At BusPatrol, we’re transforming student transportation safety through cutting-edge technology and real-time automated enforcement. We’re seeking a Full Stack Developer to be at the forefront of our engineering evolution—from a legacy monolith to a modern, microservices-based Automated Safety Platform.
As a Full Stack SWE on the Ticketing team, you won’t just write code—you’ll be a key driver in re-architecting our platform for scale, performance, and future innovation. You’ll collaborate across geographies with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver resilient, secure, and customer-focused experiences.
This is more than a development role—it’s an opportunity to lead modernization efforts, influence technical direction, and bring meaningful safety improvements to millions of children and families.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead engineering efforts to decompose our monolithic applications into scalable, modular microservices.
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Design, develop, and maintain clean, efficient, and well-tested code in both backend (Python, Ruby) and frontend (React/Angular) stacks.
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Build and evolve secure, high-performance APIs supporting real-time data pipelines and customer-facing applications.
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Partner with cross-functional teams including Product, QA, DevOps, and Data Engineering to build end-to-end solutions that meet business goals.
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Contribute to architectural decisions that improve performance, observability, security, maintainability and scalability/reusability.
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Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD, TDD, pair programming, and code reviews.
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Take ownership of projects from ideation through deployment, with a bias for execution and iterative improvement.
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Be a proactive voice in platform strategy, bringing innovative ideas and continuous learning to the team.
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Contribute to our cloud-native infrastructure using AWS serverless technologies (e.g., Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3).
Preferred Qualifications
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5+ years of software development experience; strong foundation in backend systems using Python (must-have) and Ruby (nice to have).
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Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or VueJS.
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3+ years of experience with backend web frameworks (e.g., Django, Flask, Rails).
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Hands-on experience with AWS services: Lambda, S3, SQS, API Gateway, CloudWatch.
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Comfortable working in an agile, test-driven development environment with modern DevOps tooling.
Design and implement event-driven services using technologies like AWS EventBridge, SNS/SQS, etc to enable decoupled, scalable communication between microservices
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Experience designing and consuming gRPC APIs in production environments a plus
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Proficient in containerization (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
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Familiarity with testing and linting tools (pytest, rspec, jest, Flake8, RuboCop).
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Excellent communicator with a strong collaborative mindset and a passion for mentoring and peer reviews.
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BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Why Join Us
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Be part of a mission-driven company making roads safer for students and communities.
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Help architect the future of our Automated Safety Platform.
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Work on modern, cloud-native, and serverless technologies.
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Collaborate with a global, inclusive, and high-performing team.