Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Build and maintain full-stack features for secure, high-volume fintech and cryptocurrency transactions. Develop Golang and Java backend services, Node.js and TypeScript APIs, and React/Next.js applications. Integrate third-party systems, implement OAuth 2.0 authentication, work with microservices, and ensure security, performance, reliability, and observability. Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, technical documentation, and end-to-end feature ownership in a fully remote environment.

Design, build, and operate highly available, high-throughput backend services for Twilio SendGrid. Modernize Go-based microservices, manage dual-cloud AWS/Azure infrastructure with Terraform, improve observability and reliability, mentor engineers, and balance feature delivery with platform refactoring.

Develop, test, troubleshoot, and support high-volume software applications in an Agile environment. Collaborate with architects, product teams, customers, and engineers throughout the software development lifecycle. Participate in design and code reviews, automated testing, production monitoring, security and privacy practices, and root-cause analysis. Use approved AI-assisted development tools responsibly across coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and delivery while maintaining accountability for software quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Design and develop backend components for enterprise payroll tax, financial, payment processing, and compliance applications. Build scalable RESTful APIs with C# and .NET, optimize Microsoft SQL Server databases, integrate financial systems with CRM platforms and state tax portals, implement secure authentication, automate high-volume processing, modernize legacy modules, and ensure auditability, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

Work directly with the founder to design and build core product features: integrations that pull license data, automation to file renewals/applications, data cleaning with AI, dashboard and alerting UX, and establish engineering practices for testing, deployments, and security. Term contractor role with potential conversion to full-time based on performance.

Build and operate an agentic SOC investigation platform using LLMs, including telemetry tools, investigation workflows, evidence-backed outputs, evaluation systems, and analyst productivity features. Develop secure, reliable, observable backend services that handle attacker-influenced data across customer environments. Collaborate with SOC analysts, researchers, technical leads, and product managers to translate investigative expertise into production agent behavior.

Join a small engineering team as a hands-on full stack developer. Accelerate frontend delivery, then take on backend services, infrastructure, and core capabilities. Own features from design through release and operational stability, collaborate with customer-facing engineers and founders, and promote effective AI-assisted development practices. The role requires strong backend-oriented full stack skills, product-launch experience, system design judgment, self-direction, and periodic travel to a California office.

Design and build backend services and distributed systems for a customer-facing no-code product. Improve query performance across large data warehouses, develop analytics and experimentation capabilities, explore real-time computation and data syncing, and apply generative AI to user workflows. The role also involves writing product specifications, collaborating directly with users, making long-term architecture decisions, and ensuring services remain robust, maintainable, and scalable.

Own the end-to-end development of a secure SMS Adapter connecting retail and grocery store systems, beginning with BRdata, to Ottimate’s AP platform. Responsibilities include sync architecture, retries, conflict handling, local credential security, monitoring, testing, packaging, updates, installation, and deployment on Windows machines. The engineer will work directly with pilot customers to troubleshoot network, permissions, and data-access issues while evolving data models and integrations for additional store systems.

Own and evolve cloud infrastructure, internal developer tooling, release automation, preview environments, and reliability practices. Build reusable libraries and SDKs, improve monitoring and tracing, manage SLOs and incident response, and solve scaling challenges across data and compute systems. The role requires strong AWS, Terraform or Pulumi, TypeScript and Node.js knowledge, startup infrastructure experience, and clear technical documentation.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and operates large-scale distributed cloud services for Azure Arc. Builds software across agents, Kubernetes environments, and globally distributed Azure services using languages such as C# and Go. Responsibilities include automation, debugging, performance optimization, reliability improvements, telemetry, live-site operations, and cross-team collaboration. The role requires participation across the full software development lifecycle and ownership of features from design through production support.

Build scalable Golang microservices, APIs, and data-centric systems supporting eligibility, coverage, billing, client workflows, and healthcare operations. Automate manual processes, develop self-service tools, ensure data accuracy and traceability, and collaborate with data and AI teams on validation, automation, and anomaly detection. The role requires production backend experience, event-based architectures, cloud platforms, and strong stakeholder communication.

Early-career Software Engineer developing and maintaining Windows desktop fluid-flow simulation applications. Responsibilities span user interfaces, application logic, data models, integrations, testing, debugging, build automation, CI/CD, and modernization. The role involves collaboration with engineering, QA, product, and domain experts while contributing clean, maintainable code and participating in reviews, bug triage, and build pipeline rotations.

Own backend and product delivery from scoping through production. Design customer-facing backend services, AI agent capabilities, APIs, data models, and system architecture for large unstructured datasets. Lead high-impact technical initiatives independently, maintain engineering quality, shape product direction with founders, and translate customer needs into dependable software. The role requires advanced Python, production-scale backend experience, system design expertise, and a product-minded approach.

Build scalable web applications, APIs, data pipelines, and data integrations for a cybersecurity platform. Responsibilities include architecting software for high-volume data environments, designing algorithms and data structures, optimizing storage and performance, maintaining coding standards, supporting analytics data systems, and collaborating across technical and non-technical teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Build and scale a fintech risk and compliance platform as the second engineer. Responsibilities include developing full-stack features, owning product areas end to end, improving reliability and performance, collaborating with customers, participating in architecture and code reviews, and establishing engineering best practices. The role requires independent feature delivery, strong full-stack fundamentals, production experience, sound technical judgment, clear asynchronous communication, and willingness to learn compliance and AI domains.

Designs and extends Salesforce Health Cloud solutions, including custom Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, data models, integrations, and deployments. Collaborates with stakeholders and QA to deliver scalable solutions, troubleshoot defects, and support clients. Debugs JavaScript and Node.js services, web and mobile applications, and cross-stack issues involving AWS and containerized environments. Ensures relevant HL7 and HIPAA compliance while coordinating with engineering, product, DevOps, and India-based support teams.

Build and ship end-to-end features for Dover's marketplace and ATS. Propose product ideas, implement designs, launch, iterate in production, and collaborate closely with a small engineering team to move quickly and maintain high quality.

Build responsive Bubble.io applications for startup clients, collaborate with product managers and designers, refine requirements, test tools and assumptions, communicate with clients weekly, and contribute reusable components and tutorials to the internal library. The role offers autonomy, client exposure, and opportunities to advance into technical leadership or product management.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Build and maintain secure, scalable APIs and infrastructure for an AI-powered fintech platform. Develop features across the stack, integrate third-party APIs, deploy infrastructure with Terraform, apply compliance and security practices, and support customers as a technical point of contact. The role involves close collaboration with the CTO in a greenfield, early-stage startup environment.

Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems and high-impact product initiatives for Toast’s Catering & Events platform. Own critical architecture, drive technical strategy, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and collaborate with Product and Design. The role also involves applying AI tools to improve developer productivity and enable new capabilities.

Design and deliver scalable, secure software systems for Bankrate’s digital products. Responsibilities include shaping architecture, developing APIs and cloud services, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, partnering with product and design, delivering large initiatives independently, resolving cross-team technical issues, mentoring engineers, improving engineering standards, and evaluating tools that enhance reliability, performance, and team productivity.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.