Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you'll define and drive the technical strategy for customer experience platforms, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams to enhance customer and agent experiences.

Build and architect Alpaca’s high-performance algorithmic trading platform. Responsibilities include writing backend and frontend code, designing distributed and highly available systems, optimizing low-latency and high-throughput performance, and developing scalable databases, messaging systems, concurrency controls, and service-oriented architectures. The role also involves making critical platform decisions and potentially contributing to order and risk management, trading systems, observability, cloud infrastructure, and financial ledger capabilities.

Owns the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of production software. Builds C#/.NET backend services, Angular web applications, and .NET MAUI mobile apps; optimizes SQL Server databases; resolves production issues; improves reliability, security, performance, and observability; writes tests and documentation; participates in code reviews; and translates ambiguous business needs into maintainable technical solutions.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain scalable frontend and backend systems while collaborating across teams.

Lead a development team while remaining hands-on in full-stack engineering. Design, build, test, deploy, and support secure web applications using C#/.NET, Angular, databases, and AWS. Drive cloud migrations, architecture, CI/CD automation, application security, troubleshooting, performance and cost optimization. Mentor developers, establish engineering standards, lead technical delivery, and collaborate with product, data, DevOps, and architecture teams.

Own commercial navigation features end to end across mobile, backend, and web surfaces. Build reliable, customer-facing navigation experiences for commercial fleets despite poor connectivity, dynamic schedules, and changing routes. Define product priorities and success metrics, ship maintainable and tested code, improve observability, and collaborate with product, design, Maps, Telematics, and adjacent engineering teams. The role requires strong customer focus, technical depth, and the ability to make practical tradeoffs in ambiguous problem spaces.

Designs and develops complex, full-stack advertising software solutions using Go/Python and AWS. Leads architecture, cloud deployment, testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, monitoring, and production releases. Uses Kubernetes, Snowflake, SQL, Linux, and observability tools. Contributes to technical roadmaps, manages cross-team dependencies and risks, and mentors junior engineers within Scrum and Kanban teams.

Senior frontend-focused software engineer responsible for authentication, verification, and fraud experiences across web, mobile, and backend systems. The role owns team goals, designs and delivers highly available systems, collaborates with product and design partners, improves engineering standards, supports operations and on-call efforts, and mentors engineers. Candidates should have strong web application architecture experience, proficiency with React or Vue and JavaScript or TypeScript, and excellent communication skills.

Design, build, and operate scalable distributed systems for real-time restaurant payment and financial workflows. Responsibilities include architecting reliable services, protecting sensitive financial data, improving observability and production performance, debugging distributed systems, participating in on-call rotations, applying AI-assisted engineering tools, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring engineers.

Build and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, test reliability, observability, and engineering productivity at scale. Own services from architecture through production, including SLOs and on-call operations. Lead cross-functional technical projects, partner with engineering teams, mentor engineers, and shape platform strategy.

Build and operate Conduit’s control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design reconciliation-based lifecycle systems, schema-driven APIs, usage metering, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Own contracts, versioning, reliability, asynchronous workflows, and cross-functional coordination. Participate in on-call support while improving platform maintainability and automation.

Build and operate Conduit's control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design schema-driven lifecycle systems, usage metering, APIs, contracts, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Ensure reliability through reconciliation, event-driven workflows, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency. Own cross-team interfaces, improve maintainability, participate in on-call, and debug complex production issues across networking, performance, data integrity, and security boundaries.

Architect and deliver complex distributed systems using Azure cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, and event-driven patterns. Lead architecture reviews, reliability initiatives, performance optimization, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools while maintaining security and code quality. Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, QA, and product teams, and mentor engineers on technical design, development practices, and AI-enabled workflows.

Develop and maintain microservices-based, real-time software for mission-critical air traffic systems. Collaborate with product, systems engineering, QA, DevOps, and platform teams in an Agile/SAFe environment. Translate requirements into reliable solutions, integrate APIs, databases, messaging systems, and external services, and contribute to design and technical decisions. Apply CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and AI-assisted development tools. The role is fully remote and requires Public Trust eligibility and U.S. citizenship.

Analyze Linux system performance, design and implement performance enhancements, productize new servers and hardware, extend performance metrics and visualizations, and build diagnostic tooling. The role requires advanced C programming, Linux kernel expertise, virtualization knowledge, hardware enablement and debugging experience, performance analysis skills, and understanding of computer architecture, concurrency, algorithms, and hardware interconnects.

Develop, maintain, enhance, and support a mission-critical HUD enterprise application using Java, JavaScript, SQL, and related web technologies. Responsibilities include full-stack development, UI and API implementation, database workflows, troubleshooting, code reviews, testing, releases, deployment support, documentation, and compliance with security and accessibility standards.

Design and develop scalable C++ software for endpoint state and control across Windows, macOS, and potentially Linux. Build reliable, multi-process systems that enforce endpoint behavior, manage local state, support IPC, and operate across millions of devices. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, writing design documents, defining architecture and IPC contracts, and making technical decisions in an evolving, sparsely documented environment.

Build and operate secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and networking platforms. Develop self-service tooling, infrastructure-as-code defaults, cloud guardrails, and standardized platform patterns. Lead cross-team infrastructure initiatives, technical investigations, and operational improvements while partnering with security, compute, routing, and other infrastructure teams.

Build and operate blockchain network infrastructure integrating protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum with internal services. Design reliable APIs, SDKs, data contracts, observability, and SLOs; lead multi-quarter chain integrations, architecture modernization, and migrations. Improve latency, reliability, and cost for high-throughput distributed systems while owning production services and on-call responsibilities.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Build scalable, API-first platform capabilities through manifest-driven development. Develop Java and Kotlin backend services and Python workers for third-party integrations, collaborate across engineering teams, participate in architecture reviews, and troubleshoot production systems using logs, metrics, and traces. The role requires expertise in highly scalable systems, object-oriented design, REST services, relational databases, responsive messaging, caching, and software quality practices.

Leads development and architecture of scalable Java software for NinjaOne’s endpoint management platform. Designs high-availability systems, addresses large-scale datastore performance and data-volume challenges, contributes to APIs and platform improvements, drives quality practices, owns technical initiatives, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors junior engineers.

Design and implement scalable backup software for endpoints, servers, and cloud applications. Develop Java and Kotlin services, optimize databases and queries, debug production systems, and resolve distributed-system performance issues. Contribute code, reviews, architecture discussions, documentation, and cross-team reliability initiatives. Mentor engineers and help deliver resilient products operating at large scale.

Lead development and architecture of highly scalable Java services supporting NinjaOne’s third-party patching catalog. Design high-availability systems, solve complex scalability and system-design challenges, improve quality and performance, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and own technical initiatives. The role requires expertise in Java, RESTful APIs, Spring, relational databases, caching, asynchronous application design, and large-scale cloud systems.