Software Engineer Jobs in Cambridge, MA

As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Distributed Systems, you'll design and implement scalable platforms, optimize data pipelines for durability and low latency, and impactfully contribute to service ownership.

Join the Search Platform team to design, implement, test, and deploy performant search and data-access features. Collaborate with product, data analysts, and engineers, run experiments, iterate rapidly, and provide production support for mission-critical applications serving millions of users.

Build and ship core product features for an early-stage identity platform. Implement scalable full‑stack solutions (TypeScript/Node.js/React/MongoDB) on Google Cloud, contribute to architecture and design, participate in code reviews, collaborate with design and product partners, and keep the platform current with industry trends.

The Backend Software Engineer designs and builds backend services for task planning and robotic workflows, ensuring performance and reliability in robotic systems.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain full‑stack web applications. Build front-end interfaces, back-end logic, APIs and databases; troubleshoot accessibility and performance; integrate with Salesforce; create automated tests, prototypes and documentation; participate in code reviews and continuous improvement.

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.

Lead a team and portfolio to design and deliver distributed microservices and full-stack cloud solutions (regulatory-focused). Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and use modern languages, databases, container orchestration, and AWS services to build scalable customer-facing systems.

Operate and showcase the Blitzy autonomous software development platform by building public projects, refactoring open-source repos, fixing CVEs, creating technical content, engaging developer communities, and driving enterprise demand by identifying technical champions and partnering with sales to move pipeline forward.

Develop and integrate software for humanoid robots, focusing on perception, planning, and manipulation systems while ensuring high reliability and performance in real-world applications.

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.

Design, develop, and maintain embedded applications and networks for Axon's devices. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers while ensuring high-performance and stability in software development.

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

Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using React front ends and .NET 8 back ends. Build RESTful APIs and microservices, implement CI/CD with GitHub Actions, troubleshoot performance issues, participate in architecture and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develop, deploy, and operate distributed research software and transition prototypes to production using OpenShift/OpenStack and other open-source tools. Collaborate with researchers to design, train, and optimize AI/ML models (including LLMs), contribute to open-source projects, and support student-focused activities like hackathons and mentoring.

Design, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Joining AcuityMD as a Software Engineer, you will collaborate on product development, leveraging technologies to enhance medical tech access and improve patient care while fostering a supportive team environment.

Develop and own backend features for the Payments & Partnerships domain using server-side Kotlin/Java (or similar). Collaborate with product, marketing, and frontend teams from design through production. Produce clean, testable code with high test coverage, deploy via CI/CD, and leverage AI/LLM tools to improve developer productivity.

Design and engineer core software for robots, including backend services and machine learning systems, while collaborating on new projects.

Own and operate OnRamp's AWS platform and deployment systems, build CI/CD and agent infrastructure, apply LLMs and coding agents to automate DevOps, ensure observability, reliability, security and compliance (SOC 2/HIPAA), and create developer-facing automation to increase team velocity.

Develop and maintain large-scale scientific workflows and tooling for computational drug discovery. Build cheminformatics pipelines, virtual screening and docking workflows, scalable ML inference and chemical databases, and automation for modeling, analysis, and visualization. Support scientists, increase automation, and ship features that advance AI-enabled proximity therapeutics.

Develop, maintain, and support R&D software; ensure stability and reliability; own SDLC; improve observability, and mentor team members.

Build and scale the company's data infrastructure: design ingestion paths, event models, schema-flexible data models, change capture, query performance, freshness guarantees, and analytics serving for customer-facing dashboards and evaluation pipelines.

Join the User Systems team to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain cloud-based backend systems for mobile apps. Collaborate cross-functionally, optimize for performance, reliability and scalability, participate in code/design reviews and testing, document systems, and serve in an on-call rotation.

Design, build, test, and maintain scalable cloud-based backend services for device connectivity and real-time customer control. Perform long-term support, performance optimization, documentation, and participate in on-call rotation to ensure reliability and uptime.