Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

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).

The Senior Software Engineer will lead technical strategies, build AI-driven software systems, mentor junior engineers, and ensure security best practices.

The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Developer Environments team, enhancing developer productivity through effective environment provisioning and CI/CD workflows while mentoring engineers and implementing system reliability improvements.

Lead technical direction and delivery for the Acquisition & Onboarding full‑stack team. Build and maintain mobile (React Native/native) and web experiences, backend services at scale, and operational tooling. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, ensure reliability/monitoring/on‑call readiness, collaborate with product and design, and improve dev processes, testing, and release practices to impact conversion and retention.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Build simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Develop tools that model hypothetical scenarios, vary configurations and assumptions, compare outcomes, surface tradeoffs, and identify risks. Design scalable, reliable backend systems for complex, evolving network states while collaborating across product engineering to integrate capabilities into broader workflows. Responsibilities span system design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operational support.

Lead design and implementation of Kubernetes-based cloud platform capabilities across Azure and GCP. Build operators, reusable abstractions, platform tooling, and improve monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, reliability, and developer experience. Drive architecture, on-call/incident response, cross-team technical influence, and mentor engineers.

Build and own the technical roadmap: design AI-first interfaces and APIs, architect scalable ETL pipelines, develop data models for ML features, ship autonomous B2B workflows (PO generation, vendor sync, schedule optimizations), and establish engineering standards, CI/CD, and mentoring.

Design, develop, and modernize scalable front-end UI applications using Angular and TypeScript. Lead large UI projects, enforce coding standards, write technical specifications, optimize performance, mentor engineers, collaborate full-stack, and support CI/CD and Agile practices to deliver user-centric features.

Lead design and development of cloud-native Java/Spring Boot microservices on GCP (Cloud Run, Spanner, Pub/Sub). Drive observability, performance engineering, CI/CD, TDD, API publishing (Apigee/APIM), and DevOps toolchain adoption. Collaborate with product and teams to deliver scalable, secure vehicle integration platform services.

Design and develop automation, integrations, and dashboards to improve verification and validation workflows. Build toolchain integrations (JIRA, Jama, TestRail) using Python, REST APIs, and SQL; create BI reports and dashboards; automate test data management, compliance checks, and reporting to increase traceability, quality, and KPI visibility across vehicle programs.

Lead architecture, design, and delivery of PET product features; write production full‑stack code; champion testing, observability, CI/CD and operational readiness; mentor engineers and collaborate with product to shape technical roadmap.

Build and own end-to-end frontend experiences for Coinbase card products across web and mobile. Ship high-scale consumer features, improve payment flow performance and SLOs, reduce latency and CX contacts, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver reliable, user-focused card functionality.

Design, develop, and validate functionally safe software for robotic perception systems. Build safety-critical architecture across Linux and real-time operating systems, create testing and validation frameworks for edge cases, collaborate with machine learning, hardware, and core software teams, and mentor junior engineers on safety-critical coding practices.

Build scalable distributed systems for Rula’s Marketplace Health Engine, improving provider utilization, marketplace efficiency, and patient access. Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, and Operations; lead technical strategy across teams; design backend services, APIs, and data-intensive systems; drive projects from discovery through post-launch support; solve complex marketplace problems; mentor engineers; and remain hands-on in software development.

Lead the design, development, modernization, and governance of enterprise customer-data applications and integrations. Manage operational data stores, system dependencies, IAM integrations, security, compliance, DevOps practices, deployments, and production support. Define target-state architectures, guide technology modernization, oversee vendor teams, troubleshoot critical issues, and communicate technical strategies across business and technology teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support web and software solutions; estimate and document work; troubleshoot and monitor systems; implement CI/CD and DevOps practices; collaborate with stakeholders; specialize in web UI/UX, CMS platforms, modern frameworks, APIs, and scalable architectures.

Designs, builds, scales, and operates distributed CI/CD services supporting millions of builds, tests, and releases. Develops code for Azure-based infrastructure spanning virtual machines, containers, and custom lab environments. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, architecture and design documentation, estimation, debugging, optimization, operational playbooks, on-call incident response, monitoring, reliability improvements, and mentoring engineers.

Develop and operate highly scalable backend systems and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining Python HTTP services, working with DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis, provisioning cloud resources through infrastructure as code, reasoning about distributed systems, and owning software from design through monitoring. The role also focuses on reliability, security, performance, cost optimization, observability, technical roadmaps, and collaboration with engineering and product stakeholders.

Build and own full-stack features, platform primitives, and integrations for Vanta Government Cloud. Design secure APIs and services for authentication, data ingestion, schema evolution, monitoring, and framework mappings. Operate integrations within the GovCloud boundary, including observability, on-call support, incident response, change management, performance improvements, and automated testing. Collaborate with federal subject-matter experts, agencies, vendors, and assessment organizations while using AI responsibly to improve development and operations.

Lead architecture and rollout of scalable platform services and customer-facing APIs. Define API standards, service boundaries, security, reliability, and developer experience; collaborate with data-platform teams; drive RFCs and complex multi-quarter initiatives; mentor engineers; and contribute across the stack using TypeScript, Node.js, React, and AI tools.