Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Principal Software Engineer responsible for Salesforce technical direction, enterprise architecture, API and integration strategy, engineering standards, security, reliability, governance, modernization, and AI-native engineering practices. The role leads cross-team initiatives, mentors engineers, influences technology decisions, and develops scalable solutions across Salesforce platforms while balancing regulatory, cost, performance, and business requirements.

Leads and mentors ServiceNow software engineers delivering complex customer projects. Develops and customizes ServiceNow solutions, troubleshoots platform and CSM issues, maintains integrations and modules, collaborates with stakeholders, supports upgrades and performance initiatives, documents technical solutions, and performs deployments.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Build simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Develop tools that model hypothetical scenarios, vary configurations and assumptions, compare outcomes, surface tradeoffs, and identify risks. Design scalable, reliable backend systems for complex, evolving network states while collaborating across product engineering to integrate capabilities into broader workflows. Responsibilities span system design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operational support.

Software Engineering Interns will build and maintain a B2B CRM across the full stack, including Next.js and Tailwind CSS frontend interfaces, Node.js and AWS backend services, and MongoDB databases. Responsibilities include developing scalable APIs, optimizing performance, writing secure maintainable code, collaborating with engineering, product, and design teams, and contributing to architecture decisions. This is a remote-first, full-time 12-month internship with potential conversion to a full-time engineering role.

Build and own end-to-end frontend experiences for Coinbase card products across web and mobile. Ship high-scale consumer features, improve payment flow performance and SLOs, reduce latency and CX contacts, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver reliable, user-focused card functionality.

Develop and maintain features for a podcast subscription platform using PHP and Laravel. Scale the application, support user and administrator experiences, build website embeds and third-party integrations, and help apply AI tools to accelerate development and improve code quality and security. Collaborate within a small, Agile-oriented remote team while evaluating technologies and influencing the evolving product stack.

Develop and operate highly scalable backend systems and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining Python HTTP services, working with DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis, provisioning cloud resources through infrastructure as code, reasoning about distributed systems, and owning software from design through monitoring. The role also focuses on reliability, security, performance, cost optimization, observability, technical roadmaps, and collaboration with engineering and product stakeholders.

Build and maintain production-grade iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI, integrating AI features through backend APIs. Design reliable AI interaction patterns, optimize performance, memory, battery, and latency, and support monitoring, feedback capture, and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with backend and ML engineers on API behavior, reliability, and user trust while shipping stable App Store experiences.

Build and maintain automated UI and API tests using TypeScript and Playwright, contribute to testing frameworks, investigate failures, and establish quality practices across engineering squads. The role includes manual and exploratory testing, API and contract testing, CI/CD quality gates, release criteria, test plans, coverage management, and AI-assisted testing. Collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Design is central to improving testability and enabling continuous delivery.

Own major product surfaces across Aleph’s FP&A platform, leading features from customer discovery through launch and iteration. Build performant spreadsheet-grade interfaces over large financial datasets, design robust data models and APIs, develop AI-native features involving orchestration, tool calls, and retrieval, and improve engineering standards through high-quality code and reviews. The role requires strong full-stack fundamentals, customer engagement, technical leadership, pragmatism, and experience building complex B2B products.

Build and own full-stack features, platform primitives, and integrations for Vanta Government Cloud. Design secure APIs and services for authentication, data ingestion, schema evolution, monitoring, and framework mappings. Operate integrations within the GovCloud boundary, including observability, on-call support, incident response, change management, performance improvements, and automated testing. Collaborate with federal subject-matter experts, agencies, vendors, and assessment organizations while using AI responsibly to improve development and operations.

Lead architecture and rollout of scalable platform services and customer-facing APIs. Define API standards, service boundaries, security, reliability, and developer experience; collaborate with data-platform teams; drive RFCs and complex multi-quarter initiatives; mentor engineers; and contribute across the stack using TypeScript, Node.js, React, and AI tools.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure software (primarily in Go) to manage VMs across global data centers. Collaborate on product requirements, participate in code reviews, optimize performance and reliability, contribute to architecture decisions, and stay current with industry trends.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you'll enhance the data infrastructure, develop ETL pipelines, maintain data quality, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers.

As a Fullstack Engineer, you'll design, build, and operate web applications, collaborating with product teams and mentoring peers while ensuring best practices in coding and system architecture.

Lead systems engineering for Hivemind-based autonomy products: define and manage requirements, develop system architectures and trade studies, coordinate hardware/software interfaces, support integration/verification/validation and testing, and identify and mitigate technical risks across the system lifecycle.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Join a small AI-native engineering team building and operating Affirm's bank systems. Own end-to-end bank infrastructure, durable workflows, vendor integrations, data platform, CI/CD, monitoring, and examiner-ready documentation. Use AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development, collaborate with Compliance/Risk/Finance, and mentor growing engineering talent.

Design and build end-to-end web and AI-powered dashboard features, scale cross-platform full-stack infrastructure, standardize product patterns, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and collaborate with product and design to improve user workflows and AI adoption.