Senior Software Development Engineer

The role

This person will lead engineering efforts to decompose monolithic applications into scalable microservices. They will design, develop, and maintain code in backend and frontend stacks to support an Automated Safety Platform.

What you will do

• Lead engineering efforts to decompose monolithic applications into scalable, modular microservices.
• Design, develop, and maintain clean, efficient, and well-tested code in both backend and frontend stacks.
• Build and evolve secure, high-performance APIs supporting real-time data pipelines and customer-facing applications.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build end-to-end solutions.
• Contribute to architectural decisions regarding performance, observability, security, maintainability and scalability/reusability.
• Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD, TDD, pair programming, and code reviews.
• Take ownership of projects from ideation through deployment.
• Be a proactive voice in platform strategy.
• Contribute to cloud-native infrastructure using AWS serverless technologies.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience
• Strong foundation in backend systems using Python
• 3+ years of experience with backend web frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask, Rails)
• Hands-on experience with AWS services: Lambda, S3, SQS, API Gateway, CloudWatch
• Comfortable working in an agile, test-driven development environment with modern DevOps tooling
• Practical knowledge of RESTful APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB), GraphQL
• Design and implement event-driven services using technologies like AWS EventBridge, SNS/SQS, etc
• Proficient in containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with testing and linting tools (pytest, rspec, jest, Flake8, RuboCop)
• Excellent communicator with a strong collaborative mindset and a passion for mentoring and peer reviews
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Ruby
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or VueJS
• Experience designing and consuming gRPC APIs in production environments a plus

About the company

BusPatrol is transforming student transportation safety through cutting-edge technology and real-time automated enforcement.