Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead the architecture, development, and evolution of Keeper Commander, including Python and .NET SDKs, CLI tooling, APIs, and developer automation. Remain hands-on with coding, debugging, architecture, integrations, security, testing, and release engineering while mentoring a small team. Partner with Product, QA, and Security teams, support the open-source ecosystem, improve developer experience, and guide technical strategy for enterprise and DevOps integrations.

Own and develop safety-critical firmware for autonomous transit vehicles, including RTOS applications, communication architectures, bootloaders, drivers, board bring-up, diagnostics, and automated testing. Lead cross-functional embedded projects, optimize performance on resource-constrained platforms, establish engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers. The role requires expert C or C++, embedded systems experience, safety-critical development, and typically seven or more years of production embedded software experience.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems. Provide engineering leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance while driving reliability, automation, CI/CD, security, performance optimization, and technical strategy. Investigate emerging technologies, oversee complex problem-solving, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product and business stakeholders to align technology roadmaps with organizational goals.

Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and optimize software solutions using Microsoft technologies and Azure cloud services. Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, security, infrastructure, product, and support teams throughout the software development lifecycle. Modernize legacy applications, build REST APIs, implement automated testing, ensure PCI and HIPAA compliance, document systems, manage releases, and support production troubleshooting, monitoring, performance, and reliability.

Own end-to-end architecture and implementation quality for an accounting and payments pod. Lead migration of billing processing to Go worker routines, build a reusable invoicing SDK with Storybook, define testing strategies, reduce technical debt, mentor engineers, participate in customer discovery, and promote AI-assisted development. The role requires strong backend, frontend, database, architectural, and mentoring experience in a fully remote product-led environment.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable software for Toast Delivery Services. Develop real-time delivery tracking, driver matching, pricing, refunds, and payment-related systems. Solve distributed-systems and scaling challenges, integrate with partner APIs, uphold production reliability, promote strong engineering practices, and mentor teammates.

Build and optimize MongoDB’s SQL interface, including query engines, SQL-to-MQL translation, database connectors, and BI integrations. Develop backend systems that improve performance, scalability, reliability, and usability for large datasets and complex queries. Collaborate with product managers and customer experience teams, contribute to roadmap initiatives, resolve bugs, and lead major technical projects.

Principal Software Developer responsible for designing, developing, and scaling distributed, high-throughput software systems. The role delivers features, improves reliability, identifies bottlenecks, leads system migrations from monoliths to microservices, and works across the technology stack. Responsibilities include architectural design, cloud engineering, technical leadership, mentoring developers, communicating technical decisions, and using AI and automation tools to improve engineering outcomes.

Build and scale accounting software synchronization solutions connecting BILL’s payment network with third-party accounting platforms. Lead end-to-end software design and delivery, develop scalable AWS microservices, improve platform performance, guide testing and CI/CD practices, resolve customer problems, mentor engineers, and use generative AI to accelerate development.

Leads the design, development, maintenance, and technical direction of Java and Spring Boot backend microservices supporting commercial order processing. Responsibilities include architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, code reviews, stakeholder collaboration, software lifecycle ownership, quality initiatives, QA support, and building highly available systems using AWS, Kafka, GraphQL, databases, and infrastructure-as-code technologies.

Architects and leads qualification, performance validation, automation, reliability, and fleet-readiness efforts for next-generation Azure Storage infrastructure. Develops tooling, telemetry, and performance analysis frameworks while partnering across Storage, Compute, Networking, Platform Engineering, and hardware teams. Provides technical leadership through architecture, incident resolution, mentorship, and engineering best practices. The role is onsite three days weekly in Redmond, Washington.

Build and maintain Curai’s marketing platform, including web features, APIs, data flows, event tracking, attribution measurement, SQL models, dashboards, and ClickHouse-backed marketing analytics. The role partners with marketing to scope engineering projects, improves site performance and conversion, investigates data quality issues, reviews code, strengthens testing and monitoring, and makes technical decisions across the engineering team.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for shaping and delivering a new fundraising product from discovery through production. The role involves full-stack development, architecture, prototyping, customer collaboration, production troubleshooting, reliability improvements, and mentoring. The engineer will work autonomously in an early-stage business unit, use customer feedback and data to guide decisions, and contribute across interfaces, backend services, integrations, infrastructure, and AI-enabled workflows.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications. Owns the engineering lifecycle, writes high-performance code, establishes testing and reliability practices, resolves production issues, guides technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in object-oriented backend development, distributed cloud systems, automated testing, system monitoring, and technical leadership.

Design, develop, and implement scalable software solutions and modern applications for consumer banking. Collaborate in an Agile environment, contribute to architectural and design decisions, build distributed service-based components, and incorporate scalability, manageability, and maintainability. The engineer will work across multiple initiatives, collaborate with teammates, mentor engineers, and help deliver consumer-facing products.

Develop and maintain scalable Python/Django backend features for Cyware’s Cyber Fusion platform across commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. Design microservices, REST APIs, AI and RAG integrations, multi-tenant architectures, and secure identity systems. Ensure FedRAMP/GovRAMP compliance through secure coding, audit logging, RBAC, encryption, testing, and continuous monitoring. Collaborate with DevOps, GRC, Security, and engineering teams on CI/CD, code reviews, production support, and platform improvements.

Build and operate Legion’s secure, scalable AWS and Kubernetes platform. Responsibilities include infrastructure automation, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, incident response, operational runbooks, production support, and on-call participation. The role also develops production AI agents for SRE automation and owns a secure platform for engineering teams to build and operate agents with sandboxing, scoped credentials, integrations, cost controls, observability, and reliability guardrails.

The Senior Software Engineer designs and develops software applications, optimizes APIs and databases, collaborates with teams, and ensures code quality through various testing practices.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support distributed software applications integrating Gopuff with third-party systems. Build and maintain REST APIs, monitoring, and data-intensive services while leading cross-functional projects. Scope and delegate work, mentor engineers, promote development and testing practices, and provide technical leadership for an empowered engineering team.

Design, build, and maintain scalable applications, APIs, mobile platforms, booking systems, clinical integrations, and healthcare data systems. Own features end to end, make architectural decisions, improve security and reliability, and contribute to cloud deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and DevOps. Collaborate with clinical, operations, and patient experience teams to deliver secure digital tools that improve patient care and clinic efficiency.

Develop, test, and ship features for patient-facing applications, booking systems, clinical operations tools, and internal platforms. Collaborate with senior engineers on implementation, code reviews, debugging, troubleshooting, and automation for scheduling and patient engagement workflows. Build foundational experience with mobile applications, healthcare data systems, APIs, databases, version control, and production software while contributing to a collaborative engineering team.

Lead end-to-end design, development, and delivery of full‑stack features; drive architecture and code reviews; coordinate engineering work, write design docs and tests, and participate in Agile ceremonies. Must have blockchain/crypto experience.

Leads architecture and development of scalable Node.js SaaS applications and data products. Responsibilities include designing systems, translating stakeholder needs into technical backlogs, writing user stories, coordinating architecture decisions, supporting product planning, improving business processes, and mentoring engineers. The role also incorporates AI-assisted development, code review agents, LLM APIs, agentic workflows, and generative AI tools.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.