Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Build end-to-end product features with a backend focus: schema and API design, UI work in React/TypeScript, GCP/Terraform infrastructure, CI/CD, DB performance tuning, production ownership, and product decision-making using AI coding tools.

The Principal Engineer will lead the design and delivery of core platform capabilities, focusing on scalable systems, AI application, and mentoring engineers while driving architectural decisions and improving operational systems.

Own end-to-end delivery of complex software features for a virtual care platform. Design scalable systems, build AI-powered agents and workflows, enhance reliable mobile and web experiences, and translate clinical and user needs into technical solutions. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical staff while focusing on patient impact, product quality, and engineering efficiency.

Build and maintain low-code solutions with Microsoft Power Platform, PowerApps, and Power Automate for federal modernization efforts. Support frontend and backend development, translate ambiguous requirements into working products, troubleshoot complex issues, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders in a remote Agile environment.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript advertising technology, specializing in Prebid.js, Prebid Server, header bidding, and Google Ad Manager. Own the header bidding wrapper, implement ad tech integrations, monitor Core Web Vitals and performance, review code, track industry standards, and maintain deployed solutions. The role requires deep programmatic advertising expertise, Google Cloud experience, and ownership of reliable client-side monetization systems.

Build and maintain clean, user-friendly React Native screens and components for iOS and Android. Implement UI/UX from provided designs, integrate APIs, collaborate with backend and AI teams, fix bugs, and keep the codebase organized.

Develop and deploy highly available, fault-tolerant software for the Genesys Cloud platform. Design major features and architectural improvements, optimize reliability and performance, troubleshoot production issues, review code, mentor junior engineers, and manage major technical projects. Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve technical challenges and build scalable cloud services.

Develops, tests, deploys, and supports major software features and services. The role translates product requirements into maintainable technical solutions, makes design and performance trade-offs, performs root-cause analysis, conducts code reviews, improves development and deployment practices, and mentors newer engineers. The position requires collaboration across engineering and product teams and includes working with Java, SQL, XML, web technologies, JavaScript, and Oracle databases.

Lead the technical evolution of Kilo Code, a large-scale VS Code AI coding extension. Responsibilities include setting architecture and performance direction, building advanced AI-assisted workflows, optimizing startup time and memory usage, driving cross-team initiatives, mentoring engineers, owning production delivery, and establishing engineering standards for context optimization and LLM workflows. The role partners with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and requires hands-on technical leadership across a mature codebase serving millions of users.