for sales efforts with new or existing clients Partner with clients and external stakeholders in their strategic decision making, interpreting complex technical details into communicable business value Partner with department and pod leadership to capitalize on optimization and growth opportunities for the Systems Engineering organization About You Recent work focuses on leading significant infrastructural or systems engineering initiatives Substantial Rails or equivalent backend MVC framework and ORM experience Expert level infrastructure as code experience, Pulumi or similar (ie TS, etc) preferred Command-line level fluency within containerized orchestration and runtime environments You can navigate yourself and your team through the challenges of being a services vendor a sprawling mega-enterprise context You see unusual constraints as opportunities for creative problem solving, rather than obstacles. You are eager to “train your replacement” by skilling up other developers or teams Passionate about the people end of things: developer experience, client engagement, mentorship ASMBL Values Having an Impact: We work to make life better than we found it. Owning It: We commit to challenges and see them through to the end. Lifting Each Other Up: We help others succeed along the way. Driven by Potential: We push beyond what we know to uncover what’s possible. EEO Statement Assemble, Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to creating and fostering an environment of unity, and diversity among our staff. Our goal is to hire individuals that enhance our culture, rather than fit our culture. All qualified applicants are treated respectfully and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender expressions and identities, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status, or marital status.