Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement solutions for a restaurant platform, enhance performance and collaborate with teams to solve challenges.

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.

The L2 Software Engineer, Integrations will architect and build robust integration systems, manage EHR connections, and improve operational reliability for Scan.com's healthcare technology infrastructure.

Build and deliver end-to-end product capabilities using Python and Next.js/TypeScript. Lead design, implementation, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and integrations. Champion AI-assisted development practices and agentic coding workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure production readiness and operational excellence.

Build and own backend features and services in Go on GCP, work on data ingestion/validation pipelines, write tested production code, participate in code review, contribute to Terraform infrastructure, and support observability and on-call readiness.

Develop and maintain scalable GIS applications and services on the Esri platform to support utility operations. Build Python-based tools (ArcPy, ArcGIS API for Python), configure ArcGIS Field Maps for mobile data collection, implement ETL/QA workflows, manage geodatabases and RESTful services, and integrate GIS with asset/work management and analytics systems while collaborating with engineers and stakeholders.

Senior technical leader responsible for architecting and delivering complex, distributed, cloud-native systems on Microsoft Azure; driving adoption of AI-assisted development tools; implementing observability, monitoring, and reliability practices; leading cross-team delivery, performance optimization, and incident response; and mentoring engineers in design and best practices.

Lead a hands-on engineering team to improve reliability, reduce technical debt, and maintain Greenshades' payroll/HR/tax products. Drive AI-first workflows, own reliability backlog and incident root-cause analysis, set engineering standards, partner with product/QA, report to the CTO, and recruit and develop engineers.

Establish and scale software quality practices for AI-driven cybersecurity products. Design tests for deterministic and probabilistic behavior, integrate validations into CI/release pipelines, expand test methodologies (integration, system, stress, workflow), maintain test environments and observability, and build tooling and fixtures for repeatable test conditions while collaborating with engineering to shift quality-left.

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.