<p>Robert Half is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a team responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing critical internal business systems. This role combines people leadership with hands-on technical involvement and collaboration across multiple departments. The team supports a highly customized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment that plays a central role in operational processes and decision-making.</p><p><br></p><p>The ideal candidate brings a balance of leadership experience, technical depth, and the ability to work closely with stakeholders to deliver scalable and reliable software solutions.</p><p><br></p><p>Key Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Lead and grow a team of software engineers responsible for internal business applications and systems</li><li>Participate in recruiting activities including candidate evaluation, interviews, and hiring decisions</li><li>Conduct performance reviews, provide coaching, and support the professional growth of team members</li><li>Take long-term ownership of team performance, delivery quality, and technical direction</li><li>Develop deep knowledge of the systems and business processes supported by the team</li><li>Serve as the primary point of coordination between the development team and internal stakeholders across multiple departments</li><li>Maintain a hands-on role by contributing to software development (approximately 20–30% of time)</li><li>Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and architecture planning to ensure maintainable and scalable solutions</li><li>Facilitate agile development practices such as sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives</li><li>Provide technical guidance and analysis for large cross-functional initiatives involving enterprise business systems</li></ul>
<p>Robert Half is working with a company in the Madison, WI area who's seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to support development of complex embedded systems with a strong focus on embedded Linux, low-level hardware/software integration, and real-time system development.</p><p><br></p><p>This role is heavily centered around embedded Linux environments, device driver development, and integrating hardware components into the operating system layer. The engineer will work closely with cross-functional engineering teams supporting complex electromechanical systems and timing-critical hardware platforms.</p><p><br></p><p>The ideal candidate is comfortable operating close to the hardware, debugging across system layers, and independently solving difficult low-level technical problems.</p><p><br></p><p>What You’ll Be Doing</p><ul><li>Design, develop, and maintain embedded Linux software for complex real-time systems</li><li>Write, modify, and debug Linux device drivers supporting custom hardware</li><li>Integrate hardware components using low-level communication protocols including PCIe, SPI, I²C, UART, and USB</li><li>Work closely with electrical, FPGA, mechanical, and systems engineering teams to support hardware integration into the OS layer</li><li>Support timing-sensitive control systems and hardware subsystems</li><li>Troubleshoot issues spanning hardware, firmware, drivers, and operating systems</li><li>Develop unit and integration testing for embedded systems validation</li><li>Document software architecture, implementations, and validation efforts</li></ul><p><br></p>
<p><strong>Senior Engineer</strong></p><p>We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team focused on building scalable, resilient, and business-critical software solutions. This individual will serve as a technical expert across multiple phases of software and systems engineering, helping drive architecture, design, development, deployment, and operational excellence.</p><p>The ideal candidate is someone who can quickly ramp up on active initiatives, work independently, and contribute immediately within a modern cloud-native engineering environment. Strong AWS data pipeline experience is required, and AI experience is considered a major plus.</p><p>Responsibilities</p><p>Solution Design & Architecture</p><ul><li>Design and develop scalable, resilient, and stable software solutions</li><li>Provide technical recommendations aligned to long-term engineering strategy</li><li>Apply expertise in event-driven architecture, pub/sub models, and microservices</li><li>Contribute to architectural discussions and engineering best practices</li></ul><p>Software Engineering & API Development</p><ul><li>Independently manage all phases of the API development lifecycle from design through deployment</li><li>Build and maintain business-critical applications and services</li><li>Ensure code quality, scalability, performance, and reliability</li><li>Proactively validate code changes across environments beyond standard QA processes</li></ul><p>Collaboration & Agile Participation</p><ul><li>Participate in sprint planning, refinement sessions, retrospectives, demos, and daily standups</li><li>Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and stakeholders to solve technical challenges</li><li>Help decompose work and provide accurate updates on delivery progress and blockers</li></ul><p>DevOps & Operational Excellence</p><ul><li>Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes</li><li>Support stable, scalable, and resilient software delivery practices</li><li>Participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems during sprint cycles</li><li>Use monitoring and operational data to measure and improve system performance</li></ul><p>Mentorship & Engineering Standards</p><ul><li>Mentor and support junior engineers</li><li>Share technical knowledge, new ideas, and best practices across the team</li><li>Help define engineering standards, templates, and reusable frameworks</li></ul><p>l</p>