<div><strong>Company Overview&nbsp;</strong></div><div>We build the leading pupil transportation tracking platform that protects over 1 million K-12 students every day. Our RFID-based system provides real-time bus tracking, parent notifications, routing, dismissal management, and student safety tools to school districts across the country. As a privately owned, bootstrapped SaaS company, we are currently building a lean, high-performing engineering team that delivers exceptional reliability and customer outcomes.</div><div><strong>Position Overview</strong><br>We are seeking a rare, high-impact leader to step into the dual role of Director &amp; Staff Engineer of Software Development. This unique position sits at the intersection of executive technical leadership and hands-on execution. You will split your time between defining the engineering strategy, building and mentoring a world-class team, and actively writing code and defining software architecture. As a Staff Engineer, you will be an individual contributor driving our core technical vision, designing scalable systems, and pioneering AI-assisted development workflows. As a Director, you will collaborate with cross-functional leadership, unblock delivery pipelines, manage engineering outcomes, and cultivate a culture of engineering excellence.</div><div><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></div><div><strong>Technical Leadership &amp; Architecture (Staff Engineer Scope)</strong></div><ul><li>Hands-on Development: Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance features across our full stack using Azure SQL, .NET 8+, ADO.NET, EF Core, ASP.NET MVC/Web API, React/Next.js, and TypeScript.</li><li>Architectural Stewardship: Guide the transition of legacy systems toward clean architecture, optimizing backend business logic, data access layers, and data models in Azure SQL.</li><li>Pioneer AI-Driven Velocity: Lead the adoption of emerging AI engineering tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude). Leveraging AI for design, code generation, testing, and documentation is a baseline expectation.</li><li>Geospatial Innovation: Architect and scale features leveraging mapping and navigation platforms, handling real-time location tracking, routing engines, and spatial databases.</li></ul><div><strong>Organizational &amp; People Leadership (Director Scope)</strong></div><ul><li>Team Performance &amp; Delivery: Collaborate with Product Management, DevOps, and QA to establish highly efficient CI/CD workflows, ensuring the team successfully ships reliable code multiple times per week.</li><li>Mentorship &amp; Culture: Actively mentor senior and mid-level engineers through pair-programming, rigorous code reviews, and career development frameworks. Cultivate an environment focused on high accountability and continuous learning.</li><li>Strategic Alignment: Represent the engineering team in leadership circles, aligning technical roadmaps with broader business objectives and managing resource allocation effectively.</li><li>Operational Excellence: Oversee operational health, including performance tuning, security compliance, automated testing standards, and the engineering on-call rotation framework.</li></ul><div><strong>Must-Have Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li>6+ years of full-stack .NET experience in production environments, with a proven track record of designing and shipping large-scale, high-availability distributed systems.</li><li>Expert proficiency in C#, .NET 8 (or later), EF Core, ASP.NET MVC, and Azure SQL.</li><li>Strong front-end mastery utilizing React 18+, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern state management.</li><li>Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems.</li><li>Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated unit/integration testing frameworks, and advanced monitoring/telemetry.</li><li>Demonstrated experience or strong aptitude for engineering management, resource planning, and cross-functional leadership.</li><li>Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>A relentless passion for efficiency; an early adopter mindset regarding LLMs and AI-assisted coding to maximize team velocity.</li></ul><div><strong>Strongly Preferred Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li>Geospatial &amp; Navigation Expertise: Hands-on experience building or integrating with mapping platforms such as Google Maps API, Mapbox, HERE Maps, OpenStreetMap (OSM), or ArcGIS.</li><li>Telematics &amp; Routing: Familiarity with geocoding, reverse geocoding, routing engines, polyline rendering, real-time location tracking, or fleet/telematics applications.</li><li>Spatial Data: Experience working with GIS data formats (GeoJSON, KML, Shapefiles) and spatial databases (PostGIS, Azure SQL spatial types).</li></ul><div><strong>Position Details &amp; Requirements</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Location</strong>: Full-time, on-site in our Georgetown, TX 78628 headquarters. Return to Office (RTO) is required and non-negotiable. This is an in-office role with no remote or hybrid option.</li><li><strong>Employment Type</strong>: W-2 employee only. We do not hire 1099 contractors or C2C arrangements for this position.</li><li><strong>Work Authorization</strong>: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder. No visa sponsorship is available.</li><li><strong>Compensation</strong>: $165,000 – $185,000 base salary (depending on experience and qualifications). Full benefits package included (medical, dental, vision, term life, 401k, and PTO).</li></ul>

Director of Software Development

<div>Lifecycle Content, Email &amp; Product Experiences<br><br>Practicing the Way is looking for a part-time Digital Formation Journey Designer to help shape the digital journeys that support people as they practice the Way of Jesus in everyday life.<br><br>This role will focus primarily on individuals and groups: people engaging our Courses, participating in groups, completing the Spiritual Health Reflection, building a Rule of Life, and continuing in apprenticeship over time. It will also contribute to church-facing journeys, helping pastors and church leaders onboard, adopt, and grow in their use of Practicing the Way resources.<br><br>We are looking for a digitally mindful designer who can think at the level of the whole journey and also get into the details of designing beautiful, useful digital experiences. The right person is likely a hybrid of a growth-minded email marketer, UX journey strategist, and UI designer: someone who understands how email prompts, in-app moments, content, reminders, and product flows can work together to help people take the next faithful step.<br><br>Email is currently one of our primary delivery channels, but the work is bigger than email. The right person will design the journey first, then discern how that journey should show up across email, the platform, web, app, notifications, or other touchpoints.<br><br><strong>Our Vision for this Role</strong><br>The Digital Formation Journey Designer will help individuals, groups, and churches move from initial engagement to ongoing practice.<br><br>This role sits at the intersection of:</div><ul><li>Lifecycle email</li><li>Content strategy</li><li>UX/UI and product experience</li><li>User research and data</li><li>Spiritual formation</li></ul><div><br></div><div>We are looking for someone who can take an initial vision or product goal and turn it into a clear user journey. This includes thinking through what the user is experiencing, what they need next, what content should be delivered, what touchpoint is best, and how each step helps them take the next faithful step.</div><div><br></div><div>A strong candidate will likely have experience designing and improving key user flows, such as onboarding, activation, nurture, engagement, or re-engagement into a digital product, platform, course, app, or system. They understand how a thoughtful combination of email prompts, in-app steps, content, reminders, and product moments can help someone move forward.</div><div><br></div><div>They should also bring real user experience and visual design ability. This is not only a journey mapping or content strategy role. We are looking for someone who can help shape web, app, or interactive digital experiences with strong instincts for user flows, interface clarity, visual hierarchy, content hierarchy, interaction design, friction, pacing, and simplicity.</div><div><br></div><div>A strong candidate will also know how to create emails that people are actually grateful to receive. Not generic updates. Not cluttered reminders. Not clever copy for its own sake. Clear, thoughtful, timely emails that serve the person and deepen the journey.</div><div><br></div><div>This person should bring enough product and technology awareness to understand what is possible in tools like Customer.io, including segments, triggers, personalization, journey logic, testing, and measurement. They do not need to be a technical operator, but they should be able to design experiences that can actually be built.</div><div><br></div><div>The ideal candidate is spiritually grounded, user-centered, visually capable, and comfortable moving between big-picture journey design and detailed experience design. In many ways, this person may feel like a thoughtful blend of a growth marketer, UX strategist, and digital product designer, with a pastoral imagination for spiritual formation.</div><div><br><br></div><div><strong>Specifics: What This Role Does</strong></div><div><strong>Design Formation Journeys</strong></div><ul><li>Mapping journeys for individuals, group members, group leaders, and church-facing users</li><li>Designing onboarding, nurture, activation, continued engagement, and re-engagement flows</li><li>Thinking across email, product, web, app, and future touchpoints</li><li>Identifying what users need at key moments</li><li>Creating pathways that help people move from engagement to practice</li><li>Connecting journeys to available technology, including segments, triggers, personalization, product behavior, and lifecycle logic</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Bring UX/UI and Product Thinking</strong></div><ul><li>Thinking through user flows and interaction moments</li><li>Sketching lightweight product or journey concepts</li><li>Creating wireframes, content structures, or interface concepts when needed</li><li>Shaping information architecture and content hierarchy</li><li>Considering when something belongs in email versus inside the platform</li><li>Helping design onboarding flows, guided experiences, dashboards, prompts, and next-step moments</li><li>Partnering with product, design, content, and technical teammates</li><li>Helping make digital experiences feel cohesive, intuitive, and not fragmented</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Shape Email and Content Experiences</strong></div><ul><li>Designing email sequences and nurture journeys</li><li>Developing content strategy for each journey</li><li>Writing or sketching clear, useful email copy</li><li>Shaping subject lines, message structure, calls to action, and next steps</li><li>Supporting newsletter-style communication when needed</li><li>Ensuring email works as part of the broader user experience, not as a disconnected communication channel</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>Use Research, Data, and Tools Wisely</strong></div><ul><li>Using data to improve journeys, emails, and product experiences over time</li><li>Noticing where users are confused, disengaging, or needing clearer next steps</li><li>Understanding what is possible in Customer.io and other lifecycle tools</li><li>Thoughtfully integrating the best of AI into research, writing, journey mapping, design iteration, content development, and workflow efficiency</li><li>Talking with real users and gathering feedback</li><li>Reviewing survey responses, analytics, and user behavior</li></ul><div><br><br></div><div><strong>About the Ideal Candidate</strong></div><div><strong>About you:</strong></div><ul><li>You are a committed apprentice of Jesus, actively arranging your life around being with Him, becoming like Him, and doing what He would do if He were you.</li><li>You bring a unique perspective, background, and set of experiences that can help broaden the voices shaping our work and strengthen how we serve the Church.</li><li>You have experience designing and improving key user flows such as onboarding, activation, nurture, engagement, or re-engagement.</li><li>You understand how email, in-app moments, product flows, content, reminders, and data can work together to help people take the next step.</li><li>You bring real UX/UI and visual design ability for web, app, platform, or other interactive digital experiences.</li><li>You can move between big-picture journey mapping and detailed experience design.</li><li>You are comfortable shaping user flows, wireframes, content hierarchy, interface decisions, and digital interactions.</li><li>You can write clearly and warmly. You may not be a professional copywriter, but you know how to create emails and digital content that are human, useful, and worth reading.</li><li>You are curious about real users and willing to learn from interviews, feedback, surveys, and data.</li><li>You have enough technology awareness to understand how email platforms, product behavior, segmentation, triggers, and personalization can work together.</li><li>You are curious and discerning about AI, with a thoughtful approach to integrating the best tools into your workflows without compromising the human judgment, pastoral care, theological wisdom, craft, design thinking, and Spirit-led discernment this work requires.</li><li>You resonate deeply with the mission, theology, voice, and ethos of Practicing the Way.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><strong>About your previous experience:</strong></div><ul><li>Experience designing and improving user flows for onboarding, activation, nurture, engagement, or re-engagement.</li><li>Experience designing UX/UI for web, app, platform, learning, nonprofit, ministry, or digital product experiences.</li><li>Experience creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, content hierarchy, interface concepts, or high-fidelity digital designs.</li><li>Experience shaping lifecycle journeys, email programs, product experiences, or multi-touch digital engagement paths.</li><li>Experience with lifecycle or email platforms such as Customer.io, Braze, Iterable, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, or similar tools.</li><li>Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, engineers, writers, and marketers.</li><li>Experience using research, user feedback, analytics, or behavioral data to improve digital experiences over time.</li><li>Thoughtful perspective on theology, technology, AI, and spiritual formation.</li></ul><div><br><br></div><div><strong>Details</strong></div><ul><li>Employment Type: Contract, Part-Time</li><li>Time Commitment: 15-20 hours per week</li><li>Location: Remote with flexible working hours. Willing to travel for key meetings, conferences, etc.</li><li>Compensation: $55/hr</li></ul><div><br><br></div><div><strong>Note:</strong> At Practicing the Way, we’re always trying to balance generosity and fairness as we think about compensation. As a nonprofit organization stewarding givers’ sacrificial gifts, we may not offer the highest salaries, so we encourage you to consider that as you apply.</div><div><br></div><div>As part of the hiring process, we may conduct a background check. Our discernment process invites you to submit references from previous employers and pastors who can testify to your service to your local church.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>About Our Hiring Process</strong></div><div>Note that, as we discern, our hiring process includes several interviews with key team members. Applicants should be prepared to provide references and complete assessments from us. Successful candidates must sign our statement of faith and pass our background and reference check discernment process before joining our team.</div>

Digital Formation Journey Designer

<h3>Description</h3><div>The Principal Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Architect leads the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI and software engineering solutions across the enterprise.&nbsp; This role blends deep expertise in artificial intelligence with architectural leadership in software systems, driving innovation, scalability, and excellence in engineering practices.<br><br></div><div><strong>&nbsp;PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Architects and leads the development of AI-driven platforms and scalable software systems aligned with strategic business goals.</li><li>Collaborates cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams to define use cases and deliver impactful solutions.</li><li>Evaluates and selects AI and software technologies, frameworks, and tools for optimal performance, scalability, and maintainability.</li><li>Establishes and promotes best practices in AI model development, MLOps, software engineering, DevOps, and system architecture.</li><li>Mentors engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous improvement.</li><li>Drives technical strategy and long-term planning, aligning engineering efforts with enterprise objectives.</li><li>Ensures compliance with data privacy, security, and ethical standards in all AI and software initiatives.</li><li>Champions engineering excellence through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and agile methodologies.</li><li>Other duties as needed or assigned.</li></ul><div><br><strong>SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>Hands-on experience driving innovation through emerging technologies and methodologies.</li><li>Excellent communication skills and leadership skills with a track record of mentoring and influencing teams.</li><li>Proven experience designing and deploying AI/ML and software solutions at scale in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, GCP.</li><li>Expertise in machine learning, deep learning NLP, computer vision, and generative AI.</li><li>Ability to demonstrate strategic thinking and the ability to align technical vision with business objectives.</li><li>Ability to build trust and influence across all levels of the organization, driving consensus and momentum for complex initiatives.</li><li>Advanced knowledge of programming languages within the respective divisions.</li><li>Advanced knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws.</li><li>Advanced analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.</li><li>Advanced level of written and oral communication skills.</li><li>Advanced level of interpersonal and consultative skills.</li><li>Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.</li><li>Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.</li></ul><div><br><strong>MINIMUM LEVEL OF PREPARATION AND TRAINING NORMALLY REQUIRED:<br></strong><br></div><ul><li>A bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science, information systems, or computer engineering or equivalent experience.</li><li>7+ years of experience in software architecture and engineering, with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML systems.</li><li>5+ years of hands-on experience with application development tools, including Visual Studio .NET.</li><li>5+ years of hands-on experience with relational database technology, preferably MS SQL Server.</li></ul><div><br></div>

Principal AI Software Architect

<div><strong>Overview</strong></div><div>HarperCollins Publishers is seeking a <strong>Vice President, Data.&nbsp; </strong>In this role, you will lead the function responsible for data infrastructure, engineering, governance, and analytics across North America. You will own the enterprise data strategy, modernizing our architecture on Microsoft Fabric and driving a multi-year transformation roadmap. The ideal candidate must be a seasoned data leader with the vision to define our future state and the drive to deliver it. You must thrive in a complex, dynamic environment, possess exceptional stakeholder management skills, and have a proven track record of leading high-performing technical teams through significant organizational change.<br><br></div><div><strong>Responsibilities</strong></div><ul><li>Lead a data function responsible for data infrastructure, engineering, governance, and analytics for HarperCollins across North America.</li><li>Build a cohesive team of leaders across data disciplines and design the organization for accelerated delivery and future scalability.</li><li>Own the enterprise data strategy, focusing on modernizing and converging data architecture on Microsoft Fabric.</li><li>Engage and consult with senior leadership in IT and across the business to ensure data strategy deliverables align with business needs.</li><li>Oversee the execution of data transformation, migrating existing solutions and reporting platforms to the Fabric platform to simplify the data estate.</li><li>Optimize data quality and the delivery of analytics solutions through governed data products, DataOps, engineering standards, and observability.</li><li>Manage and extend a portfolio of consulting and vendor partners to access specialized skills and knowledge.</li><li>Foster effective partnerships between the data function and data science, solutions, engineering, and operations teams globally.</li><li>Prepare the data function for AI integration by organizing and presenting data semantically to enable effective agent integration with the enterprise platform.</li><li>Partner with the SVP for Data, Engineering, and Architecture on long-term strategy and roadmap development.</li></ul><div><strong>Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li>15+ years of experience in Data and Analytics roles.</li><li>5+ years of experience leading data teams specifically managing high-volume, high-complexity ERP data.</li><li>Proven ability to devise strategic goals within a complex business environment and motivate teams to achieve them.</li><li>Capability to envision how data creates value for the business in the future and communicate this to audiences across the company.</li><li>Exceptional ability to engage, influence, and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels to align business priorities with technical execution.</li><li>Fluency in modern data and analytics platforms, including Lakehouse architectures, infrastructure, data modeling, pipelines, and BI tools.</li><li>Extensive experience with Microsoft’s cloud data platform components and their evolution into Fabric.</li><li>Strong background in delivering complex data engineering solutions with rigorous technical standards.</li><li>Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-level data transformations and organizational change.</li><li>Strong understanding of the analytical potential of AI and its integration with enterprise data platforms.</li><li>Experience with JD Edwards (JDE) integrations is highly preferred.</li><li>DAMA-DMBOK certification or similar data management accreditation is an advantage.</li></ul><div><br>HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books.&nbsp; When you apply for a position, we want to know why you want to work here, and why you are interested in the job. <strong>That’s why cover letters are strongly preferred.<br></strong><br></div><div>The salary range for this position is $240,000-$260,000. We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process. &nbsp;<br><br></div><div>In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div>

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