Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll develop full-stack software applications, mentor team members, and participate in design discussions while advocating for best coding practices.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will build a new venture from the ground up, collaborating with a small team to create functional prototypes and ensuring flexible architecture, utilizing AI tools for development efficiency.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will enhance platform engineering by improving deployment strategies and developer experiences, establishing reliable systems and mentorship across teams.

Lead the design and delivery of scalable data platform services, guide engineers, and improve engineering practices while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll develop an AI-first platform, design cloud-native APIs, and collaborate on Site Builder experiences with a focus on scalability and quality code.

Join the Query Integration team to enhance MongoDB's query engine, integrating features, improving performance, and contributing C++ code with a focus on database systems.

Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.

Build and improve a browser extension and serverless backend using a strongly-typed functional stack. Design algorithms to locate page elements, extract structured data, and integrate AI for web automation. Collaborate on a small distributed team focused on usability and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer will design backend services, improve data pipelines, and enhance reporting infrastructure while mentoring other engineers. This role supports capital partners by ensuring accurate data flow through Upstart's platform.

Lead the technical direction of Care & Onboarding platforms by driving architectural decisions, overseeing large initiatives, and enhancing engineering quality.

The role involves building consumer products, optimizing user experience, architecting product infrastructure, and influencing company strategy in a collaborative environment.

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

Implement and maintain small components and features on the Benefitsolver platform. Write secure, testable code, participate in design and code reviews, create automated tests, support production systems, troubleshoot incidents, document designs, and use approved AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.

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.

Design, develop, and deliver software components, APIs, microservices, and UIs; integrate AI/ML features; implement CI/CD, automated testing, IaC, and containerized cloud deployments; monitor production, troubleshoot issues, and mentor junior engineers.

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 Full-Stack Software Engineer will develop full-stack web applications, collaborating on UI and backend systems using various technologies to deliver impactful features.

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.