Top Software Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Lead a backend engineering team responsible for Benepass Core Services, including ledger, decisioning, authentication, integrations, and money movement systems. Manage and develop 4–6 engineers, oversee hiring and performance, guide project execution, and maintain delivery accountability. Provide technical leadership through design reviews, prototyping, debugging, and operational incident management. Partner cross-functionally, uphold reliability and correctness standards, and model effective daily use of AI in engineering and management workflows.

Engineering Manager leading a 4–6 person backend team responsible for core fintech services, including ledgers, decisioning, integrations, authentication, and directories. The role combines people management, hiring, coaching, execution ownership, technical design reviews, production debugging, reliability, and delivery accountability. The manager must remain technically credible in Python/Django systems, uphold high-integrity engineering standards, and use AI extensively for coding, planning, debugging, communication, and team effectiveness.

Leads and mentors an engineering team building scalable web applications for fintech and media products. Responsibilities include setting technical architecture, guiding engineering decisions, partnering with product and design stakeholders, maintaining modern web applications, improving reliability and performance, supporting delivery planning, and adopting AI-assisted development and automation. The role combines hands-on software engineering, people management, technical strategy, and cross-functional collaboration.

Build and own scalable payments infrastructure for card issuing, transaction processing, and settlement. Design reliable integrations with Stripe, banking partners, and internal platforms using .NET, C#, Azure, DDD, CQRS, and event-driven architectures. Improve system reliability, observability, performance, security, and compliance while mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction. Apply AI-assisted development across coding, testing, debugging, and engineering workflows.

Design, develop, and maintain high-quality cloud-based applications within an Agile team. Collaborate on architecture, product requirements, and software development; troubleshoot production issues; evaluate technologies; provide technical leadership; and optimize performance through memory management, parallelization, and algorithm efficiency. The role also involves building multitenant database architectures, implementing secure APIs and event-driven systems, writing unit tests, and debugging complex software issues.

Build and maintain responsive WordPress websites, landing pages, reusable templates, and digital lead-generation experiences. Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate coding, publishing, testing, and troubleshooting while reviewing code for quality and security. Implement technical SEO, analytics, conversion tracking, integrations, performance improvements, and QA. Manage themes, plugins, staging, deployment, backups, and website security while supporting scalable publishing workflows and collaborating with marketing and business teams.

Leads US application engineering across public and private sector engagements, building and scaling high-performing technical teams. Oversees end-to-end delivery of AI and software programs on the Symmetri Platform, ensuring quality, profitability, reusable components, and client value. Partners with Product to shape roadmaps, supports GTM activities and business development, develops senior client relationships, and drives innovation, technical excellence, talent development, and scalable delivery practices.

Build scalable data pipelines, automation workflows, internal tools, and AI-powered quality-control systems. Lead data collection projects for frontier AI labs, establish quality frameworks, improve customer support processes, and manage cross-functional execution. Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to solve ambiguous operational challenges and deliver datasets and systems that improve advanced AI models.

Own end-to-end deployments of Prividium for institutional financial customers, including integration code, permissioning, node topology, upgrades, and operational runbooks. Build reference applications for collateral, tokenized deposits, and settlement. Operate production infrastructure through an on-call rotation, troubleshoot incidents, and convert deployment learnings into platform improvements. Collaborate with product, sales, core engineering, and customer teams while working across regulated banking systems or crypto infrastructure.

Develop and test complex software applications in global team environments, with training in Java and full-stack development. Responsibilities include applying software engineering principles, troubleshooting and debugging, working with databases, following the SDLC, and practicing test-driven development. The role includes 4–8 weeks of training followed by a 12–24-month client placement with ongoing support.