Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The Senior .NET Software Engineer will drive development of .NET software products, focusing on back-end engineering, code reviews, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The fellowship offers hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on data engineering, cloud-native applications, and Agile workflows with mentorship from experienced professionals.

Lead complex software projects, mentor engineers, and set technical direction at Vanta while contributing to security and compliance solutions.

Build and own front-end features from concept through delivery for cybersecurity products. Collaborate with Product and Design to create intuitive UIs, improve engineering practices and tooling, simplify complex systems, and contribute to architecture and design systems. Use modern front-end tech (React, TypeScript) and AI-assisted tools to increase quality and delivery.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

As a software engineer, you will enhance customer experiences and build tools for restaurant partners, focusing on payments and analytics.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance data pipelines, integrate with EHR systems, and mentor fellow engineers while ensuring scalable and reliable solutions for health technology.

Drive front-end development for customer-facing web and mobile experiences. Lead feature delivery from concept to production using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Svelte, and Tailwind. Troubleshoot integrations, write unit and integration tests, produce technical documentation, collaborate with product/design/data, and use AI tooling (preferably Claude) to accelerate design and implementation.

Lead design and implementation of the PSA Liquidity Platform connecting buyers and sellers. Build buyer tooling, matching/ranking engines, and seller experiences. Architect and operate microservices and Kafka-driven systems on Kubernetes/AWS, instrument observability, apply AI tooling across the SDLC, and drive cross-functional delivery from 0-to-1 while owning end-to-end outcomes.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based backend services and APIs for the Collectors Vault. Own architecture and delivery, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, and leverage modern AI tools to accelerate development and engineering velocity.

Build and operate the Power Packs customer experience and backend services. Design data foundations, APIs, and integrations across platform services. Troubleshoot distributed systems, contribute full-stack plumbing as needed, improve observability and documentation, and collaborate with Product and partner teams to deliver scalable, multi-tenant marketplace capabilities.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build systems for route planning, dispatch, and real-time tracking for various logistics and operations, improving dispatcher tools and user experiences.

The Senior Search Engineer will focus on improving the search system for Vannevar's product, collaborating with engineers to leverage full-text search and emerging technologies, and enhancing user experience by improving search latency and relevance.

Lead Engineer responsible for end-to-end feature design, development, testing, and delivery of a cloud-based healthcare platform. Work full stack from database to frontend, design scalable data services and APIs, mentor junior engineers, ensure testing and security best practices, and deploy to modern cloud infrastructure.

Lead full‑stack development and architecture for Spark’s broker platform. Deliver customer‑facing features, partner with product/design, mentor engineers, resolve technical debt, and set engineering standards while using AI developer tools.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

The Software Engineer Intern will develop and maintain full-stack applications, collaborating with various teams to build features for Clerkie Fiber, a B2B CRM.

Build end-to-end fullstack features for Threat Narrative and Email Details, implementing backend APIs, data models, and React/TypeScript UIs. Integrate GenAI/LLM systems to generate explainable narratives, own SLAs/SLOs and observability, participate in design/code reviews, and collaborate with product and cross-functional partners to improve detection explainability and customer-facing experiences.

Build automated email follow-up plugins and integrations for insurance claim systems (Google Workspace initially, possibly Outlook). Develop web applications and hardware-software integrations for mitigation equipment. Deliver reliable, fast-turnaround code while managing multiple fast-paced projects in a startup environment.

Build and maintain intuitive frontend web applications for data upload, search, visualization, and interactive 2D/3D geospatial tools. Collaborate with scientists to design complex visualizations, modernize the frontend stack, mentor junior developers, and implement automated UI testing and deployment pipelines.

Develop, implement, and maintain information systems for research and clinical trials data. Work with researchers on design, testing, and deployment of systems, support server and release management, and advise leadership on technology strategy to meet research needs.

Own and ship full-stack product features in weekly cycles: scope solutions, build backend services and UIs, use AI tooling for development, ensure code quality and production readiness, measure impact, and communicate with stakeholders.

Design and develop features for parallel and distributed SQL query engines, focusing on query federation, optimization, performance, and scalability. Collaborate with open source communities, lead cross-functional efforts, and mentor junior engineers to deliver cloud-native data platform solutions.

Build and own user-facing features and core platform architecture across frontend, backend, and ML pipelines. Integrate AI workflows (LLMs, embeddings) for curriculum generation and automated evaluation. Manage end-to-end development: requirements, design, implementation, CI/CD, testing, observability, and iteration while collaborating with product, design, ML, and customer teams.