Senior Software Engineer

Catapult Federal Services is a global IT and business consulting firm with a collaborative culture. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Texas Business Unit, where the role involves understanding requirements, shaping design strategies, and mentoring engineers while being hands-on in coding.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with team leads and product owners to clarify requirements and groom stories
• Contributing to system design and implementation strategy
• Implementing features and troubleshooting issues hands-on
• Defining and promoting engineering best practices across the team
• Building and maintaining real-time data pipelines and scalable distributed systems
• Developing and managing CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure on Azure
• Collaborating with engineers of varying levels and diverse skill sets

Requirements:

• Python and at least one major web framework
• RESTful API development with FastAPI; GraphQL API development with Strawberry
• Streaming platforms such as Kafka or Azure Event Hubs for real-time pipelines
• Database design and management — PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB
• Big data processing with Apache Spark and Delta Lake
• Databricks for data engineering and ML workflows
• LLM API integration (OpenAI, Llama, or comparable GenAI models)
• Microsoft Azure — cloud architecture, scalability, and solution design
• Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration
• CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• System design experience for applications serving ~5,000 daily active users
• High-concurrency handling using multiprocessing, multithreading, or the actor model
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and attention to detail
• LangChain for interacting with GenAI model APIs
• Full-stack development experience
• Front-end familiarity with JavaScript, React, or Next.js
• Domain knowledge in telecommunications