The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Fortive is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Jersey City, NJ.

• Role description

  Come build the backend that powers our deadline-driven products, writing Webpack that holds up under serious load. The Jersey City role is less about the $145,000 - $211,000 and more about what 5 years of Flask lets you own at Fortive.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Hand off Self-Motivation runbooks so the next on-call at Fortive sleeps better
  • Own the senior Ansible workstream that unblocks the rest of Fortive's Jersey City, NJ roadmap
  • Translate Innovation metrics into the one chart Fortive leadership checks each morning
  • Write clean, well-tested code that scales with Fortive's growing user base
  • Question the purpose-led Terraform pattern everyone copied and propose something cleaner
  • Chase down the Ansible integration that silently drops Fortive events at midnight

  What You'll Bring

  • Reliable, accountable, and committed to following through
  • Comfort with temporary arrangements and the rhythms of a no-ego workplace
  • 6+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts
  • A knack for Innovation that colleagues quietly come to rely on
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal oversight
  • Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards

  Fortive was founded in Jersey City, NJ on the idea that technology should be powerful yet refreshingly entrepreneurial. Ownership at Fortive means you fix the broken thing even when nobody assigned it to you.

  We set the base at $145,000 - $211,000 and build outward with growth coaching, a mentor, benefits, and hours you genuinely control.

  Hiring is happening now, not last quarter, for this Senior Software Engineer seat.

  Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

• Required skills

  • MongoDB
  • Flask
  • Ansible
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Swift
  • Node.js
  • Webpack
  • Ruby
  • Terraform
  • Vue.js
  • Innovation
  • Multitasking
  • Self-Motivation
  • Decision Making

• Benefits & perks

  • Service anniversary awards
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Remote work flexibility
  • Concierge Services
  • Recreation Area
  • Meditation Room
  • Dry Cleaning
  • Flexible working hours
  • Employer pension contributions
  • LinkedIn Learning access

• Apply before 2026-08-13

  Submit your application for this Temporary technology position.