Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and develop microservices using a cloud-native tech stack, with a focus on financial services and secure systems.

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you'll build user-facing features, optimize GraphQL backend, and develop scalable systems, contributing significantly to the company's growth.

Develop and maintain scalable, performant web applications and data pipelines. Collaborate with engineering managers, product, and stakeholders using Agile practices. Emphasize observability, testing, CI/CD, security, and incremental releases to deliver robust production systems.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Cengage Learning Platforms using Java/Spring backends and React frontends. Integrate AI/LLM services, design APIs, improve platform architecture, troubleshoot cross-stack issues, write testable code, and collaborate with product, UX, and QA on accessible, high-quality learning experiences.

Design, implement, and test hard real-time algorithms, state machines, and application logic for a robotic medical platform. Develop C++/Python production code on Linux and RTOS, collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to testing and simulation environments, participate in design reviews, and ensure safety-critical software quality.

Lead integration and testing of 5G Core network products: develop test strategies, design and execute automated and manual test cases for functionality, performance, scalability and security, evaluate test tools and infrastructure, reproduce customer issues, validate fixes, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with software, hardware, and platform teams.

Lead design and implementation of scalable, domain-driven web architectures. Build high-performance backend services (Node.js/TypeScript), responsive React frontends (TanStack), and PWAs (Service Workers/Workbox). Design REST and GraphQL APIs, event-driven systems, data synchronization for intermittently connected clients, and manage client/server persistence (IndexedDB/Dexie, SQLite, PostgreSQL). Deploy cloud-native solutions on AWS (EKS, S3, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, Cognito). Mentor engineers and ensure engineering best practices, testing, and regulatory alignment.

Design, develop, test, operate and maintain full-stack banking software. Own backend Java/Spring Boot services and modern React/TypeScript frontends, design scalable REST/GraphQL APIs, ensure security, compliance, observability and CI/CD. Implement cloud-native containerized deployments on AWS, troubleshoot production issues, apply DDD and architectural best practices, conduct code reviews, and drive AI integration and operational readiness.

Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure distributed software in an Agile environment. Influence architecture, mentor engineers, build cloud-native services, ensure maintainability and security across the development lifecycle.

Join a product team to build and maintain large-scale frontend platforms. Lead frontend architecture, implement features using TypeScript, Lit, and Redux, write Jasmine tests, ensure WCAG accessibility, own technical delivery, mentor mid-level engineers, and collaborate with clients, designers, and cross-functional teams to drive stability and scalability.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives; build and maintain AI-driven systems; mentor and raise the technical bar across teams; collaborate cross-functionally; ensure data security and HIPAA-compliant practices; operate in an AWS + Kubernetes environment while introducing new technologies as system load grows.

The Software Engineer will manage edge networking configuration, evolve the ingress layer, build network observability, and support regional expansion while defining technical standards for the team.

The Software Engineer will manage edge networking configuration, evolve the ingress layer, build network observability, support regional expansion, and establish team practices in a growing network-focused team.

Develop and maintain scalable investment portfolio management systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system correctness and client trust, focusing on complex domain logic.

As a Graduate Software Engineer, you will analyze logs, troubleshoot issues, support feature development, and collaborate with engineering and QA teams.

The Senior SRE Engineer will design, build, and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, manage infrastructure-as-code, and write tooling in various languages.

The Graduate Software Engineer will analyze logs and data, triage issues, aid in feature development, and maintain documentation while collaborating with engineering teams.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at Reacher, you'll own product features end-to-end, design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and lead architectural decisions in an AI-driven environment, focusing on both backend and frontend development.

Develop and maintain backend services for EHR integrations, ensuring reliability and scalability while collaborating with product teams and engineers.

Reacher seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to lead product features, design scalable backend systems, mentor engineers in AI-native workflows, and enhance user experiences across the tech stack.

Design and develop system software for Tegra SoCs, working with hardware and software teams to enable new platforms and products while also performing complex system-level debugging.

The Staff+ Software Engineer will shape the technical direction, mentor junior engineers, and lead complex software system development while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

The Full Stack Software Engineer will develop, innovate, and maintain features for a SaaS platform using technologies like React and Python, contributing to a collaborative team to enhance product performance.

The Software Engineer II will build product features for financial services, focusing on user-facing features, backend services, and collaborating with the product team in a remote environment.

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will design and deploy solutions for state governments, ensuring high standards of security and privacy while leading cross-functional teams.