Buspatrol Senior Software Development Engineer at Buspatrol leading the transition from monolithic to microservices architecture. Develops backend and frontend code and builds secure, high-performance APIs.
Responsibilities
Lead engineering efforts to decompose our monolithic applications into scalable, modular microservices.
Design, develop, and maintain clean, efficient, and well-tested code in both backend (Python, Ruby) and frontend (React/Angular) stacks.
Build and evolve secure, high-performance APIs supporting real-time data pipelines and customer-facing applications.
Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, QA, DevOps, and Data Engineering to build end-to-end solutions that meet business goals.
Contribute to architectural decisions that improve 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, with a bias for execution and iterative improvement.
Be a proactive voice in platform strategy, bringing innovative ideas and continuous learning to the team.
Contribute to our cloud-native infrastructure using AWS serverless technologies (e.g., Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3).
Qualification
Comfortable working in an agilePractical knowledge of RESTful APIsHands-on experience with AWS services
Required
5+ years of software development experience
Strong foundation in backend systems using Python
Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React or Angular
3+ years of experience with backend web frameworks like Django, Flask, or Rails
Hands-on experience with AWS services including Lambda, S3, SQS, API Gateway, CloudWatch
Comfortable working in an agile, test-driven development environment
Practical knowledge of RESTful APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, GraphQL
Preferred
5+ years of software development experience; strong foundation in backend systems using Python (must-have) and Ruby (nice to have).
Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or VueJS.
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.
Design and implement event-driven services using technologies like AWS EventBridge, SNS/SQS, etc to enable decoupled, scalable communication between microservices
Experience designing and consuming gRPC APIs in production environments a plus