Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Senior individual-contributor backend engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating production-grade, highly available, strongly consistent services for wallet operations, transaction orchestration, blockchain integrations, and event-driven workflows. Implement secure, scalable APIs, cryptographic key management, Kafka-based event systems, observability with OpenTelemetry, CI/CD pipelines, and produce tests, API specs, and operational runbooks.

Own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services. Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs, improve reliability/latency/scale, take end-to-end ownership from design through production support, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor peers while partnering with Product and SRE teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native platform services for phone numbers and KYC compliance. Own end-to-end feature delivery, technical specifications, APIs, microservices, tooling, reliability, security, and incident remediation. Use AI-assisted development to accelerate coding and testing, collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to platform modernization, operational excellence, and regulatory solutions.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s core billing platform across cloud providers. Design and operate scalable billing systems, data pipelines, APIs, and PostgreSQL architecture. Improve reliability, observability, incident response, deployment, and CI/CD practices. Partner with SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Finance teams, guide architecture and roadmap decisions, review technical work, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud and web software with focus on infrastructure, performance, and hardware integration for IoT devices. Collaborate with hardware teams to ensure connectivity and high availability, implement new features, and improve system efficiency.

Lead architecture and implementation of scalable web applications using NestJS and Next.js. Build and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries, implement responsive UIs with Tailwind CSS, integrate LangChain-driven AI features, manage authentication with Clerk, and create end-to-end tests and automation with Puppeteer to ensure launch readiness and reliable user experiences.

Own and build Nectar Social’s React Native mobile platform for iOS and Android. Responsibilities include establishing architecture, shared components, testing, CI/CD, performance standards, monitoring, and error tracking. The engineer will develop AI-powered experiences, integrate social and e-commerce APIs, support real-time data-intensive features, and collaborate with product, design, and company leadership to shape the product and technical direction.

Work as a Python development intern building applications and APIs, processing and analyzing data, working with databases and data pipelines, contributing to system architecture, writing clean documented code, and collaborating with the team. Strong emphasis on backend development, SQL, ORMs, and REST API design with potential conversion to full-time.

Build and maintain Django-based web applications, design RESTful APIs, implement frontend features (HTML/CSS/JS), optimize performance and security, collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the development lifecycle.

Build and launch reliable, performant Android features for Airbnb’s account and commerce experiences. Responsibilities include designing declarative UI, implementing unidirectional state architecture, collaborating with backend, iOS, web, product, and design teams, writing tested maintainable code, participating in reviews, troubleshooting performance and reliability issues, and contributing to Android patterns and best practices.