Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Join an early engineering hire at a growing SaaS platform for online communities. Scope and deliver new features, write modular TypeScript/React code, enable AI coding agents, monitor production, and troubleshoot issues while influencing product direction and improving platform scalability and developer experience.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop and maintain Docker Desktop's lifecycle components, focusing on installation, updates, and performance across macOS and Windows environments, while debugging complex OS-level issues and collaborating with teams.

The Senior Software Engineer will design high-performance systems, build features using Python and Django, mentor junior talent, and ensure system reliability through automated testing.

Design and maintain backend services for AuthZed Cloud's control plane, focusing on Kubernetes systems and secure authentication. Collaborate with teams for system reliability and incident resolution.

The Senior Front-End Engineer will solve complex architecture problems, develop features using Vue, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

The Staff Engineer will lead the Systems team, design scalable cloud infrastructure, optimize data pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and security.

The Software Development Engineer II will develop navigation solutions, balance rapid development with reliability, and optimize performance while promoting operational excellence at Mapbox.

Design and evolve systems for Motion's infrastructure, focusing on reliable and secure operations across APIs, Linux systems, and cloud environments with a focus on hands-on coding and engineering judgment.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build fullstack features using Go, React, and Ember, ensuring optimal customer experiences and system scalability while mentoring peers and driving projects.

The role involves designing and optimizing LiveKit's media pipeline, building distributed systems for media ingestion and export, and shaping technical direction across products, ensuring high quality and operational excellence.

Lead QA activities for an IAM program: design and implement QA methodologies, create and run manual and automated tests, perform code/product reviews, triage defects, validate functionality/performance/security, and support CI/CD, UAT, and release validation across Agile teams.

Build and maintain MyHealthTeam social networks as a full-stack engineer. Work with Product in an agile, test-driven environment, manage production AWS services, and contribute across front-end and back-end systems.

Develop, test, and improve the OT Security Platform as part of the Microsegmentation Product Team, ensuring high-quality software and architecture.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, improve automation workflows, and mentor junior engineers in a security-focused development environment.

Design and implement scalable frontend solutions using JavaScript/TypeScript and React. Drive architecture discussions, ship features with minimal guidance, maintain code quality and styling standards, collaborate across agile teams, ensure performance and scalability, and manage end-to-end feature lifecycles in a fast-moving environment.

Design, develop, and maintain backend services for the Leap quantum-classical hybrid cloud platform. Collaborate with product owners and architects across the SDLC to deliver features, troubleshoot and tune production systems, write clean maintainable code, participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, and mentor junior engineers to improve engineering practices and platform scalability.

The Senior Backend Engineer will design and build backend systems for a multi-cloud platform, ensuring performance, scalability, and high quality while collaborating with various teams and stakeholders.

Lead the development of high-performance software systems, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to technology strategy while ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions.

Design and own AI-agent-driven test workflows and the automated verification framework. Build test context, select models and tooling, validate AI-generated code and tests, operate test automation across UI/API/mobile/data, ensure security and compliance, mentor teams, and continuously improve agent orchestration and observability.

Lead end-to-end design and delivery of scalable Custom Data platform features. Build and maintain distributed systems, APIs, and stream-processing; improve observability, performance, and security; mentor engineers; drive architecture, incident response, and production ownership across stack (Ruby/Java, React/TypeScript).

Design, build, and maintain backend services in TypeScript for millions of users; develop full‑stack features with React/React Native; participate in code reviews; provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architecture guidance; collaborate with PM and design; use monitoring/metrics and Agile practices to deliver scalable, user-focused products.

Provide technical leadership for sustaining and modernizing a portfolio of .NET web applications and reports. Develop and modernize code (C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET 4.8), migrate SSRS to Power BI and WebForms to ASP.NET Core, design Azure cloud infrastructure (Databricks, Synapse, Functions, App Services), maintain SQL Server/T-SQL databases, ensure security/ATO compliance and accessibility, and mentor junior developers on task-based government assignments.

Provide technical leadership to design, modernize, and sustain a portfolio of .NET web applications and Azure infrastructure. Develop and migrate WebForms to ASP.NET Core and SSRS to Power BI, maintain SQL Server databases, enforce secure coding and ATO compliance, ensure accessibility (Section 508/WCAG), and mentor junior developers while coordinating with VA stakeholders.

Lead design and implementation of scalable backend systems that ingest, process, and serve high-volume health data. Own projects end-to-end, drive integrations with third-party APIs, improve data reliability and observability, mentor engineers, and partner with product, clinical, and data teams to deliver clinically meaningful insights.

Lead the design and development of native Windows desktop applications, ensuring best practices in architecture, accessibility, and performance while collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing feature lifecycles.