Senior Software Development Engineer

About the role

• Senior Software Development Engineer
• Location: Austin, TX
• Travel: Less than 5%
• Manages Others: No

Overview

At BusPatrol, we’re transforming student transportation safety through cutting-edge technology and real-time automated enforcement. We're seeking a Full Stack Developer to be at the forefront of our engineering evolution-from a legacy monolith to a modern, microservices-based Automated Safety Platform.

As a Full Stack SWE on the Ticketing team, you won’t just write code-you’ll be a key driver in re-architecting our platform for scale, performance, and future innovation. You'll collaborate across geographies with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver resilient, secure, and customer-focused experiences.

This is more than a development role-it’s an opportunity to lead modernization efforts, influence technical direction, and bring meaningful safety improvements to millions of children and families.

Key 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).

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ 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.
• 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 to enable decoupled, scalable communication between microservices
• Experience designing and consuming gRPC APIs in production environments a plus
• 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.