Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Provides technical leadership for full-stack development, architecture, secure deployment, modernization, and DevSecOps support for Navy mission-critical cloud applications. Develops microservices, APIs, user interfaces, data pipelines, and readiness analytics integrations. Leads code reviews, CI/CD automation, mentoring, observability, compliance, ATO sustainment, STIG and vulnerability mitigation, technical documentation, and risk communication. Supports AWS, Kubernetes, security authorization, and fleet training and logistics systems.

Develop, test, enhance, and maintain Java backend applications, services, APIs, integrations, and business logic for a mission-critical transportation system. Troubleshoot defects and performance issues, write unit and integration tests, support CI/CD and DevSecOps processes, participate in Agile ceremonies, maintain technical documentation, and collaborate with engineering, QA, infrastructure, and database teams. The role also supports secure coding, DoD compliance, application deployments, and occasional front-end integration with Angular.

Designs, codes, tests, and maintains application or systems software. Translates user requirements into functional digital solutions, solves complex real-world problems, and helps ensure technology operates efficiently across products such as mobile applications and operating systems.

Build and evolve scalable systems that capture, ingest, and process real-time and recorded audio/video streams from telephony and meeting platforms. Design distributed media pipelines optimized for reliability, performance, and low latency; provide technical leadership and mentorship; solve complex systems problems; implement testing and quality practices; contribute to architecture and code reviews; and maintain security and compliance standards.

Provide senior Oracle database administration for DOE applications across development, test, and production environments. Install, configure, patch, upgrade, monitor, secure, tune, and maintain Oracle databases, Fusion Middleware, WebCenter, OID, OAM, SSO, data warehouses, and ETL processes. Support backup, recovery, disaster recovery, cybersecurity remediation, A&A/ATO activities, incident resolution, documentation, capacity planning, and critical patch management. The role is fully remote but requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a DOE Q Clearance.

Build and ship product features incorporating machine intelligence and large language models. Architect scalable AI-powered functionality, conversational agent experiences, data pipelines, and third-party integrations. Collaborate with subject-matter experts and designers, make pragmatic technical decisions, and mentor teammates on data and AI practices. The role requires hands-on server-side web development, flexible scripting skills, strong system design judgment, and experience delivering AI-enabled products in a startup environment.

Lead Unity architecture and build persistent, multi-user spatial systems for mobile and wearables. Design spatial persistence, synchronization, AI-assisted content pipelines, and define long-term platform direction as a founding technical contributor.

Design and build the distributed systems layer powering a spatial computing platform: real-time coordination, persistent world state, APIs, AI platform infrastructure (vector search, retrieval, agent orchestration), and scalable services to support many concurrent users and third-party developers.

The Digital Consulting Architect will lead CPQ strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with client goals, and manage scalable solutions for Quote-to-Cash processes, including integration and hands-on development tasks.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for API-first, cloud-ready PIM systems. Build event-driven microservices, Kafka pipelines, integrations, databases, and catalog data models connecting Akeneo with enterprise systems and commerce platforms. Optimize performance, monitor production availability, maintain data integrity, support upgrades, and deliver incremental catalog features across global retail brands.

Lead and architect scalable web systems, mentor frontend and backend developers, define coding standards and roadmaps, drive implementations using React/Next/Node/NestJS, produce technical documentation, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with product and DevOps to deliver secure, maintainable solutions.

Lead and grow the front-end team while hands-on building high-performance web interfaces with React and Next.js. Define architecture, establish UI standards, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, backend, and design teams to deliver scalable, accessible, and maintainable web applications.

Build, test, and optimize responsive web applications using Next.js and React. Collaborate with designers and back-end developers, implement UI/UX designs, write clean maintainable code, and debug front-end issues to ensure high performance across devices and browsers.