Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Sacramento, CA

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.

Lead frontend and full-stack engineering, architect scalable features, integrate APIs and cloud services, optimize rendering and performance, establish engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and mentor developers. Collaborate with product, UX, and backend teams to deliver user-focused software while managing priorities in an ambiguous environment.

Develop secure, scalable full-stack software for satellite ground communications and data transport. Responsibilities include building Python backend services and APIs on AWS, developing TypeScript and Vite front-end applications, designing microservices, managing PostgreSQL databases, implementing authentication and authorization, supporting containerized deployments, resolving production issues, refining requirements, collaborating with MBSE and test teams, and mentoring engineers.

Develop and maintain a Medicare claims processing system in a mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, unit testing, debugging, defect resolution, technical documentation, and installing changes in test regions. The role leads complex development components, translates customer requirements into work items, provides estimates and technical guidance, represents the team to clients, and mentors junior developers while supporting Agile/Scrum maintenance and operations.

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.

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.

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.

Lead technical strategy, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor early-career engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves developing scalable systems on AWS and Kubernetes while working with healthcare data and adhering to HIPAA and data-security best practices.

Design, develop, test, and optimize system software for next-generation ARM-based SoCs across pre- and post-silicon phases. Analyze architectural bottlenecks, workload performance, and performance-per-watt tradeoffs; develop hardware/software policies and optimization strategies. Lead performance analysis, competitive benchmarking, architecture documentation, and adoption of improvements across NVIDIA software products and open-source SDKs.

Lead the design, architecture, development, deployment, and optimization of scalable .NET backend systems processing millions of daily healthcare transactions. Mentor developers, guide technical decisions, improve CI/CD pipelines, implement secure APIs, and collaborate with product stakeholders. The role requires expertise in .NET, C#, ASP.NET Core, cloud-native AWS services, Kubernetes, microservices, distributed systems, testing, observability, and secure software development.

Build and optimize the core of a distributed compute engine in Rust for SQL and AI query processing. Responsibilities include designing and delivering engine capabilities, improving query performance, writing maintainable code, and solving complex systems and concurrency problems. The role requires expertise in data structures, algorithms, performance optimization, systems programming, hardware fundamentals, asynchronous programming, atomics, locks, and cache design.

Own embedded software features end to end, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, debugging, and delivery. Develop and maintain C-based software on Linux systems, using Python for tooling and tests. Lead feature planning and execution, conduct code reviews, resolve integration issues, communicate with cross-functional teams, and mentor junior engineers. The role also involves system-level design, hardware compatibility considerations, networking software, and technical leadership across product initiatives.

Designs, develops, tests, integrates, and leads delivery of next-generation distributed storage platforms. Collaborates with firmware, hardware, and Storage OS teams; oversees internal and outsourced development partners; reviews architectures and designs; drives technology integration; ensures testing quality; and mentors less-experienced engineers. Requires low-level C and Rust programming, embedded systems expertise, and knowledge of SAS and NVMe protocols.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services powering AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines. Design scalable core platform services, collaborate with ML, frontend, and product teams, implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, and mentor junior engineers to deliver reliable, AI-powered features.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Design, scope, and implement scalable backend and platform solutions for a reservations and waitlist product. Improve performance and usability, collaborate with Product and Design, identify high-impact opportunities, and contribute across the stack including APIs and front-end integration.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems. Drives architectural decisions and technical strategy, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, partners with product stakeholders, and improves system performance, scalability, security, and compliance. Owns technical initiatives from design through delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Architect and re-engineer highly scalable, resilient backend data systems supporting patient services. Lead distributed systems strategy, make architectural decisions, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, establish operational practices, and collaborate with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to shape engineering and product direction.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Design, build, and maintain AI-powered B2B SaaS products across frontend, backend, and AI. Own projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, ensure maintainability, mentor teammates, and inform roadmap and implementation decisions.

The Senior Fullstack Software Engineer will design, implement, and maintain features for Conveyor's SaaS platform, involving both backend and frontend work, while collaborating closely with team members and mentoring juniors.