Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Own growth across the customer journey, including landing-page conversion, activation, paid conversion, retention, expansion, and monetization. Build and optimize product experiences, run A/B experiments, analyze results with SQL, and identify high-impact revenue opportunities. Develop scalable software using TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, and related technologies while applying AI to accelerate engineering workflows.

Build and own full-stack features across Hercules’s AI agent, app builder, hosting infrastructure, SDK, platform, and internal AI coding harness. Design scalable systems, APIs, data models, and SaaS capabilities including billing, identity, analytics, and notifications. Write maintainable code in monorepos, ship customer-facing features independently, and work with TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, cloud infrastructure, and AI development tools.

Build and own user-facing frontend interfaces across AI agents, app-building tools, mobile PWA experiences, and marketing pages. Responsibilities include frontend architecture, system design, data modeling, API design, maintaining high-quality monorepo code, independently shipping customer features, and delivering polished UX/UI. The role requires strong TypeScript and React expertise, familiarity with AI coding workflows, and ideally experience with containers, Postgres, and Redis.

Build and maintain scalable infrastructure for AI agents, app building, hosting, SDKs, and an enterprise platform. Design distributed, multi-tenant, data-intensive services; develop clean, maintainable code in monorepos; and independently ship customer-impacting changes. The role uses TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, and related cloud and AI technologies. Candidates should demonstrate strong system design, architecture, data modeling, API design, product sense, and advanced AI-assisted development skills.

Build and own user-facing features across Hercules’ AI Agent, App Builder, SDK, mobile app, and platform. Design scalable systems, APIs, data models, and high-quality code in a monorepo. Ship SaaS capabilities such as billing, analytics, feature flags, internationalization, and notifications. Apply strong product and UX judgment while working with TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI coding tools.

Build and maintain high-scale localization platform interfaces, workflows, APIs, and services across the full stack. Develop expert React UIs with JavaScript or TypeScript, design resilient low-latency services, model data, and collaborate with design, product, and engineering teams. The role focuses on automating localization operations for internal users and external vendors, with opportunities to apply AI and LLMs to production workflows.

Own Alkira’s global platform infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD systems, shared databases and storage, service lifecycle, disaster recovery, Terraform modules, observability, and production tooling in Go or Python. Drive architectural decisions, cost reduction, reliability, security, and multi-team platform adoption while mentoring engineers and participating in on-call support.

Design and build shared backend services, APIs, distributed primitives, and developer tooling used by engineering teams. Own complex platform capabilities from architecture through production support, troubleshoot Linux-based environments, improve scalability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations. Mentor engineers through code reviews and technical guidance while developing cloud-native microservices with Golang, gRPC, and Protobuf.

Develops, tests, documents, maintains, and enhances software solutions using established design principles and development practices. The role addresses defects, security vulnerabilities, and performance improvements; participates in requirements analysis, planning, and user story development; documents standards and changes; and collaborates with and mentors software engineers. Work involves .NET technologies, source control, software development lifecycle practices, and potentially Azure or AWS cloud development.

Develop and maintain software solutions across the full development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, documentation, system enhancements, security remediation, performance improvements, and user story analysis. Collaborate with development teams to solve business problems using .NET technologies and software engineering best practices. Participate in Agile or Lean processes, document changes, and maintain current knowledge of tools, technologies, and industry standards.

Build and operate CrewAI’s cloud and enterprise infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, observability, security controls, self-hosted installation tooling, and reliability processes. Support containers, Kubernetes, databases, queues, networking, secrets, and production workloads. Participate in incident response and on-call operations while partnering with runtime and product engineering teams to improve deployment safety, scalability, and customer production environments.

Build and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, event-driven workflows, and serverless applications using TypeScript and AWS. Integrate new services with legacy WordPress and PHP systems, support platform modernization, write specifications and automated tests, troubleshoot production issues, and improve infrastructure, observability, and reliability. Collaborate remotely with product, design, QA, and engineering teams while participating in code reviews and on-call support.

Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-native microservices, APIs, and event-driven workflows using TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Integrate modern services with legacy WordPress and PHP systems, develop secure and scalable APIs, troubleshoot production issues, write automated tests, and contribute to infrastructure as code, observability, documentation, code reviews, and on-call support.

Design, build, test, document, and optimize Tailscale’s client-side networking software. Develop connectivity features involving routing, VPNs, subnet routers, exit nodes, and NAT traversal; apply secure, scalable architectures; diagnose complex customer network issues; support escalations; collaborate across product and engineering teams; and contribute to open-source networking projects.

Own full-stack features end to end, including system design, implementation direction, testing, deployment, production operations, and incident response. Use agentic AI to generate code, tests, and reviews while validating quality and security. Build production APIs, data models, authentication, schemas, migrations, and scalable SQL. Collaborate with Product, Design, and DevOps, and apply secure coding practices. Bonus experience includes RAG, LLM evaluation and observability, or TypeScript frontend development.

Design, develop, test, and optimize safe, scalable real-time software for production autonomous vehicle systems. Architect continuous learning infrastructure for ML model deployment and monitoring, analyze algorithms, and collaborate with embedded, platform, AI, sensor, and compute teams. Support perception, prediction, and planning integration while contributing to highway and urban autonomous driving capabilities.

Design and implement motion-planning software for autonomous vehicles, including behavior planning, trajectory generation, safety constraints, and real-time embedded performance. Integrate planning with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems. Validate solutions through simulation, closed-course trials, and on-road testing while addressing complex edge cases and collaborating with vendors, AI teams, and customers.

Build and own production software systems spanning embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, technical design reviews, cross-functional hardware collaboration, hiring, and mentoring. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, distributed systems experience, debugging ability, and proficiency in at least one major programming language.

Develop and maintain COBOL-based Medicare claims processing software in a legacy mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, implementing enhancements, troubleshooting defects, supporting Agile/Scrum delivery, preparing estimates, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with team members, clients, and vendors. The role supports Durable Medical Equipment claims processing and requires adherence to structured development standards.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Build and operate ingestion, reconciliation, and reporting systems that reconcile card-network and partner settlement files against internal transactions. Deliver end-to-end features for traceability, accounting journals, tax and regulatory reporting, and compliance tooling while ensuring reliability, scalability, and data privacy.

Build and operate backend services, APIs, data models, event-driven pipelines, internal applications, and integrations supporting high-volume grading operations. Develop end-to-end features with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js; troubleshoot data, service, integration, and UI issues; contribute to system design, testing, observability, documentation, and on-call support. Collaborate with Product, Technology, and Operations teams to create scalable systems and improve engineering practices.

Lead technical direction and multi-quarter delivery for a platform modernization effort. Architect TypeScript, Java, PHP, and cloud systems; guide monolith decomposition, distributed services, databases, observability, security, and operational excellence. Mentor engineers, coordinate stakeholders, establish engineering standards, and lead responsible adoption of AI-assisted development across the organization.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of Grafana Cloud’s Session Replay product across frontend, backend, and data systems. Design columnar storage, ingestion pipelines, data models, and query patterns for high-volume session data. Build cross-product debugging workflows, partner with customers and internal teams, improve engineering practices, make architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.