Top Software Engineer Jobs in Madison, WI

Lead backend engineering for a high-performance, data-intensive SaaS platform. Responsibilities include defining technical vision, designing scalable and highly available systems, executing technical projects, participating in architecture decisions, monitoring and optimizing services, improving CI/CD and infrastructure, conducting postmortems, mentoring engineers, documenting practices, and aligning with partner teams.

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.

Design and deliver Android system applications for Toast POS devices, including device policy enforcement, setup, firmware and app updates, background services, and fleet deployment. Lead technical design, cross-functional planning, Android and hardware upgrades, automated testing, production issue investigations, and staged rollouts. Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, hardware, QA, and software teams to build secure, reliable device-management systems.

Lead end-to-end development of reliable care-agent tooling and software services integrating contact-center platforms with backend systems. Own architecture, performance, security, production operations, and technical direction while partnering with product, care operations, QA, and engineering teams. Translate operational workflows into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and improve tools using agent feedback, operational metrics, and AI-assisted development practices.

Lead technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Cards backend engineering organization. Architect scalable and reliable platforms, guide cross-team initiatives, champion AI adoption and engineering excellence, influence technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers through Staff level. The role requires strong architectural expertise, organizational leadership, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Own complex software systems and critical workflows end-to-end while ensuring reliability, performance, security, and maintainability. Lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, manage incident response, improve system health, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role requires extensive Ruby on Rails, AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure, Linux production operations, frontend development, relational databases, testing, CI/CD, and observability experience.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Own and deliver backend lakehouse infrastructure goals, lead engineers through complex problems, and build highly available distributed data systems. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; define scalable technical solutions; improve code quality and engineering standards; monitor operational health; support on-call responsibilities; and mentor team members.

Design and scale foundational APIs and backend services for LogicGate’s multi-tenant GRC platform. Build distributed systems using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, databases, caching, and messaging technologies. Improve reliability, observability, performance, testing, and CI/CD practices. Lead technical design reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and use AI coding tools to improve development efficiency.

Set technical direction for Toast’s Developer Experience platform, including local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and developer portals. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, cross-team technical leadership, AI-assisted development, developer productivity measurement, mentorship, and roadmap prioritization.

Build and independently deliver complex software features using Ruby on Rails and React. Own technical solutions, clarify requirements, contribute to system design, and support deployments and production operations. Optimize performance, reliability, security, and scalability while maintaining databases, AWS infrastructure, web servers, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines. Implement SSO integrations and compliance requirements, troubleshoot Linux environments, evaluate technologies, and mentor less experienced engineers.

Develop and operate CrowdStrike’s internal cloud management platform and mission-critical CI/CD pipelines. Build APIs and UIs using Go and TypeScript, improve developer productivity, integrate tooling, maintain cloud-native infrastructure, and support secure, highly available software delivery systems. Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, and SRE teams, ensure SOC2-aware processes, and participate in on-call operations.

Develop backend services in C#/.NET and frontend applications with Angular for high-volume, distributed workflows. Translate business requirements into technical designs, work with SQL and NoSQL databases, and support message-driven, containerized architectures. Responsibilities include testing, debugging, monitoring, secure coding, documentation, code reviews, agile delivery, production support, and participation in on-call and release processes. The role requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a federal 6C security clearance.

Own and expand a Three.js-based in-browser solar configurator: implement and optimize 3D geometry tools and workflows, build product-facing frontend features, collaborate with backend and computational teams, translate solar physics into usable design tools, define frontend/3D architecture, and ensure performant, stable UX across edge cases.

Build and ship end-to-end features for Augment’s iOS app, collaborate closely with product, design, backend, and fellow iOS engineers, and contribute to architecture, code quality, tooling, and long-term product health. The role emphasizes Swift and SwiftUI development, ownership, thoughtful collaboration, feedback, and effective use of AI-assisted development tools.

Build and ship frontend features for a financial marketplace using React and Next.js. Collaborate with product, design, and backend engineers; contribute to architecture, component design, code quality, tooling, and the shared component library. Own work from design through delivery, participate in pairing and code reviews, and use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully.

The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining software applications. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is expected, alongside optimizing existing systems.

Build and own the technical roadmap: design AI-first interfaces and APIs, architect scalable ETL pipelines, develop data models for ML features, ship autonomous B2B workflows (PO generation, vendor sync, schedule optimizations), and establish engineering standards, CI/CD, and mentoring.

Builds AI and LLM observability capabilities across data ingestion, infrastructure, analysis, and product visualizations. The role develops systems surfacing cost, token usage, errors, and anomalies; contributes to data models; collaborates with product and design; and ships customer-facing SaaS features. Engineers participate in on-call rotation, experimentation, and fast feedback cycles, with opportunities to work on production LLM and agent-powered features.

Senior .NET Software Engineer responsible for end-to-end software development using Microsoft technologies. Requires extensive experience in SDLC, design principles, technical documentation, web application development with .NET, Agile/SCRUM, Entity Framework, database design, and version control. Familiarity with project tools JIRA, TEMPO, Bitbucket, and Confluence preferred.

Senior frontend engineer responsible for developing and maintaining full-stack consumer-facing products. Owns features from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and bug resolution. Collaborates with product, UX, and business stakeholders; conducts code reviews; improves engineering processes, productivity, and code quality; documents workflows; estimates work; and mentors junior engineers. Requires expertise in React/Next.js, ORM and API development, Storybook, cloud technologies, and scalable always-available applications.

Develop and operate high-scale backend APIs and microservices for rich messaging channels using Java and Go. Responsibilities include building message routing and delivery pipelines, deploying cloud systems, integrating AI-assisted development tools, supporting on-call operations, and maintaining reliability, low latency, and fault tolerance. The role requires collaboration across distributed teams and may involve occasional travel.

Develops, tests, supports, and maintains scalable web applications and software components across front-end and back-end technology stacks. Partners with Product Management to design solutions, contributes to Agile planning and architecture, troubleshoots deployed products, reduces technical debt, and provides technical guidance to less experienced engineers.

Design and develop highly available, fault-tolerant distributed edge computing platforms using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Build scalable APIs, troubleshoot complex systems, conduct code reviews, optimize performance and security, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, contribute to planning, and maintain technical documentation.

Build and maintain first-party integrations connecting NodeZero with EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and ITSM platforms. Design data mappings, consume third-party APIs, manage authentication and failures, maintain connectors as APIs evolve, write customer-facing documentation, troubleshoot integration issues, and collaborate on shared integration infrastructure. The role emphasizes reliable, observable, cloud-native connectors and customer-friendly configuration and error handling.