Top Software Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

The Head of Engineering will drive technical direction, develop product architecture, and eventually lead the engineering team while coding and building AI systems.

Build and own user-facing features and core platform architecture across frontend, backend, and ML pipelines. Integrate AI workflows (LLMs, embeddings) for curriculum generation and automated evaluation. Manage end-to-end development: requirements, design, implementation, CI/CD, testing, observability, and iteration while collaborating with product, design, ML, and customer teams.

Work full-stack on a small mobile-focused engineering team building a product-first React Native app. Contribute to product ideation, UX, analytics, and deliver features across frontend and backend (GraphQL, PostgreSQL). Report to Head of Engineering and collaborate on technical decisions, pair-program, and help shape product strategy in a fast-paced startup.

Build and scale a fintech platform across accounting, tax, and banking. Own feature lifecycle from design to deployment, write backend and frontend code, improve infrastructure and reliability, and collaborate with product and design to deliver customer-focused features.

Lead and architect scalable web systems, mentor frontend and backend developers, define coding standards and roadmaps, drive implementations using React/Next/Node/NestJS, produce technical documentation, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with product and DevOps to deliver secure, maintainable solutions.

The Principal Engineer will lead the design and delivery of core platform capabilities, focusing on scalable systems, AI application, and mentoring engineers while driving architectural decisions and improving operational systems.

Designs and scales high-performance backend web services and ETL pipelines supporting tens of thousands of transactions per second. Responsibilities include architecting fault-tolerant distributed systems, improving performance, developing monitoring and deployment strategies, collaborating across product and engineering teams, and supporting recruiting and onboarding. The role requires expertise in data-intensive systems, microservices, cloud architectures, and commercial SaaS products.

Develops, tests, troubleshoots, documents, and maintains PeopleSoft customizations. Responsibilities include resolving defects and configuration issues, advising on technical solutions, collaborating with functional analysts, migrating projects through development and test environments, and preparing production migration requests. The role requires expertise in PeopleSoft modules, development tools, integrations, reporting, security configuration, databases, web servers, upgrades, and selective adoption processes.

Develop, maintain, migrate, and secure client websites, primarily using WordPress. Build front-end interfaces and PHP backends, manage ecommerce platforms, implement automations and integrations, optimize SEO and analytics, and provide ongoing technical support. The role requires managing multiple client projects, communicating technical information clearly, documenting work, and collaborating with designers and other contractors.

Build and launch user-facing, backend-leaning full-stack products for a clinical AI platform. Design reusable accessible frontend components, develop backend features, collaborate with product managers and subject matter experts, protect patient privacy through secure coding, improve engineering practices, and support applications in production.