Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and ship production software across the frontend and backend, working closely with founders, customers, and product teams. Develop AI-powered features and systems involving web scraping, unstructured data, PDF parsing, and cloud infrastructure. Translate real-world real estate and financing problems into technical solutions, make high-impact decisions, and own shipped code. The internship may convert to a full-time role.

Leads the architecture, development, testing, deployment, and documentation of complex full-stack software solutions. Builds scalable Java and Spring Boot backends, Angular interfaces, APIs, database integrations, and CI/CD pipelines. Ensures security, performance, coding standards, and software quality while mentoring developers, leading code reviews, evaluating technologies, and collaborating with product, business, QA, and other stakeholders in Agile environments.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Build and maintain Java backend services, REST APIs, and full-stack web application features. Develop frontend functionality, use Python for supporting work, and apply AI coding tools such as Claude Code for development, testing, and debugging. Collaborate on design decisions and code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and support application deployment and maintenance across cloud environments.

Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. Integrate with third-party billing/commerce systems, maintain serverless/event-driven architectures on AWS, ensure security and performance, implement automated tests and CI/CD, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions.

Build end-to-end features in a JS/TS stack, designing scalable backend services and responsive real-time frontends. Improve observability, performance, and reliability, collaborate with product/design, and own full-stack implementation from APIs and data models to UI.

Develop full-stack enterprise applications and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, REST/OpenAPI, relational databases, JMS, and Kafka. Build automated tests, Docker containers, Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, API portals, and React or Angular interfaces. Troubleshoot application, database, messaging, and cloud-native infrastructure issues while applying secure coding, API governance, observability, and event-driven architecture practices. The role supports federal civilian programs remotely during East Coast hours, requires U.S. citizenship, quarterly travel, and either Public Trust eligibility or an active Secret clearance depending on program.

Own and build Hercules’ billing, payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, monetization, and commerce infrastructure. Integrate payment providers, support currencies and payment methods, and design reliable, low-latency systems with webhook processing, retries, reconciliation, and scalable usage metering. The role requires strong system design, architecture, data modeling, API design, code quality, product judgment, and proficiency with Hercules’ TypeScript-based stack, including React, Postgres, Redis, containers, and Temporal.

Design, build, test, deploy, and scale full-stack SaaS features across Angular and backend services using Spring. Develop APIs, optimize relational and NoSQL databases, integrate third-party systems, improve performance, support cloud infrastructure and CI/CD, implement security practices, monitor services, resolve incidents, and contribute to architecture and agile development.

Design, build, and maintain AI-powered B2B SaaS products across frontend, backend, and AI. Own projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and design, ensure maintainability, mentor teammates, and inform roadmap and implementation decisions.