Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

Build and maintain scalable, cloud-native APIs and high-value core system components using .NET and related technologies. Lead software architecture and testing discussions, enhance core offerings, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure quality through code reviews, unit testing, functional testing, telemetry, and performance tuning. Mentor teammates and contribute to continuous technical and process improvement.

Build and maintain versioned data ingestion and conflation pipelines that transform complex retail and spatial data into accurate, reliable insights. Responsibilities include entity resolution, golden-record creation, rules-based normalization, RegEx logic, LLM integration, schema evolution, and cost-effective scaling. The role emphasizes engineering rigor, high-fidelity outputs, and production-ready data for consumer dashboards.

Build and ship features for a large-scale Android app using Kotlin and modern Android technologies. Responsibilities include writing tested code, collaborating with product and design teams, improving performance and stability, partnering on APIs and data flows, and participating in code reviews. The role is a full-time, long-term remote contract within the U.S.

Build, test, support, and enhance scalable web applications using Node.js, React, MongoDB, and APIs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to architecture and technical documentation, and lead medium-complexity initiatives. Participate in code reviews, Agile development, on-call support, technical debt reduction, and monitoring. Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices, automated testing, CI/CD, and software quality standards.

Develop and maintain Medicare claims-processing software in a legacy mainframe environment using COBOL and related technologies. Responsibilities include coding, debugging, unit testing, requirements analysis, defect resolution, software installation, technical documentation, and Agile/Scrum collaboration. The developer will support DME contract operations, deliver moderate-complexity solutions, estimate tasks, and coordinate with team members, clients, vendors, and other organizations.

Design and implement infrastructure services for a GPU-as-a-Service platform. Build REST and gRPC APIs, bare-metal provisioning workflows, Kubernetes cluster automation, reconciliation loops, and durable asynchronous operations. Manage server enrollment, inspection, OS provisioning, cluster creation, hardware inventory interfaces, error handling, idempotency, and multi-tenant infrastructure reliability.

Build scalable data processing and exploration pipelines, ML infrastructure, and cloud-based applications. Write, test, instrument, and deploy software in Kubernetes environments while contributing to distributed systems and data-driven products. The role focuses on Python, big data technologies, containerization, and systems supporting marketplace intelligence.

Leads major technical initiatives while designing enterprise identity systems, authorization models, and scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture. Builds platform components with .NET/C# on AWS, improves data pipelines, resolves complex production issues, and shapes the technical roadmap. Mentors engineers, drives architecture and reviews, coordinates across teams, and supports security, compliance, automation, and continuous platform improvement.

Build full-stack Django applications with a frontend focus, creating intuitive, interactive, and performant data visualizations for complex healthcare pricing data. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define user experiences, prioritize features, write scalable code, test and debug systems, improve existing functionality, and translate user requirements into technical solutions.

Build and maintain a React/TypeScript operations portal and Supabase/PostgreSQL backend for autonomous aircraft medical logistics. Improve aircraft allocation, mission generation, telemetry ingestion, live dashboards, reliability, testing, logging, and observability. Integrate Python services with ArduPilot aircraft and simulations while collaborating with autonomy and simulation engineers to mature real-flight and digital-twin systems.

Build and evaluate software prototypes for a blockchain data acceleration network. Develop full-stack solutions, design benchmarks, measure performance against competitors, gather product feedback, and iterate rapidly. Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to validate user needs, inform the roadmap, and communicate findings. The role involves AI-assisted coding tools and may include systems programming, real-time data, P2P networking, blockchain, and high-performance workloads.

Lead end-to-end design, development, and delivery of full‑stack features; drive architecture and code reviews; coordinate engineering work, write design docs and tests, and participate in Agile ceremonies. Must have blockchain/crypto experience.