Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Design, develop, and maintain provider-facing web portal microservices and highly available business applications. Collaborate with product managers and designers from ideation through deployment and maintenance, make technical decisions, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, support QA, and contribute to compliance initiatives. The role involves modern and legacy technologies, AWS services, microservice and event-driven architectures, APIs, databases, front-end development, infrastructure as code, and secure handling of PHI.

Design and develop scalable, cloud-native APIs and a greenfield system replacing a legacy platform. Build production software using TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, GraphQL, REST, SQL, and automated testing. Contribute to architecture, performance tuning, reliability, Azure DevOps pipelines, and agile delivery while applying AI development tools and maintaining strong engineering standards.

Own Telnyx’s global phone-number ordering pipeline, carrier integrations, regulatory automation, AI-powered order review, and Postgres data layer. Build reliable async Python services with retries, rollbacks, queues, SLA monitoring, document verification, auditability, and human escalation. Improve automation across dozens of vendors and 45+ countries while maintaining dashboards, analytics, and operational alerts across a large microservice estate.

Develop and modernize SQL Server-backed data-access systems for medical imaging workflows. Responsibilities include database schema refactoring, query optimization, indexing, migration tooling, secure and reliable data access, CI/CD automation, testing, technical standards, architecture planning, code reviews, and developer mentorship. The role uses Kotlin, jOOQ, SQL Server, Liquibase, Gradle, and containerized testing to improve performance and maintainability without disrupting clinical users.

Owns the design, development, security, performance, and scalability of Cerby’s cross-browser Manifest V3 extension. Builds React and TypeScript experiences across extension surfaces, manages service-worker synchronization and authentication workflows, and ensures secure credential handling. Responsibilities include dependency and supply-chain security, testing, observability, code reviews, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and production delivery in an agile remote environment. The role also promotes responsible AI-assisted development practices.

Own the architecture and long-term direction of Alpaca’s Redpanda-based event streaming platform. Lead migration to event-driven systems, design scalable real-time client streaming, establish schema and library standards, shape authentication for streaming, partner on resilience and testing, mentor engineers, influence cross-team technical decisions, and participate in platform on-call. The role primarily uses Go and involves Kubernetes, Helm, PostgreSQL, observability, and distributed systems.

Build and own automated testing frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure, load and stress testing, and chaos engineering practices for a brokerage platform. Write primarily Go, integrate AI and LLM tooling into quality workflows, investigate application and Kubernetes failures, improve developer tooling, and mentor engineers on reliability and test coverage.

Build and architect Alpaca’s algorithmic trading platform, developing high-performance, low-latency brokerage systems. Responsibilities include extensive frontend and backend coding, distributed system design, database and concurrency architecture, high availability, throughput optimization, and object-oriented modeling. The role requires prior experience with trading or exchange systems, including OMS and RMS platforms, and involves making critical technical decisions in a demanding early-stage environment.

Lead design and implementation of Azure full‑stack, scalable skilling platform features. Drive CI/CD, reliability, automation, and AI/LLM-enabled capabilities. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and improve test automation and observability for enterprise-scale services.

Design, build, and optimize production-grade applications on Azure while contributing to an observability-focused Azure service. Responsibilities include developing cloud-native systems, creating reusable engineering assets, supporting production environments through on-call participation, investigating incidents, improving reliability and performance, and influencing Azure platform engineering through customer insights. The role also involves direct engagement with strategic customers and strengthening technical capabilities across the organization.

Own the technical vision and architecture for ServiceTitan’s iOS and Android mobile platform. Design scalable, reliable, secure, and high-performing systems; modernize monolithic codebases; improve observability, developer productivity, CI/CD, testing, and release processes. Mentor engineers, influence mobile strategy, define success metrics, support recruiting, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders. The role is approximately 60% development and requires expertise in native mobile development, performance engineering, modular architectures, and cloud-supported mobile backends.

Design, develop, troubleshoot, and support secure, high-volume software applications in an Agile environment. Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, lead code and design reviews, establish automated testing, monitor production systems, and improve quality practices. Collaborate with architects, product partners, customers, and engineers while mentoring team members. Build and maintain AI-enabled components responsibly, applying security, privacy, governance, observability, and compliance standards.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Designs and develops software to automate onboarding, validation, management, tracking, and lifecycle operations for new hardware deployed in Microsoft datacenters. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, system design, coding, debugging, optimization, reliability engineering, monitoring, on-call support, and incident response. The role collaborates with Azure teams and stakeholders while improving scalability, security, availability, observability, and performance across cloud and distributed systems.

Provides principal-level technical leadership for scalable learning and skilling platforms. Designs architectures, writes and reviews production software, leads full software lifecycles, and applies Azure, AI, Copilot, Power Platform, and custom solutions. Responsibilities include secure integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, observability, production support, Responsible AI, reusable components, cross-team technical alignment, and engineering mentorship.

Lead the architecture and implementation of high-performance, reliable core services operating at massive scale. Design synchronous and asynchronous APIs, database schemas, and distributed systems; conduct benchmarking, profiling, monitoring, and optimization; participate in reviews and on-call rotations; resolve production issues; and drive independent experiments and solutions.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement systems for AI integration, build scalable backend services, and mentor team members, ensuring high-quality systems that meet user needs.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing hands-on to complex features. Define architecture, drive development best practices, conduct code reviews, coordinate cross-functional requirements, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality ecommerce marketplace software.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-based microservices and foundational platform capabilities for authentication, authorization, onboarding, RBAC, reporting, auditing, notifications, and APIs. Improve reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting, infrastructure automation, and operational reviews. Provide technical leadership, collaborate across teams, guide architecture and best practices, reduce technical debt, and improve engineering efficiency.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python applications; collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features; ensure performance and quality; identify and fix bugs; maintain code quality and automation; lead and mentor team members using agile practices.

Architect, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack applications using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS. Own features end-to-end, optimize performance and usability, collaborate with founders, and use AI tools to accelerate development in a fast-paced startup.

Design, build, and scale Shepherd’s core platform, backend systems, APIs, user-facing applications, and AI-powered legal workflows. Architect secure, reliable infrastructure for sensitive legal data, collaborate with legal and product teams, build internal tools, optimize performance, and own technical decisions. The role also involves rapid prototyping, mentoring and recruiting engineers, and contributing to SOC 2 readiness and data privacy practices.

Develop and document enterprise-grade SaaS platform functionality while improving quality and performance. Responsibilities include full-stack development, functional and unit testing, defect triage, code reviews, API and process documentation, operational support in regulated environments, and collaboration within Agile and DevOps teams. The role requires expertise in C#, ASP.NET Core, T-SQL, Entity Framework Core, web technologies, software design, debugging, distributed architectures, and high-performance APIs.

Design and scale a feature flagging and A/B testing platform, including high-throughput event ingestion, warehouse-native analytics, real-time feature flag delivery, multi-database SQL support, and distributed systems infrastructure. The role involves full-stack development, architecture, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical product influence within a remote startup team.