Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

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.

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 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.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Saga, Deepgram's voice OS. Develop backend services (Node.js, Socket.IO, DynamoDB, AWS Amplify), frontend interfaces (TypeScript, React, Next.js), and scalable REST/GraphQL APIs. Participate in architecture, code reviews, performance optimization, and translate product requirements into iterative deliverables.

Lead design and delivery of backend-focused full-stack features for the Business Platform. Build APIs, data models, and reliable parsers, ensure secure resilient systems, mentor engineers, drive estimates and quality, collaborate with Growth on data-driven features, and integrate AI tooling into development workflows.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

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.

Senior fullstack engineer to build and scale Brigit's consumer finance platform. Own end-to-end features across frontend (React/React Native/TypeScript) and backend (Java/REST/SQL), optimize database and APIs for high scale, integrate 3rd-party services, implement risk and transaction algorithms, improve CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and internal tooling to support millions of users.

Build and operate scalable backend services and integrations for chat, voice, and agent-assisted support. Improve reliability, performance, and AI-driven capabilities; collaborate across product, design, AI, and operations; mentor engineers and lead technical design and architecture.

Own technically complex, mission-critical areas and define technical strategy for new products. Design and ship full‑stack, AI‑driven features end‑to‑end, build scalable data ingestion and API systems, partner with product/design/customer teams to translate ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality and standards across the organization.

Develop, test, and improve the OT Security Platform as part of the Microsegmentation Product Team, ensuring high-quality software and architecture.

Design, develop, test, implement, maintain, and document software solutions and integrations to support provider network and healthcare initiatives. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, troubleshoot production issues, ensure data quality/security/compliance, contribute to architecture and UX, and drive continuous improvement and automation.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you'll define and drive the technical strategy for customer experience platforms, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams to enhance customer and agent experiences.

Lead design, build, deployment, and operation of highly resilient, high-throughput configuration and publishing systems. Define long-term architecture and strategy, mentor senior engineers, diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks, and leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity and platform capabilities.

Build and operate reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting Webflow products. Lead initiatives that improve reliability, reduce incident and triage load, and optimize cost and performance across multi-region environments. Develop infrastructure automation, modernize services, improve on-call and incident response, collaborate with product engineering teams, participate in design reviews, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires expertise in cloud platforms, containers, infrastructure as code, Cloudflare tooling, distributed systems, and software development.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for backend systems supporting experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization. Design and operate high-throughput distributed systems and APIs, build data infrastructure, and productionize AI/ML capabilities. Drive complex multi-team initiatives, influence engineering strategy, establish technical standards and operational excellence, and mentor senior engineers. Partner with product, data science, ML, and engineering teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.

Build and maintain multi-layer test automation, improve CI/CD release integrity, and develop internal tools that enhance testability and developer experience. Establish quality metrics, dashboards, and observability for product stability and release readiness. Partner across engineering, infrastructure, product, SRE, and quality teams to implement shift-left practices, performance, resilience, security, API, and dependency testing. Drive automation-first quality improvements and promote consistent engineering standards.

The role involves designing CLI and backend services, maintaining code quality, collaborating on technical issues, and writing documentation.

Lead backend TypeScript development and maintain services used by ~5M users. Contribute to full-stack features, code reviews, architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with PM/design to build React-based web and mobile experiences.

Build AI-powered product quality infrastructure for capturing, synthesizing, routing, and acting on customer feedback. Develop bug intake and triage systems, dashboards, data pipelines, analytics tooling, and integrations with ticketing, payment, CRM, and data warehouse systems. Partner with support engineers and domain specialists to improve product quality and ship internal tools quickly.

Build and maintain full-stack features for customer and internal web apps, design backend APIs for onboarding and transactions, integrate third-party services, implement OAuth2 authentication, operate in a microservices AWS environment, ensure security, performance, observability, participate in code reviews and architecture, and write technical documentation.

Develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for Twilio’s communications platform. Responsibilities include software design, development, deployment, code reviews, production operations, releases, on-call support, and technical documentation. The role requires collaboration within a small engineering team and the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.

Build and ship full-stack SaaS features across database, API, and interface layers. Own work end to end, including scoping, implementation, testing, rollout, and post-release operations. Collaborate with product, design, and support; improve system reliability and performance; review code; participate in on-call; and mentor teammates. The role uses Node.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, relational databases, SQL, observability tools, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Leads the Bioinformatics Software Engineering team and owns engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, modernization, and production support for clinical genomics platforms. Oversees software engineers, bioinformatics workflows, data integration, automation, quality systems, release governance, reliability, and regulatory compliance. Partners with clinical, laboratory, scientific, quality, product, operations, and executive stakeholders to convert research methods into validated production workflows. Guides AI-enabled engineering initiatives while ensuring privacy, traceability, clinical-grade quality, and operational resilience.