Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining software applications. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is expected, alongside optimizing existing systems.

Design, develop, and maintain software applications: implement features, fix bugs, participate in code reviews and Agile ceremonies, troubleshoot issues, support QA efforts, produce documentation, and collaborate across teams while occasionally leading small projects and training peers.

Own and expand a Three.js-based in-browser solar configurator: implement and optimize 3D geometry tools and workflows, build product-facing frontend features, collaborate with backend and computational teams, translate solar physics into usable design tools, define frontend/3D architecture, and ensure performant, stable UX across edge cases.

Designs, codes, tests, and documents .NET applications; follows SDLC and Agile/Scrum practices; supports Tier 3 incidents; works on system integration and CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub); collaborates with product owners and vendors; participates in production releases and mentors junior developers.

Own and expand a Three.js/R3F in-browser solar configurator: build and optimize 3D geometry tools and UX, collaborate with backend and simulation teams, ensure performant real-time rendering, and deliver frontend product features across the Aether platform.

Develop and maintain reliable C++ software for real-time embedded Linux synthetic aperture sonar systems used in mine detection and hydrographic surveying. Responsibilities include implementing features, reviewing architecture, estimating tasks, supporting CI and automated testing, mentoring junior developers, and occasionally participating in sea trials. The role requires collaboration in an agile remote team and offers preferred experience with underwater robotics, Nvidia Jetson, gRPC, Docker, networking, sonar operations, or digital signal processing.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Build and maintain scalable financial data infrastructure, including ingestion, validation, normalization, and integrations. Develop systems that calculate portfolio performance metrics efficiently across high-volume datasets, improve reliability and observability, and support distributed processing. Create internal tools, dashboards, reusable schemas, asset data feeds, and self-service analytics capabilities. Collaborate cross-functionally to expand market-data coverage, support B2B integrations, and strengthen operational resilience.

First engineering hire to build end-to-end features across React frontends and C#/.NET (and Python) backends, work with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, integrate third-party automotive APIs, use agentic AI coding tools, and collaborate on architecture and engineering culture.

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build a cutting-edge identity search platform and implement AI systems for defense applications, working closely with cross-functional teams to enhance user workflows and support national security.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you'll create and conduct automated tests, resolve technical issues, and collaborate with development teams to ensure software quality.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and maintain systems, mentor team members, and improve both code quality and team practices.

Lead cross-pod technical direction and system design for high-scale backend services, embed AI-native development practices, collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from design through production.

Lead frontend development using React and TypeScript to design scalable frontend architecture, components, and developer workflows. Own feature delivery from concept to launch, improve CI/CD and testing, collaborate with backend on APIs, evaluate new technologies, and mentor other engineers while ensuring performance, accessibility, and reliability across web surfaces.

Lead architecture and implementation for a secure distributed data platform runtime. Design Go-based concurrency, subprocess supervision, inter-service protocols, distributed persistence, and resilient processing pipelines. Debug complex cross-process and network issues, define testing standards, conduct end-to-end integration and resilience testing, participate in on-call rotations, and lead incident post-mortems. Collaborate with product, engineering, and customer stakeholders to refine requirements and deliver production-ready capabilities. Requires up to 25% international travel to the Middle East.

Lead end-to-end full-stack development across React frontends and compiled backends, influence architecture and data modeling, integrate third-party dealership APIs, use AI-assisted coding tools daily, set engineering standards, ship production features to live dealership users, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, develop, and operate monitoring and observability solutions for flagship supercomputers. Build data pipelines to process large telemetry and logs, respond to incidents, implement mitigations, write postmortems, and improve reliability, performance, and operational runbooks at scale.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks, scripts, datasets, and tools for complex data-driven software. Develops test plans, performs exploratory, database, API, performance, and integration testing, and validates data accuracy across systems. Analyzes defects and test metrics, supports CI/CD pipeline integration, and collaborates with application teams to resolve issues. The role also uses Playwright, database scripting, cloud technologies, Agile practices, and generative AI tools to improve software quality and efficiency.

Develop and maintain microservices-based, real-time software for mission-critical air traffic systems. Collaborate with product, systems engineering, QA, DevOps, and platform teams in an Agile/SAFe environment. Translate requirements into reliable solutions, integrate APIs, databases, messaging systems, and external services, and contribute to design and technical decisions. Apply CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and AI-assisted development tools. The role is fully remote and requires Public Trust eligibility and U.S. citizenship.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, building, testing, and documenting scalable Node.js/TypeScript services and APIs. Lead projects end-to-end, enforce coding standards, write technical specifications, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers. Champion Agile and CI/CD practices while providing technical thought leadership on backend architecture and data modeling.

Design, implement, test, and modernize backend services and integrations (TypeScript/Node.js and C++). Lead large projects, write technical specifications and API contracts, enforce coding standards, coach engineers, and drive legacy-to-modern migrations within online banking and core systems.

Build full‑stack web features from zero to one, integrate with third‑party APIs, design and manage state machines for financial workflows, own features through launch and post‑launch customer iteration, and maintain high code quality and accountability.

Modernize and maintain a large-scale React Native mobile app with offline-first architecture, BLE device integrations, data synchronization, and performance improvements. Influence architecture, mentor developers, collaborate across teams, and occasionally visit customer farms to understand workflows.