Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, test, launch, and operate full-stack services automating responses to legal, regulatory, and civil requests. Develop backend systems, internal web tools, and integrations across microservice and event-driven architectures. Collaborate with Counsel, Compliance, and Operations while handling sensitive customer data. Participate in on-call, incident response, code reviews, modernization efforts, and responsible use of AI-powered development tools.

Develop and operate backend systems supporting post-transaction processing for Affirm Card. Break down projects, write tested and extensible code, collaborate with product and engineering teams, monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, participate in on-call support, and contribute to code reviews and team development.

Develop server-side poker game features and gameplay functionality in Go for high-performance, large-scale applications. Build and integrate REST and gRPC APIs, SDKs, tools, and technologies; extend core systems; contribute to architecture, security, scalability, testing, and operations. Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, participate in long-term initiatives, review code, improve processes, and deliver solutions for live mobile game titles.

Design and own secure, scalable wallet infrastructure for custody, key management, transaction signing, authorization, recovery, and multichain systems. Architect support for MPC, HSMs, secure enclaves, TEEs, smart contract wallets, account abstraction, and emerging cryptographic approaches. Define security boundaries, policy engines, secrets management, authentication, and programmable authorization while making foundational build-versus-buy decisions and guiding systems from first principles through production.

Build and scale Go backend services for agent quoting, configuration, and application submission. Design APIs and distributed systems, write unit and integration tests, resolve partner-specific issues, contribute to architecture, support production debugging, improve CI/CD automation, and use AI coding tools in daily engineering workflows. Collaborate with adjacent teams and mentor teammates through pairing and documentation.

Develop and deploy slot-game features in Unity and C#, including gameplay, UI/UX, engine systems, and creator tools. Build server-backend functionality, investigate and extend slot-engine systems, define technical tasks, and quickly resolve bugs. The role requires collaboration, strong communication, and delivery under deadlines, with opportunities to work on live mobile games and performance optimization.

Build and operate a stablecoin payment rail for merchant checkout, subscriptions, refunds, reconciliation, and onchain settlement. Deliver full-stack features across Go services and React/Next.js interfaces, including APIs, protobufs, database migrations, wallet connectivity, and durable Temporal workflows. Improve accessibility, conversion, performance, and observability through logs, metrics, and traces. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate Payment Acceptance into Coinbase’s developer platform.

Lead a team of software engineers supporting critical retail-banking applications. Design and develop software solutions, provide technical guidance, review code and documentation, troubleshoot complex incidents, and apply SRE practices. Maintain on-call rotation for after-hours critical incidents. Use OpenShift, Hogan, Dynatrace, and Linux; collaborate on releases and modernize application delivery.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Build and operate ingestion and reconciliation pipelines that match card-network and partner reports against internal transactions. Develop reporting products, produce standardized journals for accounting, support tax and regulatory filing systems, handle sensitive PII for compliance, debug production issues, and collaborate with finance, product, and data teams to automate and scale reconciliation and reporting.

Design, build, test, and maintain enterprise integrations and automations across procurement, finance, and supply chain systems using MuleSoft and Zip iPaaS. Develop Python tools, write and optimize SQL, collaborate with stakeholders, ensure scalability and security, monitor production integrations, and contribute to documentation and DevOps practices.

Build and independently deliver full-stack healthcare software features using Java or Groovy, React and TypeScript, MongoDB, and Kafka. Responsibilities include design, implementation, testing, deployment, production debugging, code reviews, design documentation, dependency coordination, process improvements, and mentoring. The role requires reliable delivery with minimal oversight and collaboration across engineering, product, and QA teams in a remote-first environment.

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 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.

Develop and improve MongoDB’s distributed database networking and observability components. Responsibilities include writing production-level C++ code, enhancing performance, availability, scalability, and resource efficiency, integrating observability frameworks, leading medium-sized projects, collaborating across the product lifecycle, and participating in code reviews and technical design. The role requires strong software architecture fundamentals and an interest in networking, observability, and computer systems internals.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.

Lead the Android platform for Cash App Consumer Platform, building foundational infrastructure, shared libraries, architecture patterns, observability, performance tooling, and developer experiences used across the organization. Drive AI-native engineering practices and tools, identify cross-cutting technical problems, lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Android, iOS, web, backend, product, and design teams.

Build and own foundational Android platform infrastructure, shared libraries, frameworks, architecture, observability, performance tooling, and developer experience systems. Lead AI-native engineering practices, evaluate AI development tools, drive cross-organizational technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and establish scalable Android standards. Collaborate across mobile, web, backend, product, design, and leadership teams to improve engineering velocity and customer experiences.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop software using Ruby, Javascript, and support AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining and building applications, contributing to high-end software releases, and mentoring other engineers.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain scalable frontend and backend systems while collaborating across teams.

Develop scalable platforms, services, and internal tools for Revenue Cycle Management, supporting payments, claims submission, and operational workflows. Partner with engineering, product, design, operations, and business stakeholders to improve efficiency, reliability, and cost effectiveness. Drive software development through planning, execution, measurement, maintenance, and continuous improvement while supporting responsive, secure, and highly available systems.

Develop a platform for liquidity and loan collateralization. Responsibilities include building and integrating data pipelines, creating user experiences, and collaborating with teams for system design.

Lead UI architecture and design for responsive web applications; build reusable components with Angular/React/Vue and TypeScript/JavaScript; integrate UIs with RESTful microservices; enforce accessibility, security, testing, and CI/CD standards; mentor developers and collaborate with UX, backend, and DevOps teams in Agile environments.

Design and implement CIAM backend services for authentication and authorization. Integrate identity systems, manage secure flows, and automate infrastructure.

The software engineer will build full-stack features for Kora's voice AI agent, integrating data, refining prompts, and expanding multi-modal capabilities while mentoring peers and ensuring technical quality.