Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Design, build, ship, and own high-scale, user-facing product features across frontend, backend, and data systems. Define problems, scope and prioritize work, collaborate with Product, monitor production usage, debug incidents, improve reliability, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend expertise alongside React proficiency and ownership from product discovery through long-term maintenance.

Design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems. Contribute to architecture, build CI/CD pipelines, design distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and improve observability, performance, and operational reliability across teams.

Build, operate, and extend data platform and application-layer services enabling secure, self-service data applications at scale. Implement provisioning, CI/CD, access control, integrations, observability, automation, and incident response while contributing to semantic layer and AI-ready tooling roadmaps.

The Open Source Engineer will expand LanceDB's integration with big data systems, manage dataset operations, and enhance open-source community efforts.

Leads software design, development, debugging, testing, deployment, and production support for web applications. Conducts code reviews, builds reusable code, improves legacy systems, monitors system health, optimizes performance, and responds to on-call incidents. Collaborates with engineering, product, design, customers, and vendors; mentors junior engineers; maintains development standards; and champions API-first development. Requires full-stack experience, cloud-native application deployment, database expertise, REST APIs, testing, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript monetization solutions using Prebid.js, Prebid Server, and Google Ad Manager. Own the header bidding wrapper, integrate auction and ad-tech standards, optimize Core Web Vitals and client-side performance, operate Google Cloud services, review code, document architecture, and resolve production issues.

Lead frontend development for a satellite-data monitoring application serving defense and intelligence customers. Design and implement React and TypeScript features, guide frontend architecture, contribute to backend APIs, mentor engineers through reviews and technical discussions, and collaborate with product managers and designers. Own feature delivery from discovery through deployment while improving state management, data fetching, component design, testing, and frontend best practices.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

Owner of core clinical backend systems: design and build TypeScript/Nest.js APIs, model clinical domains in PostgreSQL/Prisma, implement onboarding/migration flows, ensure CI/CD, monitoring, HIPAA/SOC2 readiness, collaborate with clinical stakeholders, and build monitoring/reporting with Sentry/Datadog on AWS.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll build cloud-native backend services using Golang, deploy in Kubernetes, and lead architecture projects in a startup environment.

The role involves developing APIs, building internal tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance system performance while solving engineering challenges.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network and product requirements into computational models, improve solution quality, runtime, scalability, and explainability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability under increasing complexity and load. The role also involves managing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and maintaining production software.

Build and operate multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities across commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Responsibilities include cloud foundations, networking, identity, cluster lifecycle, packaging, GitOps delivery, infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, staged rollouts, observability, incident response, and backup/recovery. The engineer will also create self-service infrastructure primitives for internal engineering teams and support reliable fleet-scale deployments.

Build core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. Write clean, documented, tested code with strong error handling, logging, and performance. Design scalable systems using domain-driven design and microservices, contribute to architectural decisions, and provide technical guidance and code reviews in an Agile Scrum environment.

Designs, develops, tests, audits, troubleshoots, and improves scalable software applications for new business initiatives. Owns technical solutions from conception through deployment, works in an Agile environment, mentors engineers, performs code reviews, recommends technology choices, and drives continuous improvement while collaborating with stakeholders.

Design and maintain Golang backend services, APIs, microservices, automation tools, and Terraform infrastructure modules. Provision and manage cloud resources, troubleshoot application and deployment issues, and improve reliability and performance. Participate across the software development lifecycle, review code and infrastructure configurations, collaborate with technical teams, and communicate project risks. Use AI tools such as Claude, mentor colleagues, and contribute to client-focused technical solutions.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Design and build a high-performance, AI-native web trading experience for sophisticated retail traders. Ship core trading workflows (order entry, positions, blotter, watchlists, alerts), implement trustworthy AI UI patterns, collaborate with backend engineers on low-latency contracts, and iterate quickly with users and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end product features.

Lead architecture and technical direction for an AI-first SaaS product (Growth Studio). Define scalable services, APIs, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows; guide integrations, run architecture/code reviews and POCs; mentor engineers; produce technical documentation; and partner with product, UX, QA, and ops to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities for GovCon customers.

Lead full-stack development across Superset frontend and backend services. Design and ship end-to-end features, improve performance and scalability, own major technical initiatives, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, and the open-source community.

Designs, builds, deploys, supports, and optimizes scalable full-stack web applications and APIs. Responsibilities include system architecture, frontend and backend development, SQL and PL/SQL programming, requirements analysis, software triage, technical documentation, stakeholder validation, and cross-functional collaboration. The role supports a U.S. Navy client and requires obtaining and maintaining Security+ certification and Secret clearance.

Develop and integrate mission-critical software within the TAK ecosystem, including ATAK, WinTAK, MILTAK, and TAK Server. Build CoT data pipelines, low-latency APIs, sensor and intelligence data ingestion systems, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and edge-deployed applications. Troubleshoot tactical networks and integration issues while translating defense mission requirements into scalable solutions. The role requires significant TAK ecosystem experience, multiple programming languages, security clearance, and up to 25% travel.

Set technical direction for Elastic Cloud Serverless control-plane initiatives, designing distributed systems that orchestrate projects across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Lead multi-quarter, cross-team delivery; write and review Go code; improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency; investigate incidents; participate in on-call; mentor engineers; and advise product and engineering leaders on technical trade-offs and roadmap decisions.

We are seeking a product-minded backend engineer to work on our Customer Studio product, focusing on data performance, analytics, audience syncing, and generative AI. The role requires strong architecture, scalability considerations, and product engagement.