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Senior Software Engineer

Fresh Consulting · United States · back to the listing

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48/100

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Title ↔ description

85/100

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Reads as

Backend Engineer

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What this role officially is

software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer

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What the listing never says

  • 22 bullet points. Long requirement lists deter qualified candidates, who read them as hard gates. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Position Overview

We're seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team in developing distributed, cutting-edge applied AI systems. This is a full-time position working directly with our engineering team to drive technical innovation and mentor mid-level and junior engineers.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the architecture and development of production-grade distributed microservice systems running on Linux

• Drive technical initiatives to advance our service mesh, contract-first APIs, and inter-service communication patterns

• Build scalable data processing pipelines and high-throughput service infrastructure

• Design and evolve protobuf contracts and gRPC service definitions across the platform

• Provide technical guidance to junior team members

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years1 of professional experience developing distributed backend systems on Linux

• Deep curiosity for all software and systems architecture topics

• Expert-level Python programming and software architecture skills

• Strong system design skills with a focus on service boundaries, API contracts, and fault tolerance

• Fluency operating in Linux environments — comfortable living in the shell, reading logs, and reasoning about process, network, and filesystem behavior

• Excellence in technical communication and documentation

Required Technical Skills

• Expertise in prompt engineering and AI-assisted development as a daily practice — Claude Code, Augment, Copilot, or equivalent is a force multiplier in your workflow, not a novelty

• Expertise in designing and operating microservice architectures at scale

• Deep experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers — schema evolution, streaming RPCs, interceptors, and contract-first development

• Proficiency with version control and CI/CD practices

• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker on Linux hosts), service discovery, and distributed computing

• Strong grasp of observability: distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics

Highly Competitive Candidates Will Also Bring

• Previous experience in manufacturing, industrial automation, or quality control systems

• Experience with monorepo build systems (Bazel, Buck, Pants) and polyglot protobuf code generation

• Familiarity with backwards/forwards compatibility patterns and API versioning at scale

• Experience with real-time processing and edge computing constraints on resource-constrained Linux devices

• Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Terraform) for Linux fleet operations

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Range $75/hr – $85/hr.

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Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 20 points (from 68 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.