Top Software Engineer Jobs in Rochester, NY

Own end-to-end verification and validation for complex cloud-native software systems. Design comprehensive testing strategies, build scalable backend and frontend automation frameworks, identify coverage gaps, perform root cause analysis, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve testing efficiency. Apply AI-assisted tools to testing and debugging, evaluate emerging AI capabilities, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards across teams.

Evaluates AI coding-agent interactions for technical quality, engineering judgment, reasoning, explanations, and user trust. Provides detailed written and recorded feedback, distinguishes response quality levels, and helps define standards for tools such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This remote contract requires strong TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python experience, familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, and senior-level engineering judgment.

Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for engineering judgment, response quality, reasoning, explanations, and usefulness. Provide clear written and recorded feedback, distinguish quality levels, and help define standards for excellent AI-assisted development interactions. This contract role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong Python or TypeScript/JavaScript skills, familiarity with modern AI development workflows, and excellent English communication.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for correctness, usefulness, engineering judgment, explanation quality, and user trust. Provide clear, opinionated written feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. The role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong TypeScript/JavaScript or Python skills, hands-on AI-assisted development experience, excellent English communication, and the ability to assess code without executing or reviewing every line.

Leads technical direction for large-scale accessibility systems that detect, remediate, and prevent web accessibility issues. Designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable distributed systems; drives technical roadmaps; mentors engineers; partners with Product and Design; and promotes responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires hands-on software engineering across JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, databases, storage, real-time data, and AI-enabled tooling.

Build and operate full-stack certificate management, security, monitoring, and vulnerability products. Develop TypeScript APIs and React frontends, design MySQL schemas, manage AWS workers and Kubernetes infrastructure, maintain legacy .NET and Python services, integrate partner APIs, improve CI/CD and observability, participate in on-call support, and develop AI-assisted features. The role includes code reviews, testing, incident resolution, technical documentation, and mentoring engineers.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.

Owns end-to-end technical architecture across Rails, Python machine-learning services, agent infrastructure, and data platforms. Leads scalability, reliability, cost optimization, model infrastructure, architectural reviews, technical roadmap decisions, incident response, code reviews, and engineering mentorship. The role remains hands-on, requiring production coding and expertise in computer vision, LLM systems, cloud infrastructure, databases, background jobs, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices.

Develop and support software applications, REST and ASP.NET web services, distributed systems, data integrations, and storage solutions. Analyze requirements, optimize performance, resolve application issues, implement security and data protection, and collaborate with product, business, and QA teams. The role includes technical documentation, quality reviews, managing competing priorities, and mentoring less experienced developers.

Build and maintain full-stack software for startup clients, including backend services, frontend experiences, new features, redesigns, bug fixes, and product improvements. Collaborate daily with product managers, designers, and engineers in a distributed, agile environment. Take ownership across the technology stack, write clean maintainable code, contribute to client missions, and support team growth and knowledge sharing.

Design and implement scalable backend services for MoneyGram’s core transaction and API platforms. Responsibilities include architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, integrations, cloud development, CI/CD automation, testing, deployment, operational excellence, and engineering standards. The role collaborates with product, engineering, and QA teams, mentors junior engineers, leads complex technical solutions, and influences technical direction in an agile environment.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s billing experience platform. Design and evolve public and internal APIs, build full-stack billing and account-management features, and shape scalable architecture and data models. Improve reliability, observability, deployment, CI/CD, and incident response across cloud services. Mentor engineers, review technical work, influence roadmap priorities, collaborate across Product, Design, SRE, Finance, and Cloud teams, and participate in on-call rotations.

Designs and executes manual and automated testing across applications, APIs, databases, data platforms, and integrated systems. Builds QA automation frameworks, validates data quality, manages test environments, supports CI/CD test integration, tracks defects, and performs root cause analysis. Collaborates with Agile engineering teams on sprint planning, releases, and process improvements while testing healthcare technology platforms and regulated workflows.

Design and build unified testing frameworks enabling portability across SIL, HIL, and simulation. Configure and maintain physical HIL benches and hardware interfaces, integrate automated HIL tests into CI pipelines, collaborate with software teams to improve HIL/CI systems, and monitor runtime performance, system health, and reliability metrics across testing platforms.

Design and scale ARM64 compute platform infrastructure, hypervisor integrations, instance management, resource orchestration tools, and compute APIs. Develop and maintain low-level services using Python, Go, or compiled systems languages. Collaborate with hardware and global engineering teams, participate in design reviews, debug distributed Linux systems, and mentor junior engineers.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

Design, build, and maintain automation and control systems for bioreactors and bioprocessing equipment. Tune and troubleshoot PID control loops, improve system reliability through monitoring and fault recovery, and develop safe interfaces between cloud software and physical devices. Build sensor, actuator, and embedded-controller integrations while collaborating across mechanical, electrical, process, and software engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable automation solutions.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems and public-facing APIs. Collaborate with Product and Data Science teams, lead initiatives improving efficiency and system performance, and support customer satisfaction. Work may involve distributed systems, pricing engines, identity management, authentication, authorization, API versioning, deprecation, and rate limiting.

Develop and maintain enterprise full-stack applications using Java Spring Boot, REST APIs, modern front-end frameworks, Oracle Exadata, and OpenShift/Kubernetes. Responsibilities include legacy code analysis, full-lifecycle development and testing, SQL and PL/SQL optimization, microservices deployment, CI/CD, code reviews, architecture discussions, monitoring, and Agile collaboration. The role requires an active transferable IRS MBI moderate-risk public trust investigation, U.S. citizenship, and substantial full-stack and cloud-native development experience.

Build innovative software products in the Special Projects Division addressing public health, agriculture, education, and aid-related challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Responsibilities include designing software architectures, developing on UNIX-based platforms, participating in code reviews, using disciplined version control, collaborating with teams, and potentially applying Django, React, Android, or PyTorch. The role may involve travel to Africa to understand local contexts.

Build and own Android growth and monetization experiments across subscriptions, pricing, advertising, purchases, and upgrade flows. Partner with product, design, data science, and analytics to instrument experiments, manage staged rollouts, monitor performance, and act on results. Use AI tools throughout development, contribute to Android architecture and engineering practices, participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, and help scale reliable mobile experiences to tens of millions of users.

Leads technical direction and cross-team delivery of scalable software capabilities for a digital banking platform. Designs secure APIs, microservices, integrations, data contracts, and reliable full-stack systems. Partners across product, design, security, architecture, data, and engineering; mentors engineers; leads incident response; improves testing, CI/CD, developer tooling, and operational readiness. The role requires hands-on coding, architecture leadership, dependency management, and influence without direct people management.

Designs, develops, configures, and supports Edifecs healthcare EDI solutions and transaction mappings. Works with 837, 834, 835, 820, and 270/271 transactions; troubleshoots transmissions, configures validations, and develops Groovy scripts. Leads Agile and DevOps efforts, mentors engineers, supports QA, and designs scalable AWS applications using containers, microservices, and CI/CD. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, performance tuning, and stakeholder consultation.

Lead delivery of Unity Engine’s C#/.NET integration, including GC, JIT, AOT, runtime libraries, and compiler toolchains. Define technical vision, improve performance and reliability, guide cross-functional development, communicate roadmaps and metrics, support users, and mentor team members. The role requires deep C# and C++ expertise, compiler knowledge, hardware architecture understanding, and proprietary game engine development experience.