Top Senior Level Software Engineer Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

Lead full-stack development across backend and frontend systems, implement and maintain features, fix bugs, collaborate with product and design, support client projects, and contribute to a distributed remote engineering team focused on high-impact startup missions.

Design and build backend services and APIs to support customer experiences and third-party device integrations. Own critical product flows, optimize for scale and performance, implement API monitoring, and collaborate with product, analytics, and cross-functional engineering teams.

Lead design and delivery of cloud-native, distributed full‑stack systems; own end-to-end projects and incident response; mentor engineers; write ADRs and RFCs; optimize performance and apply secure SDLC and AI‑augmented development practices.

Design, implement, and maintain backend APIs, services, and data pipelines. Optimize database performance, manage Docker-based microservice architecture, ensure software quality with testing and monitoring, collaborate across teams, and serve on-call roughly one week per month.

Design and deliver complex, scalable SaaS features end-to-end using AI-assisted development tools. Own specifications, implement and review AI-generated and human code, build REST APIs, maintain UI and backend services, drive AI-assisted workflows, and mentor cohort engineers on tooling, spec writing, and best practices.

Lead delivery for the Payroll development team, contribute as a senior full-stack developer, mentor engineers, partner with Product to translate roadmap into shipped features, champion AI-assisted development tools, ensure quality and reliability of payroll and tax functionality, and support production issue resolution.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend services and APIs in Go. Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems using Kafka for large-scale data processing and streaming. Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams; monitor and profile systems for performance and reliability; drive engineering best practices; and mentor junior engineers.

Lead cross-product engineering work: design APIs and data models, turn ambiguous customer problems into technical plans, implement and roll out features across web, APIs, CLI, integrations, and infra, debug production issues, and raise engineering quality through docs, reviews, and mentorship.

Lead a remote engineering org to define scalable SaaS architecture, build enterprise-ready platform foundations (reliability, observability, security), drive execution and delivery cadence, hire and develop engineering talent, and translate business priorities into technical plans while working with ML/AI and ad-tech use cases.

Build and maintain front-end and back-end platform features for a SaaS compliance product using React, TypeScript, and Go. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering leads to design relational schemas, write reliable code, debug defects, and automate repetitive tasks to improve team velocity and software quality.