Senior Staff Engineer & AI Innovation Lead (Elixir, Ruby, Flutter)
SmartLogic · Washington, DC · 1 mo ago
OTHR$150k–$187k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, maybe Pay, Schedule if present. The posting includes a description, responsibilities, requirements, benefits, and also mentions compensation range (Pay). Also schedule? Not mentioned. So we include Pay section with compensation range. Also maybe "About SmartLogic" could be considered "About the role"? The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need sections: About the role (maybe combine description and first paragraphs?), Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay. Possibly also "Qualifications" but we have Requirements. We'll not duplicate.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need sections: About the role (maybe combine description and first paragraphs?), Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay. Possibly also "Qualifications" but we have Requirements. We'll not duplicate.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Even if you don’t think you meet 100%..."? That's application encouragement, maybe considered boilerplate? It's not exactly legal but it's encouraging to apply; could be considered application instruction? Might be okay to keep? The instruction: remove application instructions. That line is encouraging to apply, maybe considered application instruction. Safer to remove.
Also remove duplicated lines: there are two "Responsibilities:" headings with similar content; we need to combine.
We need to preserve all substantive info: description of role, first 100 days, responsibilities (both AI Innovation Lead and Staff Engineer), requirements, benefits, compensation range, remote location, reporting to COO, etc.
We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's structure:
About the role
... description ...
Maybe include first 100 days as part of About the role? Could be separate section but not in list. Could embed in About the role as prose.
Better to have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay.
We need to ensure we don't miss any substantive info: remote fully remote within US and its Territories, report to COO, SmartLogic description, initiatives, etc. Those could go under About the role.
Let's extract description paragraphs:
"What Success Looks Like One year in, this person will have absorbed our last Staff Engineer's departure without a drop in client delivery, replaced ad hoc AI tool usage with a documented AI skill enhancement strategy that's measurably adopted across every project team, and become the person Staff Engineers and developers point to when asked who owns SmartLogic's technical standards and direction."
"Description SmartLogic is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer & AI Innovation Lead. This role serves as a senior technical leader who owns the health and direction of SmartLogic’s engineering organization while remaining hands-on as a Staff Engineer (SE) on client project work. This is a new, blended role: part of your time is spent setting technical standards, driving AI-enabled development practices, and coaching our engineering team; the rest is spent in the project leadership seat with clients and code. SmartLogic is a custom software development agency, with client work organized by project. Each project is staffed with a Project Manager, an SE, Designers, and Developers. As the project’s SE, you'll own planning and implementation of technical delivery, maintain product documentation, maintain the project backlog, and technical direction, and co-lead in partnership with your Project Manager. As AI Innovation Lead & Technical Leader, you'll operate at the organization-wide level. This role will: set the technical standards other SEs are expected to follow, own how we adopt AI tooling across SmartLogic, and provide technical guidance to staff. Note: this is not a direct-manager role, the COO remains responsible for supervision and for resourcing and staffing decisions and you will not have direct reports for HR/supervision purposes, but you will be the credible technical voice. This position is fully remote within the United States and its Territories. In this role, you will report to the COO."
Then "About SmartLogic" paragraph.
Then "First 100 Days" with subpoints.
Then "Responsibilities:" with two headings but we combine.
Then "Requirements".
Then "Benefits".
We need to convert lists to - . For responsibilities, there are bullet-like sentences separated by periods? Actually responsibilities are listed as sentences after colon. We'll need to parse them into list items. The text after "Responsibilities: AI Innovation Specialist & Technical Leader" includes a paragraph then a list of items separated by line breaks? In the source it's a paragraph with sentences separated by periods but we can treat each sentence as a list item? Better to keep as prose? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to identify lists. The responsibilities section appears as a paragraph with multiple sentences each starting with a verb. We can convert each sentence to a
- . Similarly for Staff Engineer & IC responsibilities.
We'll need to split by periods that end a sentence, but careful not to split abbreviations. We'll approximate.
Let's extract responsibilities content:
After "Responsibilities: AI Innovation Specialist & Technical Leader" we have:
"Own the technical health and direction of SmartLogic's engineering organization: set standards, identify gaps, and drive the changes needed to keep our delivery model competitive.
Lead company-wide AI adoption: develop and maintain a documented AI skill enhancement strategy, evaluate new tools and practices, and coach the team to use AI to improve speed and quality without sacrificing sound engineering, backed by a way to measure adoption, not just your own usage.
Assist with technical 1:1s and the technical direction of the company, in partnership with the COO, distinct from day-to-day project mentorship.
Own sales architecture: bring consistency to how Staff Engineers approach quoting, estimating, and solution architecture across prospects and clients.
Provide hands-on leadership for CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, environment configuration, observability, and production operations across projects.
Design, review, and support scalable, secure cloud and server architectures (primarily AWS and Azure).
Work closely with the COO, Operations Manager, and Project Managers to communicate project progress, challenges, and resourcing needs, without owning resourcing decisions yourself."
Then after that there is "Responsibilities: Staff Engineer & IC" with:
"Co-lead delivery projects in partnership with the Project Manager to deliver on budget and on time.
Support teams of 2 to 6 developers, designers, and QA analysts of varying skill levels, providing guidance to ensure delivery on project commitments.
Work closely with Project Managers to maintain the Product Requirements Document, Backlog, and technical direction on your assigned projects, and to plan sprints aligned to scope.
Partner with sales and consulting leadership on technical discovery, solution architecture, and rough-order-of-magnitude estimates that are timely and defensible.
Serve as the technical expert on assigned projects, including QA and PR review."
We'll combine both sets into one responsibilities list? Could separate subheadings but not required. We'll just make one
with all items.
Now Requirements: list of bullet-like sentences separated by line breaks. We'll extract each line.
Requirements text:
"8+ years of experience with modern software development practices and technologies, building custom software for a variety of clients, including demonstrated technical leadership through architecture, mentoring, and influencing engineering practices without relying on direct management authority.
7+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and Phoenix; experience with Flutter and/or React Native is strongly preferred.
5+ years of experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, deployment, and tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, cloud monitoring).
3+ years in a consultancy, not solely product-based companies.
Advanced, hands-on experience using modern AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding workflows inside a real production codebase, not limited to prototyping or personal projects, to accelerate code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, codebase exploration, documentation, and prototyping.
Demonstrated ability to use AI responsibly in production software development: validating AI-generated code, maintaining testing and review standards, managing context effectively, and recognizing security, privacy, and quality risks, including knowing when AI assistance should be avoided.
Experience evaluating AI tools and practices, establishing repeatable team workflows, standards, or reusable internal tooling/playbooks that other engineers actually use, not just your own workflow, and coaching other engineers in effective AI usage.
Experience measuring where AI adoption improves delivery speed or engineering quality, and adjusting practice based on that data rather than anecdote.
Experience participating in technical discovery, solution design, and estimation for client-facing and sales prospect projects, with the judgment to bring consistency to how a team estimates and scopes.
A track record of coaching or developing other engineers, and comfort setting technical standards that other senior engineers are expected to follow.
Be organized, thoughtful, and intentional about the process, demonstrated by an ability to set and manage expectations across teammates, project managers, and leadership alike."
We'll make each line a - .
Benefits: paragraph includes list items: "We offer health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance, unlimited PTO and STO, paid parental leave, and a 3% matching SIMPLE IRA program." Also later: "We provide ample opportunity for learning through dedicated professional development days, participation in conferences, and company-supplied access to books and other resources. We organize events, meetups, and invest in our local and online communities." Also earlier: "We are continuously working to cultivate a supportive and inclusive workplace that recognizes and respects diversity of background, experience, and thought." Also "SmartLogic values both continuous growth and giving back to the community, so there may be opportunities to engage at the professional level through conferences and our podcast." Also "We believe that diversity benefits both our company culture and the software we write." Also "SmartLogic is an equal opportunity employer..." but that's EEO boilerplate to remove. Also "No phone calls or unsolicited emails, please. We do not work with recruiters or placement agencies." That's application instruction/boilerplate to remove. Also "SmartLogic is committed to professional development and community involvement." That's okay but maybe part of benefits? Could be considered benefits but it's more about culture. We'll keep as prose under Benefits maybe.
We need to avoid EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate. So remove that sentence.
Also remove "No phone calls or unsolicited emails, please. We do not work with recruiters or placement agencies."
Also remove "SmartLogic is an equal opportunity employer..." etc.
Now Pay: compensation range: "$150k to $187k per year, with an expectation of 50 to 60% billable utilization." We'll make a
under Pay section.
Schedule: not present, so omit.
Now About the role: we need to include description, first 100 days, maybe also About SmartLogic. We'll combine into prose.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Already not.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
...
We need to include all substantive info from description, first 100 days, About SmartLogic, remote, reporting to COO.
Let's craft a concise but comprehensive paragraph(s). We can use multiple tags.
We'll include:
- Success looks like statement.
- Description of role.
- First 100 days breakdown (maybe as list? Could be list but it's a timeline; we could keep as prose or list. Since it's a list of time-bound goals, we could make
- for each period. That would be a list of duties? It's more like plan. But instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of expectations, could be considered duties. Safer to make list.
We
for prose. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Even if you don’t think you meet 100%..."? That's application encouragement, maybe considered boilerplate? It's not exactly legal but it's encouraging to apply; could be considered application instruction? Might be okay to keep? The instruction: remove application instructions. That line is encouraging to apply, maybe considered application instruction. Safer to remove. Also remove duplicated lines: there are two "Responsibilities:" headings with similar content; we need to combine. We need to preserve all substantive info: description of role, first 100 days, responsibilities (both AI Innovation Lead and Staff Engineer), requirements, benefits, compensation range, remote location, reporting to COO, etc. We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's structure:
About the role
... description ...
Maybe include first 100 days as part of About the role? Could be separate section but not in list. Could embed in About the role as prose. Better to have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Pay. We need to ensure we don't miss any substantive info: remote fully remote within US and its Territories, report to COO, SmartLogic description, initiatives, etc. Those could go under About the role. Let's extract description paragraphs: "What Success Looks Like One year in, this person will have absorbed our last Staff Engineer's departure without a drop in client delivery, replaced ad hoc AI tool usage with a documented AI skill enhancement strategy that's measurably adopted across every project team, and become the person Staff Engineers and developers point to when asked who owns SmartLogic's technical standards and direction." "Description SmartLogic is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer & AI Innovation Lead. This role serves as a senior technical leader who owns the health and direction of SmartLogic’s engineering organization while remaining hands-on as a Staff Engineer (SE) on client project work. This is a new, blended role: part of your time is spent setting technical standards, driving AI-enabled development practices, and coaching our engineering team; the rest is spent in the project leadership seat with clients and code. SmartLogic is a custom software development agency, with client work organized by project. Each project is staffed with a Project Manager, an SE, Designers, and Developers. As the project’s SE, you'll own planning and implementation of technical delivery, maintain product documentation, maintain the project backlog, and technical direction, and co-lead in partnership with your Project Manager. As AI Innovation Lead & Technical Leader, you'll operate at the organization-wide level. This role will: set the technical standards other SEs are expected to follow, own how we adopt AI tooling across SmartLogic, and provide technical guidance to staff. Note: this is not a direct-manager role, the COO remains responsible for supervision and for resourcing and staffing decisions and you will not have direct reports for HR/supervision purposes, but you will be the credible technical voice. This position is fully remote within the United States and its Territories. In this role, you will report to the COO." Then "About SmartLogic" paragraph. Then "First 100 Days" with subpoints. Then "Responsibilities:" with two headings but we combine. Then "Requirements". Then "Benefits". We need to convert lists to- . For responsibilities, there are bullet-like sentences separated by periods? Actually responsibilities are listed as sentences after colon. We'll need to parse them into list items. The text after "Responsibilities: AI Innovation Specialist & Technical Leader" includes a paragraph then a list of items separated by line breaks? In the source it's a paragraph with sentences separated by periods but we can treat each sentence as a list item? Better to keep as prose? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to identify lists. The responsibilities section appears as a paragraph with multiple sentences each starting with a verb. We can convert each sentence to a
- . Similarly for Staff Engineer & IC responsibilities.
We'll need to split by periods that end a sentence, but careful not to split abbreviations. We'll approximate.
Let's extract responsibilities content:
After "Responsibilities: AI Innovation Specialist & Technical Leader" we have:
"Own the technical health and direction of SmartLogic's engineering organization: set standards, identify gaps, and drive the changes needed to keep our delivery model competitive.
Lead company-wide AI adoption: develop and maintain a documented AI skill enhancement strategy, evaluate new tools and practices, and coach the team to use AI to improve speed and quality without sacrificing sound engineering, backed by a way to measure adoption, not just your own usage.
Assist with technical 1:1s and the technical direction of the company, in partnership with the COO, distinct from day-to-day project mentorship.
Own sales architecture: bring consistency to how Staff Engineers approach quoting, estimating, and solution architecture across prospects and clients.
Provide hands-on leadership for CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, environment configuration, observability, and production operations across projects.
Design, review, and support scalable, secure cloud and server architectures (primarily AWS and Azure).
Work closely with the COO, Operations Manager, and Project Managers to communicate project progress, challenges, and resourcing needs, without owning resourcing decisions yourself."
Then after that there is "Responsibilities: Staff Engineer & IC" with:
"Co-lead delivery projects in partnership with the Project Manager to deliver on budget and on time.
Support teams of 2 to 6 developers, designers, and QA analysts of varying skill levels, providing guidance to ensure delivery on project commitments.
Work closely with Project Managers to maintain the Product Requirements Document, Backlog, and technical direction on your assigned projects, and to plan sprints aligned to scope.
Partner with sales and consulting leadership on technical discovery, solution architecture, and rough-order-of-magnitude estimates that are timely and defensible.
Serve as the technical expert on assigned projects, including QA and PR review."
We'll combine both sets into one responsibilities list? Could separate subheadings but not required. We'll just make one
- with all items.
Now Requirements: list of bullet-like sentences separated by line breaks. We'll extract each line.
Requirements text:
"8+ years of experience with modern software development practices and technologies, building custom software for a variety of clients, including demonstrated technical leadership through architecture, mentoring, and influencing engineering practices without relying on direct management authority.
7+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and Phoenix; experience with Flutter and/or React Native is strongly preferred.
5+ years of experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, deployment, and tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, cloud monitoring).
3+ years in a consultancy, not solely product-based companies.
Advanced, hands-on experience using modern AI-assisted development tools and agentic coding workflows inside a real production codebase, not limited to prototyping or personal projects, to accelerate code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, codebase exploration, documentation, and prototyping.
Demonstrated ability to use AI responsibly in production software development: validating AI-generated code, maintaining testing and review standards, managing context effectively, and recognizing security, privacy, and quality risks, including knowing when AI assistance should be avoided.
Experience evaluating AI tools and practices, establishing repeatable team workflows, standards, or reusable internal tooling/playbooks that other engineers actually use, not just your own workflow, and coaching other engineers in effective AI usage.
Experience measuring where AI adoption improves delivery speed or engineering quality, and adjusting practice based on that data rather than anecdote.
Experience participating in technical discovery, solution design, and estimation for client-facing and sales prospect projects, with the judgment to bring consistency to how a team estimates and scopes.
A track record of coaching or developing other engineers, and comfort setting technical standards that other senior engineers are expected to follow.
Be organized, thoughtful, and intentional about the process, demonstrated by an ability to set and manage expectations across teammates, project managers, and leadership alike."
We'll make each line a
- .
Benefits: paragraph includes list items: "We offer health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance, unlimited PTO and STO, paid parental leave, and a 3% matching SIMPLE IRA program." Also later: "We provide ample opportunity for learning through dedicated professional development days, participation in conferences, and company-supplied access to books and other resources. We organize events, meetups, and invest in our local and online communities." Also earlier: "We are continuously working to cultivate a supportive and inclusive workplace that recognizes and respects diversity of background, experience, and thought." Also "SmartLogic values both continuous growth and giving back to the community, so there may be opportunities to engage at the professional level through conferences and our podcast." Also "We believe that diversity benefits both our company culture and the software we write." Also "SmartLogic is an equal opportunity employer..." but that's EEO boilerplate to remove. Also "No phone calls or unsolicited emails, please. We do not work with recruiters or placement agencies." That's application instruction/boilerplate to remove. Also "SmartLogic is committed to professional development and community involvement." That's okay but maybe part of benefits? Could be considered benefits but it's more about culture. We'll keep as prose under Benefits maybe.
We need to avoid EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate. So remove that sentence.
Also remove "No phone calls or unsolicited emails, please. We do not work with recruiters or placement agencies."
Also remove "SmartLogic is an equal opportunity employer..." etc.
Now Pay: compensation range: "$150k to $187k per year, with an expectation of 50 to 60% billable utilization." We'll make a
under Pay section. Schedule: not present, so omit. Now About the role: we need to include description, first 100 days, maybe also About SmartLogic. We'll combine into prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. Already not. Now produce HTML:
About the role
...
We need to include all substantive info from description, first 100 days, About SmartLogic, remote, reporting to COO. Let's craft a concise but comprehensive paragraph(s). We can use multipletags. We'll include: - Success looks like statement. - Description of role. - First 100 days breakdown (maybe as list? Could be list but it's a timeline; we could keep as prose or list. Since it's a list of time-bound goals, we could make
- for each period. That would be a list of duties? It's more like plan. But instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of expectations, could be considered duties. Safer to make list. We
- for each period. That would be a list of duties? It's more like plan. But instruction: use
- .
Benefits: paragraph includes list items: "We offer health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance, unlimited PTO and STO, paid parental leave, and a 3% matching SIMPLE IRA program." Also later: "We provide ample opportunity for learning through dedicated professional development days, participation in conferences, and company-supplied access to books and other resources. We organize events, meetups, and invest in our local and online communities." Also earlier: "We are continuously working to cultivate a supportive and inclusive workplace that recognizes and respects diversity of background, experience, and thought." Also "SmartLogic values both continuous growth and giving back to the community, so there may be opportunities to engage at the professional level through conferences and our podcast." Also "We believe that diversity benefits both our company culture and the software we write." Also "SmartLogic is an equal opportunity employer..." but that's EEO boilerplate to remove. Also "No phone calls or unsolicited emails, please. We do not work with recruiters or placement agencies." That's application instruction/boilerplate to remove. Also "SmartLogic is committed to professional development and community involvement." That's okay but maybe part of benefits? Could be considered benefits but it's more about culture. We'll keep as prose under Benefits maybe.
We need to avoid EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate. So remove that sentence.
Also remove "No phone calls or unsolicited emails, please. We do not work with recruiters or placement agencies."
Also remove "SmartLogic is an equal opportunity employer..." etc.
Now Pay: compensation range: "$150k to $187k per year, with an expectation of 50 to 60% billable utilization." We'll make a