Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Orum, you will own product features end-to-end, design scalable systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive technical excellence while mentoring your teammates.

Own and deliver major features across the flight booking funnel: flight search, booking creation, and post-booking fulfillment. Implement award ticket pricing, point transfers, and integrations with airlines and GDS partners. Collaborate with the flights expert to scale routing, booking engines, and partnership integrations.

Unpaid software engineering internship focusing on full-stack web development with TypeScript, Next.js/React and Node/Express. Work on front- and back-end features, responsive UI with Tailwind, animations with Framer Motion, PostgreSQL and MongoDB integration, REST APIs, microservice-based architecture, code reviews, debugging, and product planning in a remote-first startup.

Build and improve backend systems (primarily DogByte) supporting hospital workflows. Own projects end-to-end from design to production, collaborate with Product, SRE, and DevSecOps, apply AI tools thoughtfully to developer workflows, and review cross-team work to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

Lead technical vision and architecture for a scalable virtual care platform. Architect and develop Ruby on Rails backend, build React front end, guide technical decisions, collaborate cross-functionally, drive adoption of new technologies, and contribute to long-term product roadmap while mentoring engineers.

Lead design, development, delivery, and maintenance of high-performance web applications for Provider Directory and Scheduling. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, resolve performance and concurrency issues, build integrations with EHRs, and improve reservation/resource-sharing systems to ensure secure, well-tested, and documented solutions.

Lead backend/frontend development for a cross-functional Agile team: design, implement, test, deploy and operate scalable web services; mentor engineers; drive architecture, code quality, CI/CD, observability, and secure handling of sensitive financial data.

Lead the technical direction of a squad: own short- and long-term architecture, make major technical decisions, mentor engineers, run design/code reviews, improve quality, communicate with stakeholders, and contribute code.

Lead design and development of bare-metal firmware, device drivers, and embedded platform for ultrasound SoCs. Drive SoC bring-up, pre/post-silicon validation, hardware-software co-design, imaging pipelines, Python tooling for ASIC configuration, and automated hardware-in-the-loop tests. Mentor team members and integrate end-to-end tests into CI while supporting board-level debugging and hardware validation.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for a core SaaS product suite (50% coding). Own technical roadmap, drive DevSecOps/IaC/TDD adoption, mentor teams, resolve performance and reliability issues, and translate product needs into scalable designs.

Build and ship greenfield full‑stack product features end-to-end for issuers and distribution partners. Iterate quickly, leverage AI to accelerate development, work across Elixir/Phoenix backends and TypeScript/Next.js frontends on AWS, and collaborate with stakeholders while mentoring engineers. Report to CTO and drive product and technical decisions.

Build and own user-facing features and core platform architecture across frontend, backend, and ML pipelines. Integrate AI workflows (LLMs, embeddings) for curriculum generation and automated evaluation. Manage end-to-end development: requirements, design, implementation, CI/CD, testing, observability, and iteration while collaborating with product, design, ML, and customer teams.

The Senior R&D Software Engineer will lead software design for Networked Electronic Warfare systems, focusing on embedded software, DevOps, and cross-organizational collaboration.

As a Software Engineer at Texas Sports Academy, you will design and ship AI-driven software features across various systems while collaborating directly with founders.

As a Compiler Engineer, you'll enhance compiler performance, support multiple operating systems, develop toolchains, ensure interoperability, and contribute to open source.

The role involves building platforms and core systems for identity services at Keycard, focusing on developing distributed systems and CI/CD automation while creating a best-in-class developer experience.

Design and build operational data systems, including pipelines, storage layers, and APIs for near real-time enforcement and insights, balancing streaming and batch paradigms.

Design and build core identity, authentication, and authorization systems for Keycard, focusing on security and multi-tenancy across dynamic, distributed environments.

As a Software Engineer - L3 Support, you will resolve complex Ubuntu-related issues, collaborate with teams, and participate in upstream communities to drive bug fixes and improvements.

As a Software Engineer, you will resolve complex customer issues related to Ubuntu and open source software, participate in upstream communities, and develop and review code across multiple layers of the software stack.

Lead the technical vision for complex systems, drive architectural strategies, write production-ready code, and align teams for public sector compliance.

The role involves designing and building backend services for mobile app user acquisition, focusing on microservices, data pipelines, optimization, and collaboration with data scientists on ML integration.

The Software Engineer (Frontend) at Metabase will develop user-friendly data tools, leveraging React and CSS while ensuring optimal communication and coding practices.

Seeking exceptional software engineers to build and maintain user-friendly backend systems primarily in Clojure and JavaScript, focusing on product complexities and user experience.

Design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and integrations powering student-university interactions. Own reliability, performance, security, automation, ETL/ingestion, and CI/CD. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor teammates, and influence product direction while operating in cloud-native, distributed microservices environments.