Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows using TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Integrate modern services with legacy WordPress and PHP systems, develop secure and scalable APIs, troubleshoot production issues, write automated tests, and contribute to infrastructure as code, observability, documentation, code reviews, and on-call support.

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.

Volunteer senior engineer to develop a cross-platform medical/wellness app (web, iOS, Android). Own full SDLC: design, coding, testing, data models, pipelines, deployments, and collaborate in Agile processes. Attend weekly standups and commit at least 4 hours weekly.

Software engineering intern responsible for owning a scoped project and building production-quality features across frontend, backend, full-stack, real-time, or forward-deployed systems. Duties include developing telemetry and geospatial interfaces, backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, tests, developer tooling, and data pipelines. The intern will support integration and test events, debug distributed systems and networks, explain technical tradeoffs, and present their work at the end of the internship.

Design, build, test, document, and optimize Tailscale’s client-side networking software. Develop connectivity features involving routing, VPNs, subnet routers, exit nodes, and NAT traversal; apply secure, scalable architectures; diagnose complex customer network issues; support escalations; collaborate across product and engineering teams; and contribute to open-source networking projects.

Own full-stack features end to end, including system design, implementation direction, testing, deployment, production operations, and incident response. Use agentic AI to generate code, tests, and reviews while validating quality and security. Build production APIs, data models, authentication, schemas, migrations, and scalable SQL. Collaborate with Product, Design, and DevOps, and apply secure coding practices. Bonus experience includes RAG, LLM evaluation and observability, or TypeScript frontend development.

Design, develop, test, and optimize safe, scalable real-time software for production autonomous vehicle systems. Architect continuous learning infrastructure for ML model deployment and monitoring, analyze algorithms, and collaborate with embedded, platform, AI, sensor, and compute teams. Support perception, prediction, and planning integration while contributing to highway and urban autonomous driving capabilities.

Design and implement motion-planning software for autonomous vehicles, including behavior planning, trajectory generation, safety constraints, and real-time embedded performance. Integrate planning with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems. Validate solutions through simulation, closed-course trials, and on-road testing while addressing complex edge cases and collaborating with vendors, AI teams, and customers.

Build and own production software systems spanning embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, technical design reviews, cross-functional hardware collaboration, hiring, and mentoring. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, distributed systems experience, debugging ability, and proficiency in at least one major programming language.

Develop full-stack software for secure, scalable satellite ground communications platforms. Responsibilities include building Python backend services and APIs, designing TypeScript front-end applications, implementing authentication, authorization, microservices, databases, testing, and cloud deployments. The role involves collaborating with MBSE and test teams, translating requirements into technical designs, troubleshooting production issues, supporting integrations, and presenting engineering recommendations. Work requires maintaining secure, reliable systems for U.S. Government missions.

Develop and maintain Java components for a modernization framework and existing business applications. Support legacy refactoring, API and backend service development, documentation, unit testing, debugging, and application architecture updates. Collaborate with senior developers during design sessions and sprint ceremonies while building expertise in modern development practices, cloud concepts, and application transformation.

Develop and maintain COBOL-based Medicare claims processing software in a legacy mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, implementing enhancements, troubleshooting defects, supporting Agile/Scrum delivery, preparing estimates, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with team members, clients, and vendors. The role supports Durable Medical Equipment claims processing and requires adherence to structured development standards.

Develops, tests, documents, enhances, and maintains software applications supporting business requirements. Collaborates with internal teams to define specifications, writes and debugs code, monitors performance, prepares status reports, trains end users, and supports application improvements. The role uses C#, .NET, React, AWS, databases, shell scripting, source control, and development tools. On-call availability and some travel may be required.

Design, build, and scale Shepherd’s core platform, backend systems, APIs, user-facing applications, and AI-powered legal workflows. Architect secure, reliable infrastructure for sensitive legal data, collaborate with legal and product teams, build internal tools, optimize performance, and own technical decisions. The role also involves rapid prototyping, mentoring and recruiting engineers, and contributing to SOC 2 readiness and data privacy practices.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Design, implement, and maintain partner integration solutions; translate partner requirements into scalable technical implementations; troubleshoot and automate fixes; collaborate with product and engineering teams to improve tools and ensure successful partner onboarding and launches.

Build and operate ingestion, reconciliation, and reporting systems that reconcile card-network and partner settlement files against internal transactions. Deliver end-to-end features for traceability, accounting journals, tax and regulatory reporting, and compliance tooling while ensuring reliability, scalability, and data privacy.

Lead design and delivery of scalable customer-facing features, services, and APIs that process real-time data and AI-powered insights. Build web experiences, contribute to LLM/AI workflows, ensure reliability through observability and rollout practices, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, ML, and platform teams.

Leads architecture and development of Azure Storage table, metadata, and indexing systems at massive cloud scale. Designs distributed-system primitives for partitioning, indexing, transactions, consistency, replication, caching, and high-performance data access. Drives architectural decisions, prototypes innovations through production, and improves performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Requires deep expertise in distributed storage, databases, or large-scale systems.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing and implementing polished frontend experiences from Figma concepts through production React and TypeScript code. The role includes building scalable design systems and component libraries, ensuring accessibility and responsive design, contributing to frontend architecture, and translating complex mortgage workflows into intuitive interfaces. The engineer will collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering while owning projects throughout the product lifecycle.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of Grafana Cloud’s Session Replay product across frontend, backend, and data systems. Design columnar storage, ingestion pipelines, data models, and query patterns for high-volume session data. Build cross-product debugging workflows, partner with customers and internal teams, improve engineering practices, make architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain large-scale automation and control systems for Azure Kubernetes Service. Responsibilities include improving Kubernetes cluster performance and reliability, automating cluster lifecycle operations, developing safety and observability tools, supporting secure infrastructure changes, participating in production operations and on-call rotations, and mentoring engineers through design reviews and continuous improvement.

Staff Software Engineer leading hands-on full-stack development across C#/.NET services, Angular interfaces, databases, and AWS-hosted applications. Builds healthcare data integrations using HL7, FHIR, and X12 EDI; modernizes legacy systems; improves performance; applies secure coding and HIPAA practices; supports production incidents; reviews code; mentors engineers; and collaborates with product and QA teams.

Develop and maintain a Java and Drools business rules engine governing eligibility, suppression, frequency, and consent. Build Spring services, REST APIs, and Kafka integrations; ensure correctness, performance, testing, resiliency, and compliance in a PHI-handling environment. Collaborate with Product and compliance teams, participate in code reviews, and support cloud-based Kubernetes deployments.