Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

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.

The Senior iOS Engineer will lead product decisions, ship code for the iOS app, and enhance the app's architecture, ensuring a user-centric experience.

Build and operate CrewAI's infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Own containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secrets, networking, databases, and on-call reliability. Harden security, automate deployments and installs, partner with runtime and product engineers, and reduce operational toil through tooling and automation.

Build and operate Sourcegraph Cloud platform: develop inter-cloud connectivity, control plane orchestration, expose infrastructure APIs, debug and patch upstream IaC dependencies, ensure reliability and participate in on-call rotation to meet SLAs.

Develop and optimize distributed systems for syncing customer data, focus on scalability, reliability, and performance for global clients.

Lead architecture and stabilization of a large-scale, multi-tenant CRM SaaS: own reliability, data-sync correctness, and performance; write production code (~40-50%); drive migration toward event-driven microservices; define observability, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development; mentor senior engineers and coordinate cross-team initiatives.

Design, build, and operate CRM SaaS features across Angular, Node.js, and PHP services. Own integrations, data synchronization, and high-throughput workflows. Improve scalability, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and incident response while mentoring teammates and helping modernize the architecture toward event-driven microservices on AWS.

Design, architect, develop, and maintain OneStream Marketplace solutions using web, cloud, SQL, and enterprise platform technologies. Lead design and code reviews, define APIs and coding standards, optimize application and database performance, support deployment automation, and ensure software quality. Mentor engineers, train new hires, guide requirements discussions, approve pull requests, and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.

Design, implement, and own complex features and services for a large-scale CPM platform. Lead technical design, build modern UIs, design APIs and JSON/XML contracts, drive performance and reliability improvements, mentor engineers, lead code reviews, contribute to CI/CD and production support, and responsibly employ AI-assisted development tools.

Build and evolve scalable backend systems and APIs for a large SaaS platform. Partner with Product, Design, and QA from ideation through deployment, contribute to microservices architecture, improve testing and observability, identify operational risks, and mentor teammates. The role emphasizes reliable, maintainable solutions, strong collaboration, architectural decision-making, and continuous improvement.

Build and deploy scalable, maintainable full-stack applications, with a primary focus on backend development in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Design APIs, data models, and performance optimizations while applying security best practices. Contribute to React and TypeScript frontend work, infrastructure, vulnerability fixes, and CI/CD improvements as needed. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver reliable, high-quality product experiences.

Develops and supports software applications. The posting requires U.S. citizenship or naturalized citizenship and mandates that all work be performed within the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii.

Develop and improve embedded graphics and compute drivers, customize products for embedded hardware and real-time operating systems, and profile and optimize drivers and applications. Write and review technical specifications while collaborating on reliable, high-quality safety-critical solutions. The role requires embedded software development, debugging, troubleshooting, and familiarity with graphics APIs, ARINC 653, and safety-critical development practices.

Design, architect, develop, test, and support scalable full-stack applications for a high-volume, multi-tenant data platform. Own features from design through delivery, contribute to technical strategy and roadmap development, ensure operational excellence, collaborate across distributed teams, and mentor engineers. Apply cloud-native technologies and AI-assisted development practices while supporting near-real-time analytics and reliable production operations.

Build and ship robust Android features for ClassPass in a large modular codebase. Collaborate with product and design, mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, write technical documentation, solve complex problems, improve systems, and contribute to architectural decisions using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

Design, build, and maintain scalable brokerage systems supporting international markets. Develop Go-based backend services, gRPC microservices, React interfaces, and vendor integrations. Collaborate with global engineering teams to support multiple languages, currencies, and markets. Lead regional reliability efforts, act as incident commander, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and contribute to recruitment and cross-functional initiatives. Participate in on-call support and help ensure proactive 24x7 system stability.

Build and maintain Mapboxs cloud-native infrastructure and GitOps deployment platforms on AWS. Work with Terraform/Terragrunt and legacy CloudFormation/CDK, migrate services to EKS/ArgoCD, architect centralized GitHub Actions CI, configure observability (Datadog/CloudWatch), provide on-call SRE support, document designs, and lead platform strategy and developer experience improvements.

Build and operate Yahoo’s developer experience platform, including CI/CD infrastructure, artifact repositories, release pipelines, and ArgoCD GitOps deployments. Develop reusable golden-path workflows, AI-assisted automation, configuration validation, and platform tooling. Support pipeline troubleshooting, artifact management, runner optimization, observability, security practices, and developer adoption through migrations, documentation, office hours, and technical enablement.

Lead technical initiatives and architectural decisions for stream-aligned software teams. Build, evolve, and support scalable distributed web applications while applying software development, testing, security, data modeling, microservices, and API best practices. Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business goals into technical requirements, contribute to roadmaps and documentation, evaluate technologies, and mentor mid-level engineers in an agile environment.

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.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, engineering judgment, reasoning quality, and developer trust. Provide clear, opinionated feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for excellent interactions with tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This contract role requires staff- or principal-level software engineering experience and familiarity with modern AI-assisted development workflows.

Serve as the senior technical engineer on a delivery team, writing production code, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, diagnosing complex issues, and owning software quality and reliability. Build TypeScript and JavaScript applications using Node.js, Express, React, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, testing, and observability. Modernize legacy systems, manage integrations and data synchronization, and use AI tools and automation to improve engineering workflows and delivery.

Architect and refine scalable cloud infrastructure software for enterprise and internet-scale environments. Responsibilities include developing robust software, designing systems supporting 1,000+ nodes, optimizing performance, and collaborating with distributed technical teams in agile environments.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.