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# Senior Contract Software Engineer (Data & Platform)

- **Company:** Nimble, Llc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Business Analytics Applications, Software Quality, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Web Scraping, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Cursor, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Service-Oriented Architecture, Service Pack, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Datadog, Circleci, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Grafana, Concurrency, Indexer, Agentic-AI, Sentry, Cloudflare, Integration Frameworks, Data Management, Webhooks, Data Pipelines, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** November 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-contract-software-engineer-data-platform--547c088e-4a5c-49e3-a29b-33359270d019

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Startup, Problem Solving Skills, DNA, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Rural Contracts, Data Management, Data Quality, Software Patches, Data Modeling, Qualified applicants will have most or all of the following:

 * 7+ years building production software, with a track record of leading complex projects from design to launch.
 * Strong data modeling skills. You know how to design schemas that hold up as the product and the data grow.
 * Strong distributed systems fundamentals: queues, retries, idempotency, concurrency, failure modes, and how to reason about them.
 * Experience building services in a service-oriented architecture: clear boundaries, well-defined APIs, and services that are easy to test, deploy and own.
 * Hands-on experience building and operating modern ETL/ELT pipelines and third-party integrations at scale, such as web scraping, partner APIs, data feeds or webhooks.
 * Strong programming skills (we work in TypeScript and have a legacy monolith in Python) and solid SQL (Postgres preferred), including query performance and indexing.
 * You use AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, agents, custom workflows) as a core part of how you build, and you know how to keep quality high while moving fast with them.
 * A high bar for code quality and a strong pace. You write well-tested, readable code, give thoughtful reviews, and communicate clearly and proactively, especially async.

Nice to haves:

 * Experience with Cloudflare Workers or other serverless and edge platforms.
 * Experience building analytics products or data warehouses.
 * Experience with CI/CD and observability tools like CircleCI, Datadog or Sentry.
 * Experience building LLM-powered features such as extraction, classification or agentic workflows.
 * Background in edtech, government, or the public sector.

## Description

We're looking for a senior contractor to help tackle some of our most challenging data and platform problems. You'll work directly with our engineering team on high-impact projects with clear outcomes. We want someone who can take an ambiguous problem, design the right system, and ship it fast with AI as part of how they work, while owning the context and the thinking behind those decisions.