Senior Software Engineer (Python)
Kunai · Houston, TX
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Jul 19, 2026
Houston, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits on a team breaking apart legacy monolithic infrastructure — covering areas like money transfer, fraud detection, and settlement — into cloud-native services on AWS. Day-to-day work involves designing domain-driven microservices, building Kafka-based event pipelines, and handling data flows through S3, queuing, and Redis-based caching, primarily in Python. It suits engineers with hands-on experience at high transaction volumes who want to build new systems rather than maintain existing ones.
Senior level · National
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How this req sits in the market our data
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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).
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Why we read it this way (8)
Location is not stated anywhere in the posting — CBSA and state are left blank. Remote eligibility is also unstated; remote=false is a conservative default.
No overall years-of-experience figure is given; seniority is inferred from the scope: greenfield re-architecture of high-transaction-volume, mission-critical financial systems clearly targets a Senior engineer.
Kafka is listed with the qualifier 'or equivalent streaming/messaging platforms' — common substitutes are captured in alternatives; the streaming-pipeline capability itself is a hard gate.
Redis is listed with 'e.g.' framing, indicating it is the exemplar of an in-memory caching/matching requirement rather than the only acceptable tool — alternatives reflect that.
AI-assisted development (Claude) is framed as an openness/interest rather than a hard gate ('interest in and openness to'), so it is marked preferred.
Financial services / payments domain experience is explicitly called 'a plus' under the Why This Role section — preferred accordingly.
No compensation range is disclosed in the posting.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): microservices / domain-driven decomposition, financial services / payments domain.
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