Top Software Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Founding Engineering Manager and Technical Lead responsible for defining architecture, building billing and claims systems, ensuring data integrity and auditability, and hiring and leading the engineering team. The role is hands-on, covering backend systems, APIs, partner integrations, reconciliation, invoicing, internal claims tooling, engineering practices, and cross-functional collaboration.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web application features and distributed microservices. Own complex features from design through deployment, improve application performance and reliability, support on-call operations, troubleshoot incidents, enhance CI/CD and container infrastructure, and collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and API teams. Mentor engineers and contribute to technical standards while delivering customer-focused shipping and fulfillment experiences.

Lead technical execution for teams building endpoint agents, backend and inference services, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing products. Translate engineering priorities into plans, milestones, and ownership; guide architecture and implementation; manage, mentor, and develop engineers; oversee planning, delivery, quality, hiring, and onboarding; and remove technical or resourcing blockers. The role requires hands-on technical judgment, distributed systems experience, and familiarity with agentic coding tools in a fast-moving startup environment.

Design, build, and own scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications across frontend, backend, and data layers. Improve system architecture, performance, reliability, and testing practices. Integrate AI-assisted tools, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, production-grade software.

Build and ship full-stack features used by learners and tutors worldwide. Responsibilities include understanding user problems, contributing product ideas, taking prototypes through deployment, making technical decisions, writing maintainable code, and participating in code reviews and pairing sessions. The role requires close collaboration with designers, stakeholders, and users while supporting a safe, scalable peer-learning platform.

Serve as a technical partner for utility customers across pre-sales discovery, implementation scoping, pilots, and end-to-end deployments. Build integrations with asset management, GIS, inspection, and reporting systems; develop reusable deployment tooling and AI agents; address security and architecture concerns; identify expansion opportunities; and translate recurring field needs into product improvements. The role is approximately 80% customer-facing and requires close collaboration with Sales, Product, Solutions, and Engineering.

Build and maintain full-stack components for a maritime domain awareness platform supporting sonar and sonobuoy data. Responsibilities include developing frontend pages and real-time data feeds, designing PostgreSQL and Apache Iceberg data models, modifying MQTT and Redpanda pipelines, managing Dagster batch workflows, integrating machine learning algorithms, and improving development and CI/CD tooling. The role is remote and involves mission-critical defense technology.

Design, build and maintain Microsoft Cloud applications using Power Apps/Pages and Azure services. Implement Entra ID authentication, Azure Functions/App Services, Logic Apps and Blob storage. Create Azure Data Factory pipelines and APIs (REST/GraphQL), integrate external services and LLM data pipelines, and ensure performance, security, and scalability while collaborating with customers to turn requirements into streamlined apps.

Build and scale full-stack applications using Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Design APIs, data architectures, synchronization systems, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for secure, reliable operation in disconnected and low-bandwidth environments. Collaborate across engineering, business development, and mission teams while supporting critical defense and public safety operations.

Designs, configures, develops, and deploys scalable Salesforce solutions across Sales, Service, and Certinia clouds. Translates business requirements into delivery tasks, coordinates with stakeholders and external partners, supports integrations, testing, releases, troubleshooting, documentation, and platform governance. Identifies risks, dependencies, and gaps while ensuring solutions meet architecture, security, integration, and operational standards.