Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build product features and improve technology platforms supporting claims processing and payment. Collaborate with subject matter experts, operations, and technology teams to design solutions that improve member experiences, operational efficiency, and provider relationships. The role requires individual technical contribution, ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to work across a broad technology stack in a fast-paced startup environment.

Own developer productivity across a large monorepo and the path to production. Improve build, test, deployment, and coverage workflows; enable teams to ship safely and quickly; support multi-cloud and multi-region expansion; and strengthen operational excellence. The role requires delivering framework-level improvements across teams while contributing to backend feature code and working directly with customers on complex scaling challenges.

Design, develop, secure, and maintain mission-critical Microsoft-platform software for DoD programs. Build C# and .NET applications, responsive JavaScript and EXT JS interfaces, REST APIs, and optimized SQL Server databases. Apply secure coding, STIG, RMF, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and compliance practices. Integrate Kiro AI capabilities, collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering teams, and support deployment and sustainment in classified or controlled environments.

Build Exoware’s production infrastructure from the ground up, including deployment, scaling, upgrades, recovery, CI/CD, monitoring, telemetry, security, and operational tooling. Design reliable systems across Kubernetes, ECS, cloud services, networking, and storage while writing software to automate operations. The role requires architectural ownership, production infrastructure experience, and the ability to improve the underlying distributed systems through production insights.

The Senior Salesforce Developer designs, develops, tests, integrates, and launches Salesforce solutions for customers and internal products. Responsibilities include requirements definition, solution architecture, Lightning Web Components, Apex, JavaScript, Flows, Salesforce and external-system integrations, deployment management, SDLC ownership, and mentoring junior developers. The role also involves staying current with Salesforce features, training the team, collaborating with architects and customers, and potentially traveling up to 25%.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native backend applications using Node.js, React, and AWS services. Build secure, high-performing solutions supporting federal missions, troubleshoot complex issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to agile development. Responsibilities include working with serverless services, databases, CI/CD tools, and modern JavaScript technologies while delivering high-quality software.

Build and maintain production software implementing healthcare interoperability standards, including FHIR and HL7. Develop APIs, services, data pipelines, validation logic, data models, and automated tests while preserving clinical meaning and data quality. Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, healthcare professionals, product managers, and operations staff to deliver scalable healthcare solutions.

Design, build, deploy, and operationalize Palantir Foundry solutions for defense and security customers. Develop data pipelines, ontology models, operator applications, integrations, and custom widgets using real-time intelligence. Debug infrastructure, networking, and application layers across cloud, hybrid, restricted, disconnected, and on-premises environments. Partner with customer stakeholders, advise technical teams, and own solutions end to end. Travel to secure customer sites and operations centers approximately 25–75% of the time.

Leads software engineering teams, develops technical and people leaders, modernizes legacy customer-facing applications, and advances engineering practices. Partners with product, architecture, quality, DevOps, delivery, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, security, customer experience, adoption, and delivery speed. Drives CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, cloud-native practices, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development while managing priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and organizational change.

Lead two engineering teams of 8–10 engineers, owning delivery, quality, capacity planning, sprint execution, OKRs, hiring, retention, and professional development. Establish scalable engineering processes, quality gates, testing standards, observability, and continuous improvement practices. Partner with Product Managers on roadmap execution while providing technical guidance on architecture, APIs, backend systems, infrastructure, and frontend platforms.