Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Develops, tests, documents, enhances, and maintains software solutions using established design principles and technical standards. Reviews systems, resolves defects, remediates security vulnerabilities, improves performance, analyzes user stories, and implements business solutions. Participates in software development processes, stays current with technology, mentors engineers, and helps plan and prioritize team development work.

Lead architecture and hands-on delivery of production-critical software across Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Java, cloud, data, security, and manufacturing integrations. Build distributed and event-driven services, improve reliability and observability, guide CI/CD and infrastructure automation, and support edge-to-cloud computer-vision and machine-learning solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, align cross-functional teams, make architectural decisions, and evolve reusable platform capabilities across manufacturing sites.

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.

As a Senior Software Developer, you'll lead automation solutions development for testing processes at GM, collaborating across teams. Responsibilities include building Python-based automation frameworks, conducting code reviews, and mentoring team members.

Design and implement motion-planning software for autonomous vehicles, including behavior planning, trajectory generation, safety constraints, and real-time embedded performance. Integrate planning with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems. Validate solutions through simulation, closed-course trials, and on-road testing while addressing complex edge cases and collaborating with vendors, AI teams, and customers.

Build and own production software systems spanning embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, technical design reviews, cross-functional hardware collaboration, hiring, and mentoring. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, distributed systems experience, debugging ability, and proficiency in at least one major programming language.

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Java and Spring Boot microservices, REST and GraphQL APIs, and event-driven integrations supporting GM mobile experiences. Deploy cloud-native services on Azure, strengthen CI/CD and DevOps automation, and improve observability, reliability, and operational health. Apply AI-enabled engineering practices, TDD, and automated testing. Collaborate across product, architecture, security, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and contributing to technical documentation and standards.

Leads validation of automotive diagnostic programming and vehicle communication workflows across bench, lab, and vehicle environments. Develops test plans, executes regression, stress, and performance testing, investigates ECU, gateway, protocol, and tool interaction failures, and drives root-cause isolation. Analyzes logs and traces using network and debugging tools, validates fixes, documents results, collaborates cross-functionally, and improves automation, test coverage, and release readiness for GM diagnostic systems.

Develop full-stack software for secure, scalable satellite ground communications platforms. Responsibilities include building Python backend services and APIs, designing TypeScript front-end applications, implementing authentication, authorization, microservices, databases, testing, and cloud deployments. The role involves collaborating with MBSE and test teams, translating requirements into technical designs, troubleshooting production issues, supporting integrations, and presenting engineering recommendations. Work requires maintaining secure, reliable systems for U.S. Government missions.

Develop and maintain a Medicare claims processing system in a mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, unit testing, debugging, defect resolution, technical documentation, and installing changes in test regions. The role leads complex development components, translates customer requirements into work items, provides estimates and technical guidance, represents the team to clients, and mentors junior developers while supporting Agile/Scrum maintenance and operations.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Design, implement, and maintain partner integration solutions; translate partner requirements into scalable technical implementations; troubleshoot and automate fixes; collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve tools and ensure successful partner onboarding and launches.

Lead design and delivery of scalable customer-facing features, services, and APIs that process real-time data and AI-powered insights. Build web experiences, contribute to LLM/AI workflows, ensure reliability through observability and rollout practices, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, ML, and platform teams.

Lead technical strategy, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor early-career engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves developing scalable systems on AWS and Kubernetes while working with healthcare data and adhering to HIPAA and data-security best practices.

Lead the design, architecture, development, deployment, and optimization of scalable .NET backend systems processing millions of daily healthcare transactions. Mentor developers, guide technical decisions, improve CI/CD pipelines, implement secure APIs, and collaborate with product stakeholders. The role requires expertise in .NET, C#, ASP.NET Core, cloud-native AWS services, Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems, testing, observability, and secure software development.

Owns and advances serviceability for in-vehicle infotainment and vehicle compute platforms. Responsibilities include debugging complex field issues, analyzing logs, warranty data, and telemetry, developing diagnosability features, building automated and AI-assisted diagnostics, improving dealer support workflows, enforcing observability standards, and coordinating with vehicle platform teams. The role also mentors engineers and supports production vehicle software releases.

Build and optimize the core of a distributed compute engine in Rust for SQL and AI query processing. Responsibilities include designing and delivering engine capabilities, improving query performance, writing maintainable code, and solving complex systems and concurrency problems. The role requires expertise in data structures, algorithms, performance optimization, systems programming, hardware fundamentals, asynchronous programming, atomics, locks, and cache design.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services powering AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines. Design scalable core platform services, collaborate with ML, frontend, and product teams, implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, and mentor junior engineers to deliver reliable, AI-powered features.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Design, scope, and implement scalable backend and platform solutions for a reservations and waitlist product. Improve performance and usability, collaborate with Product and Design, identify high-impact opportunities, and contribute across the stack including APIs and front-end integration.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems. Drives architectural decisions and technical strategy, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, partners with product stakeholders, and improves system performance, scalability, security, and compliance. Owns technical initiatives from design through delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Lead software engineering teams through Agile development, including architecture, design, coding, testing, DevOps, delivery, and mentoring. Build scalable Java applications and services using SOA, APIs, microservices, containerized deployments, enterprise messaging, relational databases, and modern Spring frameworks. Establish engineering standards for security, automation, testing, and maintainable code while partnering with product owners to deliver customer-focused solutions.

Architect and re-engineer highly scalable, resilient backend data systems supporting patient services. Lead distributed systems strategy, make architectural decisions, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, establish operational practices, and collaborate with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to shape engineering and product direction.