Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Design and implement the core components of the Agents Python framework, focusing on API and abstraction development for AI-driven applications.

Develop open-source Web3 and Web2 technologies for the Canton Network, solving complex distributed systems and security challenges. Own major software components, contribute to cloud deployments and operations, collaborate across distributed engineering teams, mentor engineers, and improve systems and processes. The role requires strong polyglot programming skills, preferably in Scala or Haskell, plus experience with Kubernetes, Pulumi, Helm, and Grafana.

Own backend performance and scalability improvements for a mature Java-based Athlete Management System. Diagnose bottlenecks across APIs, databases, calculations, and background jobs; improve data access, asynchronous processing, observability, containerization, and reliability. Develop technical plans, drive changes through production, collaborate with the Data Platform team, review architecture, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support.

Build and evolve AWS platform infrastructure, Terraform and Pulumi automation, internal developer tooling, TypeScript libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and ephemeral environments. Improve reliability through SLOs, error budgets, observability, autoscaling, and incident response while addressing performance challenges across Aurora PostgreSQL and distributed services. Partner with product engineers, document complex systems, and raise engineering standards.

Own backend-heavy product and platform engineering from design through production. Build and scale distributed systems supporting large-scale mortgage transactions, design reliable infrastructure for regulated workflows, contribute to architecture and engineering standards, and collaborate with product, infrastructure, and platform teams. Use AI coding tools while maintaining rigorous human review and correctness.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and supports enterprise software applications using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, APIs, and related technologies. Owns application performance, reliability, scalability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Serves as a technical subject matter expert, contributes to architecture and technology decisions, partners with DevOps on CI/CD automation, and mentors engineers. Collaborates with business stakeholders, product owners, vendors, and project teams throughout the software development lifecycle.

Build and maintain full-stack features for ClearanceJobs.com using TypeScript, Vue.js, Laravel, PHP, MySQL, AWS, and Terraform. Own work end to end, including product scoping, implementation, testing, code reviews, deployment, troubleshooting, and technical decision-making. Improve architecture, testing, code quality, technical debt, and development practices while mentoring teammates and collaborating with product, design, and business stakeholders.

Design, develop, implement, test, and support high-quality internal software and customer-facing products. Enhance existing products and design APIs that integrate systems. Ensure security measures and perform code testing and reviews.

Design and build the control plane for Postgres clusters, ensure data protection, automate database operations, and collaborate with customers to enhance the platform.

Develop, test, and maintain a complex distributed processing application using Python and Java. Collaborate with product owners, data coaches, analysts, DBAs, and Agile teams to meet backend/frontend requirements. Work with distributed workloads (Spark/Hadoop), SQL/Snowflake, AWS, shell scripting, and job scheduling/process automation. Support delivery under Agile/SAFe practices and ensure alignment with program standards.

The Power Systems Software Engineer will develop high-fidelity power flow models, validate them against customer data, and enhance the architecture for solver performance in grid simulations.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop high-performance software for executing open-source LLMs on custom hardware, focusing on optimizations and efficient libraries primarily in C++.

Pipeline for software engineering roles at multiple levels. Work may include design, development, testing of embedded or application software, firmware and hardware-software integration, code review, debugging, performance optimization, Agile/Scrum practices, and cross-functional collaboration with systems, controls, and hardware teams.

Build and own backend, data architecture, and integrations for operations. Replace manual workflows with automations and AI agents, ship internal tools, ensure reliable data flows, monitoring, and documentation, and support production systems used by ops.

The Senior Back-End Software Engineer will design and implement a serverless platform, work closely with the product team, and own entire projects, driving innovation in telehealth.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead projects, architect solutions, mentor junior staff, and work full stack on platform development.

Design, implement, and maintain backend services and core APIs (primarily Scala). Collaborate on architecture, improve system reliability, and deliver production software for legal AI products.

The Senior .NET Software Engineer will drive development of .NET software products, focusing on back-end engineering, code reviews, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Senior engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data ingestion, processing, storage, and member-facing membership application. Drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, build data pipelines, APIs, and ensure reliability, observability, CI/CD, and documentation while partnering with product and analytics stakeholders.

Lead complex software projects, mentor engineers, and set technical direction at Vanta while contributing to security and compliance solutions.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Design and develop backend services and APIs for identity resolution, optimize event-driven systems, and enhance system reliability. Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions.

Lead design and implementation of the PSA Liquidity Platform connecting buyers and sellers. Build buyer tooling, matching/ranking engines, and seller experiences. Architect and operate microservices and Kafka-driven systems on Kubernetes/AWS, instrument observability, apply AI tooling across the SDLC, and drive cross-functional delivery from 0-to-1 while owning end-to-end outcomes.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.