Software Engineer - Data & AI

Department: Information Technology Location: Remote - NC Compensation: $121,479 - $140,916 / year Description Location: Remote; candidates must reside within two hours of Charlotte, NC. Schedule: Full-time; Exempt. Relocation and per diem are not provided. Why Join ORC? The Right Work. The Right People. The Right Culture. Right of Way is where infrastructure meets innovation—shaping roads, utilities, and communities for the future. At ORC, we offer more than a job—we offer purpose, stability, and growth. You’ll join a team that values collaboration, workplace flexibility, and long-term opportunity. The Role We’re looking for a hands-on Software Engineer to help design and build applications, data solutions, and AI-enabled capabilities that solve meaningful business problems. You’ll bring software development skills and experience or familiarity with Document AI, data warehousing, and modern data technologies. You’ll work directly with business stakeholders to understand their workflows and challenges, partner with the Software Development Manager to determine the right technical approach, then build, implement, and improve the solution. You’ll report to the Software Development Manager, who sets technical direction and architecture. This is primarily a hands-on engineering role: approximately 80% of your time will focus on development, with the remainder spent collaborating with stakeholders and contributing to solution design. What You’ll Do • Design, develop, test, and implement software applications and technical solutions that address business needs. • Help design, build, and implement Document AI capabilities, contributing to pilots and broader rollout. • Design and develop data solutions involving warehouses, pipelines, integrations, and data shared across enterprise systems. • Work with business stakeholders and end users to understand workflows, pain points, and requirements. • Build, support, and improve solutions from development through production, with growing ownership over time. • Develop and maintain data transformations, integrations, and pipelines using SQL, dbt, Snowflake, APIs, and related tools and concepts. • Build applications and supporting services that bring data, automation, and AI capabilities into practical business workflows. • Identify opportunities to apply Document AI and automation to business workflows. • Contribute to technical design decisions with scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, and cost in mind. • Use prototypes and pilots to validate solutions before broader rollout. • Maintain software quality through testing, documentation, code review, source control, deployment practices, monitoring, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. What You’ll Bring • 3–5 years of professional software development experience, with strong hands-on coding skills and experience delivering production software. • Experience designing, building, and implementing software solutions through production deployment and ongoing improvement. • Experience with Document AI, intelligent document processing, OCR, data warehousing, or closely related technologies. • Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational data. • Experience or familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, data pipelines, data transformation, and data integration. • Experience designing or integrating APIs and connecting applications with systems and data sources. • Experience contributing to a small or collaborative engineering team and delivering solutions from design through implementation. • Experience working directly with business stakeholders or end users to translate needs into effective technical solutions. • Ability to navigate ambiguity, ask thoughtful questions, evaluate approaches, and move work forward. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences. • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and electronic databases. • An iOS or Android smartphone capable of accessing ORC systems. • Authorization to work in the United States without employer sponsorship. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, or comparable application-development technologies. • Experience building AI/ML or LLM-enabled application features. • Experience in right-of-way, utilities, infrastructure, real estate, or professional services. What Success Looks Like • Develop a strong understanding of ORC’s business, systems, data, users, and operational workflows. • Contribute to designing and building ORC’s Document AI pilots and supporting their rollout. • Contribute to data warehousing, pipelines, and integration across systems. • Grow into owning technical solutions with increasing independence. • Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and turn their challenges into practical, maintainable software. • Deliver reliable software and data solutions that solve validated problems and are adopted by their users. • Build sound technical judgment about when to build, integrate, or automate. • Contribute to a small engineering team through ownership, clear communication, and hands-on delivery. What We Offer This posting covers a single level. The pay range is $121,479– $140,916. Every candidate is assessed and evaluated during the hiring process to determine their level based on factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. Your offer will reflect the level that best matches your experience. • Medical, dental, and vision coverage. • 401(k) with company match, plus disability coverage. • Paid time off, sick time, and paid holidays. • Tuition reimbursement and paid professional development. • ClassPass and Breethe memberships. • Recognition programs and room to grow. That’s the quick version — learn more about benefits at ORC. Ready to Apply? Make your mark on projects that matter. Apply now to join a supportive team that invests in your future. Employees must avoid any relationship or activity that might impair, or even appear to impair, their ability to make objective and fair decisions when performing their jobs. To avoid conflicts of interest, employees are prohibited from performing any services for clients or perceived clients during nonworking time that are normally performed by ORC, including the sale of real estate. Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, it requires a combination of office-based and field work. Employees will spend prolonged periods sitting and performing computer-based tasks, including typing, data entry, and virtual communication, while also regularly traveling to landowner properties, project sites, and government facilities, some of which may be in rural or remote locations with limited accessibility. Driving is an essential function of the role and may involve extended periods and long-distance travel. Fieldwork may require walking over uneven terrain, standing, or navigating outdoor environments, with routine exposure to varying weather conditions such as heat, cold, rain, and snow. The role also involves frequent interaction with a diverse range of individuals, including landowners, government officials, and members of the public, requiring the ability to communicate effectively and maintain professionalism across differing personalities and potentially challenging situations. Flexibility in scheduling is necessary to accommodate travel, site access, and stakeholder availability, along with adherence to safety protocols in both office and field settings.