Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Baton Rouge, LA

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll build cloud-native backend services using Golang, deploy in Kubernetes, and lead architecture projects in a startup environment.

The role involves developing APIs, building internal tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance system performance while solving engineering challenges.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

Lead technical direction and execution for Code Plane products (Batch Changes, Agentic Batch Changes, Code Monitors, Code Insights, src CLI). Translate customer feedback into roadmap, ship agent-focused features, mentor engineers, own architecture and quality, participate in on-call, and partner with Product, Design, and Customer teams to deliver scalable AI-agent developer tools.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role involves leading web platform initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, architecting web applications, and implementing technical strategies for improved performance.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead and support a team in developing reliable and scalable backend systems, collaborating on product development, and improving infrastructure for secure communication between services.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Lead quality assurance and test strategy across Agile teams, drive automation for testing, mentor QA teams, and ensure high-quality software delivery.

Lead architecture and technical direction for an AI-first SaaS product (Growth Studio). Define scalable services, APIs, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows; guide integrations, run architecture/code reviews and POCs; mentor engineers; produce technical documentation; and partner with product, UX, QA, and ops to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities for GovCon customers.

Develop production software for maritime route optimization, vessel performance and fuel-consumption modeling, voyage analysis, simulation, and route evaluation. Refine optimization algorithms, translate mathematical and domain models into maintainable software, improve recommendation scoring and explainability, and build supporting APIs, services, and testing capabilities. Collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime specialists on technology serving U.S. Government and defense customers.

Design, build, and operate hyperscale Azure availability and control-plane services to achieve high VM SLAs. Lead architecture, author designs, implement reliable code, run livesite as DRI, and integrate predictive ML/AI models and generative AI for diagnostics and automated root-cause analysis.

Lead software testing and verification for embedded medical instrument systems, including end-to-end workflows across instrument functionality, device configuration, cloud connectivity, and interoperability. Develop test strategies, plans, cases, and automation-ready suites; execute and troubleshoot automated testing; and collaborate with engineering, quality, regulatory, project management, and external development teams. Support risk-based coverage, design controls, FDA-regulated documentation, effort estimation, and quality compliance.

Lead fullstack technical work connecting Python/Django backend services with Unity (C#) client, drive technical roadmap, own live-ops reliability and incident management, mentor cross-functional teams, deliver scalable features, and reduce technical debt for a live-service mobile/PC game.

Lead full-stack development across Superset frontend and backend services. Design and ship end-to-end features, improve performance and scalability, own major technical initiatives, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, and the open-source community.

Build zero-to-one products from prototype through production, working through ambiguity and partnering closely with product, design, and customers. Develop scalable systems, run experiments and technical spikes, influence product direction, and uphold reliability, performance, engineering standards, and customer experience. Mentor engineers and contribute to architecture, coding practices, and cross-functional collaboration.

Designs, builds, deploys, supports, and optimizes scalable full-stack web applications and APIs. Responsibilities include system architecture, frontend and backend development, SQL and PL/SQL programming, requirements analysis, software triage, technical documentation, stakeholder validation, and cross-functional collaboration. The role supports a U.S. Navy client and requires obtaining and maintaining Security+ certification and Secret clearance.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

Own complex software features end to end across a C#/.NET application stack, including architecture, implementation, deployment, and production support. Design data models, optimize SQL performance, and lead scalability, reliability, and root-cause initiatives. Improve engineering quality through code reviews, mentoring, testing discipline, debugging, and clear technical communication. The role requires adapting to evolving product priorities and technologies, with in-person onboarding in Omaha, Nebraska.

Designs, develops, executes, and debugs manual and automated tests for enterprise cloud and web applications. Builds automation suites with Selenium, Playwright, or similar frameworks and integrates them into CI/CD pipelines. Tests APIs, web services, and service layers; documents defects, validates releases, and partners with developers and product owners throughout the SDLC. Applies AI-assisted testing, generative AI, and prompt engineering to improve test coverage, test data, and automation efficiency.

Designs, develops, and maintains automated test frameworks and suites for complex API and web applications. Tests software functionality, performance, scalability, and database integrations; debugs defects and verifies fixes. Collaborates with engineering, QA, product, and cross-functional teams on test strategy, code reviews, sprint planning, and root-cause analysis. Contributes to CI/CD automation and creates test plans, cases, procedures, and reports.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Design, build, test, and operate production-grade, secure, and scalable software and services. Partner with customers to translate requirements into technical designs, drive engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, observability), deliver end-to-end solutions, lead technical workstreams, and apply AI/LLM approaches where appropriate to produce production-ready outcomes.

Lead as a customer‑embedded principal engineer to design, build, and ship production-grade solutions. Translate business needs into technical approaches, influence senior stakeholders, accelerate delivery in ambiguous environments, and transition work to FDE crews while driving long-term account impact.

Design and implement high-performance, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core control- and user-plane functions on ARM-based embedded Linux. Develop in C/Go/Rust, use DPDK for packet processing, optimize latency/throughput, debug protocol and performance issues, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate carrier-grade systems.