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Ethos - Managed Document Solution, Integration & Automation Specialists

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1992

💼 Consulting

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

Consulting • SaaS • Productivity

Ethos is a managed services provider specializing in document solutions, integration, and automation. With over 30 years of experience, Ethos empowers businesses by delivering tailored services that enhance productivity, streamline operations, and achieve sustainable growth. Their offerings include managed print and document services, IT hardware support, cloud communication solutions, and robotic process automation, among others, ensuring comprehensive support for diverse business needs.

📋 Description

• Own platform and product engineering for the Total Service Cloud ERP across TypeScript/Node, React, Express, Drizzle ORM on PostgreSQL, Vite, Vitest, and Playwright • Drive functional parity between the legacy desktop ERP and cloud platform across Payroll, AR, AP, GL, Job Cost, Inventory, Dispatch, Sales, Purchasing, Reporting, and Banking • Own correctness for general-ledger posting and reversals, payroll tax wage bases, US and Canadian tax handling, multi-tenant isolation, and permission enforcement • Author and enforce ERP-wide UX standards • Maintain continuity of legacy systems, including the Java/Spring service layer and VB6 desktop ERP • Own cloud architecture and operations across Azure and AWS for a multi-tenant customer fleet • Manage CI/CD, blue-green UAT, masked databases, deploy gates, and slot-swap workflows • Own cloud spend, forecasting, and optimization backlog • Lead production incident response, root-cause analysis, fleet-wide architectural decisions, and uptime accountability • Own the legacy-to-cloud migration program, including tenant matrices, Python/SQL Server to PostgreSQL ETL, schema canonicalization, and data-fidelity reconciliation • Manage customer production imports, go-lives, and escalation of migration data issues • Coordinate the decommissioning path for the legacy platform • Architect and operate the multi-agent development pipeline from ClickUp through Claude Code to GitHub PR • Own the results of AI-assisted output and support internal automation, QA triage, and developer tooling experiments • Represent the business unit on AI in the SDLC internally and across Constellation group companies • Lead the engineering team through standups, technical syncs, specifications, work allocation, reviews, and merge/release gatekeeping • Direct QA and contractor staffing and resourcing • Run customer-facing onboarding and go-live for named accounts • Report R&D and AI initiatives to Jonas/Constellation and participate in cross-business-unit technical forums • Evaluate vendors and drive business-unit IT, security, and tenancy decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Senior full-stack engineering depth in TypeScript/Node, React, Express, and an ORM against PostgreSQL, with demonstrated ownership of a production application at meaningful scale • Strong backend correctness discipline in financial or accounting domains such as GL, AR/AP, payroll, or tax • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS security, including authorization and tenant isolation • Substantial cloud engineering experience on Azure and/or AWS • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, secrets and identity management, and cloud cost optimization • Data migration and ETL experience at fleet scale, including relational-to-relational migration, schema canonicalization, and reconciliation • DevOps and release engineering experience, including CI/CD, blue-green or slot-based deployment, migration safety, and production incident response • Practical experience with LLM agents or AI-assisted development, with sound judgment about appropriate use • Technical leadership experience, including leading engineers, setting standards, gatekeeping releases, and representing engineering to executives and customers • Comfort working with legacy code and maintaining it while replacing it • Field-service, elevator, door, or HVAC ERP domain experience preferred • Experience inside the Jonas Software / Constellation operating model preferred • Mobile release engineering experience, including Android, Play Console, signing and keystore management, and crash observability preferred • Java or Java/Android maintenance experience preferred • Enterprise identity and tenancy administration, including Entra/SSO, Microsoft 365, and email security tooling preferred • .NET/C# familiarity for auxiliary services preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week • Regular worker status