Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead and coach a team of 4–8 engineers while providing technical direction, architectural oversight, and hands-on coding support. Partner with Product and Design on roadmaps, technical strategy, and delivery improvements. Promote software quality, reliability, and stability; lead incident response and post-mortems; and collaborate with engineering managers and stakeholders to reduce dependencies and support customer success.

Support customers with complex database integration issues while contributing directly to Airbyte’s Java and Kotlin open-source connectors. Troubleshoot replication, CDC, query performance, authentication, networking, schema evolution, and warehouse or lake destinations. Reproduce bugs, inspect logs and query plans, improve connector reliability, review community contributions, and collaborate with Engineering, Product, Solutions, Sales, and Customer Success. The role also includes technical documentation, mentoring support engineers, customer onboarding, and developing AI-assisted troubleshooting processes.

Develops, enhances, tests, debugs, deploys, and supports enterprise mainframe applications using COBOL, IDMS, DB2, and related technologies. Troubleshoots production issues, collaborates with end users to define requirements, ensures performance and security, applies Agile practices, and mentors junior developers. The role supports remote personnel serving a Kansas City, Kansas customer and requires the ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance.

Join as the founding full-stack engineer to extend a TypeScript React/Next.js prototype, design product features, integrate AI/OCR, write tests and infrastructure, talk to users, and iterate quickly to drive growth.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for operating and improving business-critical data pipelines and infrastructure. Duties include developing monitoring, alerting, logging, CI/CD workflows, scalable data integrations, automated testing, deployment automation, and production support. The role troubleshoots workflow failures, data-quality issues, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure incidents while collaborating with data engineers, platform engineers, and architects. Preferred experience includes Databricks, Spark, AWS, Terraform, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, observability, identity management, and enterprise data platform governance.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

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.

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.

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.