Overview

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Systems Integration & Platform Engineering

Location: Dallas, TX | Hybrid

Contract Length: 12 Months (ASAP Start)

The Role

Arcus Search are partnering with a leading financial institute, as they kick off a large-scale transformation project across their IT estate. Within the next 24 months, they aim to have moved onto towards a service-oriented, automated architecture focused on scalability and exceptional developer experience. This will be an initial 12-month contract, with high potential for further extensions or opportunities for permanent work.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer, you\'ll be a key player in their platform engineering team, helping to design and build solutions that deliver end-to-end integration across a petabyte-scale data platform. You’ll bring a strong systems mindset and be excited by the challenges that come with high-throughput, distributed systems. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the design and development of scalable systems integration solutions
• Creating robust, value-driven solutions that enhance data platform capabilities
• Continuously improving data and compute throughput at scale
• Advocating for and applying software engineering best practices
• Collaborating across teams to drive autonomy and enable rapid delivery

Tech Stack & Skills

Our client work primarily with C# and Python, with some systems in Go and Java. They also use modern web technologies and are heavy users of distributed and big data tools. We’re looking for:

• Strong programming experience with C#/Python/Java/Go
• Proficiency in TypeScript and experience with Terraform Enterprise (TFE) is highly desirable
• Experience designing clean, API-driven services and platform components
• A systems integration mindset with a focus on scalability and reliability
• Passion for software engineering best practices, continuous improvement, and automation