Top Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Develop scalable Java-based distributed systems for BILL’s Growth team, focusing on customer acquisition, activation, onboarding, and product expansion. Build high-performance SaaS applications using AWS services, SQL and NoSQL databases, Gradle, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate with feature teams and product managers while applying generative AI and LLM technologies to accelerate engineering workflows.

Develop firmware, backend systems, and tooling for cellular IoT devices. Responsibilities include C development for STM32 microcontrollers, embedded AI integration, cellular communication, low-power optimization, device debugging and validation, and backend development with Python and Ruby on Rails. The role collaborates with hardware, electronics, and manufacturing teams and requires independently leading complex development initiatives.

Build and ship end-to-end product features across an author analytics dashboard, marketing site, free tools, billing, email, and AI-assisted functionality. Design data models and APIs, integrate third-party services, develop production LLM features, and maintain testing, monitoring, performance, and observability. The role includes code review, technical documentation, independent product decisions, and close collaboration with the founder in a remote-first environment.

Develop and maintain a TypeScript and Node.js application in a federal AWS environment. Responsibilities include troubleshooting defects across frontend, APIs, databases, integrations, containers, and cloud services; performing root-cause analysis; deploying secure fixes; supporting releases and incidents; and collaborating with Test Engineers. The role also tunes and evaluates AI models, prompts, workflows, retrieval settings, and integrations while maintaining security, traceability, governance, and change control.

Builds and maintains custom software applications using .NET, Java, and JavaScript technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and developing web-based and client-server systems. The role handles complex technical projects autonomously, may provide technical consultation and team leadership, and requires strong collaboration and communication skills. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Builds and maintains custom software applications, performing design, coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and technical consultation. Works autonomously on advanced projects, may lead work groups, and follows coding standards and technical designs. The role supports web-based and client-server systems and requires strong collaboration and communication. Up to 15% travel is expected.

Build and ship customer-facing digital platform features for Slate’s direct-to-consumer EV brand. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, reviewing, and owning the quality of software components; integrating third-party APIs; collaborating with product and UX teams; solving problems independently; and supporting teammates through knowledge sharing.

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).

Develop and deliver native iOS features for MyFitnessPal’s AI-powered food logging experience. Responsibilities include implementing user interfaces, optimizing performance and network communications, building tested and secure solutions, collaborating with product and design teams, researching technical approaches, mentoring developers, and contributing to deployment and engineering best practices.

Develop and deliver native iOS features for MyFitnessPal’s Cal AI food-logging experience. Responsibilities include building interfaces in Swift, optimizing UI, storage, and network performance, implementing tests, researching technical solutions, collaborating with product and design teams, promoting engineering best practices, and mentoring junior developers.

Develop and lead frontend platform engineering for native and hybrid mobile applications. Build reusable, well-tested Android and iOS SDK components, contribute to architecture and system design, collaborate with product and engineering teams, own customer-facing deliverables, and identify product improvements while maintaining strong engineering standards.

Develop scalable backend software for lending infrastructure supporting loan origination, funding, servicing, and sales. Responsibilities include designing software modules, writing and testing maintainable code, building distributed and event-driven systems, participating in code reviews, and collaborating with senior engineers and cross-functional teams. The role uses C# or Python, relational and document databases, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, with emphasis on reliable, compliant financial technology.

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

Senior frontend engineer responsible for developing and maintaining full-stack consumer-facing products. Owns features from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and bug resolution. Collaborates with product, UX, and business stakeholders; conducts code reviews; improves engineering processes, productivity, and code quality; documents workflows; estimates work; and mentors junior engineers. Requires expertise in React/Next.js, ORM and API development, Storybook, cloud technologies, and scalable always-available applications.

Develops, tests, supports, and maintains scalable web applications and software components across front-end and back-end technology stacks. Partners with Product Management to design solutions, contributes to Agile planning and architecture, troubleshoots deployed products, reduces technical debt, and provides technical guidance to less experienced engineers.

Design and develop highly available, fault-tolerant distributed edge computing platforms using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Build scalable APIs, troubleshoot complex systems, conduct code reviews, optimize performance and security, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, contribute to planning, and maintain technical documentation.

Software Engineer II supporting production systems by triaging engineering escalations, resolving software bugs, shipping fixes, executing database changes, monitoring performance, and participating in on-call incident response. The role partners with product and engineering teams, documents solutions, reviews code, and owns projects that reduce recurring support issues. The engineer will work primarily with TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Grafana, and Sentry in a remote-first environment.

Develop and maintain scalable SaaS solutions for financial reporting and capital markets customers. Responsibilities include full-stack development, system design, testing, monitoring, performance optimization, security, technical debt reduction, and collaboration with product managers, developers, and SRE teams. The role requires building reliable, secure, maintainable data-driven applications and contributing across the software development lifecycle.

Lead architecture and engineering for a new Provider Onboarding team. Build scalable, database-backed systems and custom tools supporting pricing, payments, client panels, and forms. Establish engineering practices, mentor senior engineers, guide cross-functional delivery, and oversee the full software development lifecycle from planning through post-launch maintenance. The role requires healthcare systems experience and ownership of complex, reliable products.

Lead architecture and development for a new Provider Onboarding engineering domain. Build scalable full-stack, database-backed applications and microservices supporting pricing, payments, client panels, forms, and provider workflows. Mentor engineers, establish design patterns, drive cross-functional delivery across the full software lifecycle, and improve operational reliability for a healthcare platform.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.

Build and ship full-stack web and mobile experiences across Affirm’s consumer products. Break down projects, collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams, develop scalable APIs, write well-tested code, monitor service health, participate in on-call support, review code, and contribute to engineering growth and interviewing.

Develop and maintain cloud-based healthcare revenue-cycle software, build new features, modernize applications, perform code reviews and automated testing, address security vulnerabilities, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system performance. Collaborate with developers, product owners, support teams, and project leadership while applying Agile, CI/CD, TDD, and software development best practices.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Build and ship full-stack fulfillment features covering refunds, replacements, reverse logistics, and servicing. Own features from design through deployment, release, and monitoring while developing scalable event-driven and AI-native applications. Build single-page applications, collaborate with designers and cross-functional teams, apply sound API and data modeling practices, and deliver AI/agentic features safely in production. Identify technical investments, communicate tradeoffs, and work independently through ambiguous problems.