Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Develop secure, scalable full-stack software for satellite ground communications and data transport. Responsibilities include building Python backend services and APIs on AWS, developing TypeScript and Vite front-end applications, designing microservices, managing PostgreSQL databases, implementing authentication and authorization, supporting containerized deployments, resolving production issues, refining requirements, collaborating with MBSE and test teams, and mentoring engineers.

Develop and maintain a Medicare claims processing system in a mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, unit testing, debugging, defect resolution, technical documentation, and installing changes in test regions. The role leads complex development components, translates customer requirements into work items, provides estimates and technical guidance, represents the team to clients, and mentors junior developers while supporting Agile/Scrum maintenance and operations.

Develop full-stack software for secure, scalable satellite ground communications platforms. Responsibilities include building Python backend services and APIs, designing TypeScript front-end applications, implementing authentication, authorization, microservices, databases, testing, and cloud deployments. The role involves collaborating with MBSE and test teams, translating requirements into technical designs, troubleshooting production issues, supporting integrations, and presenting engineering recommendations. Work requires maintaining secure, reliable systems for U.S. Government missions.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Design, implement, and maintain partner integration solutions; translate partner requirements into scalable technical implementations; troubleshoot and automate fixes; collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve tools and ensure successful partner onboarding and launches.

Lead design and delivery of scalable customer-facing features, services, and APIs that process real-time data and AI-powered insights. Build web experiences, contribute to LLM/AI workflows, ensure reliability through observability and rollout practices, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, ML, and platform teams.

Lead technical strategy, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor early-career engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves developing scalable systems on AWS and Kubernetes while working with healthcare data and adhering to HIPAA and data-security best practices.

Lead the design, architecture, development, deployment, and optimization of scalable .NET backend systems processing millions of daily healthcare transactions. Mentor developers, guide technical decisions, improve CI/CD pipelines, implement secure APIs, and collaborate with product stakeholders. The role requires expertise in .NET, C#, ASP.NET Core, cloud-native AWS services, Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems, testing, observability, and secure software development.

Build and optimize the core of a distributed compute engine in Rust for SQL and AI query processing. Responsibilities include designing and delivering engine capabilities, improving query performance, writing maintainable code, and solving complex systems and concurrency problems. The role requires expertise in data structures, algorithms, performance optimization, systems programming, hardware fundamentals, asynchronous programming, atomics, locks, and cache design.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services powering AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines. Design scalable core platform services, collaborate with ML, frontend, and product teams, implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, and mentor junior engineers to deliver reliable, AI-powered features.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Design, scope, and implement scalable backend and platform solutions for a reservations and waitlist product. Improve performance and usability, collaborate with Product and Design, identify high-impact opportunities, and contribute across the stack including APIs and front-end integration.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems. Drives architectural decisions and technical strategy, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, partners with product stakeholders, and improves system performance, scalability, security, and compliance. Owns technical initiatives from design through delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Architect and re-engineer highly scalable, resilient backend data systems supporting patient services. Lead distributed systems strategy, make architectural decisions, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, establish operational practices, and collaborate with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to shape engineering and product direction.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Owns delivery of backend money movement and card ledger systems, leading engineers through complex problems and ambiguity. Collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; defines scalable technical solutions; supports system availability, monitoring, on-call operations, code quality, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring and developing team talent while building highly available distributed systems for Affirm’s financial products.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable software for Toast Delivery Services. Develop real-time delivery tracking, driver matching, pricing, refunds, and payment-related systems. Solve distributed-systems and scaling challenges, integrate with partner APIs, uphold production reliability, promote strong engineering practices, and mentor teammates.

Build and optimize MongoDB’s SQL interface, including query engines, SQL-to-MQL translation, database connectors, and BI integrations. Develop backend systems that improve performance, scalability, reliability, and usability for large datasets and complex queries. Collaborate with product managers and customer experience teams, contribute to roadmap initiatives, resolve bugs, and lead major technical projects.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications. Owns the engineering lifecycle, writes high-performance code, establishes testing and reliability practices, resolves production issues, guides technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in object-oriented backend development, distributed cloud systems, automated testing, system monitoring, and technical leadership.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.