Junior/Mid SOFTWARE ENGINEER (1 to 5 years of experience)
Overview
We're looking for a Software Engineer who can operate independently within an Agile team, take ambiguous requirements from concept to production, and bring architectural judgment to how we structure and process data at scale. This is not a developer from a particular tech stack, but rather a true software engineer who can and will work with any number of languages without restriction.
We are only accepting candidates currently residing in the state of Florida, preferably in the greater Tampa/St. Petersburg area, at this time.
Responsibilities
- Work within a Scrum/Agile team through the full sprint cycle — backlog refinement, sprint planning, capacity estimation, daily standups, sprint review, and retrospectives.
- Participate in requirement refinement sessions with product owners and stakeholders, turning ambiguous asks into well-scoped, estimable stories.
- Apply modern software design patterns and enforce separation of concerns across the codebase, ensuring components remain loosely coupled and independently testable.
- Design and build proofs of concept (POCs) to validate new approaches before committing to full implementation.
- Design and implement systems that handle structured (CSV, relational), semi-structured (JSON), unstructured, and schema-bound formats like Avro, including the tradeoffs between them for storage, processing and schema evolution.
- Contribute to big data architecture and design patterns — batch and/or streaming pipelines, data partitioning, and scalable processing approaches.
- Collaborate with UI/UX on interface design decisions, ensuring frontend implementation aligns with usability and design intent.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience working in Scrum/Agile teams, including sprint planning, capacity estimation, and iterative delivery.
- Strong grasp of modern design patterns (e.g., strategy, factory, repository, observer) and the "separation of concerns" principle — able to explain not just what it is, but why it matters for maintainability and testability.
- Experience with UI/UX collaboration and requirement refinement.
- Hands-on experience with structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and schema-based data formats (CSV, JSON, Avro).
- Big data technology experience (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Hadoop ecosystem or equivalent) and associated design patterns.
- Demonstrated experience building and validating POCs.
- Experience designing and building microservices architectures — service decomposition, inter-service communication (REST/gRPC/event-driven messaging), API contracts and independent deployability.
- Strong understanding of data layer and persistence design patterns — repository pattern, unit of work, CQRS, data access layer abstraction, ORM vs. raw query tradeoffs, caching strategies and both relational (SQL) and NoSQL database design.
- Experience with cloud platforms — AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — including core compute, storage, and managed data services on at least one major provider.
Desirable
- Proficiency in one or more modern languages beyond your primary stack — Python, Scala, Go, Java, Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript/Node.js or C# — with the versatility to pick up new languages as project needs evolve.
- Multi-cloud exposure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and familiarity with cloud-native patterns (containers, Kubernetes, serverless, managed data/streaming services).
Skills Required
- 1 to 5 years of software engineering experience
- Experience working in Scrum or Agile teams, including sprint planning, capacity estimation, and iterative delivery
- Strong understanding of modern software design patterns and separation of concerns
- Experience collaborating with UI/UX teams and refining requirements
- Hands-on experience with structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and schema-based data formats, including CSV, JSON, and Avro
- Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, or equivalent
- Experience building and validating proofs of concept
- Experience designing and building microservices architectures, including service decomposition, inter-service communication, API contracts, and independent deployability
- Understanding of data-layer and persistence design patterns, relational and NoSQL database design, caching, ORM, and raw-query tradeoffs
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Proficiency in one or more additional modern programming languages, such as Python, Scala, Go, Java, Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript, Node.js, or C#
- Multi-cloud exposure across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Familiarity with cloud-native patterns, containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and managed data or streaming services
- Current residence in Florida, preferably the greater Tampa or St. Petersburg area
What We Do
Bond-Pro’s fully integrated enterprise software suites enable Surety professionals to streamline and automate the entire life cycle of Commercial, Bid, Contract, and Fidelity Bonds Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Bond-Pro is the leading software automation tool for Surety professionals. Our focus is developing state-of-the-art technology solutions to help surety carriers and agencies grow premiums, while reducing risks and operating costs. With 10 major releases and over 250,000 development hours, we dedicate 76% of our operating costs to the further enhancement of our products. Bond-Pro is the most widely used surety automation software deployed by hundreds of agencies and dozens of national surety carriers. Bond-Pro leverages its 20 years of customer feedback in developing surety software that provides the most feature rich functionality in the marketplace.
