Senior Systems Software Engineer - The Toro Company

The Toro Company • Riverside, CA

15h • $129,000 - $175,000

About The Position

Toro’s Irrigation and Lighting business is located in Riverside, CA. The Toro Company’s irrigation business is comprised of two distinct brands, Toro® and Irritrol®. Both brands offer a full line of solid, dependable, irrigation products including controllers, sensors, valves, spray heads and rotors to help customers care for golf courses, sports fields, public green spaces, commercial and residential properties. Unique Lighting Systems is a leading brand of professional grade lighting fixtures, low voltage transformers, LED lamps and the patented HUB system for installation. Serving both residential and commercial markets, Unique Lighting Systems offers a full line of outdoor lighting products. The Engineer V provides senior technical leadership for a mission‑critical, customer‑facing platform within the Golf business. This role combines hands‑on engineering with architectural stewardship to improve a mature desktop client and its supporting services while guiding a pragmatic, phased modernization. As a Level V individual contributor, the engineer sets technical direction, mentors peers, and drives reliable delivery consistent with enterprise standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software/Computer/Electrical Engineering or related field (or comparable professional experience).
• 10+ years delivering complex, customer‑facing software with increasing scope and impact; recognized for sound technical judgment and system design.
• Proven success stabilizing and evolving mature client–server desktop applications at scale (refactoring, performance tuning, release discipline).
• Strong communication and mentoring skills with the ability to influence across teams.
• Advanced C#/.NET (6–8) experience building, refactoring, and optimizing Windows desktop applications.
• Substantial experience with WinForms , including working within heavily customized UI layers and third‑party component suites; strong grasp of UI threading, message loop fundamentals, async patterns, and performance profiling for desktop apps.
• Expertise with SQL Server/T‑SQL —schema design, query tuning, indexing strategies, connection management, and operational troubleshooting in production.
• Deep familiarity with networked desktop applications (session management, background processing, telemetry/logging, resiliency and retry patterns).
• Practical test strategy for desktop clients (unit, integration, and targeted UI automation), static analysis, and dependency isolation to enable safe change.
• Proficiency with modern Git‑based workflows, automated builds, artifact versioning, and repeatable packaging/installation for Windows desktop software.
• Demonstrated success planning and executing incremental UI evolution (e.g., introducing modern Windows UI frameworks or web-based techniques where appropriate) while preserving customer continuity.
• Experience with a major public cloud ( Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud ) for application services, data, observability, and/or CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on use of command-line developer assistants applied to real .NET projects (large-scale refactors, test scaffolding, documentation), with clear quality guardrails and measurable outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with WPF/XAML for Windows desktop UI.
• Web front‑end development experience using modern component‑based frameworks and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery for a complex platform, balancing near‑term stability with an incremental modernization roadmap.
• Improve reliability, performance, and maintainability through disciplined engineering practices (design reviews, testing strategy, CI/CD, observability, secure‑by‑design).
• Establish and scale CLI‑based, AI‑assisted engineering workflows (command‑line developer assistants) to accelerate refactoring, test creation, and documentation—using tools appropriate to the enterprise environment
• Provide technical mentorship and cross‑team influence; articulate clear design guidance and uphold high engineering standards.
• Collaborate with product, quality, and platform teams to scope work, manage risk, and communicate trade‑offs to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture guidelines and long‑term product objectives.

Benefits

• Dress for your day - We know you're more productive when you're comfortable, which is why TTC employees are encouraged to take advantage of our casual, corporate environment.
• Wellness - TTC offers a variety of mental health and financial health resources to all employees.
• Volunteerism - The Toro Company is proud to provide employees 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community.
• Competitive Salary – The pay range takes into account skills, experience, education, and location. It is not common to be hired at or near the top of the range; compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the annual pay range is between $ 129000 - $ 175000 .
• Cash compensation is one piece of our competitive total rewards package. You may be eligible to participate in an incentive program, which rewards employees based on individual and organizational performance. Eligibility and award amounts are determined by company policy and performance metrics.
• If you need to, you can access your pay early with the One@Work app, formerly the Even app.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level