Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Huntsville, AL

Build, operate, and extend data platform and application-layer services enabling secure, self-service data applications at scale. Implement provisioning, CI/CD, access control, integrations, observability, automation, and incident response while contributing to semantic layer and AI-ready tooling roadmaps.

The Open Source Engineer will expand LanceDB's integration with big data systems, manage dataset operations, and enhance open-source community efforts.

Drive software and integrated-system QA for UAV products across bench, simulation, and flight-test environments. Develop manual and automated tests, Python utilities, and CI/CD validation workflows; analyze defects, logs, telemetry, and system behavior; maintain QA documentation and test management records; support release readiness and corrective actions; collaborate with firmware, embedded, production, and flight-test teams; and mentor junior QA engineers.

Lead end-to-end embedded software development for autonomous and semi-autonomous tactical drones. Design and implement production-ready C/C++ software for real-time embedded systems, Embedded Linux platforms, kernels, device drivers, hardware integration, networking, and communication buses. Support hardware bring-up, field deployments, troubleshooting, code reviews, performance optimization, and security improvements while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Lead frontend development for a satellite-data monitoring application serving defense and intelligence customers. Design and implement React and TypeScript features, guide frontend architecture, contribute to backend APIs, mentor engineers through reviews and technical discussions, and collaborate with product managers and designers. Own feature delivery from discovery through deployment while improving state management, data fetching, component design, testing, and frontend best practices.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

Architect, develop, and maintain an Electron-based command-and-control application for engine test systems. Design data pipelines for high-rate storage and real-time communication, integrate driver-level PLC/industrial protocols, define software architecture and CI/CD practices, troubleshoot hardware-software issues, partner with controls/avionics engineers, and mentor junior engineers.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll build cloud-native backend services using Golang, deploy in Kubernetes, and lead architecture projects in a startup environment.

The role involves developing APIs, building internal tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance system performance while solving engineering challenges.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network and product requirements into computational models, improve solution quality, runtime, scalability, and explainability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability under increasing complexity and load. The role also involves managing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and maintaining production software.

Build and operate multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities across commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Responsibilities include cloud foundations, networking, identity, cluster lifecycle, packaging, GitOps delivery, infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, staged rollouts, observability, incident response, and backup/recovery. The engineer will also create self-service infrastructure primitives for internal engineering teams and support reliable fleet-scale deployments.

Build core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. Write clean, documented, tested code with strong error handling, logging, and performance. Design scalable systems using domain-driven design and microservices, contribute to architectural decisions, and provide technical guidance and code reviews in an Agile Scrum environment.

Design and maintain Golang backend services, APIs, microservices, automation tools, and Terraform infrastructure modules. Provision and manage cloud resources, troubleshoot application and deployment issues, and improve reliability and performance. Participate across the software development lifecycle, review code and infrastructure configurations, collaborate with technical teams, and communicate project risks. Use AI tools such as Claude, mentor colleagues, and contribute to client-focused technical solutions.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Design and build a high-performance, AI-native web trading experience for sophisticated retail traders. Ship core trading workflows (order entry, positions, blotter, watchlists, alerts), implement trustworthy AI UI patterns, collaborate with backend engineers on low-latency contracts, and iterate quickly with users and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end product features.

Lead full-stack development across Superset frontend and backend services. Design and ship end-to-end features, improve performance and scalability, own major technical initiatives, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, and the open-source community.

Develop and integrate mission-critical software within the TAK ecosystem, including ATAK, WinTAK, MILTAK, and TAK Server. Build CoT data pipelines, low-latency APIs, sensor and intelligence data ingestion systems, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and edge-deployed applications. Troubleshoot tactical networks and integration issues while translating defense mission requirements into scalable solutions. The role requires significant TAK ecosystem experience, multiple programming languages, security clearance, and up to 25% travel.

Set technical direction for Elastic Cloud Serverless control-plane initiatives, designing distributed systems that orchestrate projects across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Lead multi-quarter, cross-team delivery; write and review Go code; improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency; investigate incidents; participate in on-call; mentor engineers; and advise product and engineering leaders on technical trade-offs and roadmap decisions.

We are seeking a product-minded backend engineer to work on our Customer Studio product, focusing on data performance, analytics, audience syncing, and generative AI. The role requires strong architecture, scalability considerations, and product engagement.

The role involves developing tools for enterprises to manage Hightouch deployments, focusing on access control, change management, and data warehouse performance.

Own quality engineering and test automation for BRINC's LiveOps web platform and backend services. Design and maintain automated API, integration, and end-to-end test frameworks, validate security/IAM controls and ML/vision outputs, build test infrastructure, run performance/load testing for real-time streaming and teleoperation, integrate tests into CI/CD, triage failures, and produce quality metrics and release-readiness reports.

Design, develop, test, and deploy .NET solutions (APIs and web apps). Build and consume RESTful services, work with SQL and NoSQL databases, use cloud (Azure/AWS) and Docker, apply unit/integration/performance testing, participate in code reviews, define features via spikes, and architect scalable, high-performance systems. Support occasional after-hours and on-call rotation.

Lead full-stack development across backend and frontend systems, implement and maintain features, fix bugs, collaborate with product and design, support client projects, and contribute to a distributed remote engineering team focused on high-impact startup missions.

Build and maintain front-end and back-end platform features for a SaaS compliance product using React, TypeScript, and Go. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering leads to design relational schemas, write reliable code, debug defects, and automate repetitive tasks to improve team velocity and software quality.