Apply now: Sr. Software Engineer, location is Onsite (Houston, TX). The start date is September 2, 2025 for this 7-month contract position. \n Job Title: Sr. Software Engineer Location-Type: Onsite (Houston, TX - Mon-Thurs onsite) Start Date Is: September 2, 2025 Duration: 7 months contract Compensation Range: $58.00-$70.00/hr \n Job Description: Provide expert-level technical leadership in software design, development, testing, and maintenance, with a focus on AWS cloud solutions, enterprise applications, and complex integrations to support critical business initiatives. \n Day-to-Day Responsibilities: \n \n Lead design, coding, and testing of new software or significant enhancements to existing systems

\n Conduct complex business process analysis and participate in design sessions with architects

\n Implement software engineering best practices and enterprise-level IT solutions

\n Lead technical discussions, resolve design conflicts, and present solutions to senior leadership

\n Collaborate with analysts, users, and technical staff to gather requirements and troubleshoot issues

\n Ensure software solutions meet performance, scalability, and security requirements

\n Maintain a product mindset with a focus on reusability, modular design, and data-driven development

\n \n Requirements: \n \n Must-Haves: \n \n Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field (or equivalent experience)

\n 12 years of software engineering experience

\n Expertise in AWS services: Lambda, IAM, S3, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, CLI, Kinesis, Elasticache (Redis), CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EC2, ECS, Fargate

\n Strong database experience: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB

\n Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, ECS

\n Integration experience: REST, APIs, synchronous/asynchronous, batch processing

\n Networking knowledge: VPC, subnets, security groups, CIDR

\n Security: WAF, encryption, access control, SSO, MFA

\n Storage/data warehouse: EFS, Snowflake, SQL

\n Strong Python programming skills

\n Familiarity with observability tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EventBridge, Datadog

\n Understanding of software methodologies and Agile practices

\n \n Nice-to-Haves: \n \n Shell scripting (Unix/Batch) \n Angular, Node.js experience \n Knowledge of microservices and event-driven design patterns \n Machine learning foundations (performance metrics, training, inference) \n MLOps and enterprise DevOps experience \n AWS certifications or other relevant emerging technology certifications \n \n