Software Engineer Jobs in Cambridge, MA

Lead offensive cyber engineering efforts to assess hardware, firmware, and software for vulnerabilities, develop exploit and defensive-evasion tooling, integrate capabilities across teams, document system behavior and changes, and drive multidisciplinary solutions. Act as a subject-matter expert, help shape customer requirements, advance state-of-the-art techniques, and support program growth.

Develop and deploy large-scale software systems and generative AI tools for education and public policy research. Build machine learning and natural language processing applications, support randomized controlled trials, collaborate with researchers, and translate experimental designs into reliable production systems. Contribute to academic publications and technical reports while working with Python, TypeScript, cloud platforms, and modern full-stack frameworks.

Develop and lead end-to-end features for scalable cloud-native SaaS applications using ReactJS, TypeScript, GraphQL, and NodeJS. Translate business needs into technical solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, improve development processes, and promote operational excellence. Mentor junior engineers, guide technical decisions, collaborate cross-functionally, and help deliver AI-driven customer experiences in an agile environment.

ABCorp is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of their Client Experience Platform, overseeing frontend, backend, and data architecture while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product and UX teams.

Lead a full-stack product team to build secure financial and card issuance SaaS solutions while ensuring system reliability and compliance in a regulated environment.

Responsible for building and scaling a cloud-native Content Platform involving secure communications and document generation, integrating with Quadient and other services, and focusing on API development and frontend capabilities.

Design, develop, and ship software across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. Collaborate with engineering and design to take 0-to-1 projects from ideation to deployment, ensure application performance and scalability, build internal CI/CD tooling, research tech stacks, and develop/integrate APIs for connected construction products.

Owner of core clinical backend systems: design and build TypeScript/Nest.js APIs, model clinical domains in PostgreSQL/Prisma, implement onboarding/migration flows, ensure CI/CD, monitoring, HIPAA/SOC2 readiness, collaborate with clinical stakeholders, and build monitoring/reporting with Sentry/Datadog on AWS.

Lead the architecture and execution of critical backend systems at Lightfield, focusing on API design, data architecture, and scalability while enhancing product experiences.

Lead cross-team technical vision for a new product launch while remaining hands-on. Design scalable backend-heavy systems, run services in production, define SLOs, mentor engineers, and drive alignment across squads. Work end-to-end with product, prioritize architecture for scale, and use AI-augmented workflows to boost engineering velocity.

Lead frontend-focused software architecture and development for a scalable real estate transaction platform. Own complex technical projects, improve reliability and operational excellence, reduce technical debt, and integrate AI, data pipelines, telemetry, and automated delivery practices. Collaborate with product and design teams, influence business decisions, mentor and recruit engineers, and build fault-tolerant, well-tested systems using modern frontend and cloud technologies.

Own Songkick engineering across backend, mobile, data pipelines, APIs, and notifications. Lead its technical integration with Suno, architect systems that aggregate and normalize touring data, evaluate and modernize a large codebase, and influence engineering roadmaps and practices. The role requires hands-on software development, strong API and architecture skills, collaboration with mobile and product teams, and comfort working in ambiguous, fast-paced startup environments.

Lead design, build, deploy, and support the Enterprise Limits & Restrictions platform. Develop scalable, secure backend services, REST APIs, and event-driven systems. Support production incidents, improve system stability and performance, mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to modernize compliance and trading controls.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build features for an omics research platform, focusing on data transfer and user functionality.

Design, optimize, and maintain the full robotics software stack: profile and reduce latency, build logging/monitoring and validation pipelines, run system-identification experiments, deploy ML models to edge devices, author production C++ and Python code, ensure performance and scalability, and integrate safety functions compatible with ML components.

Develop and maintain ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure in C/C++ on UNIX. Work across distributed systems, concurrency, OS, networks, and architecture; collaborate on large codebases and trading system components (feed handlers, OMS, order execution).

Lead the development of autonomy and robotics software for aviation. Design, integrate, and optimize systems for uncrewed vehicles, focusing on reducing pilot workload and enhancing decision-making.

Build and ship agentic AI features across the full stack: design LLM-driven workflows, implement backend APIs and frontend UI, integrate MCP server capabilities, monitor production behavior, and iterate based on customer use. Drive projects independently, collaborate with product/design/engineering, and use agentic coding tools to prototype and deliver end-to-end features.

The Software Engineer, Infrastructure will design, build, and operate core platform services while ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency through collaboration with various teams and improving developer experience.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-based, fault-tolerant voice infrastructure for emergency 911 systems. Implement SIP routing, call state management, and provider integrations, drive platform architecture, collaborate across teams, and participate in on-call incident response to ensure uninterrupted call reliability.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native voice infrastructure for 911 call handling, ensuring SIP routing, call state management, redundancy, and end-to-end reliability. Integrate with telephony providers, PSAPs, and partners, drive platform architecture, collaborate with operations and networking, and participate in on-call incident response for a zero-failure system.

Implement and maintain record-matching and text-analytics components, translate linguistic theory into production features, optimize search internals (Elasticsearch), collaborate in agile sprints, and help design scalable APIs and architectures to improve record-matching quality and reliability.

Develop and lead architecture for wireless communications systems, focusing on protocol stacks, real-time systems, and performance optimization in mission-critical environments.

Lead reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for large-scale Java distributed systems. Drive architecture improvements, incident management, observability, SLO adoption, automation, infrastructure strategy, and performance optimization. Influence cross-team technical decisions, mentor engineers, establish reliability standards, and guide incident response and durable remediation. The role requires hybrid work in Boston and participation in an on-call rotation.

Leads full-lifecycle development of secure Oracle APEX applications, web services, integrations, and reports. Develops PL/SQL database objects, JavaScript-based interfaces, APIs, and scalable solutions while applying SDLC, Agile, Lean, and test-driven development practices. Provides architectural guidance, performance tuning, production troubleshooting, code and security reviews, technology evaluations, and mentorship. Collaborates with internal teams, vendors, consultants, and stakeholders to deliver reliable, maintainable applications.