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# Software Development Engineer (Mid-Level / SDE)- Hybrid

- **Company:** Zipliens Companies LLC
- **Location:** Franklin, TN, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $79,000.0 - $130,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Big Data, Code Review, Software Debugging, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), Laravel, PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Backend, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Front End Software Development, Software Coding, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5202428de030911d

## About the Role

* 2+ years of software development experience building and maintaining systems in production.
 * Working experience with Python/Django (preferred) or a comparable framework (Node.js, Rails, Laravel).
 * Working proficiency in React.
 * Working SQL and PostgreSQL, including writing and reasoning about queries against large tables.
 * Hands-on AWS experience - EKS/EC2, RDS, S3, and queueing (SQS or similar). You should understand the infrastructure your services run on, not treat it as someone else's problem.
 * Proficiency in at least one technical area and a functional understanding of the applications your team owns.
 * Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to take on unfamiliar work.
 * Clear written and verbal communication; you'll be explaining technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have:

 * Experience using or experimenting with agentic coding tools, and interest in building tooling around them.
 * Hands-on experience with LLM or ML features, whether in production or through prototypes and experimentation: prompting, evaluation, and understanding how they fail.
 * Experience with document processing or extraction from unstructured data.
 * Experience integrating third-party or partner APIs, especially where the data is inconsistent, and the counterparty's documentation isn't solid.
 * Experience handling sensitive data such as PHI, or working under HIPAA-style requirements.
 * Familiarity with Kubernetes. We have an SRE who owns the cluster; you won't be running it, but you'll be deploying to it and debugging your services in it.

## Description

* Build and maintain features across our Python/Django backend and React frontend, writing code that is clean, readable, and consistent with our team's conventions.
 * Develop and ship features, shepherding your own work from first commit through review, QA, and deployment. How much support you get there depends on where you land; the expectation of ownership doesn't change.
 * Operate what you build: troubleshoot production issues, debug your services in AWS, and follow security practices appropriate to sensitive legal and medical data.
 * Build and maintain backend services and data processing workflows over large datasets, automating what's currently manual.
 * Work with product and operations to turn acceptance criteria into features our staff and clients actually use - asking questions where they're unclear, and pushing back where they're wrong.
 * Work with internal stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
 * Contribute to architecture and scalability improvements under the guidance of senior engineers.
 * Participate in code reviews, both giving thoughtful feedback and acting on it.