Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Own and modernize the governance domain (auth, roles/permissions, orgs, billing) as a Staff-level backend IC: set architecture, refactor for scale and AI-native workflows, write critical-path code (70-80%), mentor engineers, and partner with product to deliver enterprise-grade governance and compliance features.

Own frontend architecture for multi-tenant applications serving internal, customer, and partner audiences. Build React and TypeScript interfaces, shared component libraries, theming and branding systems, accessible user experiences, and integrations with governed APIs. Establish engineering standards, document technical decisions, navigate open architecture questions, and support workflows ranging from immediate interactions to longer approval processes involving sensitive or regulated data.

The role involves building platforms and core systems for identity services at Keycard, focusing on developing distributed systems and CI/CD automation while creating a best-in-class developer experience.

Own and deliver major features across the flight booking funnel: flight search, booking creation, and post-booking fulfillment. Implement award ticket pricing, point transfers, and integrations with airlines and GDS partners. Collaborate with the flights expert to scale routing, booking engines, and partnership integrations.

Join Aleph's engineering team to develop the Core Product, focusing on user-facing features for financial data insights. Collaborate with leadership, design robust software components, and contribute to system architecture in a fast-paced, remote environment.

Lead the technical vision for complex systems, drive architectural strategies, write production-ready code, and align teams for public sector compliance.

Design, build, and operate core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform. Collaborate with cross-functional and ML teams to enable scalable, high-performance systems, provide production support and troubleshooting, and drive platform features that serve multiple products and engineering teams.

Lead design and delivery of large-scale, cloud-native services powering millions of devices. Architect solutions for scalability and integration, own full service lifecycle in Kubernetes, mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and drive engineering best practices across cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable web applications for payroll and accounting. Collaborate with engineers and product partners, write tested code, participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture, improve CI/CD and monitoring, support production (including on-call), and communicate progress while continuously learning.

The Senior Software Engineer will build user features using Golang and cloud technologies, lead tool implementation, and collaborate across teams to enhance productivity.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Build and scale full-stack customer and agent support experiences across React/TypeScript frontends and Go backend services. Own APIs, integrations, and AI/ML vendor integrations, drive CX outcomes through experimentation and metrics, improve reliability through on-call incident response, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Ops to deliver measurable product outcomes.

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

Design and deliver improvements to Wikipedia’s wikitext processing infrastructure, write PHP and JavaScript, maintain internet APIs, instrument components, and use caching and persistence technologies. Collaborate across engineering, product, design, client, and volunteer communities; own complex technical projects, make architectural decisions, maintain reliable high-performance software, write tests, address security feedback, and mentor engineers.

Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable compliance-platform capabilities for government vendors, federal agencies, and SLED organizations. Design new workflows, shared infrastructure, and tagging systems while partnering with engineering, product, go-to-market teams, and early design partners. Translate evolving requirements into durable solutions, lead complex cross-functional projects, and help shape engineering culture in a rapidly scaling environment.

Own the design and implementation of WISEcode’s automated quality engineering ecosystem. Build AI-augmented UI, API, integration, regression, database, performance, and reliability testing frameworks for ASP.NET and Blazor applications. Integrate testing into CI/CD, improve observability and release confidence, investigate failures and race conditions, validate AI/ML outputs, and establish scalable quality standards and metrics across engineering teams.

Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed database kernels for massively parallel analytics. Responsibilities include architecture, modern C++ development, MPI/OpenMP query execution, SIMD and hardware optimization, distributed networking, database internals, in-database machine learning, vector indexing, performance tuning, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues across large-scale clustered systems.

Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed database kernels for massively parallel analytics. Responsibilities include query execution, columnar storage, transaction management, cluster coordination, hardware-aware optimization, SIMD vectorization, RDMA networking, in-database machine learning, vector indexing, performance tuning, architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues.

Develop and maintain backend applications using .NET, C#, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, and cloud-native technologies. Responsibilities include troubleshooting software issues, optimizing performance and reliability, conducting code reviews, supporting applications, and leading software and process improvements. The role also involves mentoring colleagues, collaborating independently or with teams, and ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Lead Elasticsearch search relevance and vector search initiatives, designing and implementing new search features, algorithms, data structures, and bug fixes in modern Java. Improve search speed and relevance, contribute to Lucene, collaborate with a globally distributed engineering community, guide projects autonomously, review code, and work with technologies including Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra.

Design, build, and maintain full‑stack features across frontend (TypeScript + React) and backend (Python, Node.js, or JVM languages). Own end-to-end development, testing, CI, databases, and cloud/distributed systems. Mentor engineers, participate in code reviews and pair programming, and work in an agile, remote team.

Senior full-stack engineer responsible for designing and building end-to-end features across frontend (TypeScript + React) and backend (JVM languages, Python/Node.js). Owns code quality, testing, CI, and collaborates in agile teams. Mentors junior engineers, participates in code reviews and pair-programming, and works with cloud, databases, and distributed systems. Remote role with occasional in-person meetups.

Lead Elasticsearch search relevance initiatives, designing and implementing search features, algorithms, data structures, and vector search capabilities. Improve performance, scalability, and relevance; resolve complex bugs; contribute to Lucene; collaborate with globally distributed engineers and open-source contributors; and provide technical direction. The role requires modern Java development, autonomous project ownership, code review, asynchronous communication, and expertise with search or vector databases at scale.

Design and build Go-based control-plane services, CSI drivers, storage integrations, observability tools, and infrastructure automation for Kubernetes AI platforms. Integrate enterprise and scale-out storage, support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning, and deliver declarative Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps workflows. Architect reliable storage solutions for Kubernetes clusters, air-gapped environments, and sovereign infrastructure, including artifact mirrors and PKI/TLS.

Lead development of Runware’s AI platform, including scalable backend APIs, SDKs, developer tools, and inference orchestration systems. Design high-performance distributed architectures, optimize image and video model integrations, improve reliability and observability, shape technical direction, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver robust developer experiences and maintainable systems.