Top Software Engineer Jobs

Own backend services from design through release, including APIs, data handling, asynchronous jobs, and dependable processing pipelines. Build reliable, secure systems that handle unpredictable inputs while balancing technical debt and delivery speed. Collaborate with backend, product, and infrastructure teams to turn loosely defined requests into technical plans. The role offers growing autonomy and requires working onsite in San Francisco four days per week.

Build core front-end and back-end software from scratch as an early engineering hire. Design complex data models and relational systems, make independent architecture and product decisions, and ship dependable software quickly. Work directly with hardware engineers and production-floor operators to identify problems and deliver fixes. Operate autonomously without dedicated product, QA, or design support while prioritizing high-value work and meeting aggressive timelines.

Own end-to-end software feature development with a backend focus, from customer discovery through release. Build full-stack applications, data pipelines, automated workflows, testing tools, schemas, and cloud deployments. Serve as a technical partner to business customers, support pilots, shape product direction, and establish engineering practices for a growing team.

Own the backend platform from system design through production release. Build reliable services, data workflows, interfaces, asynchronous jobs, automated tests, and secure access controls. Set technical direction and roadmap priorities, troubleshoot systems at scale, and collaborate with product, design, and UI teams. Support junior engineers through coaching, feedback, and documentation while contributing primarily to server-side development.

Lead modernization of General Motors’ embedded-software build infrastructure by migrating legacy Make and shell workflows to Bazel. Design reusable rules, toolchains, platforms, and repository standards; integrate build systems with CI/CD, testing, release, security, and artifact workflows; and improve reproducibility, performance, reliability, and developer productivity. The role also involves mentoring engineers, guiding strategy, measuring migration outcomes, and evaluating AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Define technical direction for Microsoft Security’s deployment configuration and policy control plane. Build Azure-native, secure, self-service platform capabilities using .NET and Azure, translate compliance requirements into typed APIs and build gates, improve developer workflows, lead architecture and design reviews, and coordinate technical partnerships across Azure, .NET, security, compliance, and service engineering teams.

Build scalable, low-latency backend APIs, event-driven services, integration layers, and microservices supporting personalization and recommendation experiences. Partner with AI/ML and data engineers to deploy models, expose AI services, and develop React applications. Improve security, observability, reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency while using AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance delivery and code quality.

Leads complex software optimization initiatives from design through implementation and validation. Builds cloud-native services, data pipelines, dashboards, automation, and AI-enabled forecasting solutions. Analyzes cloud costs, resource utilization, reliability, capacity, and engineering productivity while partnering with Engineering, Finance, Product, Data, Platform, and SRE teams. Ensures scalable and secure integrations, testing, observability, financial data quality, and measurable savings. Provides technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers without direct people-management responsibilities.

Architect, build, and optimize a full-stack platform using React.js, Node.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, and SQL databases. Lead technical decisions, performance optimization, observability, testing strategies, and cloud-based deployments. Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, evaluate technologies, and drive initiatives across multiple teams while collaborating with product, QA, customers, and leadership.

Architects, develops, and optimizes a full-stack platform using modern frontend and backend technologies. Leads technical decisions, API and database optimization, observability, testing, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure efforts. Mentors engineers, drives cross-team technical initiatives, evaluates new technologies, and collaborates with product, QA, customers, and business leaders to deliver reliable, scalable software.

Build and operate scalable full-stack software and AI-powered products for physical operations. Own technically complex areas, define technical strategy, develop backend services, APIs, frontend and potentially mobile experiences, and translate customer problems into measurable outcomes. Lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, participate in technical reviews, and raise engineering quality and velocity.

Build and scale global payments and treasury systems using resilient, event-driven microservices. Design client-facing APIs, distributed systems, financial ledgers, and payment integrations while ensuring scalability, reliability, and system integrity. Collaborate independently and cross-functionally to define and implement solutions, troubleshoot issues, and maintain clean, tested code. Work with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, messaging systems, relational databases, payment rails, reconciliation, and double-entry accounting.

Leads software engineering for secure, scalable AI/ML data platform services. Responsibilities include designing, coding, reviewing, testing, debugging, and operating 24x7 tier-one services; guiding engineers and vendors; driving responsible AI-assisted development practices; establishing validation and security standards; influencing architecture and technical operations; and contributing as a firmwide engineering subject matter expert.

Leads backend software engineering for Morgan Money, developing secure, high-quality Java production code for liquidity trading platforms. Collaborates directly with investment teams, traders, and portfolio managers; guides technical decisions; supports agile delivery and frequent production releases; mentors peers and provides technical direction to teams, contractors, and vendors. The role emphasizes Java, Spring, messaging and streaming technologies, testing, CI/CD, resiliency, security, and software development lifecycle practices, with preferred exposure to trading systems, FIX, blockchain, cloud, and Python.

Design, develop, operate, and improve highly scalable Git repository services and microservices. Lead technical designs, code reviews, incident response, deployments, and postmortems while mentoring engineers and partnering cross-functionally. The role focuses on distributed systems, high availability, observability, developer tooling, and reliable GitHub infrastructure supporting large-scale AI-driven software development.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel and distribution for a globally distributed cloud platform. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications to newer kernels; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, test, and hardware teams; and contributing work upstream to the open-source Linux community.

Lead technical direction and hands-on development for OpenAI’s plugin ecosystem. Design APIs, SDKs, and backend services; improve plugin discovery, creation, execution, reliability, permissions, and admin controls; and enhance model-tool interactions. Partner with Product, Design, Research, Security, and Trust & Safety to deliver intuitive, dependable experiences across ChatGPT and Codex while mentoring engineers and guiding complex cross-team initiatives.

Lead technical direction and hands-on, end-to-end development of ChatGPT learning experiences. Build polished interfaces, scalable backend services, APIs, and multimodal capabilities spanning text, images, voice, and interactive experiences. Partner with product, design, research, and platform teams to define products, make architecture decisions, improve reliability and usability, and guide initiatives from concept through launch. Mentor engineers and help expand access to AI-powered education.

Build and maintain backend systems powering Cash App Taxes, including federal and state tax form logic and e-file submission. Translate complex tax rules into reliable, tested software; create tools enabling safe changes by nontechnical contributors; and guide architecture, security, scalability, deployment, and documentation practices. Collaborate with product, tax specialists, QA, cloud platform, design, and customer care teams while resolving accuracy, reliability, and performance issues.

Build and operate data platform infrastructure supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI systems. Responsibilities include developing Lakehouse and Spark systems, improving performance and reliability, implementing data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, security, and access controls, evaluating query and OLAP technologies, enhancing observability and deployment processes, supporting incident response, collaborating with data teams, contributing to open-source projects, and mentoring engineers.

Build and scale backend identity platform services for global user onboarding, identity verification, risk management, and trading accounts. Design reliable microservices and architectures, contribute to technical decisions, maintain code quality and test coverage, troubleshoot incidents, collaborate across teams, and potentially participate in on-call support.

Build and maintain MongoDB’s distributed database infrastructure for cluster scalability. Design data partitioning, data movement, dynamic scaling, workload execution, and resilient distributed protocols. Solve complex performance and low-latency systems problems, contribute production-quality C++ code, participate in design and code reviews, lead new feature development, and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain cloud-native applications and services for Akamai’s IaaS platform. Develop platform features from requirements through design, testing, and deployment; integrate Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies; collaborate with product owners, architects, developers, and test engineers in an Agile continuous-delivery environment. The role focuses on creating scalable, reliable, secure platforms that simplify product development and user experience.

Build and operate large-scale Spark and Snowflake data pipelines for advertising optimization feeds. Responsibilities include data modeling, performance and cost tuning, partner file and API integrations, data quality and monitoring, privacy-sensitive identity matching, releases, incident response, technical design, project leadership, and mentoring. The role requires production ownership across AWS data workloads, CI/CD, testing, and on-call operations.

Build and maintain backend systems powering Cash App Taxes, including federal and state tax logic and e-file submission. Translate complex tax requirements into reliable, scalable, well-tested software; create tools enabling safe contributions; make architectural decisions; and improve accuracy, performance, security, deployment, and documentation. Collaborate with tax specialists, product, QA, cloud platform, design, customer care, and other teams while applying AI coding tools and best practices.