Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer in Infrastructure, you will lead a team in building high-performance, distributed systems, guide project direction, mentor engineers, and improve data ingestion architecture.

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.

Build and scale full-stack platform services for user onboarding, identity management, privacy controls, and secure public-safety workflows. Develop React applications, Node.js APIs, database models, and complex SQL queries. Containerize applications with Docker, deploy Kubernetes microservices using Helm, and leverage AWS services including S3, API Gateway, and SQS. Solve authentication, authorization, performance, and data-security challenges while shaping foundational platform architecture.

Architects, implements, and optimizes cloud infrastructure and automated systems. Maintains scalable, secure, reliable cloud environments; monitors system health, proactively resolves incidents, and minimizes downtime. Mentors junior engineers, advances CloudOps and DevOps practices, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to support mission-critical applications. Requires advanced Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, scripting, networking, and cloud security expertise.

Architect, implement, optimize, and maintain secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure. Lead CloudOps and DevOps improvements, mentor junior engineers, deploy automated systems, monitor cloud environments, and proactively resolve production issues. The role requires advanced Kubernetes, AWS networking, infrastructure as code, Docker, scripting, cloud security, and healthcare compliance expertise.

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.

Design, develop, deploy, and support complex OneStream software features and services. Own end-to-end delivery, APIs, SDKs, data contracts, performance, scalability, reliability, and production quality. Lead technical design discussions and code reviews, mentor engineers, improve CI/CD and testing practices, and collaborate cross-functionally. Build user interfaces with modern frameworks, resolve production issues, and responsibly use AI-assisted development tools while ensuring correctness, security, and architectural alignment.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, engineering judgment, explanation quality, and user trust. Provide rigorous, opinionated feedback distinguishing response quality levels and help define best practices for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This contract role requires experienced software engineering judgment rather than production coding.

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.

Designs and maintains scalable test automation frameworks using Jest and Playwright. Develops test strategies, performs functional and regression testing, investigates defects, manages test environments and data, integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborates with product and engineering teams to ensure software quality. The role also documents quality metrics and mentors junior team members.

Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for Nango’s open-source developer infrastructure platform. Build APIs, SDKs, UIs, and runtime systems, optimize performance and reliability, solve integration challenges with customers, shape the roadmap, and maintain the open-source repository. The role requires strong ownership, product thinking, developer empathy, communication, and autonomy in a remote-first startup environment.

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 Senior Backend Software Engineer will design and maintain backend systems, optimize performance, ensure security compliance, and mentor junior engineers in a collaborative environment.

Design, develop, maintain, and enhance SmartCop public-safety applications across the software development lifecycle. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, use C#/.NET and MS SQL Server, consume/develop web services, apply object-oriented design, leverage AI-assisted development tools, participate in code reviews, and follow automated testing and quality-focused practices. Support deployment, troubleshooting, and implementation decisions while meeting North American Central Time collaboration requirements.

Build and maintain internal web services and UIs to support deployment workflows, strengthen CI/CD and release safety, improve observability and auditability, and operate internal services including on-call support and production rollouts.

The role involves building user-facing features, collaborating with product and design teams, and ensuring high-quality product delivery while optimizing performance across systems.

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.

The Software Developer designs, builds, and maintains custom software solutions, collaborating closely with product owners and development teams to deliver high-quality software while participating in Agile Scrum ceremonies.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain features using AI-assisted tools, collaborate with teams, and enhance software solutions for better user insights.

Develop, integrate, and test spacecraft flight software across the full lifecycle. Implement and upgrade cFS-based applications, perform unit-to-platform verification in simulation and HIL/FlatSat environments, support integration with hardware and payloads, and participate in anomaly resolution, mission operations support, and proposal activities.