Top Software Engineer Jobs in Dayton, OH

Build, maintain, and steward open source cloud-native software for defense environments. Responsibilities include designing and implementing features, reviewing code, managing releases, engaging open source communities, resolving technical ambiguity, documenting systems, making architecture decisions, improving security and interoperability, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong Go development, Kubernetes and cloud architecture expertise, collaboration with contributors and users, and participation in ecosystem standards and projects.

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of complex backend software systems. Owns significant features end to end, makes architectural decisions, improves scalability and performance, ensures code quality, mentors engineers, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. Builds production-ready C# and .NET APIs within microservices and containerized environments, using cloud databases and services. Participates in code reviews, testing, debugging, and continuous improvement.

Develop and operate Airbnb’s large-scale cloud infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes, developer APIs and CLIs, autoscaling, capacity management, and cloud automation. Build secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available distributed systems using public cloud technologies. Optimize existing infrastructure, improve performance and operational efficiency, troubleshoot production systems, and collaborate across engineering teams and open-source communities.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservices environment. Build AI-powered applications with LLMs, RAG pipelines, GenAI agents, vector databases, and AI services. Optimize performance, implement responsive user interfaces, troubleshoot systems, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with AI/ML engineers and cross-functional teams in a remote setting.

Lead hands-on development and operation of billing, usage, rates, and marketplace systems. Build primarily in Go while contributing to TypeScript and React applications, Kubernetes infrastructure, databases, CI/CD, and cloud services. Improve reliability, automation, observability, auditability, and production recovery. Deliver projects end to end, investigate incidents, participate in on-call, collaborate across teams, and provide technical leadership through design, reviews, mentoring, and operational improvements.

Own backend services from design through production support, solve ambiguous technical problems, improve reliability, build automation, and contribute to architecture and technical decisions. The role involves developing secure software in a regulated healthcare environment, debugging production issues, writing tests, mentoring engineers, and using modern cloud, deployment, observability, and AI-assisted development tools.

Leads organization-wide workload communications architecture for distributed systems. Evaluates messaging, event streaming, and RPC technologies; develops benchmarks, reference implementations, standards, and troubleshooting guidance; and advises teams on delivery guarantees, schemas, backpressure, fault handling, observability, and performance. Partners with engineers through reviews, workshops, and mentoring while tracking adoption and outcomes. The role requires deep production experience with distributed communication systems, backend programming, Linux, and the ability to obtain a DoD security clearance.

Lead organization-wide deployment environment practices for mission-critical software. Assess and improve build, packaging, CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, Helm, observability, security, release, and infrastructure workflows. Build reference pipelines, charts, images, and templates; document standards; evaluate technical alternatives; mentor engineers; collaborate across infrastructure domains; and track adoption and engineering outcomes. Requires extensive production software experience, strong technical communication, U.S. citizenship, and ability to obtain and maintain a DoD clearance.

Lead organization-wide data storage strategy and standards for mission-critical software systems. Evaluate storage technologies through benchmarking, develop reference implementations and architectural guidance, and advise on data modeling, performance, caching, search, object storage, replication, partitioning, recovery, and scalability. Mentor engineers through reviews and workshops while tracking adoption and outcomes. Requires deep production experience with relational and distributed storage systems, backend development, Linux, technical communication, and eligibility for a DoD security clearance.

Leads technical direction for the Partner Services engineering area while remaining hands-on with mission-critical financial systems. Owns architecture roadmaps, ADRs, observability, reliability, security, technical investment, OKRs, and KPIs across multiple teams. Leads major incidents, drives AI-native engineering practices, partners with product and executive stakeholders, participates in architecture governance, and mentors engineers at every level. The role requires strong payments or banking familiarity, executive communication, and extensive technical leadership experience.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a multi-team billing engineering workstream supporting payments, banking, treasury, and financial settlement. Remains hands-on while owning architecture roadmaps, ADRs, reliability, observability, security, AI-native engineering practices, technical investment, and business outcomes. The role partners with senior engineering and product leaders, manages high-stakes incidents, strengthens engineering maturity, and mentors engineers at every level.

Develop coding tasks and reference solutions for evaluating AI systems. Build deterministic verifiers, test suites, scalable backend services, and APIs. Debug complex defects, assess code quality, refactor legacy implementations, optimize performance, and evaluate AI-generated technical reasoning. Document requirements and verification criteria while independently applying software engineering judgment across algorithms, system design, testing, and reliability.

Evaluates AI-generated software for correctness, quality, efficiency, security, and maintainability. Designs programming challenges, reference solutions, test cases, and evaluation criteria. Reviews technical reasoning related to debugging, architecture, and system design, then provides structured feedback and documentation. The role requires strong programming fundamentals, software testing and code review experience, analytical problem-solving ability, and clear technical communication.

Own the architecture and delivery of major backend services and long-term engineering initiatives. Design scalable, dependable transaction-heavy systems, write technical proposals, assess business impact, and collaborate with product teams. Use and validate AI coding tools, coach engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap. The role requires expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, distributed systems, and message brokers, with remote work from the US or Canada.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Design, develop, and improve scalable software for an investment platform. Lead software development across the lifecycle, mentor junior engineers, solve complex technical problems, maintain code quality through testing and reviews, and recommend technology enhancements. The role is remote in the USA with four in-person retreats annually.

Build and operate a stablecoin payment rail for merchant checkout, subscriptions, refunds, reconciliation, and onchain settlement. Deliver full-stack features across Go services and React/Next.js interfaces, including APIs, protobufs, database migrations, wallet connectivity, and durable Temporal workflows. Improve accessibility, conversion, performance, and observability through logs, metrics, and traces. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate Payment Acceptance into Coinbase’s developer platform.

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.

Design, build, and maintain software applications; collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders; resolve bugs and production issues; write scalable, testable code; perform testing and debugging; produce technical documentation; mentor peers; participate in on-call rotation; leverage the team's data ecosystem to inform application design and improvements.

Leads development of large-scale frontend features, reusable architecture, design systems, and performance and accessibility improvements. The role involves building interactive 2D/WebGL interfaces with Pixi.js, optimizing applications with Web Workers and profiling tools, integrating AI capabilities, and improving testing and CI/CD workflows. The engineer mentors junior and mid-level developers, contributes to architecture reviews and technical strategy, collaborates with design and product teams, and mitigates technical debt while aligning frontend solutions with business goals.

Build and scale full-stack financial product experiences for OnePay’s employer benefits platform. Lead technical design, establish architectural and coding standards, optimize systems for reliability, security, performance, and scalability, and make technical decisions balancing rapid delivery with sustainable solutions. Collaborate with product, design, and operations to deliver features across web, iOS, and Android using distributed systems, APIs, and modern frontend technologies.

Develop and maintain web-enabled databases, software tools, analytical models, simulations, and digital representations of foreign PNT, SATCOM, and navigation architectures. Integrate intelligence data from multiple sources, support threat characterization and intelligence analysis, and contribute to collection planning and intelligence exploitation activities.

Lead the architecture and delivery of TeamSnap’s Android advertising platform, including native, display, and video ad experiences. Build privacy-conscious consent and measurement capabilities, optimize performance, shape Kotlin and Jetpack Compose architecture, and lead cross-team technical initiatives. Partner with advertising, product, design, legal, and data teams while mentoring engineers and establishing Android standards.

Lead technical direction and major multi-team projects for Chainguard Containers. Design and operate secure container build pipelines, registries, distribution systems, and adoption tooling. Remain hands-on with Go development, architecture, code review, observability, and on-call operations. Form roadmaps with product and engineering leaders, make product-level trade-offs, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across teams, contribute to open-source and industry standards, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices.

Build and lead data catalog infrastructure supporting data discovery, metadata management, governance, quality, lineage, privacy, access control, and retention. Develop scalable metadata integrations, onboarding tools, data policies, and end-to-end lineage products across online, offline, machine learning, metrics, visualization, and third-party datasets. Collaborate with cross-functional infrastructure teams to ensure Airbnb data assets are cataloged, discoverable, governed, and compliant with regulatory requirements.