Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Design and implement front-end features, build high-quality user interfaces, take ownership of product and architecture decisions, collaborate with engineering team, and deliver performant, user-focused solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll support projects from conception to completion, build and extend React applications, and contribute to Vetcove's platform development.

Design and implement core payment infrastructure components (workflow engines, partner integrations, ledgering, public APIs). Collaborate with technical leadership on architecture, own projects end-to-end, and shape engineering culture at an early-stage fintech startup.

Design, build, and scale GraphQL and gRPC APIs and SQL queries powering the sportsbook marketplace. Own end-to-end feature delivery, performance diagnostics and remediation, release and deployment windows, monitoring in DataDog, and on-call rotations. Mentor peers, draft technical proposals/specs, and improve platform scalability through load testing, tracing, and production hygiene.

Build and ship production-grade features across frontend and backend, scope and lead projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to product and technical roadmap using the company tech stack.

Build, maintain, and operate Mission Control web app and supporting microservices for satellite operations. Implement HTTP APIs, design and deploy infrastructure, automate workflows, ensure CI/CD and testing, collaborate with cross-functional teams to support spacecraft scheduling, telemetry, and operational needs.

The Software Engineer III - Voice AI develops and maintains the Voice AI platform for patient calls, optimizing real-time conversational AI features and mentoring team members.

Build and own backend, data architecture, and integrations for operations. Replace manual workflows with automations and AI agents, ship internal tools, ensure reliable data flows, monitoring, and documentation, and support production systems used by ops.

Senior engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data ingestion, processing, storage, and member-facing membership application. Drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, build data pipelines, APIs, and ensure reliability, observability, CI/CD, and documentation while partnering with product and analytics stakeholders.

Lead design and implementation of the Libraries Platform: services, pipelines, and package index to build, verify, and serve secure reproducible libraries. Automate artifact creation, CVE remediation, SBOM/provenance generation, AI-assisted patching, and operate registry/mirroring, CI/CD integrations, reliability, observability, and incident response while mentoring engineers.

Design, implement, and maintain backend services and core APIs (primarily Scala). Collaborate on architecture, improve system reliability, and deliver production software for legal AI products.

Pipeline for software engineering roles at multiple levels. Work may include design, development, testing of embedded or application software, firmware and hardware-software integration, code review, debugging, performance optimization, Agile/Scrum practices, and cross-functional collaboration with systems, controls, and hardware teams.

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines; integrate AI-powered infrastructure; implement and support complex computing algorithms and distributed services; own systems end-to-end including architecture, observability, reliability, and operational support; lead architectural initiatives and reduce system complexity while maintaining performance on large-scale real-time data.

Join as an early founding full-stack engineer to architect, build, and deploy a scalable platform serving AI-driven voice applications. You will own frontend and backend development, design infrastructure with the CTO, and deliver reliable production systems for enterprise customers.

Build, maintain, and scale cloud-first microservices using TypeScript/Node.js. Contribute to front-end features with Angular, optimize SQL and NoSQL queries, use CI/CD pipelines, adopt AI-assisted tools, participate in Agile ceremonies, and collaborate with senior engineers to deliver reliable software.

Design, build, and operate distributed ledger, transaction, settlement, and treasury systems. Develop durable ledgering APIs, emit trusted data for finance, maintain high-reliability services to SLOs, lead complex cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and integrate AI tooling across the development lifecycle.

Build and maintain multi-cloud infrastructure standards, self-service tooling, and paved-road defaults across AWS and GCP. Partner with compute, security, and networking teams to embed guardrails, drive standardization, lead cross-team initiatives, and resolve systemic operational issues to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable platform infrastructure.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Build low-latency, high-throughput microservices and event-driven systems, drive reliability via SLOs and observability, lead incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product and compliance-aligned roadmaps.

Build software at Coinbase while responsibly using and integrating generative AI copilots (e.g., LibreChat, Gemini, Glean). Continuously learn evolving tools, apply human-in-the-loop practices, and deliver business-ready outputs that improve efficiency, cost, and quality. Participate in quarterly in-person working sessions as part of a remote-first culture.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Build and scale full-stack systems to improve provider onboarding and supply; design distributed, maintainable services; lead high-priority projects; mentor engineers; integrate AI-assisted and LLM-based features; drive provider-facing product quality and reliability.

Build automated reliability and self-healing platform tooling to protect production at scale. Improve incident management, reduce alert noise, evolve observability (monitoring, SLOs, performance detection), and develop AI-driven operational automation. Partner with product teams to diagnose reliability gaps, drive incident prevention, and champion operational excellence and best practices across engineering.