Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Build and maintain full-stack software supporting patient-centered healthcare products. Contribute to architecture, technical standards, code reviews, design discussions, and reliable implementation. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, while advocating for privacy, security, and access to care. Mentor engineers, document knowledge, identify technical improvements, and help shape project direction. The role requires backend, database, cloud, and AI development-tool experience in a fully remote environment.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for Microsoft's virtualization platform, focusing on hypervisor and VMM capabilities. Design, implement, and optimize systems software across Windows, Linux, macOS, Azure, and containers. Improve performance, security, reliability, testing, and operational readiness; diagnose low-level hardware/software issues; enable virtualization on new silicon; mentor engineers; and influence platform strategy across teams and hardware partners.

Lead hands-on full-stack development of scalable product features, from database models through UI components. Set technical direction, architect and optimize systems, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, improve workflows, and champion testing, code quality, and continuous deployment. Collaborate with product and design teams, resolve technical bottlenecks, and lead production releases in a fast-paced startup environment.

Provides technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, a data migration and integration product. Designs and implements reliable distributed systems spanning CDC pipelines, migration engines, APIs, and cloud services. Leads architecture, complex technical initiatives, production troubleshooting, observability, testing, and operational improvements. Partners with product, support, customers, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted development and migration capabilities.

Build full-stack software, backend services, APIs, frontend experiences, and shared integration capabilities supporting AI initiatives across Keeper’s products. Integrate LLMs, agents, and tool-calling workflows into secure production environments while maintaining zero-knowledge principles. Troubleshoot cross-product systems, improve reliability and observability, contribute to architecture and code reviews, automate testing and CI/CD, and collaborate with AI, product, and engineering teams.

Lead development of a massively distributed edge compute platform. Design fault-tolerant systems, external APIs, high-throughput traffic routing, and Kubernetes-based resource management. Establish architecture standards, reliability metrics, security practices, and technical governance. Collaborate with AI/ML, hardware, networking, and security teams; communicate risks to executives; manage customer requirements; review code; and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Develop and deploy reliable software for a distributed SQL database in a fast-paced production environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and owning projects throughout the product lifecycle. Work may involve LLMs, vector indexes, database fault tolerance, SQL query performance, SIMD, LLVM code generation, search, and query optimization. Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and sales teams while developing professionally alongside experienced engineers.

Software Engineer Interns spend 12 weeks contributing to collaborative engineering teams at SingleStore. They develop features, test software, own projects end-to-end, and continuously deploy work to production. Interns gain exposure to the product lifecycle and business while working with experienced engineering mentors and cross-functional teams. The role requires strong computer science fundamentals, programming ability in JavaScript, Golang, or TypeScript, and an interest in building reliable software.

Develop and deploy reliable software for SingleStore’s distributed SQL database. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and improving systems involving query optimization, fault tolerance, concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, LLMs, vector indexes, SIMD, and LLVM code generation. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, collaboration across teams, and participation throughout the product lifecycle.

Build and operate Conduit’s control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design reconciliation-based lifecycle systems, schema-driven APIs, usage metering, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Own contracts, versioning, reliability, asynchronous workflows, and cross-functional coordination. Participate in on-call support while improving platform maintainability and automation.

Build and operate Conduit's control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design schema-driven lifecycle systems, usage metering, APIs, contracts, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Ensure reliability through reconciliation, event-driven workflows, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency. Own cross-team interfaces, improve maintainability, participate in on-call, and debug complex production issues across networking, performance, data integrity, and security boundaries.

Develop and maintain PX4 autopilot firmware for UAVs, integrating sensors and payloads, and managing testing environments. Collaborate on flight operations and system integration.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for AI-powered applications, APIs, backend services, and distributed systems. Defines test strategies, acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, tolerances, and quality gates for deterministic and non-deterministic software. Builds regression, integration, API, and end-to-end coverage; evaluates LLMs, agents, prompts, and tool-calling workflows; integrates testing into CI/CD; analyzes failures, telemetry, and logs; reduces flaky tests; and partners with AI, engineering, and product teams on continuous quality practices.

Analyze Linux system performance, design and implement performance enhancements, productize new servers and hardware, extend performance metrics and visualizations, and build diagnostic tooling. The role requires advanced C programming, Linux kernel expertise, virtualization knowledge, hardware enablement and debugging experience, performance analysis skills, and understanding of computer architecture, concurrency, algorithms, and hardware interconnects.

Build and operate high-throughput data ingestion and ETL pipelines that transform autonomous pentest outputs into structured, queryable data. Responsibilities include schema design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, data normalization, production troubleshooting, and collaboration on data contracts with downstream teams. The role uses Go and/or Python, message queues, relational and graph databases, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS. It also provides engineering guidance to less experienced team members.

Lead the technical vision for test automation and quality architecture across cloud, web, and mobile systems. Design scalable testing frameworks, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, analyze quality metrics, mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and communicate outcomes to engineering leadership. The role emphasizes Playwright with TypeScript, Maestro with YAML, API and integration testing, system validation, and AI-first automation practices.

Lead backend architecture and engineering initiatives for a programmatic advertising platform. Design and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive ad-serving and auction systems; integrate SSPs, DSPs, exchanges, and other partners; improve reliability and performance; and guide technical strategy. The role also involves mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving major projects from architecture through production, and collaborating with Product and other stakeholders.

Develop and prototype 5G network solutions, automate and improve software development tools and environments, and help design, build, and maintain development verification labs. The role requires programming across Python, JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, and Go, along with Git, Linux, debugging, and Agile/Scrum knowledge. Work supports Nokia’s satellite-based LTE and 5G networking products.

Develop, maintain, enhance, and support a mission-critical HUD enterprise application using Java, JavaScript, SQL, and related web technologies. Responsibilities include full-stack development, UI and API implementation, database workflows, troubleshooting, code reviews, testing, releases, deployment support, documentation, and compliance with security and accessibility standards.

Build and operate secure, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and networking platforms. Develop self-service tooling, infrastructure-as-code defaults, cloud guardrails, and standardized platform patterns. Lead cross-team infrastructure initiatives, technical investigations, and operational improvements while partnering with security, compute, routing, and other infrastructure teams.

Build and operate blockchain network infrastructure integrating protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum with internal services. Design reliable APIs, SDKs, data contracts, observability, and SLOs; lead multi-quarter chain integrations, architecture modernization, and migrations. Improve latency, reliability, and cost for high-throughput distributed systems while owning production services and on-call responsibilities.

Lead the architecture, technical evolution, and hands-on development of a mission-critical software platform using Java, C++, and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, security, technical planning, customer troubleshooting, deployment support, documentation, and engineering leadership. The role requires occasional customer travel and may support critical incidents outside normal business hours.

Lead test strategy for Akamai’s custom Linux kernel and OS imaging process. Design scalable automated test frameworks, validate hardware compatibility, performance, reliability, and security, and develop test suites for new hardware platforms. Troubleshoot low-level system issues, enhance build and continuous testing infrastructure, establish quality standards, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure using AWS, GCP, or Azure. Implement SRE practices, monitoring, observability, capacity planning, Kubernetes and Helm deployments, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud security controls. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensure compliance, and mentor engineers while improving reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.