Senior Software Engineer
Summary
Contract senior Python engineer (hybrid, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX) building scalable backend services and REST APIs for a high-volume enterprise search and intelligent-matching platform. Core stack: FastAPI/async Python, Elasticsearch relevance tuning, Kafka event pipelines, and Azure, with CI/CD, observability, and Databricks integration.
? We're Hiring: Senior Software Engineer - Search & Distributed Systems (Contract | Hybrid - Dallas-Fort Worth, TX)
We're partnering with a large enterprise organization building a high-volume enterprise search and intelligent-matching platform that processes millions of transactions daily. If you're a Python engineer who loves solving hard search-relevance and distributed-systems problems at scale, this one's worth a look.
What You'll Do
- Design and build scalable backend services and REST APIs in Python (FastAPI, async)
- Own Elasticsearch index design, query performance, and relevance tuning for high-volume search workloads
- Build event-driven data pipelines using Kafka for real-time, high-throughput processing
- Develop and secure cloud-native services on Microsoft Azure
- Integrate with Databricks and enterprise data platforms for large-scale data processing
- Drive CI/CD, observability, and production performance across a modern distributed architecture
What You Bring
- 7+ years of hands-on Python backend development -- this is foundational, not optional
- Strong production Elasticsearch experience (Query DSL, relevance tuning, mapping, index lifecycle management)
- Experience with Kafka or a comparable enterprise event-streaming platform
- Hands-on experience deploying and securing applications on Microsoft Azure
- Solid grounding in distributed systems, microservices, and CI/CD (Git, Docker, Azure DevOps)
Nice to Have
- Databricks, PySpark, and Delta Lake experience
- Semantic/vector search, LLM integration, or Azure OpenAI experience
- Kubernetes, Terraform/Pulumi, and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Healthcare or supply chain industry background
The Details
- ? Hybrid - Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (must be able to commute onsite)
- ? Contract opportunity, 3 openings
- ? $73-85/hr, depending on W2 or C2C
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Skills
- API
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Native
- Data Pipelines
- Databricks
- Delta Lake
- DevOps
- Distributed Systems
- Docker
- Elasticsearch
- Event Driven Architecture
- FastAPI
- Git
- Grafana
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- LLM
- Microservices
- Observability
- OpenAI
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Pulumi
- PySpark
- Python
- REST
- Terraform
- Vector Search