Sr. Software Engineer

Address: 1500 Rankin Road, Houston, TX 77073, USA

• Architect, design, implement, test, and operate backend services using .NET (preferably in F#).
• Design and evolve HTTP/gRPC APIs with clear contracts, versioning, and documentation.
• Build and maintain event‑driven data pipelines using Kafka (producers, consumers, stream processing).
• Design and operate systems for high‑volume, near real‑time event processing: partitioning, parallelism, low‑latency processing, back pressure, batching, windowing, and stateful stream processing.
• Implement or collaborate on front‑end features as needed; work with front‑end engineers to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
• Deploy and operate services on AWS.
• Apply domain‑driven design and functional programming patterns where appropriate to produce maintainable, testable code.
• Collaborate with product, QA, and Dev Ops on requirements, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
• Mentor and review code, drive engineering best practices, and conduct architecture reviews.
• Optimize for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost in production systems.
• Other duties as assigned.

• 6+ years professional experience in backend development with the .NET ecosystem.
• Substantial experience writing production code in F# and C# (practical experience applying functional programming in systems).
• Hands‑on experience with Apache Kafka: designing topics, partitions, consumer groups, idempotent producers, and at‑least‑once/exactly‑once patterns.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing high‑throughput, low‑latency event processing systems (e.g., sub‑second to few‑seconds end‑to‑end latency, handling thousands to millions of events per minute).
• Practical Azure experience (deploying, monitoring, and operating services — e.g., AKS, App Services, Functions, Storage, SQL, Managed Identities).
• Strong API design experience (RESTful or gRPC): versioning, documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), authentication/authorization (OAuth2/OpenID Connect).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: messaging, consistency, retries, back pressure, windowing, state management, and eventual consistency.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit/integration), and observability (metrics, tracing, structured logs).

• Experience with stream processing frameworks (Kafka Streams).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform).
• Experience with container orchestration.
• Experience designing for multi‑tenant or high‑throughput systems.

• Job may require extended sitting or standing, use of standard office equipment.
• Job requires the ability to use vision, adjust focus and work on a standard computer screen.
• Use of audio‑visual equipment is required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field preferred, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• High School Diploma or GED equivalency required.
• 6+ years professional experience in backend development with the .NET ecosystem.

• Professional certification may be required in some cases.

At Crane, we believe in providing our employees with excellent benefits at a Great Place to Work.

We offer:

• 136 hours of Paid Time Off which equals 17 days for the year, that can be used for Sick Time or for Personal Use.
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits.
• Tuition Reimbursement for education related to your job.
• Employee Recognition and Rewards Program.
• Paid Volunteer Time to support a cause that is close to your heart and contributes to our communities.
• Employee Discounts.
• Wellness Incentives that can go up to $100 per year for completing challenges, in addition to a discount on contribution rates.
• Potential to earn a quarterly bonus.

Come join the leader in logistics and take your career in the right direction.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable

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