Staff Engineer/Senior Developer CONTRACT (Elixir, Ruby, Flutter)

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, maybe Benefits, Pay, Schedule if present. The posting includes: "This is a contract engagement with an hourly rate of $90-$110 per hour, based on experience." That's Pay. Also "This position has flexible weekly hours based on project needs and your availability, which is currently estimated at 25-40 per week. You must be available during SmartLogic's core working hours of 10:00 AM–3:30 PM ET on weekdays..." That's Schedule. Benefits: "As an independent contractor, you are responsible for your own taxes, benefits, and insurance; SmartLogic does not provide employee benefits for this engagement." That's not a benefit provided; it's stating no benefits. Should we include Benefits section? The rule: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It states that SmartLogic does not provide employee benefits. That's still stating benefits (or lack thereof). Might be considered stating them (i.e., they say no benefits). Probably we should include a Benefits section with that statement. However, the rule says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Could combine Pay and Schedule? But they are separate headings allowed. We'll include About the role (intro paragraph), Responsibilities (list), Requirements (list), Pay (p), Schedule (p), Benefits (p). Ensure we don't repeat job title heading. Use

for each section heading. We need to preserve all substantive information, no boilerplate. Remove EEO, etc. Also remove "About SmartLogic" maybe? That's not a required section heading; but we could include as part of About the role? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have About the role section that includes the introductory paragraph and maybe About SmartLogic? The "About SmartLogic" is separate but could be considered part of About the role? Probably better to keep About the role as the description of the role, and we could omit About SmartLogic as it's not required heading; but we must preserve ALL substantive information. The About SmartLogic paragraph is substantive about the company. Should we include it? The instruction says use headings for section headings (list). It doesn't forbid other headings not in list, but we should follow the pattern. Could we include an

About SmartLogic

? Not in the list but maybe acceptable. However they said "use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The e.g. suggests those are examples, not exclusive. But they also say "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe we incorporate About SmartLogic into About the role section. Thus About the role will contain the initial paragraph about Staff Engineers, plus maybe the SmartLogic description. Let's extract substantive content: Intro: "Staff Engineers at SmartLogic provide technical leadership for multiple ongoing projects and help develop solutions for prospects and clients. Work is organized by project, with each staffed by a Project Manager, a Staff Engineer, Designers, and Developers. The Staff Engineer owns the planning and implementation of technical delivery and team efficiency, and works with the Project Manager to maintain the Product Requirements Document, Backlog, technical direction, and sprint planning. They commit directly to the codebase, pair program, lead code review, and use AI tools to speed up delivery without compromising quality. While not a direct supervisor, the Staff Engineer acts as technical expert and mentor to the team, and also assists in the pre-sales process through solutioning, scope refinement, and estimates. This is a contract engagement with an hourly rate of $90-$110 per hour, based on experience. This position has flexible weekly hours based on project needs and your availability, which is currently estimated at 25-40 per week. You must be available during SmartLogic's core working hours of 10:00 AM–3:30 PM ET on weekdays, as some client and internal meetings occur during this window and your attendance may be required. This position is fully remote within the United States and its Territories. As an independent contractor, you are responsible for your own taxes, benefits, and insurance; SmartLogic does not provide employee benefits for this engagement." Then Responsibilities bullet list: - Support teams of 2 to 6 developers, designers, and QA analysts of varying skill levels and experience, providing guidance to ensure delivery on project commitments and meet client expectations. - Co-lead delivery projects in partnership with the Project Manager to deliver projects on budget and on time. - Mentor team members on assigned projects to follow SmartLogic processes for product development, including effective and responsible use of AI-assisted tools, working with the Project Manager to plan weekly goals to keep projects on track. - Provide hands-on leadership for CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, AI innovations, environment configuration, and production operations. - Work closely with the COO, Operations Manager, Project Managers, and team to communicate project progress, challenges, and resourcing needs. - Partner with sales and consulting leadership on technical discovery, solution architecture, and rough-order-of-magnitude estimates that are timely and defensible, bringing consistency to how the team approaches quoting and estimating. - Design, review, and support scalable, secure cloud and server architectures (primarily AWS and Azure). - Serve as the technical expert on assigned projects, including QA and PR review, with attention to the quality and security of AI-assisted code. Requirements bullet list: - 7+ years of experience with modern software development practices and technologies, creating custom software to meet the expectations of a variety of clients. - 7+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails, Elixir, and Phoenix, and 2+ years with Flutter and/or React Native. - 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). - Practical, hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in a real production codebase (not limited to prototyping or personal projects) for code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, or documentation, with the discipline to validate AI-generated code against normal testing and review standards. - Demonstrated ability to evaluate AI tools and practices and establish repeatable workflows for a team, with the judgment to recognize when AI assistance helps versus when it introduces security, privacy, or quality risk. - 3+ years in a consultancy, not solely product-based companies. - Experience participating in technical discovery, solution design, and estimation for client-facing and sales prospect projects. - Be organized, thoughtful, and intentional about process, as demonstrated by an ability to set and manage expectations among teammates and managers alike. Pay: hourly rate $90-$110 per hour, based on experience. Schedule: flexible weekly hours 25-40 per week, must be available during core working hours 10:00 AM–3:30 PM ET weekdays. Benefits: As an independent contractor, you are responsible for your own taxes, benefits, and insurance; SmartLogic does not provide employee benefits for this engagement. We should not include boilerplate like EEO, No phone calls, etc. Also remove "About SmartLogic" paragraph? We could incorporate into About the role. Let's craft About the role paragraph combining the initial description and SmartLogic description. SmartLogic description: "SmartLogic is an experienced and growing custom software development consultancy successfully serving clients since 2005. We are deeply committed to our team, our clients, and the communities where we work. Some of our recent company initiatives include leading on youth workforce development, software developer apprenticeships, our Elixir Wizards podcast, and the Baltimore Women in Tech micro-grants program. 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." We'll include that in About the role. Now produce HTML:

About the role

Staff Engineers at SmartLogic provide technical leadership for multiple ongoing projects and help develop solutions for prospects and clients. Work is organized by project, with each staffed by a Project Manager, a Staff Engineer, Designers, and Developers. The Staff Engineer owns the planning and implementation of technical delivery and team efficiency, and works with the Project Manager to maintain the Product Requirements Document, Backlog, technical direction, and sprint planning. They commit directly to the codebase, pair program, lead code review, and use AI tools to speed up delivery without compromising quality. While not a direct supervisor, the Staff Engineer acts as technical expert and mentor to the team, and also assists in the pre-sales process through solutioning, scope refinement, and estimates. This is a contract engagement with an hourly rate of $90-$110 per hour, based on experience. This position has flexible weekly hours based on project needs and your availability, which is currently estimated at 25-40 per week. You must be available during SmartLogic's core working hours of 10:00 AM–3:30 PM ET on weekdays, as some client and internal meetings occur during this window and your attendance may be required. This position is fully remote within the United States and its Territories. As an independent contractor, you are responsible for your own taxes, benefits, and insurance; SmartLogic does not provide employee benefits for this engagement. SmartLogic is an experienced and growing custom software development consultancy successfully serving clients since 2005. We are deeply committed to our team, our clients, and the communities where we work. Some of our recent company initiatives include leading on youth workforce development, software developer apprenticeships, our Elixir Wizards podcast, and the Baltimore Women in Tech micro-grants program. 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.

But note we already included Pay, Schedule, Benefits in that paragraph; we might want to separate them into own sections. The rule: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. We have Pay, Schedule, Benefits specifics. So we should separate them. However we already included them in About the role paragraph; we could still keep them there but also create separate sections? That would duplicate. Better to move Pay, Schedule, Benefits to their own sections and remove from About the role paragraph to avoid duplication. But we must preserve all info; we can keep them in sections and not repeat in About the role. Thus About the role paragraph should exclude Pay, Schedule, Benefits details. Let's rewrite About the role without those. About the role paragraph: combine initial description and SmartLogic description, but omit the Pay, Schedule, Benefits sentences. Let's extract: "Staff Engineers at SmartLogic provide technical leadership for multiple ongoing projects and help develop solutions for prospects and clients. Work is organized by project, with each staffed by a Project Manager, a Staff Engineer, Designers, and Developers. The Staff Engineer owns the planning and implementation of technical delivery and team efficiency, and works with the Project Manager to maintain the Product Requirements Document, Backlog, technical direction, and sprint planning. They commit directly to the codebase, pair program, lead code review, and use AI tools to speed up delivery without compromising quality. While not a direct supervisor, the Staff Engineer acts as technical expert and mentor to the team, and also assists in the pre-sales process through solutioning, scope refinement, and estimates. This position is fully remote within the United States and its Territories." Then SmartLogic description. Now Pay section:

Pay

This is a contract engagement with an hourly rate of $90-$110 per hour, based on experience.

Schedule section:

Schedule

This position has flexible weekly hours based on project needs and your availability, which is currently estimated at 25-40 per week. You must be available during SmartLogic's core working hours of 10:00 AM–3:30 PM ET on weekdays, as some client and