Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement core services and systems, provide technical leadership, and mentor engineers while focusing on scalable, high-performance software development.

Develop AI/ML-powered features in ClickHouse Cloud, focusing on frontend and API architecture, UI/UX, and integrations with AI systems.

The role involves building, testing, and deploying infrastructure software, mentoring teammates, collaborating with teams, and supporting software services.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead the design and reliability of Duetto's data lakehouse, evolving data systems using Python and AWS, ensuring data quality, and implementing AI-driven solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will deliver software solutions for clients, teach agile practices, and ensure project success through collaboration. You will work directly with teams and clients to implement effective software development methodologies.

The Senior Software Engineer will build scalable backend systems, design APIs, and integrate ML models, enhancing Yahoo's search functionality.

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Orum, you will own product features end-to-end, design scalable systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive technical excellence while mentoring your teammates.

Build and improve backend systems (primarily DogByte) supporting hospital workflows. Own projects end-to-end from design to production, collaborate with Product, SRE, and DevSecOps, apply AI tools thoughtfully to developer workflows, and review cross-team work to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

Lead technical vision and architecture for a scalable virtual care platform. Architect and develop Ruby on Rails backend, build React front end, guide technical decisions, collaborate cross-functionally, drive adoption of new technologies, and contribute to long-term product roadmap while mentoring engineers.

Lead design, development, delivery, and maintenance of high-performance web applications for Provider Directory and Scheduling. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, resolve performance and concurrency issues, build integrations with EHRs, and improve reservation/resource-sharing systems to ensure secure, well-tested, and documented solutions.

Lead backend/frontend development for a cross-functional Agile team: design, implement, test, deploy and operate scalable web services; mentor engineers; drive architecture, code quality, CI/CD, observability, and secure handling of sensitive financial data.

Build and ship greenfield full‑stack product features end-to-end for issuers and distribution partners. Iterate quickly, leverage AI to accelerate development, work across Elixir/Phoenix backends and TypeScript/Next.js frontends on AWS, and collaborate with stakeholders while mentoring engineers. Report to CTO and drive product and technical decisions.

Design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and integrations powering student-university interactions. Own reliability, performance, security, automation, ETL/ingestion, and CI/CD. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor teammates, and influence product direction while operating in cloud-native, distributed microservices environments.

Build and maintain end-to-end features across frontend and backend; collaborate with product, operations, sales, and marketing; scope, prototype, test, deploy, and maintain services; write maintainable code and exhaustive tests; participate in code reviews; mentor teammates; estimate and prioritize work; operate effectively in an asynchronous remote environment.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will enhance CI/CD pipelines, improve developer experience, and productionize AI tooling while mentoring teammates and collaborating with engineering leaders.

Design, build, and optimize scalable Java-based microservices and RESTful APIs. Ensure performance, uptime, and engineering standards through design and code reviews, testing, and collaboration with product and support teams. Contribute to domain-driven service design and API consistency.

Lead design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services for Payouts. Drive architecture, ensure performance and reliability, mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, and collaborate with product and support teams to deliver customer-facing REST APIs.

Lead the design and development of Pinecone's API and interfaces for AI agents, focusing on automation and observability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Volunteer senior engineer to develop a cross-platform medical/wellness app (web, iOS, Android). Own full SDLC: design, coding, testing, data models, pipelines, deployments, and collaborate in Agile processes. Attend weekly standups and commit at least 4 hours weekly.

The Senior Software Developer II - Full Stack will design and develop scalable systems, leading projects while mentoring junior staff and engaging with stakeholders. The role emphasizes technical leadership, problem-solving in software development, and innovative processes in cloud and AI technologies.

Design and maintain core components of Docker Desktop, improve installation and update processes, ensure system reliability, and collaborate across teams.

Serve as an embedded Linux expert on customer projects: design and refactor real-time architectures, develop Linux kernel drivers, debug low-level hardware/software issues, optimize kernel performance, collaborate with customers and internal teams, lead technical efforts, produce high-quality deliverables, and create technical proposals to support product lifecycle and certification.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and maintain MediaWiki's backend components, ensuring quality and operational excellence across the platform while mentoring team members and aligning with WMF strategies.

Design, develop, and operate scalable, low-latency backend Guidance services for navigation. Solve complex guidance scenarios, build customizable solutions for OEMs and niche customers, and create tooling and AWS-based infrastructure to support mapping and navigation features.

Develop, design, and maintain production software for autonomous mission management of a satellite constellation. Contribute to architecture, implement scalable algorithms in Python and Go, support production operations, on-call rotations, launches, and cross-team integration for automated constellation operations.