Top Software Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

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.

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 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.

Lead and coach a team of 4–8 engineers while providing technical direction, architectural oversight, and hands-on coding support. Partner with Product and Design on roadmaps, technical strategy, and delivery improvements. Promote software quality, reliability, and stability; lead incident response and post-mortems; and collaborate with engineering managers and stakeholders to reduce dependencies and support customer success.

Support customers with complex database integration issues while contributing directly to Airbyte’s Java and Kotlin open-source connectors. Troubleshoot replication, CDC, query performance, authentication, networking, schema evolution, and warehouse or lake destinations. Reproduce bugs, inspect logs and query plans, improve connector reliability, review community contributions, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, Solutions, Sales, and Customer Success. The role also includes technical documentation, mentoring support engineers, customer onboarding, and developing AI-assisted troubleshooting processes.

Develops, enhances, tests, debugs, deploys, and supports enterprise mainframe applications using COBOL, IDMS, DB2, and related technologies. Troubleshoots production issues, collaborates with end users to define requirements, ensures performance and security, applies Agile practices, and mentors junior developers. The role supports remote personnel serving a Kansas City, Kansas customer and requires the ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance.

Join as the founding full-stack engineer to extend a TypeScript React/Next.js prototype, design product features, integrate AI/OCR, write tests and infrastructure, talk to users, and iterate quickly to drive growth.