Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Lead complex systems analysis, software design, development, testing, debugging, documentation, and application support. Coordinate technical project plans, evaluate vendor solutions, manage milestones, and collaborate with technology teams, business units, clients, and vendors. Mentor less experienced staff, monitor performance, recommend technology and process improvements, support budgets and risk controls, and contribute to strategic studies and due diligence.

Develops, tests, documents, enhances, and maintains software solutions using Appian and related technologies. Designs integrations with external systems, resolves technical issues, remediates security vulnerabilities, improves performance, participates in requirements analysis and Agile development processes, and documents standards. The role also contributes to planning, mentors other engineers, collaborates with team members, and stays current with software development practices and technologies.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.

Develop and maintain Java enterprise applications using Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, Oracle, and MongoDB. Design scalable systems, conduct testing, remediate vulnerabilities, troubleshoot distributed environments, participate in code reviews, document solutions, and mentor junior developers. The role also involves Linux, Git, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud platforms such as OCI or AWS. An active Public Trust clearance and cybersecurity certification are required.

Lead technical ownership of InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabric operations for hyperscale AI supercomputers. Drive incident response, deep multi-layer debugging across hardware/firmware/drivers/OS, and define failure models, playbooks, telemetry, and automation to improve reliability, observability, and scalability of GPU clusters and platform SLAs.

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you'll define and drive the technical strategy for customer experience platforms, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams to enhance customer and agent experiences.

Build and architect Alpaca’s high-performance algorithmic trading platform. Responsibilities include writing backend and frontend code, designing distributed and highly available systems, optimizing low-latency and high-throughput performance, and developing scalable databases, messaging systems, concurrency controls, and service-oriented architectures. The role also involves making critical platform decisions and potentially contributing to order and risk management, trading systems, observability, cloud infrastructure, and financial ledger capabilities.

Owns the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of production software. Builds C#/.NET backend services, Angular web applications, and .NET MAUI mobile apps; optimizes SQL Server databases; resolves production issues; improves reliability, security, performance, and observability; writes tests and documentation; participates in code reviews; and translates ambiguous business needs into maintainable technical solutions.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain scalable frontend and backend systems while collaborating across teams.

Lead a development team while remaining hands-on in full-stack engineering. Design, build, test, deploy, and support secure web applications using C#/.NET, Angular, databases, and AWS. Drive cloud migrations, architecture, CI/CD automation, application security, troubleshooting, performance and cost optimization. Mentor developers, establish engineering standards, lead technical delivery, and collaborate with product, data, DevOps, and architecture teams.

Own commercial navigation features end to end across mobile, backend, and web surfaces. Build reliable, customer-facing navigation experiences for commercial fleets despite poor connectivity, dynamic schedules, and changing routes. Define product priorities and success metrics, ship maintainable and tested code, improve observability, and collaborate with product, design, Maps, Telematics, and adjacent engineering teams. The role requires strong customer focus, technical depth, and the ability to make practical tradeoffs in ambiguous problem spaces.

Designs and develops complex, full-stack advertising software solutions using Go/Python and AWS. Leads architecture, cloud deployment, testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, monitoring, and production releases. Uses Kubernetes, Snowflake, SQL, Linux, and observability tools. Contributes to technical roadmaps, manages cross-team dependencies and risks, and mentors junior engineers within Scrum and Kanban teams.

Senior frontend-focused software engineer responsible for authentication, verification, and fraud experiences across web, mobile, and backend systems. The role owns team goals, designs and delivers highly available systems, collaborates with product and design partners, improves engineering standards, supports operations and on-call efforts, and mentors engineers. Candidates should have strong web application architecture experience, proficiency with React or Vue and JavaScript or TypeScript, and excellent communication skills.

Design, build, and operate scalable distributed systems for real-time restaurant payment and financial workflows. Responsibilities include architecting reliable services, protecting sensitive financial data, improving observability and production performance, debugging distributed systems, participating in on-call rotations, applying AI-assisted engineering tools, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring engineers.

Build and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, test reliability, observability, and engineering productivity at scale. Own services from architecture through production, including SLOs and on-call operations. Lead cross-functional technical projects, partner with engineering teams, mentor engineers, and shape platform strategy.

Build and operate Conduit’s control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design reconciliation-based lifecycle systems, schema-driven APIs, usage metering, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Own contracts, versioning, reliability, asynchronous workflows, and cross-functional coordination. Participate in on-call support while improving platform maintainability and automation.

Build and operate Conduit's control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design schema-driven lifecycle systems, usage metering, APIs, contracts, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Ensure reliability through reconciliation, event-driven workflows, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency. Own cross-team interfaces, improve maintainability, participate in on-call, and debug complex production issues across networking, performance, data integrity, and security boundaries.

Architect and deliver complex distributed systems using Azure cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, and event-driven patterns. Lead architecture reviews, reliability initiatives, performance optimization, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools while maintaining security and code quality. Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, QA, and product teams, and mentor engineers on technical design, development practices, and AI-enabled workflows.

Develop and maintain microservices-based, real-time software for mission-critical air traffic systems. Collaborate with product, systems engineering, QA, DevOps, and platform teams in an Agile/SAFe environment. Translate requirements into reliable solutions, integrate APIs, databases, messaging systems, and external services, and contribute to design and technical decisions. Apply CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and AI-assisted development tools. The role is fully remote and requires Public Trust eligibility and U.S. citizenship.

Analyze Linux system performance, design and implement performance enhancements, productize new servers and hardware, extend performance metrics and visualizations, and build diagnostic tooling. The role requires advanced C programming, Linux kernel expertise, virtualization knowledge, hardware enablement and debugging experience, performance analysis skills, and understanding of computer architecture, concurrency, algorithms, and hardware interconnects.

Develop, maintain, enhance, and support a mission-critical HUD enterprise application using Java, JavaScript, SQL, and related web technologies. Responsibilities include full-stack development, UI and API implementation, database workflows, troubleshooting, code reviews, testing, releases, deployment support, documentation, and compliance with security and accessibility standards.

Design and develop scalable C++ software for endpoint state and control across Windows, macOS, and potentially Linux. Build reliable, multi-process systems that enforce endpoint behavior, manage local state, support IPC, and operate across millions of devices. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, writing design documents, defining architecture and IPC contracts, and making technical decisions in an evolving, sparsely documented environment.

Build and operate secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and networking platforms. Develop self-service tooling, infrastructure-as-code defaults, cloud guardrails, and standardized platform patterns. Lead cross-team infrastructure initiatives, technical investigations, and operational improvements while partnering with security, compute, routing, and other infrastructure teams.