Top Software Engineer Jobs in Baton Rouge, LA

Develops and supports software applications. The posting requires U.S. citizenship or naturalized citizenship and mandates that all work be performed within the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii.

Develop and improve embedded graphics and compute drivers, customize products for embedded hardware and real-time operating systems, and profile and optimize drivers and applications. Write and review technical specifications while collaborating on reliable, high-quality safety-critical solutions. The role requires embedded software development, debugging, troubleshooting, and familiarity with graphics APIs, ARINC 653, and safety-critical development practices.

Design, architect, develop, test, and support scalable full-stack applications for a high-volume, multi-tenant data platform. Own features from design through delivery, contribute to technical strategy and roadmap development, ensure operational excellence, collaborate across distributed teams, and mentor engineers. Apply cloud-native technologies and AI-assisted development practices while supporting near-real-time analytics and reliable production operations.

Build and ship robust Android features for ClassPass in a large modular codebase. Collaborate with product and design, mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, write technical documentation, solve complex problems, improve systems, and contribute to architectural decisions using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

Design, build, and maintain scalable brokerage systems supporting international markets. Develop Go-based backend services, gRPC microservices, React interfaces, and vendor integrations. Collaborate with global engineering teams to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets. Lead regional reliability efforts, act as incident commander, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and contribute to recruitment and cross-functional initiatives. Participate in on-call support and help ensure proactive 24x7 system stability.

Build and maintain Mapboxs cloud-native infrastructure and GitOps deployment platforms on AWS. Work with Terraform/Terragrunt and legacy CloudFormation/CDK, migrate services to EKS/ArgoCD, architect centralized GitHub Actions CI, configure observability (Datadog/CloudWatch), provide on-call SRE support, document designs, and lead platform strategy and developer experience improvements.

Build and operate Yahoo’s developer experience platform, including CI/CD infrastructure, artifact repositories, release pipelines, and ArgoCD GitOps deployments. Develop reusable golden-path workflows, AI-assisted automation, configuration validation, and platform tooling. Support pipeline troubleshooting, artifact management, runner optimization, observability, security practices, and developer adoption through migrations, documentation, office hours, and technical enablement.

The Principal Software Engineer will embed with product teams to solve complex technical problems, deliver production code, and make application and service-level architectural decisions. The role owns shared services, reliability, performance, incident response, and cross-system issue diagnosis. It also leads solution design, mentors engineers through influence, supports multiple products and domains, and establishes effective standards for AI-assisted software development.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, engineering judgment, reasoning quality, and developer trust. Provide clear, opinionated feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for excellent interactions with tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This contract role requires staff- or principal-level software engineering experience and familiarity with modern AI-assisted development workflows.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.

Build and maintain full-stack features across Ruby on Rails, React, and Flutter. Own work from architecture through production deployment, translate ambiguous user needs into pragmatic solutions, make architectural decisions, improve reliability and performance, address technical debt, resolve production issues, mentor teammates, and help establish engineering standards in a remote-first startup environment.

Build and maintain full-stack features across Ruby on Rails, React, and Flutter. Own work from architecture through production deployment, translate user needs into pragmatic solutions, make architectural decisions, improve reliability and performance, address technical debt, resolve production issues, mentor teammates, and help establish engineering standards in a remote-first startup.

Build and maintain full-stack features across Ruby on Rails, React, and Flutter. Own architecture, development, deployment, reliability, and performance of critical systems. Translate user needs into pragmatic solutions, address technical debt, mentor teammates, contribute to engineering standards, and resolve production issues. The role requires strong backend expertise, database knowledge, security awareness, startup adaptability, and product-minded ownership.

Senior Java engineer delivering AI-augmented production features and modernizations across a Java/Python/AWS stack. Pair with engineers to embed agentic practices, own systems end-to-end, participate in AI-augmented reviews, and judge agent use versus human intervention.

Senior Java engineer delivering AI-augmented production features and modernizations across a Java/Python/AWS stack. Own systems end-to-end, pair with engineers to transfer agentic practices, perform AI-augmented code reviews, and judge when to trust or intervene with agent outputs.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of a full-stack platform and production AI systems (LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows). Ship user-facing features across frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring. Set technical direction, tooling, and engineering practices while partnering with product and program teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go. Architect distributed, fault-tolerant systems, optimize performance and reliability, define APIs and service boundaries, improve observability and operational readiness, and collaborate cross-functionally to support mission-critical autonomous deployments.

Design, build, and maintain automated migration workflows to onboard dental practices. Implement C#, .NET, and PowerShell scripts, manage ETL processes and SQL data transformations, troubleshoot live routines, leverage AI tools to speed development, and produce technical documentation to ensure secure, reliable migrations.

Lead design and implementation of core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform. Build high-performance Rust systems, support production deployments, collaborate with ML engineers, design scalable data architectures, troubleshoot performance and scalability issues, and cultivate a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture.

Own and advance Chainguard’s internal Developer Platform, including monorepo CI/CD, shared build infrastructure, and Agentic AI tooling. Improve developer experience, build reliability, change throughput, observability, and secure software delivery. Design scalable platform architecture, consolidate build systems, establish standardized delivery blueprints, automate developer toil, partner with engineering teams, and mentor engineers while contributing to technical direction and DORA-aligned outcomes.

Lead the migration of Vanta’s resource data platform from MongoDB to schema-aware PostgreSQL while maintaining API compatibility and data integrity. Design high-throughput Kafka and S3 ingestion pipelines, eventual-consistency strategies, query infrastructure, tenant isolation, and reliable distributed systems. Set architectural direction across storage, caching, and streaming technologies; mentor engineers; drive cross-team technical roadmaps; and improve reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Design and build cloud cost-management capabilities, including forecasting, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, data pipelines, transformation models, visualizations, and reusable UI components. Own features end to end from planning through release while improving application reliability and performance. Collaborate closely with engineers and founding team members, contribute to technical design and roadmap decisions, and work pragmatically in a fast-moving distributed startup environment.

Design, build, and operate shared cloud infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Databricks, and Cloudflare. Lead SRE and DevOps initiatives involving reliability, observability, CI/CD, incident response, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and developer self-service. Partner with application and data engineering teams to improve workload operations, deployment safety, and infrastructure scalability. Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to technical standards, architecture, documentation, and sustainable 24/7 operations.

Design, build, and maintain secure, performant browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, and other browsers using Manifest V3 and modern APIs. Develop features integrating with web content, backend services, and endpoint agents; optimize reliability; monitor evolving browser standards; and participate in testing, code reviews, and process improvement. The role requires investigating third-party web applications, understanding extension security models, and coordinating effectively with backend and non-browser engineering teams.