Senior Software Engineer - Python

ServiceTrade is a leading SaaS company transforming the fire protection and mechanical industries. We’re seeking a motivated and skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Data Platform team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of streaming data pipelines that unify and organize operational data from multiple products, empowering our customers’ business with insights for analytics and machine learning.

• Innovative Challenges: Dive into real-world challenges like optimizing streaming pipelines for low-latency data delivery, crafting scalable data models to unlock actionable insights, and solving complex transformation puzzles that bridge raw data to business impact—all while growing your skills alongside a cutting-edge data team.
• Make a Real Impact: Your work will directly help our customers optimize their business with better decision making guided by visibility into their data.
• Collaborative Culture: Work with a talented team, foster learning, and evolve best practices to continuously improve processes.
• Tech at the Core: Be part of an environment that embraces cutting-edge tools and platforms.

What sets us apart? Our product is a true GAME-CHANGER that provides our customers a massive ROI and keeps them on the leading edge of the industry. 

You are someone who takes full ownership of your work and thrives on delivering solutions. If there’s a problem in our system, no matter where the root cause lies, you pursue it until it’s resolved — ensuring our customers experience a seamless service. You never compromise on quality and are always looking for ways to improve performance, scalability, and efficiency. With a proactive mindset, you aim to not just meet, but exceed customer expectations. Your can-do attitude drives you to find answers and make an impact, no matter the challenge.

• Develop, test, and maintain scalable Python code for data-focused applications.
• Build and optimize robust APIs that interact with and expose data.
• Work on data ingestion and transformation processes in the AWS ecosystem (e.g., DMS, Kinesis, S3, Redshift, etc.).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including data engineers, platform engineers, and product managers—to define and implement new features in our data platform.
• Identify and resolve technical issues, ensuring the smooth operation of our data pipelines.
• Contribute to documentation to help foster team collaboration and knowledge sharing.

• Python Expertise: 4+ years of hands-on experience writing clean, efficient, and testable Python code, ideally for backend systems or data applications.
• API Building: Proven ability to design and build RESTful APIs.
• Data Fundamentals: Understanding of data concepts and working with data (e.g., databases, data formats).
• Cloud Experience: Familiarity with cloud platforms (like AWS).
• Problem-Solver: A proactive approach to identifying and solving technical challenges.

What does ServiceTrade do?

Founded in 2012, ServiceTrade is the software platform for commercial mechanical and fire contractors. More than 1,300 contractors use ServiceTrade to increase profit and deliver more work during a persistent skilled labor shortage by improving service and project operations, helping technicians be more productive and do their best work, selling more service and inspection agreements, and growing customer loyalty. Over 10% of the commercial or industrial buildings in the United States are serviced by contractors using ServiceTrade to manage 13 million equipment assets and invoice more than $7.5 billion of service-related commerce. 

Ok, so why should I care about that?

Our customers are smart, hard-working people who we enjoy serving. We help them grow their business to earn more revenue, employ more blue-collar workers, and become more valuable to their customers. It’s why we get excited about serving a market that you might never have thought about before.

What kind of working environment do you have?

We’ve transitioned from a start-up to a scale-up -- that means we still have the spirit and energy of a start-up and are adding new people who will help us expand our business faster and run our business smarter. We have big ambitions and every employee understands our goals and what their role is in achieving them. Read about our company culture on our About Us page. 

What kind of benefits do you offer?

• Medical with Blue Cross Blue Shield NC (2 options)
• Dental and Vision with Unum 
• Company-paid Life insurance, STD and LTD 
• Voluntary benefits including Supplemental Life Insurance, HSA, FSA and Dependant Care, Critical Illness, Accident and Pet Insurance 
• 401(k) with up to 3% employer match and NO vesting period
• Flexible PTO policy
• 10 company holidays
• Parental Leave 
• Community Impact Program (Volunteer)
• Tech and Wellness Stipend 

Want to know more? 

Go ahead and apply! Let’s get to know each other.

#LI-Remote (ideally in Eastern or Central time zone; local-ish to NC would also be high on our list!)

EEO Statement:
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