Top Software Engineer Jobs in New Orleans, LA

Lead technical strategy and architecture for a large-scale Content Platform that powers marketing campaigns. Solve ambiguous cross-team problems, design scalable backend and AI-driven systems, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, design, and marketing to drive execution and engineering standards across the org.

The Lead Rust Software Engineer will design and build scalable applications, mentor teams on Rust, and contribute to complex product development.

Leads software quality and test automation for web, mobile, and application portfolios. Designs automated testing strategies, frameworks, plans, and test cases; performs functional, integration, regression, performance, load, API, and manual testing. Mentors test engineers, reviews requirements, tracks defects, supports Agile delivery, maintains CI/CD test coverage, and collaborates with developers and cross-functional teams to ensure application quality.

Lead development, testing, and maintenance of scalable accounting integrations using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Design REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth flows, and event-driven systems that synchronize data with external accounting platforms. Diagnose complex issues, improve reliability and performance, document systems, and mentor junior engineers. Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly while managing multiple priorities and supporting high-volume integrations.

Own and improve Attentive's first-party data collection across the JS tag, Cloudflare Workers, and Java backend. Expand edge compute capabilities, build agentic AI systems to detect and fix data-quality issues, harden the event ingestion pipeline for reliability and observability, and lead technical direction on a small autonomous team while mentoring engineers.

Principal Engineer responsible for owning complex software initiatives from problem framing through architecture, implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. The role involves building web applications, services, APIs, MCP servers, data pipelines, and platform integrations; leading architecture and code reviews; improving security, reliability, and maintainability; mentoring engineers; and shaping technical strategy. The engineer will also use and improve AI-assisted development practices while maintaining human accountability for quality and operational outcomes.

Lead design and hands-on development of AWS-based serverless backend and IoT cloud services. Build Python Lambda microservices, REST APIs, telemetry pipelines, and secure AWS IoT Core device communication. Mentor engineers, define architecture patterns, ensure production readiness (monitoring, CI/CD, security), and guide cross-functional integrations and technical roadmaps.

Leads the design and development of scalable SaaS applications, including AI-powered features such as semantic search, vector databases, RAG, and LLM orchestration. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, architectural guidance, code reviews, and engineering standards enforcement. Collaborates cross-functionally to translate requirements into robust solutions, champions AI-assisted development tools, builds developer experience tooling, and drives innovation, quality, security, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.

Designs, develops, and maintains .NET backend services and ASP.NET Core APIs supporting edge gateways and IoT devices. Builds applications communicating with firmware over TCP, WiFi, and offline-tolerant architectures. Responsibilities include writing tested code, conducting reviews, troubleshooting distributed systems, documenting APIs, collaborating cross-functionally, participating in Agile delivery, improving CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, and evaluating modern .NET tools and patterns.

Build and independently deliver full-stack healthcare software features using Java or Groovy, React and TypeScript, MongoDB, and Kafka. Responsibilities include design, implementation, testing, deployment, production debugging, code reviews, design documentation, dependency coordination, process improvements, and mentoring. The role requires reliable delivery with minimal oversight and collaboration across engineering, product, and QA teams in a remote-first environment.

Define architectural direction for Azure Specialized platform services and lead the design of highly available distributed cloud systems. Drive reliability, scalability, observability, security, diagnostics, and operational improvements across engineering organizations. Establish service health frameworks, SLOs, metrics, and governance for mission-critical services. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, resolve complex cross-system challenges, and advance AI-assisted troubleshooting and platform modernization.

Design and develop software to onboard hardware accelerators and improve cluster-level storage performance. Collaborate across teams, produce design docs, implement and optimize code, perform tuning and RCA, act as DRI, and participate in on-call operations and scaling/validation efforts.

Develop and ship full-stack web and mobile experiences across Affirm’s consumer app and website. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams to break down projects, make technical decisions, write tested and extensible code, launch scalable APIs, monitor service health, support on-call operations, review code, and participate in team development and interviewing.

Build and support scalable payment systems using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, microservices, APIs, messaging, and event-driven architectures. Integrate third-party payment providers, troubleshoot production issues, automate deployment and infrastructure management, and contribute to reliable, secure, scalable payment platforms. Collaborate with product and business teams to develop payment capabilities and leverage generative AI and LLMs to improve software engineering workflows.

Design and scale a feature flagging and A/B testing platform, including high-throughput event ingestion, warehouse-native analytics, real-time feature flag delivery, multi-database SQL support, and distributed systems infrastructure. The role involves full-stack development, architecture, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical product influence within a remote startup team.

Develop and document enterprise-grade SaaS platform functionality while improving quality and performance. Responsibilities include full-stack development, functional and unit testing, defect triage, code reviews, API and process documentation, operational support in regulated environments, and collaboration within Agile and DevOps teams. The role requires expertise in C#, ASP.NET Core, T-SQL, Entity Framework Core, web technologies, software design, debugging, distributed architectures, and high-performance APIs.

Design, develop, and maintain core database features for VillageSQL Cloud, emphasizing performance, stability, scalability, security, and reliability. Build distributed systems using Go and Kubernetes, collaborate on technical vision and architecture, contribute to open-source projects, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and engage with the developer community. The role focuses on database-as-a-service infrastructure and cloud service evolution.

Design, build, and scale Shepherd’s core platform, backend systems, APIs, user-facing applications, and AI-powered legal workflows. Architect secure, reliable infrastructure for sensitive legal data, collaborate with legal and product teams, build internal tools, optimize performance, and own technical decisions. The role also involves rapid prototyping, mentoring and recruiting engineers, and contributing to SOC 2 readiness and data privacy practices.

Leads enterprise application architecture and development, modernization and cloud migration, DevSecOps implementation, testing, production releases, incident resolution, and technical mentorship. The role requires designing secure, scalable systems, implementing CI/CD and infrastructure automation, supporting high availability, and participating in on-call operations.

Build and scale consumer-facing mobile and web applications and backend services. Own features end-to-end across frontend and backend, optimize databases and queries, integrate third-party APIs, implement algorithms for risk and transaction evaluation, improve reliability and CI/CD, and contribute to testing, monitoring, and internal tools to support customer operations.

Design, develop, and modernize enterprise-scale applications, RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. Build cloud-neutral solutions across AWS and Azure, support legacy application migrations, participate in architecture and code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, document technical designs, and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems, technical leadership, and engineering best practices.

Architect, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack applications using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS. Own features end-to-end, optimize performance and usability, collaborate with founders, and use AI tools to accelerate development in a fast-paced startup.

Build and maintain Safari AI’s cloud infrastructure, including production services, system design, reliability, documentation, and security compliance. The role sets technical direction for the cloud stack, collaborates with engineering and operations teams, improves development processes, and delivers incremental features. Candidates should have 4–6 years of software engineering experience, public cloud expertise, and experience taking complex services from concept through production. Streaming processing and machine learning experience are advantageous.

Develop and maintain Medicare claims-processing software in a mainframe environment using COBOL and related technologies. Responsibilities include technical design, coding, unit testing, debugging, defect resolution, deployment to testing regions, documentation, requirements decomposition, project estimation, and Agile team coordination. The role provides technical guidance and mentorship to developers while supporting complex DME contract maintenance and operations.

Develop and modernize the open-source conda ecosystem, including conda, conda-build, and plugins. Responsibilities include designing and delivering features, improving performance and reliability, owning projects from requirements through release, collaborating with distributed internal teams and external maintainers, contributing through GitHub, and participating in Scrum ceremonies. The role also involves using AI-assisted tools while maintaining code quality and engaging the open-source community.