Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Design, build, and maintain automation and control systems for bioreactors and bioprocessing equipment. Tune and troubleshoot PID control loops, improve system reliability through monitoring and fault recovery, and develop safe interfaces between cloud software and physical devices. Build sensor, actuator, and embedded-controller integrations while collaborating across mechanical, electrical, process, and software engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable automation solutions.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems and public-facing APIs. Collaborate with Product and Data Science teams, lead initiatives improving efficiency and system performance, and support customer satisfaction. Work may involve distributed systems, pricing engines, identity management, authentication, authorization, API versioning, deprecation, and rate limiting.

Develop and maintain enterprise full-stack applications using Java Spring Boot, REST APIs, modern front-end frameworks, Oracle Exadata, and OpenShift/Kubernetes. Responsibilities include legacy code analysis, full-lifecycle development and testing, SQL and PL/SQL optimization, microservices deployment, CI/CD, code reviews, architecture discussions, monitoring, and Agile collaboration. The role requires an active transferable IRS MBI moderate-risk public trust investigation, U.S. citizenship, and substantial full-stack and cloud-native development experience.

Owns maintenance and support of Virscidian’s existing software products. Responsibilities include resolving defects and customer issues, developing C#/.NET desktop and server applications, working with SQL Server and REST APIs, supporting Azure resources and DevOps processes, troubleshooting deployments, and delivering incremental features. The role collaborates with support, product, business, and engineering teams while contributing to SaaS, scientific algorithms, performance, and scalability initiatives when appropriate.

Develops, modernizes, tests, documents, and sustains software applications for NAVSUP BSC. Responsibilities include coding with .NET and related technologies, integrating systems, implementing cybersecurity controls, automating CI/CD pipelines, managing artifacts, troubleshooting production issues, conducting quality audits, and supporting secure cloud-native architectures. The role collaborates with engineering, security, operations, and government stakeholders in an Agile environment.

Build innovative software products in the Special Projects Division addressing public health, agriculture, education, and aid-related challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Responsibilities include designing software architectures, developing on UNIX-based platforms, participating in code reviews, using disciplined version control, collaborating with teams, and potentially applying Django, React, Android, or PyTorch. The role may involve travel to Africa to understand local contexts.

Build, scale, and modernize SmartAsset’s web platform and content management systems across front-end and back-end services. Collaborate with product teams and stakeholders in an Agile environment, contribute to technical architecture and decisions, support roadmap execution, improve processes, and help maintain highly available web products. The role also involves mentoring teammates, managing technical risks, and working remotely with senior engineers and architects.

Build and own Android growth and monetization experiments across subscriptions, pricing, advertising, purchases, and upgrade flows. Partner with product, design, data science, and analytics to instrument experiments, manage staged rollouts, monitor performance, and act on results. Use AI tools throughout development, contribute to Android architecture and engineering practices, participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, and help scale reliable mobile experiences to tens of millions of users.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable billing and invoicing systems using C# and PHP. Lead architecture, code reviews, mentoring, CI/CD improvements, monitoring, database optimization, security, and PCI DSS compliance. Use Claude and Cursor in daily development while validating generated code for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability. Collaborate across Product, Engineering, QA, and support teams to deliver reliable payment-processing services and resolve complex technical issues.

Build and maintain Blend’s scalable cloud banking platform across the full stack. Develop accessible front-end interfaces and resilient back-end services, use AI coding agents throughout the software lifecycle, review and harden AI-generated code, collaborate with product and design teams, troubleshoot defects, participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, and propose end-to-end engineering initiatives.

Leads technical direction and cross-team delivery of scalable software capabilities for a digital banking platform. Designs secure APIs, microservices, integrations, data contracts, and reliable full-stack systems. Partners across product, design, security, architecture, data, and engineering; mentors engineers; leads incident response; improves testing, CI/CD, developer tooling, and operational readiness. The role requires hands-on coding, architecture leadership, dependency management, and influence without direct people management.

Designs, develops, configures, and supports Edifecs healthcare EDI solutions and transaction mappings. Works with 837, 834, 835, 820, and 270/271 transactions; troubleshoots transmissions, configures validations, and develops Groovy scripts. Leads Agile and DevOps efforts, mentors engineers, supports QA, and designs scalable AWS applications using containers, microservices, and CI/CD. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, performance tuning, and stakeholder consultation.

Lead delivery of Unity Engine’s C#/.NET integration, including GC, JIT, AOT, runtime libraries, and compiler toolchains. Define technical vision, improve performance and reliability, guide cross-functional development, communicate roadmaps and metrics, support users, and mentor team members. The role requires deep C# and C++ expertise, compiler knowledge, hardware architecture understanding, and proprietary game engine development experience.

Build and maintain reliable data pipelines, APIs, integrations, and event-driven or batch processing systems. Transform data from advertising, ecommerce, order management, and event sources while improving monitoring, freshness, performance, and scalability. Collaborate with data engineering, infrastructure, product, and business teams to extend the integration platform in a cloud-native, multi-tenant environment.

Build backend services, APIs, data-processing systems, and frontend features for Northbeam’s marketing intelligence platform. Work on experimentation, near-real-time data infrastructure, AI-powered workflows, data integrations, RBAC, and end-to-end product delivery. Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, designers, and senior engineers while contributing across backend, frontend, pipelines, and infrastructure in a fast-moving environment.

Leads the architecture, development, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment of Appian applications supporting Army systems. Provides technical leadership, code reviews, mentorship, secure coding enforcement, requirements collaboration, Agile participation, integrations, documentation, and compliance with DoD cybersecurity, RMF, STIG, and privileged-access requirements.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for voice agents, integrate AI models and telephony, improve inference, debug concurrent systems, and collaborate with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Build and improve scalable, accessible Android applications for Wikipedia and Wikimedia users worldwide. Responsibilities include leading technical discovery and system design, implementing Kotlin and Jetpack Compose features, optimizing performance, developing testing and observability practices, managing delivery risks and scope, and collaborating with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams.

Lead software engineering for the Patient Onboarding team, building and improving registration, insurance verification, and care-access workflows. Write full-stack production code, lead complex cross-team initiatives, shape technical direction, improve engineering foundations, and support modern AI-enabled development practices. Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering to improve patient conversion and system reliability.

Owns VM and fleet test strategy, performance quality gates, and hypervisor validation for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like test environments, develops automated performance benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses and analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in virtualization, Linux systems, performance engineering, statistical analysis, and cross-architecture debugging.

Own the architecture and technical direction of NodeZero’s database platform. Design scalable PostgreSQL systems, multi-tenant data models, graph-based asset models, partitioning, replication, and zero-downtime schema migrations. Establish database standards, governance, and performance practices while writing production code, authoring design documents, mentoring engineers, and influencing teams across the data pipeline.

As a Sr. Software Engineer at Bloomerang, you will lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and enhance SaaS solutions while utilizing .NET and AI tools. You will ensure scalable, maintainable applications, advocate for Agile workflows, and focus on quality outcomes in software development.

Develop and release Esri software for GIS, photogrammetry, remote sensing, defense, and intelligence workflows. Build high-performance image processing capabilities, algorithms, APIs, cloud-friendly desktop and enterprise applications, and support multiple imagery modalities and data formats. Collaborate with developers and product engineers to integrate libraries into ArcGIS, solve complex application-design problems, and mentor junior developers.

Develop and maintain software using C#, .NET, web technologies, SQL Server, and AWS. Participate in the full SDLC and Agile Scrum processes, including design, development, unit testing, defect resolution, backlog refinement, and collaboration with product and QA teams. Build solutions using Microsoft-stack technologies, optimize databases and stored procedures, and support cloud-based application delivery.