Top Software Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Develop and maintain software solutions across the full development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, documentation, system enhancements, security remediation, performance improvements, and user story analysis. Collaborate with development teams to solve business problems using .NET technologies and software engineering best practices. Participate in Agile or Lean processes, document changes, and maintain current knowledge of tools, technologies, and industry standards.

Develop and maintain synthetic data generation tools, performance scripts, and testing frameworks. Investigate application, infrastructure, and database bottlenecks; conduct load, stress, endurance, scalability, and other performance tests; integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines; and use observability and AI/ML techniques to analyze and improve enterprise and cloud-native application reliability and performance.

Design, develop, test, review, and maintain medium-complexity software systems. Translate product requirements into scalable, secure, modular, and maintainable applications; provide application support; participate in design and code reviews; and mentor less experienced engineers. The role requires programming expertise, knowledge of data structures, algorithms, databases, caching, and strong collaboration and problem-solving skills.

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 operate CrewAI’s cloud and enterprise infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, observability, security controls, self-hosted installation tooling, and reliability processes. Support containers, Kubernetes, databases, queues, networking, secrets, and production workloads. Participate in incident response and on-call operations while partnering with runtime and product engineering teams to improve deployment safety, scalability, and customer production environments.

Build and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, event-driven workflows, and serverless applications using TypeScript and AWS. Integrate new services with legacy WordPress and PHP systems, support platform modernization, write specifications and automated tests, troubleshoot production issues, and improve infrastructure, observability, and reliability. Collaborate remotely with product, design, QA, and engineering teams while participating in code reviews and on-call support.

Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows using TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Integrate modern services with legacy WordPress and PHP systems, develop secure and scalable APIs, troubleshoot production issues, write automated tests, and contribute to infrastructure as code, observability, documentation, code reviews, and on-call support.

Software engineering intern responsible for owning a scoped project and building production-quality features across frontend, backend, full-stack, real-time, or forward-deployed systems. Duties include developing telemetry and geospatial interfaces, backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, tests, developer tooling, and data pipelines. The intern will support integration and test events, debug distributed systems and networks, explain technical tradeoffs, and present their work at the end of the internship.

Design, build, test, document, and optimize Tailscale’s client-side networking software. Develop connectivity features involving routing, VPNs, subnet routers, exit nodes, and NAT traversal; apply secure, scalable architectures; diagnose complex customer network issues; support escalations; collaborate across product and engineering teams; and contribute to open-source networking projects.

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.

Own full-stack features end to end, including system design, implementation direction, testing, deployment, production operations, and incident response. Use agentic AI to generate code, tests, and reviews while validating quality and security. Build production APIs, data models, authentication, schemas, migrations, and scalable SQL. Collaborate with Product, Design, and DevOps, and apply secure coding practices. Bonus experience includes RAG, LLM evaluation and observability, or TypeScript frontend development.

Design, develop, test, and optimize safe, scalable real-time software for production autonomous vehicle systems. Architect continuous learning infrastructure for ML model deployment and monitoring, analyze algorithms, and collaborate with embedded, platform, AI, sensor, and compute teams. Support perception, prediction, and planning integration while contributing to highway and urban autonomous driving capabilities.

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.

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.

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 Java components for a modernization framework and existing business applications. Support legacy refactoring, API and backend service development, documentation, unit testing, debugging, and application architecture updates. Collaborate with senior developers during design sessions and sprint ceremonies while building expertise in modern development practices, cloud concepts, and application transformation.

Develop and maintain COBOL-based Medicare claims processing software in a legacy mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, implementing enhancements, troubleshooting defects, supporting Agile/Scrum delivery, preparing estimates, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with team members, clients, and vendors. The role supports Durable Medical Equipment claims processing and requires adherence to structured development standards.

Develop and maintain COBOL applications supporting Medicare Fee-for-Service claims processing in a legacy mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, implementing enhancements, troubleshooting defects, documenting changes, and supporting Agile/Scrum delivery commitments. The role collaborates with technical teams, clients, and vendors while contributing to solutions of moderate complexity and maintaining reliable healthcare system operations.

Develops, tests, documents, enhances, and maintains software applications supporting business requirements. Collaborates with internal teams to define specifications, writes and debugs code, monitors performance, prepares status reports, trains end users, and supports application improvements. The role uses C#, .NET, React, AWS, databases, shell scripting, source control, and development tools. On-call availability and some travel may be required.

Develop and validate embedded battery management software spanning drivers, hardware abstraction, communication stacks, diagnostics, bootloaders, and application controls. Implement BMS functions including cell monitoring, balancing, contactor control, isolation detection, and metrology. Debug target hardware, resolve root causes, maintain traceability and documentation, apply safe coding practices, and collaborate within an agile DevOps-oriented team.

Develop and maintain Autodesk SDKs and reusable software components using C#/.NET and C++. Design developer-facing APIs, manage managed/native interoperability, ensure backward compatibility, write automated tests, and own packaging, CI/CD, release, and artifact publishing. Collaborate across product teams, investigate complex technical problems, contribute to architecture decisions, use AI-assisted development responsibly, and mentor other engineers. The role focuses on geometry utilities and may involve computational geometry, CAD, cross-platform development, and performance optimization.

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.