Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead architecture, development, and delivery of Azure SmartNIC and networking software, including RDMA, virtualization, hardware offloads, and high-performance networking. Collaborate across hardware, firmware, silicon, and cloud teams; improve reliability and performance using telemetry; guide platform strategy; troubleshoot production systems; and provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and incident response.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Alpaca’s margin and risk systems across equities, options, crypto, and future asset classes. Design low-latency, high-throughput services for margin calculation, real-time risk enforcement, exposure limits, margin calls, and operational workflows. Drive reliability, correctness, transactional integrity, observability, incident prevention, technical reviews, mentorship, and cross-functional integration with product, brokerage operations, compliance, and engineering teams.

Design and deliver blockchain network infrastructure and platform APIs, lead multi-quarter initiatives (chain integrations, re-architecture, data migrations), define APIs/SLOs/observability and on-call ownership, ship SDKs and platform primitives, establish data contracts, and simplify cross-chain operations to enable analytics, ML, and data engineering teams.

Design, build, and operate backend Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets across multiple chains. Own end-to-end delivery from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout. Drive asset migration pipeline improvements, run on-call operations, build observability and runbooks, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack web applications in a cloud containerized environment. Improve reliability and observability, ship features, refactor codebase, and collaborate with hardware, product, and design teams while promoting testing and knowledge sharing.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native, enterprise-grade SaaS services on Azure. Lead architecture and design, develop APIs and UIs, apply AI-enabled engineering tools, ensure observability, support production incidents, and drive reliability, performance, and CI/CD improvements across teams.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Design and operate large-scale, AI-native cloud infrastructure (especially Kubernetes/AKS). Improve service quality, automate incident prevention/remediation, accelerate engineering productivity, and integrate AI tools into development workflows.

Design and develop backend compute services, APIs, orchestration tools, and virtualization infrastructure for ARM64 and x86_64 cloud instances. Improve platform performance, scalability, reliability, and feature sets while integrating ARM server hardware. Troubleshoot complex low-level distributed Linux systems, collaborate across teams, and support the full software development lifecycle.

Build and scale Ruby on Rails backend systems powering StackBlitz and Bolt.new. Responsibilities include improving application scalability, reliability, and performance; optimizing PostgreSQL and object storage; developing platform features and integrations; supporting developer infrastructure; and reviewing code. The role works across Rails and Node.js/TypeScript stacks in a globally distributed, remote team.

Lead a developer productivity engineering team responsible for CI/CD, build systems, internal tooling, and AI-augmented development workflows. Improve developer experience, engineering velocity, and software quality through scalable infrastructure, productivity metrics, AI tool adoption, coaching, and governance. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, evaluate AI technologies and costs, and establish standards for security, correctness, licensing, and data handling.

Own the enterprise test automation strategy, scale a Playwright and JavaScript framework, expand coverage across Salesforce, MuleSoft, D365, and reporting systems, and build scalable execution and reporting infrastructure. Design QA standards, metrics, and review processes while developing AI-powered agents with Cursor for performance testing, regression analysis, and defect triage. Partner with engineering, product, business, and AI platform teams to deliver governed, reusable quality tooling.

Designs, develops, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Writes high-quality code, leads design and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable architectures, leads sprint delivery, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in programming, databases, APIs, messaging, microservices, containerization, DevSecOps, and technical strategy.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Write tested, high-quality code; translate product requirements into scalable designs; lead design, code, and sprint activities; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role also drives technical strategy, resolves delivery impediments, and promotes secure, maintainable, and reusable engineering solutions.

Own and extend Aledade’s AI enablement platform, including the MCP Gateway, connector integrations, plugin marketplace, model gateway, observability, telemetry, and cost attribution. Build secure authentication and authorization flows, CI/CD and distribution tooling, evaluation harnesses, model routing, and agent collaboration features. Mentor engineers, document platform practices, run enablement sessions, triage requests, and support on-call operations for gateway and marketplace availability.

Build scalable full-stack software for a cloud-based bioprocessing platform connecting scientific workflows, cloud infrastructure, and laboratory hardware. Develop emulators and hardware-in-the-loop testing systems, establish verification and traceability practices for regulated environments, deliver Console platform features, collaborate across software, hardware, and scientific teams, and mentor engineers.

Lead architecture and development of scalable full-stack systems spanning web, mobile, backend, data, and partner integrations. Build React and TypeScript applications, Node.js services, APIs, and AWS-based distributed systems. Drive cloud-native DevOps, reliability, security, compliance, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Influence cross-team technical direction, establish shared standards, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives across frontend, backend, mobile, and data domains.

Design, build, and scale high-throughput, low-latency Go services powering blockchain RPC infrastructure. Architect distributed systems, own production delivery, improve uptime and latency, resolve complex production issues, and collaborate across Product, Infrastructure, and Developer Experience teams.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput blockchain infrastructure using Go and Rust. Own distributed systems end to end, including architecture, performance optimization, security, testing, deployment, observability, incident response, and reliability. Lead technical designs and code reviews, mentor engineers, debug complex production issues, and collaborate across Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Developer Experience teams.

Lead backend-focused software architecture and development across distributed systems, data ingestion, experimentation platforms, AI workflows, and product capabilities. Build primarily in Python while contributing to React and TypeScript frontend work. Translate ambiguous product needs into scalable production systems, guide technical direction, partner with product and data teams, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices.

Leads full-stack software development across the Censis application stack, including design, coding, testing, deployment, production support, and defect resolution. Develops C#/.NET and Vue.js applications, REST APIs, and SQL Server solutions. Improves security, reliability, observability, and performance through automated testing, secure coding, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering practices. Mentors developers, leads technical discussions, collaborates across Product, QA, DevOps, Security, and Support, and uses approved generative AI tools responsibly.

Leads and mentors ServiceNow software engineers delivering complex customer projects. Develops and customizes ServiceNow solutions, troubleshoots platform and CSM issues, maintains integrations and modules, collaborates with stakeholders, supports upgrades and performance initiatives, documents technical solutions, and performs deployments.

Develop and maintain ChartCheck, a full-stack application supporting radiotherapy plan checking and clinical workflows. Responsibilities include building performant WPF desktop software, DICOM integrations, image and dose visualization, DVH evaluation, architecture, testing, code reviews, and technical decision-making. The role collaborates with physicists and product leaders, mentors teammates, and requires front-end and back-end development across C#, .NET, JavaScript, databases, and cloud systems.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python applications; collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features; ensure performance and quality; identify and fix bugs; maintain code quality and automation; lead and mentor team members using agile practices.

Lead technical direction and delivery for the Acquisition & Onboarding full‑stack team. Build and maintain mobile (React Native/native) and web experiences, backend services at scale, and operational tooling. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, ensure reliability/monitoring/on‑call readiness, collaborate with product and design, and improve dev processes, testing, and release practices to impact conversion and retention.