Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in New Orleans, LA

Lead architecture, delivery, and operation of large distributed telemetry databases. Define technical strategy, SLOs/SLIs, and reliability practices; drive performance, cost, and observability improvements; lead incident response and cross-team projects; mentor engineers; and represent engineering to stakeholders.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will architect and build high-impact systems, mentor engineers, solve complex technical challenges, and lead cross-organizational initiatives in a fast-paced AI infrastructure environment.

Lead architecture and implementation of scalable backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and APIs. Own large-scale projects from design to launch, enable low-latency real-time collaboration, integrate generative AI features, drive backend best practices, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability, performance, and security across products.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop IMS TM and DB-compatible technologies, providing architectural leadership and mentoring while optimizing mission-critical applications for modern environments.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop reliable systems for IoT fleet management, create user interfaces, and support data engineering tasks.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and implement Python-based systems, lead feature design and delivery, ensure scalability and reliability, and mentor junior engineers.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build scalable systems, lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and improve existing platforms using PHP, Node.JS, and AWS.

Design and build scalable backend components and indexing pipelines for semantic and hybrid retrieval, build retrieval orchestration and knowledge-graph services, improve retrieval quality via evaluation and observability, design APIs, and optimize latency, throughput, cost, reliability, and security for large-scale AI inference and retrieval workloads.

Provides cross-team technical leadership by architecting scalable systems, leading design reviews, resolving complex technical issues, shipping production code, mentoring engineers, reducing technical debt, and translating business priorities into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on full-stack software development, AI-paired delivery, strong communication, and influence without formal authority.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement scalable data systems, collaborate with teams, mentor engineers, and ensure data integrity.

Leads a small engineering pod building and operating Humana’s NBA orchestration platform. Designs durable Temporal workflows, Node.js/TypeScript services, Kafka event pipelines, transactional outbox processing, activation integrations, acknowledgment and reconciliation workflows, and distributed-systems reliability controls. Provides hands-on coding, architecture leadership, observability, operational support, cross-team coordination, mentoring, and delivery accountability across the member action lifecycle.

Lead design and implementation of high-throughput, low-latency programmatic bidding systems. Collaborate with ML engineers to deploy real-time inference, optimize distributed microservices, run experiments and quantitative analysis, and partner with product to ship scalable features. Foster operational excellence, mentor engineers, and continuously improve performance and reliability.

Build and maintain full-stack software products across frontend, backend, data, and AI layers. Own product architecture, deployment, observability, reliability, and maintenance; establish unified data models, secure access controls, AI guardrails, and engineering standards. Collaborate directly with non-engineering users to create self-service workflows and translate ambiguous needs into practical solutions. Ship production LLM-powered systems and support governed data transformation, quality, lineage, and testing.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain accounting software for transaction categorization, revenue recognition, and accurate financial reporting. Own projects end to end, create technical designs and rollout plans, conduct code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, investigate production issues, improve reliability, and mentor teammates. The role involves working with typed Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, Terraform, AWS, and PostgreSQL in a remote environment.

Lead ambiguous, multi-team software projects for core accounting systems. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, build and deploy reliable software, review technical specifications, investigate production issues, and improve system reliability. Collaborate with product and cross-functional stakeholders, mentor and sponsor engineers, and maintain high standards for clean, tested code. The role focuses on typed Python backend services, financial systems, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

Design and implement scalable, secure cloud-native microservices and data platforms. Collaborate with product and stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, build CI/CD pipelines, and translate business needs into developer-ready stories.

Lead platform reliability: define SLOs/error budgets, own observability and deploy pipelines, harden integrations with dental systems, operate LLM-driven workflows safely, build incident practices, and raise engineering reliability across the company.

Lead technical delivery of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, guiding design, development, integrations, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud modernization. Provide hands-on .NET development, incident resolution, operational readiness, and coach engineering teams while ensuring security, retention, and governance for content services.

Lead implementation of software safety programs for underwater robotic/autonomous vehicles per MIL-STD-882. Produce safety plans and assessments, perform hazard analyses, track coverage metrics, catalog safety artifacts, review software independently, and present findings at reviews and customer meetings. Coordinate across programs and support demanding schedules with occasional travel.

The role involves building decision science libraries and tools for mineral exploration, collaborating with teams to improve decision-making processes.

Improve performance and scalability of web applications by identifying and resolving front-end and back-end bottlenecks. Optimize load times, API responses, and database queries; develop scalable features across the stack, monitor performance, conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams.

Lead design and delivery of platform capabilities that power a Federated GraphQL API and event-driven systems. Build and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL for scale; own observability (DataDog, Bugsnag), mentor engineers, drive integrations, improve performance and reliability, and support customer-facing product teams across the organization.

Own the technical direction of a core Helius backend system, including architecture, reliability, performance, roadmap, and production operations. Design scalable distributed systems, storage, streaming, or edge infrastructure; drive profiling and performance improvements; establish operational excellence; partner with founders on strategy; mentor engineers; and lead ambiguous cross-team initiatives.

Own and advance a core Helius backend system supporting Solana infrastructure. Design and release high-performance products, optimize latency and throughput, make architectural decisions, improve observability and incident response, and mentor engineers. The role requires end-to-end ownership of production systems at scale, with close collaboration with founders and engineering leadership. Relevant systems include data streaming, historical APIs, account indexing, and access control infrastructure.

Develop full-stack solutions using TypeScript and AWS cloud technologies. Responsibilities include building GraphQL APIs, business logic libraries, AWS Lambda functions with CDK, AWS Glue automation, and Angular/Ionic user interfaces. The engineer will also support CI/CD, Git repositories, linting, developer workflows, requirements management, and HIPAA-compliant software development. Collaboration with engineers, management, and business analysts is required.