Senior Software Engineer

About the Company

Valor is a fast-growing innovation company headquartered in Fort Worth, TX. We are a leader in oil and gas outsourcing, accounting, business strategy, and consulting for the energy industry and have developed a best-in-class mineral management software, mineral.tech, to efficiently and effectively manage minerals and royalties for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end development of new product modules, features, and customer-facing apps
• Manage and mentor a team of Software Engineers and AI Agents
• Architect and scale the primary SaaS platform using Django, React, Celery, Redis, and PostgreSQL
• Design and implement AI agent integrations using frameworks like Google ADK, LiteLLM, and Gemini
• Own system design decisions, database schemas, API architecture, and deployment pipelines
• Collaborate with product, design, and data teams to translate requirements into AI-enhanced software
• Drive best practices in testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud scalability

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep proficiency in Python, Django, and JavaScript
• Hands-on experience with React, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Redis, Celery, and Elasticsearch
• Proven experience utilizing AI agentic development and implementing LLM-powered agents or RAG patterns
• Track record of leading and managing software engineering teams
• Solid understanding of SaaS architecture, multi-tenancy, and REST API design
• Experience with CI/CD tools and observability platforms
• Must be based in or willing to relocate to the Fort Worth area

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of the oil and gas industry
• Experience shipping AI-enhanced SaaS products at scale
• Familiarity with geospatial applications using PostGIS
• Experience migrating legacy frontend frameworks to modern React architectures
• Familiarity with Snowflake and document processing pipelines
• Prior work in startup or scale-up environments