Senior Software Engineer

Charlotte, NC, United States (On-site)

Contract (1 month 22 days)

Published 2 hours ago

api development

aws cloud

performance optimization

CI/CD

State management

asynchronous programming

microservices architecture

Observability & Monitoring

Core Skills & Qualifications:

• Backend Development: 5+ years of experience building scalable backend services using Python and FastAPI
• Tool-Based Architectures: Experience with MCP or tool-based orchestration patterns
• API & Microservices Architecture: Strong expertise in API orchestration, microservices design, and enterprise REST/JSON integrations
• Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous programming, and concurrency models
• Workflow Orchestration: Hands-on experience designing workflow engines, state machines, and multi-step orchestration for complex business processes
• Resiliency & Reliability: Proven experience implementing retry mechanisms, failure handling, idempotency, and designing systems for partial success
• Caching & Performance Optimization: Experience using Redis (or similar caching technologies) for performance optimization, request deduplication, rate limiting, and state management
• Testing & Quality Engineering: Strong background in unit and integration testing (Pytest preferred), including validation of complex workflows, failure scenarios, and recovery logic
• Observability & Debugging: Expertise in logging, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems
• Engineering Excellence: Experience with Git-based workflows, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins), and code quality tools (linting, formatting, static analysis)
• Security Fundamentals: Working knowledge of secure API design, including OAuth2/JWT, authentication, and authorization best practices
• LLM Integration: Basic understanding of LLM tool-calling patterns for future AI integrations
• Cloud & AWS Experience

Good to Have / Nice to Have:

• Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with insurance or financial services workflows

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $41.61/hour - $65.01/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.