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Kunai

Senior Software Engineer (Python)

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about 15 hours ago
Houston, TX, USASenior
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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and own standalone services extracted from legacy monolithic systems.
  • Build event-driven, serverless architectures using AWS Lambda and related services.
  • Use Kafka to design reliable, high-throughput messaging and event streaming pipelines.
  • Optimize data flows involving file ingestion, S3 staging, queuing, and cache-based matching.
  • Re-architect high-transaction-volume systems for cloud-native scalability.
  • Diagnose and resolve infrastructure capacity constraints.
  • Write production Python code for new services.
  • Incorporate AI-assisted development practices into daily workflows.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to define domain models and service contracts.
  • Participate in architecture decisions balancing throughput, reliability, and cost.

Requirements

  • Strong professional experience building and operating large-scale, high-transaction-volume services.
  • Proven experience with Python in production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, including Kafka.
  • Experience with AWS serverless services, particularly Lambda.
  • Experience with in-memory caching/matching systems like Redis.
  • Experience decomposing monolithic systems into domain-driven services.
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving, engineering-first culture.
  • Interest in AI-assisted development workflows.
  • Experience in financial services or high-stakes transactional systems is a plus.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation.
  • Professional development opportunities.
  • Flexible work arrangements.
  • A culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

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