Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead the design and development of mission-relevant software, build backend services and APIs, mentor engineers, and support technical demos.

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major software products and systems. Design scalable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; drive architecture decisions; solve production issues; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; lead critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across distributed international teams.

Owns technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; leads architecture decisions; resolves production issues; improves engineering quality; drives critical initiatives; and mentors engineers across teams.

Owns technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; leads critical initiatives from design through production; improves engineering quality through testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentors engineers across teams.

Design, develop, modify, test, and maintain full-stack software applications. Engineers will understand product areas, codebases, and systems; write high-quality, tested code; analyze data; solve complex problems; collaborate with product and engineering teams; conduct design and code reviews; and mentor junior developers while delivering customer-focused products.

Own and evolve Voltus’s infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes and Nomad workloads, AWS architecture, identity and secrets, stateful systems, observability, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and developer tooling. Lead business-critical migrations with minimal downtime, establish reliable deployment and rollback practices, mentor engineers, participate in on-call, and build secure infrastructure supporting AI-assisted development.

Lead full-stack growth engineering across eligibility, identity, access, client configuration, and reporting systems. Build Python-based GraphQL and REST APIs, React and React Native experiences, scalable database systems, and secure HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant solutions. Own ambiguous cross-domain technical projects, write RFCs, coordinate roadmap delivery, mentor engineers, contribute to engineering strategy, and participate in on-call operations and remediation.

Build and operate accessible, high-performance member-facing web applications using a front-end-first full-stack approach. Contribute to APIs, backend services, data flows, integrations, frontend architecture, testing, observability, and performance improvements. Own projects from concept through production, collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and Clinical teams, improve developer experience, support AI-assisted coding practices, participate in technical reviews and incident follow-up, and mentor engineers.

Develop and maintain software in an agile, test-driven environment using pair programming. Lead technical decisions involving application and data model design, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally with product and design, and ensure application stability and performance. Participate in on-call support and improve system reliability. Use AI developer tools to accelerate development and improve code quality.

The Software Engineer will scale and optimize the platform's infrastructure, manage data layers, and enhance system operations to support growing LLM requests.

As a Software Engineer at OnePay, you will develop and implement features, build scalable products, and work closely with teams to enhance customer experiences.

Develop and optimize distributed systems for syncing customer data, focus on scalability, reliability, and performance for global clients.

Build and evolve scalable backend systems and APIs for a large SaaS platform. Partner with Product, Design, and QA from ideation through deployment, contribute to microservices architecture, improve testing and observability, identify operational risks, and mentor teammates. The role emphasizes reliable, maintainable solutions, strong collaboration, architectural decision-making, and continuous improvement.

Design, architect, develop, test, and support scalable full-stack applications for a high-volume, multi-tenant data platform. Own features from design through delivery, contribute to technical strategy and roadmap development, ensure operational excellence, collaborate across distributed teams, and mentor engineers. Apply cloud-native technologies and AI-assisted development practices while supporting near-real-time analytics and reliable production operations.

Build and operate Yahoo’s developer experience platform, including CI/CD infrastructure, artifact repositories, release pipelines, and ArgoCD GitOps deployments. Develop reusable golden-path workflows, AI-assisted automation, configuration validation, and platform tooling. Support pipeline troubleshooting, artifact management, runner optimization, observability, security practices, and developer adoption through migrations, documentation, office hours, and technical enablement.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of a full-stack platform and production AI systems (LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows). Ship user-facing features across frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring. Set technical direction, tooling, and engineering practices while partnering with product and program teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go. Architect distributed, fault-tolerant systems, optimize performance and reliability, define APIs and service boundaries, improve observability and operational readiness, and collaborate cross-functionally to support mission-critical autonomous deployments.

Design and build cloud cost-management capabilities, including forecasting, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, data pipelines, transformation models, visualizations, and reusable UI components. Own features end to end from planning through release while improving application reliability and performance. Collaborate closely with engineers and founding team members, contribute to technical design and roadmap decisions, and work pragmatically in a fast-moving distributed startup environment.

Design, implement, and support high-performance storage and query infrastructure handling billions of events. Independently scope and deliver complex projects, optimize query performance, improve reliability, participate in on-call rotations, define KPIs and SLOs, reduce operational toil, debug production issues, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable web and backend applications, public REST APIs, automated testing frameworks, and cloud-native services. Improve scalability, stability, monitoring, auto-scaling, CI/CD, security, and reliability. Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, document root causes and operational procedures, and collaborate with distributed engineering teams to deliver fleet-management platforms.

Develop open source SDKs, enterprise APIs, UIs, and backend systems supporting large-scale computer vision datasets. Build scalable, maintainable, performant, and well-tested software for unstructured data and AI workflows. Contribute to enterprise deployments across customer clouds and on-premises environments, while improving tooling, automation, engineering practices, and open source community initiatives in a remote-first team.

The Staff SDET will design and implement automated test frameworks using TypeScript, collaborate with developers, and enhance testing processes within CI/CD pipelines.

Design, build, and optimize GraphQL APIs, gRPC services and SQL queries for a promotions engine. Own complex technical problems, improve production scalability and performance, set up DataDog monitoring, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and deliver end-to-end features in an agile environment.

Build and operate AlphaSense's identity platform across user management, authentication, and authorization. Design scalable RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC systems, integrate authentication patterns (OAuth/OIDC/SAML), implement SCIM provisioning, and expose GraphQL/gRPC/REST APIs. Partner with security on SOC2/GDPR compliance, drive platform roadmap, champion testing, observability, and reliability, and operate autonomously from North America in close collaboration with the Helsinki team.