Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Develop and maintain software solutions across the full development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, documentation, system enhancements, security remediation, performance improvements, and user story analysis. Collaborate with development teams to solve business problems using .NET technologies and software engineering best practices. Participate in Agile or Lean processes, document changes, and maintain current knowledge of tools, technologies, and industry standards.

Build and operate CrewAI’s cloud and enterprise infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, observability, security controls, self-hosted installation tooling, and reliability processes. Support containers, Kubernetes, databases, queues, networking, secrets, and production workloads. Participate in incident response and on-call operations while partnering with runtime and product engineering teams to improve deployment safety, scalability, and customer production environments.

Build and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, event-driven workflows, and serverless applications using TypeScript and AWS. Integrate new services with legacy WordPress and PHP systems, support platform modernization, write specifications and automated tests, troubleshoot production issues, and improve infrastructure, observability, and reliability. Collaborate remotely with product, design, QA, and engineering teams while participating in code reviews and on-call support.

Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows using TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Integrate modern services with legacy WordPress and PHP systems, develop secure and scalable APIs, troubleshoot production issues, write automated tests, and contribute to infrastructure as code, observability, documentation, code reviews, and on-call support.

Design, build, test, document, and optimize Tailscale’s client-side networking software. Develop connectivity features involving routing, VPNs, subnet routers, exit nodes, and NAT traversal; apply secure, scalable architectures; diagnose complex customer network issues; support escalations; collaborate across product and engineering teams; and contribute to open-source networking projects.

Own full-stack features end to end, including system design, implementation direction, testing, deployment, production operations, and incident response. Use agentic AI to generate code, tests, and reviews while validating quality and security. Build production APIs, data models, authentication, schemas, migrations, and scalable SQL. Collaborate with Product, Design, and DevOps, and apply secure coding practices. Bonus experience includes RAG, LLM evaluation and observability, or TypeScript frontend development.

Design, develop, test, and optimize safe, scalable real-time software for production autonomous vehicle systems. Architect continuous learning infrastructure for ML model deployment and monitoring, analyze algorithms, and collaborate with embedded, platform, AI, sensor, and compute teams. Support perception, prediction, and planning integration while contributing to highway and urban autonomous driving capabilities.

Design and implement motion-planning software for autonomous vehicles, including behavior planning, trajectory generation, safety constraints, and real-time embedded performance. Integrate planning with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems. Validate solutions through simulation, closed-course trials, and on-road testing while addressing complex edge cases and collaborating with vendors, AI teams, and customers.

Build and own production software systems spanning embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, technical design reviews, cross-functional hardware collaboration, hiring, and mentoring. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, distributed systems experience, debugging ability, and proficiency in at least one major programming language.

Develop and maintain COBOL-based Medicare claims processing software in a legacy mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, implementing enhancements, troubleshooting defects, supporting Agile/Scrum delivery, preparing estimates, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with team members, clients, and vendors. The role supports Durable Medical Equipment claims processing and requires adherence to structured development standards.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Lead technical direction and multi-quarter delivery for a platform modernization effort. Architect TypeScript, Java, PHP, and cloud systems; guide monolith decomposition, distributed services, databases, observability, security, and operational excellence. Mentor engineers, coordinate stakeholders, establish engineering standards, and lead responsible adoption of AI-assisted development across the organization.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of Grafana Cloud’s Session Replay product across frontend, backend, and data systems. Design columnar storage, ingestion pipelines, data models, and query patterns for high-volume session data. Build cross-product debugging workflows, partner with customers and internal teams, improve engineering practices, make architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.

Staff Software Engineer leading hands-on full-stack development across C#/.NET services, Angular interfaces, databases, and AWS-hosted applications. Builds healthcare data integrations using HL7, FHIR, and X12 EDI; modernizes legacy systems; improves performance; applies secure coding and HIPAA practices; supports production incidents; reviews code; mentors engineers; and collaborates with product and QA teams.

Develop and maintain a Java and Drools business rules engine governing eligibility, suppression, frequency, and consent. Build Spring services, REST APIs, and Kafka integrations; ensure correctness, performance, testing, resiliency, and compliance in a PHI-handling environment. Collaborate with Product and compliance teams, participate in code reviews, and support cloud-based Kubernetes deployments.

Lead architecture and roadmap for a company-wide data lakehouse platform. Build platform-as-product components (SDKs, CLIs, control planes), optimize distributed compute/storage, prototype performance R&D, ensure compliance-by-design (lineage, PII masking, access control), enable real-time AI data ingestion, drive engineering standards, and mentor cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and workflow systems supporting healthcare claims identification and recovery. Integrate AI/ML models, legal datasets, and transactional data while developing fault-tolerant Temporal workflows. Maintain AWS infrastructure and secure deployment pipelines using Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and related technologies. Collaborate with product, business, and data science teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-performance systems in a regulated startup environment.

Develop and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservice environment. Build AI-powered solutions using LLMs, RAG pipelines, GenAI agents, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks. Responsibilities include frontend development, performance optimization, debugging, code reviews, data integrity, and collaboration with AI/ML teams. The role is remote and requires CST availability and high-speed wired internet.

Own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services. Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs, improve reliability/latency/scale, take end-to-end ownership from design through production support, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor peers while partnering with Product and SRE teams.

Leads the design, development, integration, and ongoing improvement of Wellmark’s internal developer platform and developer experience capabilities. Owns developer portals, software catalogs, self-service workflows, automation, platform integrations, health checks, and engineering enablement. Partners across application engineering, cloud, security, architecture, and operations teams to improve developer productivity, platform adoption, reliability, and adherence to engineering standards. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, roadmap input, troubleshooting, and stakeholder consulting.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s core billing platform across cloud providers. Design and operate scalable billing systems, data pipelines, APIs, and PostgreSQL architecture. Improve reliability, observability, incident response, deployment, and CI/CD practices. Partner with SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Finance teams, guide architecture and roadmap decisions, review technical work, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable production systems for Toast’s retail customers. The role sets long-term technical architecture and strategy, communicates technical direction, mentors senior engineers, improves engineering productivity, diagnoses performance issues, and drives initiatives amid ambiguity. Engineers collaborate directly with retail customers, visit stores, understand operational workflows, and use AI tools to improve development velocity and quality.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain IAM solutions, ensuring security and reliability while working with cloud computing standards.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.