Top Software Engineer Jobs in Portland, OR

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance C++ applications with advanced memory management and multithreaded architectures. Own critical system components, define CMake builds, maintain CI/CD and Docker workflows, debug and profile with GDB/Valgrind, automate tasks with Python/shell, use SQL and Git, lead code reviews, mentor engineers, and participate in system design and planning.

Lead maintenance, enhancement, and support of enterprise mainframe applications. Design, develop, troubleshoot, and optimize COBOL/CICS/JCL/DB2/VSAM systems, manage incidents/changes via ticketing tools, produce technical documentation, and mentor junior engineers.

Build and optimize high-throughput de-identification pipelines for large clinical datasets, execute QA, run and tune pipelines in health system cloud environments, reduce errors and costs, and collaborate with privacy and clinical informatics stakeholders.

Own and operate the end-to-end creation platform (frontend, backend, infra, models). Improve real-time generation latency and reliability, optimize cost at scale, maintain queues/fallbacks, and ship continuous improvements to the core create/remix loop and feed/ranking systems.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will enhance CI/CD pipelines, improve developer experience, and productionize AI tooling while mentoring teammates and collaborating with engineering leaders.

Design, build, and improve Elasticsearch distributed-systems components for scalable, concurrent, and consistent indexing. Maintain cluster coordination for performance and resilience, push system scale limits, investigate performance and concurrency issues, support operations/support engineers, and lead projects involving multiple engineers from design through delivery.

Build and maintain scalable backend systems and data pipelines for healthcare workflows. Collaborate cross-functionally to automate provider and patient workflows, prototype features, ship production-ready code, and ensure systems are maintainable and scalable.

Design, build, and optimize scalable Java-based microservices and RESTful APIs. Ensure performance, uptime, and engineering standards through design and code reviews, testing, and collaboration with product and support teams. Contribute to domain-driven service design and API consistency.

Lead design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services for Payouts. Drive architecture, ensure performance and reliability, mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, and collaborate with product and support teams to deliver customer-facing REST APIs.

The Fullstack Application Developer will design, build, and maintain a platform for marketing teams, focusing on both front-end and back-end development while mentoring junior developers.

Support building and redesigning responsive, mobile-friendly websites; create wireframes and sitemaps; develop front-end UIs and assist with back-end tasks; optimize for performance, scalability, and SEO; participate in brainstorming, debugging, testing, and follow clean coding and version-control best practices under developer mentorship.

Build and refine front-end experiences for web and mobile: onboarding, checkout, gallery features, design system and enterprise dashboard. Collaborate closely with designers and PMs, ship fast, maintain aesthetic quality, and iterate with user feedback using React, Next.js and TypeScript.