Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location-Type: Hybrid (3 days/week onsite, Tuesday–Thursday) – Boulder, CO 80301

Start Date Is: 2 weeks from offer

Duration: 6-month contract-to-hire

Compensation Range: $60.38/hr – $77/hr

Job Description:

The Software Engineer will serve as a senior technical contributor leading backend and API development efforts for a large-scale data and metadata management platform supporting mission-critical forecasting and research systems.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Lead end-to-end backend product and API development initiatives

Manage and enhance metadata systems supporting large-scale data workflows

Develop and maintain web backend services and data APIs

Write and optimize SQL queries and database applications

Deploy and support applications in cloud environments (primarily AWS)

Contribute to Unix systems programming and HPC deployments

Participate in 2-week Agile sprints and CI/CD processes

Allocate ~50% of time to infrastructure and production support

Collaborate with internal teams and external agency partners

Solve technical problems in live coding/whiteboard scenarios (C or Python)

Requirements:

Must-Haves:

8–12 years of software engineering experience

Technical lead experience with APIs or full product lifecycle ownership

Strong backend development experience (C and/or Python)

Web backend and data API development experience

Database application experience and strong SQL skills

Unix systems programming experience

Cloud experience (AWS preferred)

Data governance experience working with complex datasets

Bachelor's degree (advanced degree preferred)

Strong communication and problem-solving skills

Nice-to-Haves:

High-Performance Computing (HPC) experience

CI/CD pipeline experience

Data pipeline/platform experience

Academic or research background

Hybrid remote