Top Software Engineer Jobs in Portland, ME

Build and scale customer-facing iOS marketplace experiences using Swift and SwiftUI. Implement feature-flagged functionality, write unit and UI tests, collaborate with Product, Design, Android, backend, QA, and senior iOS engineers, and take increasing ownership of reliability and operational health. Use AI tools for coding, refactoring, testing, debugging, documentation, and reducing repetitive work while critically validating generated outputs.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Designs and develops backend platform software for a multi-tenant SaaS environment using Python, Django, Ember, and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include building testable systems, leading technical design initiatives, troubleshooting defects, collaborating remotely, reviewing code through pull requests, and contributing to team processes. The role also involves AWS-based development, Docker, APIs, SQL, background jobs, CI/CD, authentication, observability, and production debugging.

Own the technical strategy and architecture for Vanta’s government product line. Design and build scalable compliance capabilities for federal, state, local, and education customers; establish reusable platform patterns; lead multi-quarter initiatives; collaborate with design partners and cross-functional teams; and mentor engineers while raising technical quality and engineering practices.

Set the multi-year technical direction for the Builder Platform, leading agent platforms, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, and productivity engineering. Establish governance, architecture, standards, metrics, and adoption strategies across the company. Partner with engineering and business leaders to prioritize AI opportunities, improve developer productivity, guide customer-zero feedback into products and open-source frameworks, mentor technical leaders, and reduce operational burden through systemic improvements.

Build and operate Temporal’s internal Agent Platform, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, agents, workflows, and engineering tools. The role includes establishing governance and reliability controls, partnering cross-functionally to accelerate work, driving adoption, measuring usage and productivity, contributing to open-source architectures, and participating in on-call support.

Leads hands-on modernization of Pearson’s content platform, including large-scale migrations, shared platform services, APIs, AI capabilities, cloud infrastructure, security, reliability, and technical roadmaps. Designs and delivers complex systems, writes production code, resolves high-impact incidents, evaluates technologies, and establishes engineering standards. Mentors senior engineers, influences cross-functional stakeholders, and drives initiatives from exploration through launch while balancing scalability, cost, maintainability, and risk.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Forward Financing’s core fintech platform. Design scalable distributed backend systems, guide cross-team initiatives, establish engineering best practices, resolve incidents, and mentor engineers. The role owns the technical roadmap and architectural vision while partnering across teams to improve reliability, observability, code quality, and delivery. Ruby on Rails expertise is required, along with strong communication, influence, agile development experience, and a broad backend or full-stack perspective.

Lead design and implementation of Azure full‑stack, scalable skilling platform features. Drive CI/CD, reliability, automation, and AI/LLM-enabled capabilities. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and improve test automation and observability for enterprise-scale services.

Design, develop, and operate scalable software platforms and automation for Azure network qualification infrastructure. Build tools for device provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, testing, telemetry, and health validation. Develop AI-powered agents for troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and engineering productivity. Create reliable distributed systems with observability, diagnostics, automated recovery, and scalability while collaborating across software and network engineering teams.

Own and evolve the architecture of Agiloft’s AWS-based cloud services and infrastructure. Lead scalable, secure, reliable, and observable distributed-system design; define service boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns; and drive modernization, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Partner with CloudOps and engineering leadership on reliability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and operational readiness. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, improve developer experience, and guide long-term platform evolution.

Lead the rearchitecture and development of a cloud-native Banking as a Service platform. Design scalable APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and partner integrations using modern cloud, DevOps, observability, and security practices. Drive architectural strategy, technical debt reduction, incident response, code quality, compliance, and continuous delivery. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product and architecture teams, evaluate emerging technologies, and own capabilities through project delivery.

Develop and deliver features for large-scale web applications using full-stack technologies across React, TypeScript, Node.js, Microsoft, and cloud stacks. Collaborate in agile Scrum or Kanban teams with architects, QA, product management, and stakeholders. Contribute to CI/CD, DevOps, troubleshooting, performance, security, and continuous improvement while building high-quality software solutions.

Develop and maintain runtime products by researching legacy codebases, backporting CVE security patches, building packages across Linux distributions and architectures, and creating automated testing and AI-assisted security workflows. The role requires deep C/C++ systems expertise, build-toolchain archaeology, cross-compilation experience, and strong ownership of correctness. It also includes customer support for compatibility and upgrade issues.

Develop and maintain Pioneer Desktop, an Electron application connecting sewer inspection trucks with cameras, sensors, and cloud services. Responsibilities include hardware integrations, reliable video recording, offline data storage, cloud synchronization, crash diagnostics, software updates, testing, and release management. The role also involves debugging Windows systems, resolving field issues, collaborating with product and design teams, visiting customers and hardware vendors, and improving operator workflows.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading design reviews and sprint delivery, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and driving technical strategy, quality, security, performance, observability, and operational excellence.

The Senior SDET develops and maintains regression automation, performs manual and automated testing across smoke, integration, performance, and regression scenarios, and documents defects and test results. The role collaborates with product and customer-facing teams throughout the SDLC, contributes to planning and quality processes, maintains GitHub automation repositories, identifies quality risks, and participates in on-call support.

Build core banking activation experiences for administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. Design and implement scalable microservices using domain-driven design, emphasizing clean, tested, documented code, error handling, logging, and performance. Contribute to system architecture, advocate for technical decisions, review code, and provide technical guidance to teammates in an Agile Scrum environment.

Build core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers. Develop streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations such as Plaid and SendGrid. Write clean, documented, tested code with strong error handling, logging, and performance considerations. Apply system design, domain-driven design, and microservice architecture while working in an Agile Scrum environment. Provide architectural guidance, technical recommendations, and code reviews to improve team output.

Lead development of scalable backend services and platform infrastructure for an AI agent platform. Responsibilities include architecture and code reviews, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, reliability, distributed systems, ML/NLP workload support, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in Java, Python, cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring tools, and data infrastructure.

Lead the technical direction, design, development, and operation of Airbnb’s large-scale Observability platform. Build distributed systems for metrics, logs, traces, querying, anomaly detection, and telemetry cost management. Scale high-throughput pipelines, improve reliability and performance, guide build-versus-buy decisions, mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and help teams self-serve production debugging while collaborating across infrastructure and product teams.

Build customer-facing AI products for fitness and wellness businesses, develop agentic workflows, modernize architecture, and improve infrastructure, CI, observability, and production reliability. Own features end to end, work across the TypeScript and JavaScript stack, ship iterative product improvements, and mentor teammates through code review and pairing. The role requires strong product judgment, autonomy, full-stack capability, and hands-on experience with AI tooling and production systems.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for hands-on development, architectural evolution, modernization, and resolution of complex technical problems across a mature education technology product. The role provides cross-team technical leadership, guides architecture and integrations, mentors senior engineers, and applies pragmatic AI-assisted development. Success involves improving system maintainability, enabling product evolution, surfacing technical risks, and strengthening organizational engineering capabilities.

Administer and engineer enterprise observability platforms spanning infrastructure, applications, cloud resources, and telemetry. Lead technical onboarding, monitoring design, alerting, dashboards, automation, integrations, troubleshooting, capacity planning, licensing optimization, upgrades, and migrations. Establish standards and documentation, collaborate with vendors and procurement, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong systems thinking, cloud and production support experience, scripting or infrastructure-as-code expertise, and the ability to resolve complex reliability and performance issues.

Co-own the architecture and long-term health of a Laravel platform, including its database, APIs, background jobs, integrations, CI/CD, observability, and security. Lead scaling initiatives, modernization decisions, reliability improvements, and agent-ready engineering practices. Set technical direction, review designs and code, mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and help prepare systems for growth and SOC 2 compliance.