Senior Software Development Engineer
BusPatrol · Austin, TX
$130,000–$150,000
Jul 6, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack engineering role on a ticketing team, focused on breaking apart a legacy monolithic application into microservices while building and maintaining backend services in Python (and optionally Ruby) alongside React or Angular frontends. Day-to-day work spans API design, event-driven architecture, AWS serverless infrastructure, and contributing to architectural decisions — suited to a seasoned generalist comfortable owning projects end-to-end in an agile, cloud-native environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 14,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,400–20,900
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting's title says 'Senior Software Development Engineer' but the body frames the opening as 'Full Stack Developer' — both point to the same Senior IC level; seniority is assessed as Senior.
Despite the heading 'Preferred Qualifications', Python is explicitly called out as 'must-have' in the body text, so it is treated as a hard gate. All other skills in that section are treated as required unless individually flagged as optional ('nice to have', 'a plus').
Ruby is explicitly labeled 'nice to have' within the qualifications text and is marked preferred accordingly.
gRPC is explicitly called 'a plus' and is marked preferred.
The 5+ years of software development experience is captured as the overall experience floor (the overall years minimum of 5); the 3+ years of backend web frameworks experience is captured on the Django/Flask/Rails skill entry.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
The caller has declared this a fully-remote, national role; the Austin, TX location in the posting header is not used for the metro.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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