Infrastructure Software Engineer

Mechanical Orchard builds Imogen
, a modernization platform for rewriting the most critical and complex business applications—the systems that quietly run the world as we know it—so they can continue operating reliably while adapting to new challenges and opportunities. These are business-critical systems where reliability, safety, and correctness are paramount.

Delivery at Mechanical Orchard is where Imogen meets reality
. Delivery teams work directly with customers and system integration partners in real production environments to modernize mainframe systems using Imogen. This work delivers customer outcomes while also shaping how the platform evolves, ensuring Imogen is grounded in real-world constraints, risks, and opportunities.

Our Delivery team operates in complex, ambiguous environments with high stakes. We balance long-term modernization outcomes with incremental, production-ready delivery; validate functional equivalence, performance, and operational readiness; and work closely with partners to enable durable handoff and long-term ownership. We value strong fundamentals, pragmatic use of AI, and close collaboration across roles and organizations. Our values are simple:
Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind.

• Work as part of a small, cross functional XP team installing Imogen into client cloud environments partnering with client infosec, infrastructure, and IT teams.
• Pair program with other engineers and collaborate closely with other roles such as product managers and designers
• Work with client infrastructure, security, and network teams to deploy Imogen to their cloud infrastructure
• Lead and collaborate on technical discovery efforts for existing customer systems cloud infrastructure and adapt Imogen to their public cloud estate
• Apply and evolve XP engineering practices such as pair programming, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Adapt XP practices for working with AI—whether co-writing code, managing agents and their context, or knowing when to push back and trust your own instincts
• Help onboard client developers and/or new Mechanical Orchard team members with practices and techniques
• Continuously learn about relevant emerging technologies or practices and foster the growth of the organization through mentorship, tech talks, and other means

• As the ideal candidate, you have experience as a software engineer in a professional, team based environment, with exposure or demonstrated passion for XP practices such as pair programming and test driven development
• Hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software/Computer Engineering, or a related field or possess equivalent foundational experience such as completion of a coding bootcamp or similar technical training
• Strategic thinking, technical skills, attention to detail
• Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly
• Strong communication and collaboration skills as well as empathy are essential for working closely with the development team, customers, and others at Mechanical Orchard
• Comfortable with pair programming, Mechanical Orchard’s default mode of working together
• Experience or demonstrated passion for cloud infrastructure and related tooling

• You are comfortable working with external customers and troubleshooting issues with customer network, infosec, and support teams
• You are comfortable building and deploying to cloud infrastructure, and have experience in at least one infrastructure as code tool and public cloud provider
• Experience developing a platform as a service product
• Experience with some of the following technologies:
  Infrastructure as code automation tooling like Terraform, Deploying and operating applications on Kubernetes with Helm, Docker and/or Nix for building images and packages, and Building infrastructure scripts and CLI tools using bash, Go or a similar language.

• This role is client-facing and partner-facing; communication, facilitation and collaboration are core parts of the work
• Much of the work…