Frost Software Engineer

IT

Dallas , TX Feb 20, 2026

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Create scalable backend services to support the development of operation systems using Kotlin programming language and Kafka frameworks.
• Develop modern low-code Operations Technology systems to support expanding business operations.
• Analyze business/system requirements and produce service design specifications.
• Design backend service specifications utilizing design patterns and architectural standards.
• Develop backend API services using Kotlin, Kafka, and Spring Boot frameworks.
• Develop code modules in alignment with client’s engineering standards and ensure code quality, scalability, maintainability, vulnerability, and performance areas are addressed.
• Perform unit testing of the developed modules to ensure unit test coverage and code coverage metrics adhere to client standards.
• Create and update conceptual, logical, and physical data models that align with business/system design requirements.
• Create database scripts using DDL queries.
• Write optimized DML SQL queries – simple to medium complexity.
• Implement Software Engineering Best Practices for code development based on client’s enterprise standards and department mandates.
• Perform instrumentation of the code to align with the Datadog observability platform.
• Collaborate with client engineers and architects to design and develop scalable API services.
• Daily activities include hands-on programming in Kotlin across existing and new services, peer code reviews, design/review sessions, and scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, grooming, planning, retrospectives).
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and leadership to a team of three junior software engineers on design, code development, code reviews, and best practices.
• Work within an agile scrum team setup.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• 8–15 years of backend development experience (APIs, microservices).
• Experience managing and mentoring a team of junior engineers.
• Kotlin programming experience in developing medium to complex service APIs.
• Strong working knowledge of the Kafka platform and ability to integrate it with API services.
• Ability to integrate API services with databases to read/write transaction details.
• Experience creating data models (logical/conceptual/physical) using Lucid, Visio, or similar tools.
• Proficiency in SQL – writing simple to medium complexity DML queries and analyzing existing ones.
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment while sharing development updates regularly.
• Self-starter, accountable, and able to work independently with minimal direction, proactively identifying and raising blockers.

Preferred Requirements

• Knowledge of prompt engineering is a plus.
• Familiarity or experience with the Superblocks low-code platform.

Tech Stack: Kotlin, Spring Boot framework, Kafka, Database Modeling, PL/SQL programming, prompt engineering knowledge is a plus.