Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads an engineering team developing secure developer tools, hardened GitHub Actions, AI agent capabilities, and microVM-based products. Owns product roadmaps, hiring, team growth, technical design, code reviews, delivery, quality, reliability, and customer feedback loops. Partners with Product to prioritize and ship iteratively in an autonomous, ambiguous environment while remaining technically hands-on.

Build and evolve scalable, secure full-stack platform capabilities for College Board’s assessment systems. Responsibilities include designing and implementing software, translating product needs into technical work, participating in Agile ceremonies, conducting code and design reviews, supporting production issue resolution, improving CI/CD workflows, and collaborating with product, architecture, data, and engineering partners. The role also involves mentoring teammates, influencing technical direction, and maintaining high standards for reliability, security, and maintainability.

Design, build, and deliver front-end features with strong UX focus. Own technical design, coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring in a continuous delivery, microservices environment. Collaborate with Product, implement automated QA practices, and contribute to production deployments while practicing robust testing methodologies.

Administer and optimize SQL Server and MongoDB environments across Azure and on-premises platforms. Responsibilities include performance tuning, capacity planning, high availability and disaster recovery, security and compliance, backup and recovery, migration support, monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation using T-SQL and PowerShell. The role also manages MongoDB Atlas clusters, database replication, indexing, query optimization, and operational improvements.

Build and maintain core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers. Responsibilities include developing user flows, robust REST APIs, backend services, and third-party integrations such as Plaid and SendGrid. The role emphasizes clean, tested, documented code, system design, error handling, logging, domain-driven design, microservice architecture, agile Scrum practices, architectural decision-making, technical guidance, and code reviews.

Design, develop, customize and maintain enterprise Sitecore solutions (versions 9/10, SXA, JSS, XM Cloud). Produce technical specs, implement components, test and debug in test and production, support teammates, perform demos to customers, and escalate/resolve issues.

Lead domain architecture for Blue Yonder/JDA solutions, translating business needs into technical roadmaps, high-level designs, integrations, and standards. Collaborate with stakeholders, enterprise architecture, partners, and development teams to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant implementations across the domain.

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.