Buspatrol
Senior Software Development Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid · FullTime
USD 130,000–150,000/year
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- EmployerBuspatrol
- LocationAustin, Texas, United States
- Work styleHybrid
- Employment typeFullTime
- Employer posted
- Salary (as stated by the employer)USD 130,000 – 150,000 per year
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.
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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.
Why Join Us
Be part of a mission-driven company making roads safer for students and communities.
Help architect the future of our Automated Safety Platform.
Work on modern, cloud-native, and serverless technologies.
Collaborate with a global, inclusive, and high-performing team.
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- Work styleHybrid
- Employment typeFullTime
- SenioritySenior
- Salary (as stated by the employer)USD 130,000–150,000 per year
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