Top Software Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Build and maintain full-stack software supporting patient-centered healthcare products. Contribute to architecture, technical standards, code reviews, design discussions, and reliable implementation. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, while advocating for privacy, security, and access to care. Mentor engineers, document knowledge, identify technical improvements, and help shape project direction. The role requires backend, database, cloud, and AI development-tool experience in a fully remote environment.

Own the architecture, performance, reliability, and technical direction of high-traffic backend services and public APIs supporting search, browse, autocomplete, and recommendations. Lead distributed-systems design, mentor engineers, drive cross-team projects, participate in on-call and incident response, and balance scalability, latency, cost, and API compatibility.

Lead hands-on full-stack development of scalable product features, from database models through UI components. Set technical direction, architect and optimize systems, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, improve workflows, and champion testing, code quality, and continuous deployment. Collaborate with product and design teams, resolve technical bottlenecks, and lead production releases in a fast-paced startup environment.

Provides technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, a data migration and integration product. Designs and implements reliable distributed systems spanning CDC pipelines, migration engines, APIs, and cloud services. Leads architecture, complex technical initiatives, production troubleshooting, observability, testing, and operational improvements. Partners with product, support, customers, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted development and migration capabilities.

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.

Develop high-quality, scalable, and maintainable Java software with a small collaborative team. Apply test-driven development, deliver low-maintenance solutions, and coach client teams on modern software development practices. The role supports continuous learning through training and personal development opportunities, with flexibility to work remotely from anywhere.

Lead architecture and development of mobile apps for Web3 products. Define mobile standards, integrate wallets and blockchain networks, drive performance and reliability, mentor engineers, own releases and product stability, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams.

Investigates customer escalations, performs root-cause analysis across complex Java codebases, and delivers production-ready fixes. Uses AI-assisted tools for log analysis, defect diagnosis, code remediation, test generation, and validation. Communicates issue status, documents resolutions, maintains knowledge content, supports teammates, and contributes to product enhancements. The role includes periodic after-hours and weekend pager coverage.

Build Tailscale’s internal AI-enablement tools, workflows, guardrails, and documentation. Partner with engineering leadership and teams to define the AI roadmap, evaluate coding agents and models, improve adoption, and measure effects on velocity and quality. The role involves developing internal developer-facing automation, teaching and influencing engineers, identifying high-leverage AI opportunities, and promoting safe use of AI-generated code in a distributed engineering organization.

Build interactive prototypes and run rapid user experiments across the full stack, including frontend, backend, and APIs. Shape product direction through hypothesis-driven development, user curiosity, fast iteration, and evidence-based decisions. The role requires broad engineering skills, comfort with ambiguity, and effective use of AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude.