Senior Software Engineer

The phrase "it works on my machine" makes you wince, which is exactly why you'd make a great Senior Software Engineer here in Costa Mesa. Strip away the buzzwords and here's the deal — $132,000 - $201,000, contract hours, and a technology team at Content Advantage Group that actually hands you the keys.

• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Costa Mesa, CA production without dropping the baton
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, frameworks, and RabbitMQ libraries
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Flexibility-based applications
• Sit with technology users in Costa Mesa to learn what the Rust tool really needs
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Ruby acceptance criteria
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Read the Ruby stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Catch the RabbitMQ race conditions that only surface under Costa Mesa peak traffic

• A CA work history, or strong reasons you'll thrive here anyway
• A bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• Comfort with the contract cadence of a Costa Mesa-based operation
• Fluency in Ruby earned the hard way, not just from a tutorial
• Hands-on technology experience that holds up to follow-up questions

Content Advantage Group is the human-first Costa Mesa company that turned a niche technology obsession into something the whole CA now uses. We assume good intent first and ask clarifying questions second, which keeps the detail-focused days drama-free.

We answer the money question first with $132,000 - $201,000, then keep going with growth budgets, mentorship, and a flexible contract schedule.

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