Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, and scale backend services, microservices, APIs, and secure cloud applications for physical AI solutions. Integrate AI models and data pipelines, manage infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or GCP, implement testing and CI/CD practices, support real-time data systems, and mentor junior engineers. The role also requires front-end development with React and JavaScript, SQL database work, data visualization, production deployments, and frequent client-site travel.

Leads end-to-end modernization from a monolith to microservices, including legacy analysis, architecture, estimation, data migration, deployment, and production support. Guides .NET services, databases, messaging, containerization, and frontend integrations. Acts as the technical escalation point for complex issues while improving Jira tracking, estimation accuracy, QA collaboration, release predictability, and engineering processes. Manages and develops the team through one-on-ones, performance reviews, feedback, and career-focused objectives.

Design, build, and operate scalable APIs and event-driven backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. Develop infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot production systems, and participate in on-call support. Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, API and event standards, code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team guidance. Help improve engineering quality, reliability, scalability, development tooling, and adoption of AI-assisted development practices.

Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs software for the Next Generation Jammer program, including support equipment and simulators. Develops embedded, desktop, web, autonomous, scripting, and utility applications; analyzes system requirements; troubleshoots software issues; collaborates with subject matter experts; prepares operating instructions; and ensures software standards are met.

Develop and lead implementation of mathematical optimization models for supply chain applications. Investigate heuristics and optimization techniques, translate real-world problems into software, and design comprehensive testing strategies. Build robust C++ software, automated functional, regression, and performance tests, and collaborate with agile teams. Apply AI and other tools to accelerate development while maintaining architectural consistency, security, and code quality. Review AI-generated code for correctness, integration risks, and edge cases.

Develop and maintain automated testing tools and frameworks for complex healthcare software. Create test plans, execute white-box, black-box, UI, API, and performance testing, identify defects and testing gaps, improve CI/CD processes, and collaborate with product managers and developers to support high-quality releases. The role also involves debugging code, participating in demos, and working with distributed teams in a remote environment.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Leads design and code reviews, translates requirements into scalable solutions, guides agile sprint teams, resolves delivery impediments, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role emphasizes high-quality backend development, cloud technologies, APIs, microservices, containerization, security, scalability, and technical strategy.

Designs, develops, and maintains complex software test automation frameworks, tools, libraries, and performance tests. Integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, analyzes test results, enforces coding standards, reviews code, troubleshoots issues, and mentors junior engineers. Collaborates cross-functionally to support quality releases and develops reusable testing solutions using modern programming languages, cloud platforms, containerization, API testing, and automation technologies.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Write tested, scalable code; translate requirements into robust designs; lead design and code reviews; guide sprint teams; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes software quality, security, compliance, maintainability, technical strategy, and delivery of new features across applications.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Leads design and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable solutions, leads sprint teams, removes delivery impediments, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role emphasizes backend development, cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, databases, containerization, DevSecOps, technical strategy, and delivering secure, maintainable, high-quality software.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile engineering teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading architecture and code reviews, resolving delivery impediments, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product managers on roadmap planning and prioritization. The role requires expertise in backend development, cloud platforms, microservices, databases, APIs, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, and operational excellence.

Designs, develops, tests, reviews, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Leads sprint teams, translates product requirements into scalable and secure designs, drives code and design reviews, collaborates with stakeholders, removes delivery impediments, and mentors engineers. The role requires strong software development, architecture, API, database, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, and technical leadership experience, with preferred expertise in Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted development tools.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Leads architecture and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable solutions, removes delivery impediments, collaborates with product managers and stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires backend development, cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, observability, and technical strategy experience.

Design, develop, and maintain complex test automation frameworks, tools, libraries, and performance tests. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, establish coding standards, analyze test results, and drive automation strategies. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, review code, troubleshoot framework issues, and mentor junior testing engineers. The role also supports cloud, containerization, DevSecOps, API, UI, and performance testing initiatives.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing and developing complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include coding, system design, code and design reviews, roadmap delivery, stakeholder collaboration, mentoring engineers, and driving technical strategy, quality, scalability, security, observability, and operational excellence. The role requires extensive software engineering experience, multi-team leadership, distributed systems expertise, and proficiency with modern programming languages, cloud platforms, microservices, containers, APIs, messaging, and DevSecOps.

Design and build performance-focused TV UI architectures for Netflix’s streaming applications across smart TVs, game consoles, and cable boxes. Enable scalable development for engineering teams by improving developer experience, ergonomics, resource management, performance, memory usage, and technology integration. Responsibilities include systems-level architectural thinking, API design, profiling, collaboration with UI, design, platform, and tooling teams, and making thoughtful implementation trade-offs.

Develop and deliver features for large-scale web applications using full-stack technologies across React, TypeScript, Node.js, Microsoft, and cloud stacks. Collaborate in agile Scrum or Kanban teams with architects, QA, product management, and stakeholders. Contribute to CI/CD, DevOps, troubleshooting, performance, security, and continuous improvement while building high-quality software solutions.

Develop and support customized Acumatica ERP solutions using the Cloud xRP Platform, C#/.NET, T-SQL, APIs, workflows, dashboards, and reports. Translate business needs into technical specifications, build integrations, conduct testing, troubleshoot issues, document solutions, and collaborate with clients, analysts, project managers, and technical teams. The role also provides technical guidance, manages multiple assignments, and supports continuous improvement.

The role involves designing, building, and maintaining scalable Android applications, leading complex projects, ensuring quality through automated testing, and mentoring engineers.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cash App Banking team, you will lead the design, execution, and delivery of banking features, collaborating across teams to enhance the user experience.

Build and operate backend services, APIs, and frontend experiences for the Power Packs product. Work across the full SDLC on backend systems, frontend React/NextJS apps, integrations, observability, and documentation while collaborating with Product and Engineering to deliver scalable, production-quality features.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Babylist, you will develop systems for a high-volume marketplace, collaborating on advertising, commerce features, and infrastructure while leading projects and improving processes with AI-driven methodologies.

Architect, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack applications using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS. Own features end-to-end, optimize performance and usability, collaborate with founders, and use AI tools to accelerate development in a fast-paced startup.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains scalable software features and services across backend and frontend systems. Collaborates on architecture with engineering, product, QA, and DevOps teams; contributes to CI/CD, monitoring, testing, and operational reliability. Requires C#/.NET and API expertise, cloud platform familiarity, Docker, AI development experience, and strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Provides technical leadership for designing, developing, optimizing, porting, and certifying GPGPU and AI inference libraries built on Vulkan SC drivers. The role targets embedded GPU platforms such as Arm Mali and Intel, maintains AI model testing infrastructure, defines validation standards, supports customer deployments, and troubleshoots drivers. It also involves documentation, competitive analysis, cross-functional architecture decisions, mentoring, onboarding, and exploring emerging AI compute capabilities.