Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Designs and develops software, SIL/HIL models, test scripts, validation documentation, and test components for automotive powertrain systems. Performs software integration testing, develops test plans, integrates HIL systems with Jenkins continuous integration, researches testing tools and practices, and supports cybersecurity, functional safety, and AUTOSAR validation. The role also provides technical guidance and mentorship while contributing to electric and hybrid vehicle development.

Develop and support OneStream/EPM applications, customizations, integrations, and reusable software components. Translate finance and planning requirements into technical solutions using C# and VB.NET, participate in the full software development lifecycle, troubleshoot production issues, improve performance, and collaborate with finance and technology stakeholders. The role also includes code reviews, documentation, testing, technical guidance, mentoring, and support for enterprise planning and consolidation platforms.

Develop and maintain production robotics software and data platforms for autonomous mobile equipment. Responsibilities include building data portals, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, configuration and calibration tools, fleet tracking, regression reporting, OTA and remote-support integrations, and operator-facing interfaces. The role supports live manufacturing deployments, reliability, observability, incident response, on-call operations, and cross-functional collaboration across robotics, plant, deployment, and operations teams.

Leads the development and deployment of data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AIP. Manages engineering teams, coaches team members, oversees project planning and execution, analyzes system interactions, manages client relationships, and drives innovation. The role applies software engineering, data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML techniques to deliver scalable client solutions while maintaining technical and professional standards.

Leads the development and deployment of software and data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include data engineering, analytics, system improvement, client account management, project ownership, team leadership, coaching, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement. The role requires building scalable applications with large datasets and delivering customer-focused solutions.

Develop and update commercial software applications to solve business problems. Write code from detailed requirements, contribute to systematic software development processes, and collaborate with senior developers on design patterns and frameworks. Responsibilities include distributed enterprise systems, web applications, APIs, databases, testing, source control, CI/CD, and client-server communication. The role is fully telecommutable.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services for AI agents, calendar, scheduling, integrations, real-time data pipelines, and APIs. Design platform infrastructure, event-driven systems, and client-server protocols using Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Collaborate with AI, product, and frontend teams, improve reliability through testing and infrastructure as code, and mentor junior engineers.

The Founding Engineer will lead the development of Sailor Health's AI-powered platform, building systems for patient care and mentor the engineering team.

Build the core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and model orchestration. Design secure, observable APIs and runtime components with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks. Build safe trading action infrastructure with deterministic previews, confirmations, idempotency, and audit logs while partnering with product and frontend teams.

Own and improve Hex’s cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, databases, security, cost management, and single-tenant deployment systems. The role involves selecting and delivering infrastructure projects, operating Kubernetes and AWS environments, scaling PostgreSQL, implementing infrastructure as code, and building customer-facing platform capabilities. Engineers are expected to handle on-call responsibilities, write application code when needed, and independently turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into shippable solutions.

Build and ship backend features end-to-end using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Lead complex technical projects, solve architecture challenges, establish standards, conduct meaningful code reviews, resolve high-risk bugs, document systems, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support full-stack applications for manufacturing operations. Build user interfaces, APIs, integrations, and database solutions; troubleshoot production issues; contribute to architecture, code reviews, reliability, security, and performance improvements. Partner with manufacturing and business teams, support releases and critical incidents, and provide technical leadership and mentorship.

Own QA strategy and release quality for POS, back-office, and payments products. Build automated unit, integration, API, contract, and end-to-end tests; integrate testing into GitHub Actions; validate hardware, offline modes, payment flows, and upgrades; establish release gates and test environments; monitor quality metrics; reproduce merchant issues; and coach engineers on testable design and quality practices.

Design, develop, and support cloud-native Java microservices and event-driven integrations connecting vehicles with cloud services. Responsibilities include database optimization, monitoring, production troubleshooting, automated testing, code reviews, documentation, agile collaboration, and technical mentoring. The role requires operating scalable distributed systems with strong reliability, observability, performance, and security practices, along with participation in on-call rotations.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, scalable full-stack systems, team operations, reliability, monitoring, code quality, and talent development. The role involves building customer-facing card experiences and backend services using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, and React-based frameworks. The engineer will own features end to end, collaborate cross-functionally, manage technical risks and trade-offs, support on-call health, and apply AI safely to improve development and customer experiences.

Build and scale mission-critical tips, earnings, and payroll platforms for restaurant employees. Own systems end to end, lead complex projects from design through deployment, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product and design, review code, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable backend services that affect employee pay and product revenue.

Build and ship web-based transportation management software for trucking customers. Collaborate with product, UX, engineers, and users to solve domain-specific problems, deliver features quickly, make sound quality-versus-velocity tradeoffs, and contribute across the engineering team in a remote-first environment.

Lead large-scale initiatives for a high-performance Linux-based network sensor, improving ingestion, scalability, continuous capture, queue reliability, observability, and production diagnostics. Own root cause analysis and postmortems, establish engineering standards, translate business goals into technical plans, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews. The role requires deep Rust expertise, distributed systems experience, concurrent programming, packet capture, message brokers, and cybersecurity best practices.

Develop and architect scalable iOS applications serving millions of users. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver features, promote clean architecture and iOS best practices, monitor performance and crash analytics, and guide technical excellence. Requires strong Swift, SwiftUI, MVVM, API integration, persistence, testing, and code quality expertise.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable software for Toast Delivery Services. Develop real-time delivery tracking, driver matching, pricing, refunds, and payment-related systems. Solve distributed-systems and scaling challenges, integrate with partner APIs, uphold production reliability, promote strong engineering practices, and mentor teammates.

Own the architecture and technical direction for provider-sourced client products, including lead management, caseload migration, AI-powered inquiry workflows, and provider marketing tools. Partner cross-functionally with product, design, data, sales, customer experience, and pricing teams. Build reliable user-facing systems, guide technical decisions across teams, measure product impact through experimentation, and influence teams without direct authority.

Architect and operate Affirm’s large-scale Amazon EKS compute platform, including cluster lifecycle, node management, autoscaling, shared components, infrastructure automation, workload safety policies, observability, cost and capacity optimization, and self-service workflows. The role drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, partners cross-functionally, and participates in on-call incident response.

Build and ship a full-stack data collection and search platform for defense and intelligence users. Develop frontend, backend, data ingestion, storage, indexing, APIs, and agentic AI capabilities using TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Partner with mission owners, customers, designers, and engineers to translate intelligence workflows into intuitive, mission-ready products supporting information analysis and visualization.

Leads development, integration, testing, and release of embedded controls software for vehicle low-voltage power systems. Develops controls in C and C++, researches solutions, verifies performance through SIL, HIL, bench, and vehicle testing, analyzes data, ensures safety and regulatory compliance, manages interfaces, resolves complex issues, and mentors team members. Collaborates cross-functionally with systems, software, architecture, calibration, and agile teams.

Build and optimize automated release engineering systems, including CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment tooling, and AWS cloud infrastructure. Ensure software delivery quality, security, compliance, and reliability. Lead complex projects, participate in on-call support, mentor teammates, and promote technical excellence. The role uses Go, Java/Kotlin, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Backstage, AWS, and AI development tools.