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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** SS&C Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $170,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Apache ActiveMQ, Ajax (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, HTML5, Microsoft Azure, Browser Compatibility, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Software as a Service, Configuration Management, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Ember.Js, Groovy, Java Message Service (JMS), JSON, JQuery, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, NoSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Cloud Services, Ruby, Service-Oriented Architecture, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Web Applications, Web Standards, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Scripting, ReactJS, Caching, AngularJS, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Restful APIs, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/87981915/1

## About the Role

We are looking for a senior software engineer who has significant design and implementation experience with web applications development. You embrace the principles of microservice architecture, and you are good at data modeling, service architecture and implementation, tuning for performance and scale, and where applicable technology selection. You will design and implement the web applications for a scalable cloud service and collaborate with other design, architecture and other development teams., * 5+ years of experience in designing & developing highly scalable and performant Enterprise grade application(s)

 * Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases and caching layers - MongoDB, Redis and Cassandra

 * Experience in integrating with the RESTful APIs with JSON and XML payloads

 * Strong knowledge of JavaScript frameworks, such as React, AngularJS, Backbone, and Ember, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Ajax, Web Standards, User Experience (UX)

 * Experience in developing and troubleshooting cross-platform and cross-browser issues

 * Experience with JMS frameworks, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ

 * An aptitude for designing data models for different flavors (SQL and NoSQL based systems)

 * Experience with Azure, AWS & Other SaaS cloud-based platforms

 * Experience in providing "soft" leadership to technical teams. Ability to provide technical mentoring to more junior development talent.

It would be great if you also:

 * Meaningful DevOps experience having deployed via CI/CD, automated configuration management, Docker containers and Kubernetes, Helm

 * Fluency in one or more scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Groovy

## Description

* Work closely with software architects, challenging their decisions and collaborating with them to optimize technical designs.

 * Inspect iterative results and propose improvements to technique, tools, and process.

 * Take co-ownership of your Definition of Done with your Development Team member peers and be uncompromising on quantifiable code quality.

 * Mentor your more junior counterparts-a big part of your success is making others around you better.

 * Get to know your customer and empathize with their pain points so that when you solve their problems you share in the satisfaction.


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