Senior Software Engineer
Episode Six US
$163,550–$190,000from the description
Jul 5, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and maintaining high-throughput Java-based payment processing systems. Day-to-day work spans coding, code review, performance tuning, and database optimization, alongside technical leadership responsibilities such as mentoring engineers, guiding sprint execution, and communicating architectural decisions to stakeholders. Suits a seasoned Java engineer with a fintech or enterprise background who is comfortable leading cross-functional teams.
Senior level · 7+ years · Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 270 people in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 100–430
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 $137,069 (middle half $106,287–$172,440). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (7)
The posting states the role is based at 201 West 5th St, Austin TX and 'working remotely within Texas' — this is a Texas-remote arrangement, not fully remote; remote is set to false as candidates must be within Texas.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or closely related field — no 'or equivalent experience' language is present, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
The 7-year Java developer experience is the highest role-level figure stated and is used as the overall years minimum; the other year figures are per-technology and captured on individual skills.
Concurrent programming (Actor Model, Java CompletableFuture, thread pool Executors) is listed as a single requirement with examples; captured as one skill.
Relational database experience names MySQL, Oracle, DB2, and MS SQL as interchangeable options; MySQL is used as the primary with the others as alternatives. NoSQL experience (Cassandra or MongoDB) is captured separately.
Design patterns and algorithm design for high-throughput systems appear in the qualifications block but name no specific technology or tool, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Cross-functional team leadership/mentoring (3 years) and compliance experience (2 years) are role-level responsibilities with no named technology; omitted from skills.
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