Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Build and ship Ori developer tools across CLI, Slack, desktop, and cloud surfaces. Develop multi-model agent runtimes with model switching, provider fallbacks, tool integrations, sandboxing, secrets management, session handling, and version-controlled agent state. Own the full product experience, including installation, authentication, reliability, observability, and evaluations. Collaborate with product, design, and platform teams while feeding platform requirements into OpenRouter APIs and SDKs.

Build and operate Numeral’s public API, MCP server, billing and ERP integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform services. Own projects from design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and contribute to architecture decisions. The role requires strong backend engineering, distributed systems knowledge, cloud and container experience, and a customer-focused approach to dependable financial automation.

Build and scale AI-enabled developer experience systems, including CI/CD platforms, deployment safeguards, observability, automated response workflows, and multi-agent orchestration. Reduce developer toil and technical debt while improving software delivery speed, safety, reliability, and production quality. Partner with engineering teams to adopt AI-native delivery practices and convert emerging capabilities into scalable internal platforms.

Build and operate Numeral’s platform services, public API, MCP server, ERP and billing integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer interfaces. Own projects from technical design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and support scalable background jobs and APIs. Collaborate with product and engineering teams while applying distributed-systems principles and maintaining accurate, dependable financial-data workflows.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Toast’s pricing engine across multiple teams. Design and operate highly available distributed systems, APIs, databases, and event-driven services at scale. Serve as the pricing domain expert, improve correctness and performance, lead incident response and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, establish operational excellence, and align technical priorities with Product and engineering leadership.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Build and maintain accessible, reusable React Native and web components for Rocket Money’s design system. Collaborate with designers and engineers on UI primitives, tokens, patterns, documentation, tooling, motion, and interaction quality. Improve accessibility, testing, adoption, migration support, and developer experience through reliable shared infrastructure, Storybook examples, technical documentation, and code reviews.

Design and build scalable frontend and backend features for route planning, routing, navigation, and route execution products. Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to improve planner efficiency, leverage AI appropriately, and promote technical excellence. Mentor junior engineers, contribute to team growth, engage with customers, and help scale products across industries and customer verticals.

Develop, test, deploy, and support solutions for the ScriptMed Cloud Platform using C#, SQL, and scripting. Configure systems for customer onboarding and tenant creation, automate manual workflows, translate business requirements for distributed engineering teams, and collaborate on designs and troubleshooting. The role requires responsible handling of sensitive data, adherence to HIPAA and security policies, project ownership, documentation, and participation in an after-hours on-call rotation.

Leads full-stack software engineering and technical delivery for enterprise applications across the Microsoft .NET and Azure ecosystem. Designs scalable architectures, APIs, integrations, distributed and event-driven systems, and cloud-native solutions. Provides hands-on development, code reviews, troubleshooting, DevOps collaboration, CI/CD, production support, and operational improvement. Mentors engineers, coordinates technical delivery, manages risks and dependencies, and partners with Product, Architecture, Security, QA, and infrastructure teams.

Develop and integrate complex software applications as part of a Honeywell engineering team. Interns will contribute software features to products, apply software development lifecycle and configuration management practices, analyze problems, develop efficient solutions, and collaborate with global teams while receiving mentorship and hands-on experience.

Software engineering intern supporting the design, development, integration, and enhancement of complex software applications. The role involves contributing to team goals, creating innovative solutions, developing high-quality features, applying software development lifecycle and configuration management practices, and collaborating with engineers. Interns receive mentorship, hands-on experience, relocation benefits, and short-term housing when eligible.

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Build and scale a telemedicine platform using React, TypeScript, Python, Flask, and PostgreSQL. Own features through development, deployment, and launch; develop integrations; write tests; conduct design and code reviews; resolve production issues; and collaborate with Product, Design, and Quality teams in a Scrum environment. The role also involves mentoring engineers, improving development processes, and communicating technical decisions to nontechnical stakeholders.

Build and ship production software across the frontend and backend, working closely with founders, customers, and product teams. Develop AI-powered features and systems involving web scraping, unstructured data, PDF parsing, and cloud infrastructure. Translate real-world real estate and financing problems into technical solutions, make high-impact decisions, and own shipped code. The internship may convert to a full-time role.

Build and maintain responsive web experiences, PWAs, and native-feeling mobile apps; design secure APIs and third-party integrations; develop conversational AI bots and support automation; implement ad-tech, segmentation, push notifications, analytics, and A/B testing; and optimize performance, reliability, and uptime. The role requires full-stack development, cloud and DevOps fundamentals, and collaboration in a fast-paced startup.

Lead a portfolio company’s engineering function by writing production code, modernizing the software development lifecycle, coaching engineers, setting the product roadmap, and implementing AI-powered development and product capabilities. The role requires rapidly learning unfamiliar technology stacks, improving legacy codebases without rewrites, operating independently, and partnering closely with general managers, operators, and customers.

Lead development of full-stack, mission-critical products using Angular, React, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Own projects from product definition through deployment, integrate GraphQL APIs and machine learning systems, improve developer experience and CI/CD, collaborate with clinicians and researchers, participate in customer discovery, and mentor engineers while shaping technical architecture and engineering culture.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Azure Kubernetes Service capabilities for AI workloads. Design secure, reliable, scalable distributed systems; coordinate engineering teams; define testing and deployment strategies; improve observability and operational readiness; investigate production issues; and mentor engineers while advancing engineering practices.

Lead development of scalable Java backend applications and high-availability cloud services. Design architectures, REST APIs, databases, caching systems, and distributed session infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, address performance and scalability challenges, and uphold quality and automation practices for endpoint management products.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable, secure Azure networking software and automation tools. Act as DRI, monitor production, troubleshoot incidents, run root-cause analysis, and drive reliability, performance, and cost improvements. Collaborate with PMs and architects, participate in design/code reviews, mentor engineers, and champion security, privacy, and compliance.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Build and scale developer platform capabilities, AI-powered coding and review tools, CI/CD systems, Kubernetes infrastructure, and self-service developer workflows. Improve reliability, security, observability, and delivery speed through automation, reusable templates, guardrails, documentation, and incident-response practices. Collaborate closely with platform teammates, contribute to roadmap decisions, and communicate clearly about progress, blockers, and technical tradeoffs.

Lead performance engineering for massive-scale HPC and AI workloads across InfiniBand-connected GPU clusters. Diagnose communication bottlenecks, analyze fabric behavior, tune RDMA and QoS, develop telemetry tooling, optimize topology-aware communication, benchmark distributed workloads, and collaborate with operations and hardware vendors on next-generation interconnects.