Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

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.

Lead architecture, development, code quality, troubleshooting, and delivery for complex AEM and full-stack web applications. Design AEM components, OSGi services, Sling servlets, event-driven systems, and Spring Boot APIs. Develop React and TypeScript frontends, integrate enterprise platforms, and optimize performance, caching, and publishing. Mentor developers, establish engineering standards, review code, solve complex technical issues, and collaborate with architects, product owners, stakeholders, and engineering teams.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Lead design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain OneStream EPM solutions. Participate in full lifecycle projects, integrate systems, provide technical leadership, documentation, and post-live support.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Owns delivery of backend money movement and card ledger systems, leading engineers through complex problems and ambiguity. Collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; defines scalable technical solutions; supports system availability, monitoring, on-call operations, code quality, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring and developing team talent while building highly available distributed systems for Affirm’s financial products.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

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.

Build and optimize MongoDB’s SQL interface, including query engines, SQL-to-MQL translation, database connectors, and BI integrations. Develop backend systems that improve performance, scalability, reliability, and usability for large datasets and complex queries. Collaborate with product managers and customer experience teams, contribute to roadmap initiatives, resolve bugs, and lead major technical projects.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications. Owns the engineering lifecycle, writes high-performance code, establishes testing and reliability practices, resolves production issues, guides technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in object-oriented backend development, distributed cloud systems, automated testing, system monitoring, and technical leadership.

Develop and maintain embedded vehicle control and data planes for cloud-connected ECU fleets. Responsibilities include configuration delivery, vehicle data collection, distributed coordination, cloud integration, observability, reliability optimization, remote diagnostics, production support, open-source contributions, technical leadership, and mentoring. The role requires expertise in C/C++, Linux, Android, QNX, distributed systems, vehicle protocols, AUTOSAR, and fleet management.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Develop, deploy, and support cloud-native Java microservices for Ford’s vehicle diagnostics platform. Build REST services on Google Cloud, manage database integrations, automate CI/CD, apply secure testing and code-quality practices, monitor production systems, troubleshoot complex incidents, and improve reliability, scalability, performance, and security. Collaborate with product, business, infrastructure, security, and operations teams in an Agile delivery environment.

Lead hands-on development and delivery of ADAS ECU embedded software from concept to production. Design, implement, test, and debug software, define architecture, manage software schedules, releases, risks, and mentor the software team while coordinating with engineering and manufacturing.

Develop, test, and integrate portable embedded software for ECU flashing and vehicle test interfaces. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, document work, port and customize test code, identify risks, and support plants and product engineering through integration and troubleshooting.

Design, develop, deploy, and support scalable cloud platforms, APIs, and microservices powering connected vehicle experiences. Build Spring Boot and Java services on GCP, implement CI/CD and TDD, optimize API performance, and ensure secure, resilient always-on applications. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, contribute to architecture and technical direction, lead integration and issue triage, and use DevOps tools to manage production software.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Build and maintain scalable backend applications, serverless functions, microservices, data workflows, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native architectures using Python and AWS. Manage databases, APIs, batch jobs, and real-time integrations while optimizing performance, scalability, security, compliance, and cost. Collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, and data teams; contribute to architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, development standards, and technical mentorship. Healthcare claims data experience is required.

Lead frontend-leaning full-stack implementation work for carrier and enterprise integrations: architect reusable UI and API layers, author RFCs, guide technical delivery, enforce testing and security best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to scope and ship production integrations.

Designs and maintains automated, high-coverage verification and validation for ADAS/AV platform software. Builds HIL, SIL, and VIL environments; develops test frameworks and scripts; analyzes diagnostics and logs; triages defects; performs root-cause analysis; and collaborates with software and hardware teams. The role requires testing Linux/QNX-based systems, automotive networks, diagnostics, safety standards, and vehicle simulation environments, along with operating test vehicles.

The Senior Software Engineer for the Treasury team will develop backend services for fund management, ensuring system reliability and leading projects in a fast-paced environment.

Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded control algorithms for battery management and vehicle control systems. Responsibilities include modeling, simulation, hardware and software integration, HIL/SIL validation, calibration, performance optimization, root cause analysis, documentation, requirements development, and software verification. The role collaborates cross-functionally while supporting toolchain development and compliance with embedded software processes, ISO 26262, and ASPICE practices.

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).

Develops, tests, and supports C++ applications for automated guided vehicle systems on Microsoft .NET and Windows platforms. Designs software requirements, reviews specifications, collaborates with engineering teams, prepares project documentation, and supports deployment and commissioning at customer sites. The role may require travel up to 20%, extended hours, weekends, holidays, and occasional off-shift work.

Develop and configure enterprise-scale digital software solutions for asset performance management and predictive analytics. Responsibilities include translating customer requirements into software architectures, designing and implementing applications, documenting solutions, testing technologies, supporting customer implementations, and collaborating with subject matter experts, project managers, product managers, and development teams. The role also involves presentations, scalable application development, secure distributed architectures, and occasional customer project travel.