Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams. Write clean, efficient code; participate in code reviews; troubleshoot complex defects; and stay current with emerging technologies.

Design, implement, test, debug and deliver components of a high-performance distributed data warehouse. Create design docs, address code-review feedback, and complete assigned tasks independently to meet deadlines.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and frontend experiences. Write clean code, participate in reviews, collaborate cross-functionally to define and ship features, improve engineering practices and infrastructure, and help shape the company's engineering culture.

Lead technical direction for a Ruby on Rails-based platform, design cross-cutting systems (data models, APIs, clinical workflows), write full-stack code, mentor engineers, evaluate tradeoffs, collaborate with product/design/clinical teams, and champion high standards and domain expertise in pediatric behavioral health.

Build and maintain the core backend product: design and implement features, take ownership of end-to-end outcomes, iterate and fix bugs without a QA team, collaborate with product on scoping, and contribute to company culture and hiring.

Join as a founding full-stack engineer to design and build Loula’s core architecture and platform. Drive front-end and back-end development, define product roadmap with customers and founders, lead portions of the tech stack, conduct user interviews, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver scalable, extensible systems at an early-stage startup.

Join an early-stage platform team to scale and mature a mortgage origination platform. Work across the stack to improve distributed systems, performance, observability, and infrastructure tooling, and help define engineering standards and frameworks for growth.

Build and maintain full-stack features on a product-oriented team, owning product areas end-to-end. Ship customer-facing functionality, design and optimize data models and schemas, work with React state management, relational databases, cloud services, event streaming, caching, and AI tools. Collaborate cross-functionally, take high ownership, and occasionally support mission-critical work outside normal hours.

Build and scale the platform infrastructure to support mortgage origination: design cloud architecture, deploy and operate Kubernetes-based systems, manage databases, implement observability and incident response, and create internal developer tooling to improve reliability and engineering velocity.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for a mortgage lending platform. Own backend responsibilities from design through production, focusing on scalability, performance, reliability, and multi-service architectures while collaborating with product and full-stack engineers.

Build and scale the frontend for a cloud-based mortgage origination platform. Lead React and TypeScript development, contribute to technical tooling and design system, collaborate with design and engineering to deliver production web applications handling complex data models.

Build and ship end-to-end features in Next.js/TypeScript and Python/FastAPI; design scalable, low-latency systems for voice/SMS/chat; implement secure EHR integrations (FHIR/HL7); architect data storage and pipelines (Postgres, Redis, S3) with HIPAA/SOC-2 controls; own infra as code (Terraform, Helm), CI/CD, testing, and production reliability; collaborate cross-functionally and mentor junior engineers.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices and developer-facing APIs, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, design secure/versioned APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC.

Join Goodie AI's AI Lab to design and build scalable front-end solutions and contribute to backend infrastructure and DevOps. Lead React development, collaborate with designers and data scientists, integrate APIs, ensure performance, and participate across the full application lifecycle to deliver high-quality AI platform features.

Responsible for implementing and managing infrastructure as code (Terracore/Terraform), automating CI/CD with Jenkins, managing AWS services and Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, scripting in Bash/Python, implementing monitoring and security best practices, supporting production via on-call rotations, and collaborating with development and QA teams.

Build and ship end-to-end features for Dover's marketplace and ATS. Propose product ideas, implement designs, launch, iterate in production, and collaborate closely with a small engineering team to move quickly and maintain high quality.

Design, build, test, and document core networking software features across client and backend services. Improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of networking systems, own running services (observability, incident response, support escalations), and bring a security-first mindset to design and implementation.

Own and scale AWS infrastructure using Terraform; design CI/CD and GitOps pipelines on Kubernetes (Helm, ArgoCD); manage service mesh (Istio), observability, security, capacity planning, cost optimization, and incident response; mentor engineers and document runbooks.

Build and maintain scalable full‑stack applications for hotel customers, write clean maintainable code, collaborate with product and engineering peers, mentor engineers, participate in code reviews, and drive product improvements with minimal direction.

Design, develop, and integrate software, APIs, and automation to improve test platform efficiency. Build CI/CD pipelines, data pipelines, dashboards, and integrations with third-party diagnostic/test tools. Collaborate with test engineers, operations, and vendors to reduce manual work, increase throughput, and provide visibility into test metrics. Support troubleshooting, documentation, and global standardization of integration frameworks.

Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable software for connected products and digital platforms. Provide technical leadership and mentorship, drive architecture and best practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, support CI/CD/DevOps, troubleshoot production issues, and document systems. Participate in project planning, customer escalations, and continuous improvement of engineering processes.

Seeking a Software Engineer with 3+ years experience in software development, programming (Go, Java, C++, C#), and strong analytical skills.

Build and maintain the AI-powered learning platform across a TypeScript/React frontend and Python/FastAPI backend. Integrate LLMs for classification, extraction, personalization, and conversation practice. Design scalable APIs, develop real-time interactive features, apply AI-assisted development workflows, write well-tested code, and collaborate with product, design, and education teams to optimize learning experiences and A/B tests.

Build and operate Abnormal AI's cell-based cloud infrastructure: bootstrap cells, provision multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) resources, deploy application stacks, automate lifecycle tooling, triage cross-layer incidents, reduce toil via automation, participate in on-call, and collaborate with product and application teams for scalable, secure, cost-efficient deployments.

Sola seeks a Software Engineer for Desktop Automation to own and enhance their execution platform, focusing on reliability and integrating with AI pipelines.