Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Design, build, and operate backend platform services and infrastructure, owning features end-to-end from design through production. Improve reliability, performance, and scalability across services and the data layer, investigate and resolve production incidents, and convert fixes into durable improvements. Perform database work as needed (query/index tuning, sharding, capacity planning) and collaborate with SRE and application teams to meet zero-downtime SLAs. Mentor peers and raise engineering quality through reviews and best practices.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop software for automated mobile application analysis, lead implementation decisions, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and lead scalable API and platform features. Mentor junior engineers and drive technical initiatives from design to delivery.

Design, develop, test, and own SDKs and REST APIs for a next-generation analytics platform. Collaborate with Product Management, contribute to DevOps and quality frameworks, perform code reviews, and mentor teammates to deliver performant, well-tested software.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the design and development of core capabilities for SingleStore's data platform, focusing on high-performance systems and mentoring other engineers. This includes solving system-level problems and implementing scalable solutions in a collaborative environment.

Design and build scalable shared platform systems and libraries used across product teams, define APIs and standards, influence cross-team architecture, perform code reviews, and maintain documentation to improve developer experience and platform reliability.

Lead high-impact, cross-product engineering initiatives as the top individual contributor. Define success, simplify complex systems, shape technical strategy, coach senior engineers, and drive measurable outcomes. Stay hands-on with code and production systems while enabling teams and using AI tools to accelerate delivery.

Build and maintain React front-end and Golang backend services deployed on AWS. Collaborate with Product and planners, write tests, pair program, estimate work in a ScrumBan process, and participate in performance and learning initiatives to improve a fintech planning platform.

Senior software engineer responsible for architecting and implementing high-scale distributed systems, leading small engineering teams, mentoring junior engineers, and delivering reliable cloud-deployed services using Python, container orchestration, and CI/CD best practices.

Lead design and implement large-scale backend storage features for Backblaze's object storage platform, focusing on host-managed SMR support, IO benchmarking and performance optimization, driving technical decisions, mentoring, and delivering production rollouts across thousands of servers.

Work on Backblaze's storage platform (B2 Object Storage and Computer Backup) to improve durability, throughput, and architecture. Lead technical design, drive implementation of large features, shape coding practices, and participate across design, implementation, testing, and rollouts while collaborating proactively in a remote-first team.

Design, build, and operate large-scale, highly available distributed file storage services on Oracle Cloud. Lead architecture and development, troubleshoot and optimize performance, collaborate with product management, and establish operational best practices.

Build and maintain full-stack features for a React/TypeScript frontend and NestJS/TypeScript backend, integrate LLM-powered conversational agents, design APIs, auth (SSO/SAML), real-time updates, background processing (AWS SQS), database schemas (PostgreSQL/Sequelize), API docs (Swagger), and tests (Jest/pytest). Collaborate on architecture, code review, and production support.

Lead and scale GridUnity's quality engineering strategy: harden agent-driven test pipelines, enforce evidence-backed release gates, retire manual tests, build agent-verdict calibration, embed automated testing in CI/CD, mentor teams, define quality metrics, and expand the system across product lines.

Design, build, and maintain applications, APIs, and services for Magna's Jury Consulting business; partner with stakeholders to translate requirements; contribute to architecture, CI/CD, testing, DevOps, production reliability, and AI-assisted development; mentor engineers and evaluate emerging technologies.

Design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure and CI/CD for production systems. Run and optimize EKS/Kubernetes at scale, implement IaC (Terraform), observability, security best practices, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. Collaborate with engineering teams, participate in on-call incident response, and produce architecture documentation and operational runbooks.

The Senior Software Engineer, Payments will design and implement backend infrastructure for a blockchain-integrated banking platform, focusing on payment processing and operations.

Join Dakota's core engineering team to design and implement back-end infrastructure for a blockchain-integrated banking platform, addressing high-visibility projects.

Design and develop scalable features for secure software. Advocate for quality standards and engage with customers. Work remotely with a focus on product improvement.

As a Founding Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of robust backend systems and APIs, optimize large-scale data workflows, and mentor a growing engineering team.

Own and modernize iHerb's product catalog across backend, React frontend, and relational data. Build end-to-end features, use AI-driven SDLC tools, write automated tests, ensure observability, participate in on-call incident response, and contribute to shared engineering standards.

The Staff/Principal Software Engineer will work in a remote global team, addressing software engineering challenges while fostering collaboration and clear communication.

Design, build, and maintain Python-based systems that interface with custom hardware. Own hardware drivers across serial/USB/I2C/SPI/Modbus, implement maintainable state machines, write async event-driven code, build RESTful APIs, persist device telemetry in SQL, contribute computer vision work, and collaborate with hardware, firmware, and operations while mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.

Develop and maintain backend services for the Leap quantum-classical cloud platform. Deliver features across the SDLC, improve system performance and scalability, troubleshoot and resolve production issues, participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship reliable, high-quality software.

Lead design and development of software that interfaces with quantum processors, supporting calibration, hardware interfaces, testing, monitoring, and operational infrastructure. Drive architecture, optimize performance, mentor engineers, run technical investigations, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure QPU solver availability on the Leap cloud platform.