Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Build and maintain cross-platform Electron desktop apps focused on reliability, performance, and real-time behavior. Implement desktop features (file access, notifications, auto-updates), integrate AI via backend APIs, optimize startup/memory, profile Electron overhead, manage large local state and message history, and ensure stability on macOS and Windows.

Build and ship end-to-end features across a TypeScript/Next.js monolith: dashboard, marketing site, billing, email, and AI-assisted tools. Own data models, APIs, third-party integrations, testing, observability, and production quality. Collaborate with the founder, review code, and improve engineering practices while delivering customer-facing features rapidly.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Lead technical vision and implement high-impact Ruby on Rails solutions for an internal demo platform. Improve reliability, observability, instrumentation, and integrations; partner with Product, Sales, and cross-functional teams; mentor engineers and drive architecture, testing, and engineering best practices.

Join the Marketing Technology Platform team to develop and support AWS-based and SaaS marketing systems (CMS, DAM, personalization, analytics). Build full-stack solutions, partner with marketing and UX, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to architecture, and support CI/CD, testing, and performance optimization.

Lead technical design and delivery of scalable, event-driven, cloud-native systems for insurance platforms. Champion AI-enabled, specification-driven development, observability, automation, and production readiness. Provide architectural leadership, mentor engineers, and partner with stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and innovative solutions.

Lead and mentor engineers to design, build, and own scalable backend systems, APIs, and platform primitives for Vanta's Integrations Platform. Drive complex projects, set technical direction, collaborate across teams, and contribute to engineering culture while enabling integrations across cloud, identity, MDM, and HRIS ecosystems.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices and developer-facing APIs, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, design secure/versioned APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and develop microservices using a cloud-native tech stack, with a focus on financial services and secure systems.

Lead end-to-end development of production web application features using Python and Next.js/TypeScript. Drive system design, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and automated testing. Champion safe AI-assisted development and agentic coding workflows, build shared libraries and developer tooling, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, multi-tenant healthcare SaaS capabilities.

Design, build, and improve shared services and engineering capabilities for government systems. Develop software in Go and Python, review teammates' code, write design documents, and own projects. Work independently, apply engineering best practices, and ramp quickly in complex environments.

Build, integrate, and stress-test full-stack applications and backend services that leverage advanced AI models. Develop production APIs, front-end features, databases, and cloud infrastructure; troubleshoot integrations; prototype rapidly and deliver high-quality code and documentation in fast-moving environments.

Build and maintain Plane's local-first browser client surfaces: large, virtualized workspaces, collaborative editor, offline/caching layers, and shared design-system components. Work cross-functionally with designers and backend engineers, extend sync and conflict-resolution behavior, optimize rendering performance, and triage cross-browser and self-hosted issues.

Build and own backend surfaces for Plane: APIs, data models, migrations, real-time sync (CDC/event streams), caching, and query performance. Instrument, monitor, and debug production incidents; collaborate with product and frontend teams across locations.

Own and build Node.js/TypeScript backend services that power integrations, importers, queues, and developer-facing OAuth surfaces. Design reliable queue/worker systems (retries, idempotency, backpressure), integrate third-party APIs, collaborate with Django engineers, and repair partial failures to ensure safe, auditable data migrations and integrations.

Provide expert-level technical support for web and mobile products, debug high-performance RESTful services, triage incidents, coordinate cross-team incident response, collaborate with Client Success, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to resolve complex issues and improve product reliability.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for real-time data synchronization and streaming. Optimize latency, throughput, and reliability, guide multi-region and disaster-recovery architecture, own projects from concept to production, and improve observability, automation, and incident response.

Lead end-to-end delivery of full-stack product and platform initiatives. Design and implement scalable frontend and backend systems, own production reliability and incidents, introduce pragmatic engineering practices, mentor engineers, and drive architecture and tooling decisions to balance speed and long-term maintainability.

Collaborate with a distributed team to develop, maintain, and modernize the Landscape management software for Ubuntu, focusing on quality code and automated testing.

Design, develop, and maintain manufacturing and production test software for programming, calibrating, and verifying products. Integrate with embedded systems and test instruments, implement automated test sequences and traceability, investigate failures, and improve throughput, quality, and yield across factory programming stations and production fixtures.

Develop and maintain Java applications for DoD systems, focusing on backend services, REST APIs, and microservices, while ensuring security and performance.

Develop and maintain scalable investment portfolio management systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system correctness and client trust, focusing on complex domain logic.

The Senior SRE Engineer will design, build, and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, manage infrastructure-as-code, and write tooling in various languages.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at Reacher, you'll own product features end-to-end, design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and lead architectural decisions in an AI-driven environment, focusing on both backend and frontend development.

Reacher seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to lead product features, design scalable backend systems, mentor engineers in AI-native workflows, and enhance user experiences across the tech stack.