Software Development Engineer 1

Software Development Engineer 1

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Software Development Engineer 1 Professional Job for an opportunity at Remote.

Position Title: Software Development Engineer 1

Location: Remote

Anticipated Start Date: ASAP

Please note this is the target date and it is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 4 Months contract

Job Type: Contract and Remote.

Pay Range: $35/hr. - $39/hr.

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Overview:

Typical Day in the Role

Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is research, and the team is currently designing a new operating system for specific use cases in Azure. The team partners with the production team to on the deployment process to work on this very niche specific OS, which can be compared to competitors like AWS Firecracker. The entire project is open source.
Key projects: This role will contribute to using AI tools (such as GitHub Copilot, automated code review, and CI/CD intelligence) to enhance developer productivity, improve code quality, and scale our open-source community. This role will work at the intersection of systems programming and modern AI tooling to make contributing to our project easier and more accessible and will work with teams on the system research team as well as the product team and potential other internal teams as necessary.
Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of both independent software engineering tasks, as well as discussion and collaboration with other researchers and engineers.

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition

What makes this role interesting?

This role provides the opportunity to contribute to a project aiming to re-design the future of operating systems in the cloud and can impact hundreds of millions of users; it will explore the state-of-the-art software engineering tools and system design techniques; this role will also allow close collaboration with other passionate researchers and engineers.

Candidate Requirements

Years of Experience Required: 1-2 overall years of experience in the field.
Degrees or certifications required: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a relevant field (or equivalent practical experience) is required for this role.
Disqualifiers: Candidates with previous experience in web development or UI development will not be a great fit, as this experience is very high level while this role and the system development is a much lower level software programming. Since system development is it's own thing the teams also does not want to see candidates with front end of back end experience either, the role requires system development experience.
Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain previous experience with Rust programming language, strong communication skills, some knowledge of open source technologies, and previous experience with GitHub contributing to geo-distributed software. The majority of the software development is in GitHub, submitting PRs, asking for reviews, and experience with GitHub is highly preferable. The interview team would love to see the candidate's GitHub profile to review any recent activity and their contributions to previous projects.
Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on a combination of traditional quantitative software engineering metrics and qualitative metrics like how well they work together with other people in the project.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience

1. Minimum 1 years' experience with Rust development & Python programming

2. Minimum 1 year experience with GitHub

3. Minimum 2 years experience with General software development (testing, CI/CD)

Summary

We are building a lightweight home-grown OS for cloud native applications, and we are seeking a Software Engineer to join our team and lead the integration of AI-powered automation across our ecosystem. This role focuses on leveraging AI tools (such as GitHub Copilot, automated code review, and CI/CD intelligence) to enhance developer productivity, improve code quality, and scale our open-source community. This role will work at the intersection of systems programming and modern AI tooling to make contributing to our project easier and more accessible.

Job Responsibilities

**AI Automation Integration:** Design and implement AI-assisted workflows across multiple repositories, including automated code review, documentation generation, and intelligent testing.
**Developer Experience:** Create and maintain GitHub Copilot instructions, coding standards enforcement, and automated onboarding tools to lower the barrier for new contributors.
**CI/CD Enhancement:** Improve continuous integration pipelines with AI-driven test selection, failure analysis, and performance regression detection.
**Ecosystem Growth:** Develop automation that helps maintain consistency across our growing ecosystem of libraries, daemons, and tooling.
**Documentation Automation:** Implement systems that keep documentation synchronized with code changes using AI-assisted generation and validation.
**Community Tooling:** Build bots and automation to triage issues, suggest reviewers, and assist maintainers with pull request management.

Required Skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Proficiency in **Rust**, **C/C++**, and **Python**
Experience with **GitHub Actions**, CI/CD pipelines, and automation scripting (Bash/Python).
Familiarity with AI/ML tools for code assistance (GitHub Copilot, LLMs, code analysis tools).
Understanding of the full software development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
Ability to work independently in a distributed open-source environment.
Basic knowledge of operating systems concepts and low-level programming.

Preferred Skills

Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects.
Knowledge of systems programming.
Familiarity with static analysis tools, linters, and code quality frameworks.
Experience building developer tooling or improving developer workflows.

Education/Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a relevant field (or equivalent practical experience).
0-2 years of professional experience.
Open-source contributions are a plus.

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward' s 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 249841 when responding to this ad.

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