Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Designs and evolves DraftKings’ regulated prediction-markets exchange, including market data, order entry, matching, clearing, and settlement. Owns the technical roadmap, architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and operational health of distributed systems. Leads resilience testing, incident improvements, design reviews, mentoring, and cross-functional technical alignment. The role also requires building practical AI tooling and guardrails, integrating with external partners, and balancing compliance, cost, and platform strategy.

Lead backend architecture and engineering initiatives for a programmatic advertising platform. Design and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive ad-serving and auction systems; integrate SSPs, DSPs, exchanges, and other partners; improve reliability and performance; and guide technical strategy. The role also involves mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving major projects from architecture through production, and collaborating with Product and other stakeholders.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for an Azure-based enterprise platform supporting ordering, surgical workflows, inventory, fulfillment, billing, and mobile field operations. Owns web, mobile, services, data, security, integrations, offline-first synchronization, CI/CD, testing, and deployment architecture. Leads distributed engineering resources, stabilizes production systems, establishes delivery standards, and translates business needs into a technical roadmap. The role requires substantial experience with production mobile applications, enterprise systems, regulated industries, and business-critical transactional platforms.

Develop and maintain Java applications, RESTful services, and Angular frontends using Spring Boot and NgRx. Deploy applications to cloud platforms, practice TDD, manage CI/CD with Jenkins, and work with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases. Participate in agile processes, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and independently lead technical initiatives and feature delivery.

Supports configuration and development of the FASTDS-VS COTS application, including requirements analysis, reference table and user access configuration, scripting, debugging, source control, testing, implementation specifications, and production support. The role requires familiarity with software development methodologies, SQL databases, object-oriented development, coding standards, and Agile practices. Preferred experience includes web services, APIs, AWS, and SQL stored procedures.

Develop and maintain PHP/Laravel web applications, internal tools, APIs, integrations, databases, and workflow systems. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy PHP applications, troubleshooting production issues, writing tests, optimizing MySQL databases, supporting deployments, documenting solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders. The developer will manage multiple projects, review code, and help maintain secure, accessible, and reliable applications.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing hands-on to complex features. Define architecture, drive development best practices, conduct code reviews, coordinate cross-functional requirements, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality ecommerce marketplace software.

Develop and deploy Salesforce Marketing Cloud solutions: build email templates and web pages (HTML/CSS/JS), write AMPScript/SSJS/WSProxy, manage Automation Studio and Journey Builder, create integrations via REST/SOAP APIs, design data models with SQL and data extensions, document setups, and collaborate across teams while owning technical decisions.

Build and maintain Python services, REST APIs, batch jobs, shared libraries, claims workflows, and internal applications. Develop maintainable, unit-tested code; write SQL for MySQL databases; participate in design, code review, deployment, and production support; and collaborate across departments. The role also involves handling sensitive healthcare data, using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and working in a regulated pharmacy benefits domain.

Design and build a scalable, responsive UI; lead frontend architecture and optimization; apply UI/UX best practices; integrate with backend APIs; ensure high web performance and deploy user-facing features.