Top Software Engineer Jobs in Milwaukee, WI

Own the architecture, performance, reliability, and technical direction of high-traffic backend services and public APIs supporting search, browse, autocomplete, and recommendations. Lead distributed-systems design, mentor engineers, drive cross-team projects, participate in on-call and incident response, and balance scalability, latency, cost, and API compatibility.

Provides technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, a data migration and integration product. Designs and implements reliable distributed systems spanning CDC pipelines, migration engines, APIs, and cloud services. Leads architecture, complex technical initiatives, production troubleshooting, observability, testing, and operational improvements. Partners with product, support, customers, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted development and migration capabilities.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Investigates customer escalations, performs root-cause analysis across complex Java codebases, and delivers production-ready fixes. Uses AI-assisted tools for log analysis, defect diagnosis, code remediation, test generation, and validation. Communicates issue status, documents resolutions, maintains knowledge content, supports teammates, and contributes to product enhancements. The role includes periodic after-hours and weekend pager coverage.

Lead and coach a team of 4–8 engineers while providing technical direction, architectural oversight, and hands-on coding support. Partner with Product and Design on roadmaps, technical strategy, and delivery improvements. Promote software quality, reliability, and stability; lead incident response and post-mortems; and collaborate with engineering managers and stakeholders to reduce dependencies and support customer success.

Support customers with complex database integration issues while contributing directly to Airbyte’s Java and Kotlin open-source connectors. Troubleshoot replication, CDC, query performance, authentication, networking, schema evolution, and warehouse or lake destinations. Reproduce bugs, inspect logs and query plans, improve connector reliability, review community contributions, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, Solutions, Sales, and Customer Success. The role also includes technical documentation, mentoring support engineers, customer onboarding, and developing AI-assisted troubleshooting processes.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

Designs and evolves DraftKings’ regulated prediction-markets exchange, including market data, order entry, matching, clearing, and settlement. Owns the technical roadmap, architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and operational health of distributed systems. Leads resilience testing, incident improvements, design reviews, mentoring, and cross-functional technical alignment. The role also requires building practical AI tooling and guardrails, integrating with external partners, and balancing compliance, cost, and platform strategy.

Lead backend architecture and engineering initiatives for a programmatic advertising platform. Design and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive ad-serving and auction systems; integrate SSPs, DSPs, exchanges, and other partners; improve reliability and performance; and guide technical strategy. The role also involves mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving major projects from architecture through production, and collaborating with Product and other stakeholders.

Develop and maintain Java applications, RESTful services, and Angular frontends using Spring Boot and NgRx. Deploy applications to cloud platforms, practice TDD, manage CI/CD with Jenkins, and work with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases. Participate in agile processes, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and independently lead technical initiatives and feature delivery.