Top Software Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

Engineering Manager responsible for the health, delivery, people management, onboarding, staffing, and continuous improvement of a 6–8 person engineering pod. The role partners with Product and Technical Leads, manages execution and technical risk, supports hiring and growth, addresses performance issues, and maintains enough technical depth to evaluate software plans. The manager will work in an AI-native, remote-first environment building mortgage automation software.

The Protocol Engineer will develop and optimize core components of the Injective blockchain, focusing on decentralized order book, trade execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead architecture and development of secure, high-scale Python and FastAPI payment infrastructure for AI-agent transactions. Design APIs for tokenization, mandates, authentication, attestation, and cryptogram workflows; own security, reliability, observability, testing, Kubernetes provisioning, and production operations. Drive technical initiatives, design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration with product, security, infrastructure, platform, and card-network partners while applying AI-assisted engineering practices.

Build and maintain full-stack web applications, APIs, backend services, integrations, and event-driven data pipelines. Collaborate on architecture, product requirements, code reviews, testing, troubleshooting, and engineering standards. Contribute to scalable, secure, reliable software while mentoring engineers and supporting development-process improvements.

Designs, develops, tests, and implements Guidewire solutions supporting insurance operations. Collaborates with business stakeholders, analysts, and developers to deliver high-quality implementations meeting business requirements. Requires expertise in Guidewire architecture, data models, APIs, integrations, web services, Java, SQL, and XML. Preferred experience includes Guidewire Cloud, reporting, insurance processes, Agile methodologies, certification, and DevOps tools.

Develop backend blockchain functionality for Cardax DEX on the Cardano blockchain. Write and maintain smart contracts in Plutarch and Haskell that define the constraints and conditions for decentralized token exchange without a central entity.

Develop and maintain mission-critical full-stack software for a DoD program. Build Java Spring Boot microservices, React applications, REST APIs, WebSocket features, and RabbitMQ integrations. Manage databases, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, automated testing, Git workflows, technical documentation, and Agile tasking. Provide code reviews, architectural input, technical leadership, and mentorship to junior developers. The role requires an active Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and approximately 10 weeks of travel annually.

Build and maintain a React/TypeScript operations portal and Supabase/PostgreSQL backend for autonomous aircraft medical logistics. Improve aircraft allocation, mission generation, telemetry ingestion, live dashboards, reliability, testing, logging, and observability. Integrate Python services with ArduPilot aircraft and simulations while collaborating with autonomy and simulation engineers to mature real-flight and digital-twin systems.

Build and maintain full-stack acquisition, signup, onboarding, activation, and early-engagement experiences. Ship and analyze A/B and multivariate experiments, instrument funnels and activation milestones, improve conversion-critical reliability, and develop frontend, backend, API, and analytics integrations. Partner with product, design, data, and marketing to turn growth hypotheses into durable product improvements. Use AI-assisted development tools while validating code quality and production readiness.

Develops, tests, documents, enhances, and maintains software solutions using Appian and related technologies. The role includes application development, process modeling, system integration, security remediation, performance improvement, user story analysis, technical documentation, and collaboration within an Agile software development team.