Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Support and maintain high-availability Netflix apps and device firmware across multiple TV platforms. Manage app store updates, investigate monitoring alerts and JS component canaries, execute configuration and CI updates, develop playbooks, and drive automation and tooling improvements to reduce operational drag.

Build and operate Ads Reporting Infrastructure: design low-latency, highly available event ingestion and streaming pipelines that process billions of ad events daily. Ensure data accuracy with monitoring, alerting, and auditing. Integrate with ad tech (SSPs/DSPs/Ad Servers), real-time analytics (Apache Druid), and stream-processing frameworks to support measurement, serving, pacing, budgeting, and reporting workflows.

Build and scale Netflix's in-house ad tech: ad serving, inventory/forecasting, campaign management, reporting, identity and audiences, and platform foundations. Collaborate with ad ops, product, and cross-functional teams to design architectures, implement cloud-based systems, run A/B experiments, and deliver high-performance, privacy-aware advertising solutions across client platforms.

Software Engineering Interns will build and maintain a B2B CRM across the full stack, including Next.js and Tailwind CSS frontend interfaces, Node.js and AWS backend services, and MongoDB databases. Responsibilities include developing scalable APIs, optimizing performance, writing secure maintainable code, collaborating with engineering, product, and design teams, and contributing to architecture decisions. This is a remote-first, full-time 12-month internship with potential conversion to a full-time engineering role.

Build and own end-to-end frontend experiences for Coinbase card products across web and mobile. Ship high-scale consumer features, improve payment flow performance and SLOs, reduce latency and CX contacts, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver reliable, user-focused card functionality.

Develop and maintain features for a podcast subscription platform using PHP and Laravel. Scale the application, support user and administrator experiences, build website embeds and third-party integrations, and help apply AI tools to accelerate development and improve code quality and security. Collaborate within a small, Agile-oriented remote team while evaluating technologies and influencing the evolving product stack.

Develop and operate highly scalable backend systems and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining Python HTTP services, working with DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis, provisioning cloud resources through infrastructure as code, reasoning about distributed systems, and owning software from design through monitoring. The role also focuses on reliability, security, performance, cost optimization, observability, technical roadmaps, and collaboration with engineering and product stakeholders.

Build and maintain production-grade iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI, integrating AI features through backend APIs. Design reliable AI interaction patterns, optimize performance, memory, battery, and latency, and support monitoring, feedback capture, and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with backend and ML engineers on API behavior, reliability, and user trust while shipping stable App Store experiences.

Own major product surfaces across Aleph’s FP&A platform, leading features from customer discovery through launch and iteration. Build performant spreadsheet-grade interfaces over large financial datasets, design robust data models and APIs, develop AI-native features involving orchestration, tool calls, and retrieval, and improve engineering standards through high-quality code and reviews. The role requires strong full-stack fundamentals, customer engagement, technical leadership, pragmatism, and experience building complex B2B products.

Build and own full-stack features, platform primitives, and integrations for Vanta Government Cloud. Design secure APIs and services for authentication, data ingestion, schema evolution, monitoring, and framework mappings. Operate integrations within the GovCloud boundary, including observability, on-call support, incident response, change management, performance improvements, and automated testing. Collaborate with federal subject-matter experts, agencies, vendors, and assessment organizations while using AI responsibly to improve development and operations.

Lead architecture and rollout of scalable platform services and customer-facing APIs. Define API standards, service boundaries, security, reliability, and developer experience; collaborate with data-platform teams; drive RFCs and complex multi-quarter initiatives; mentor engineers; and contribute across the stack using TypeScript, Node.js, React, and AI tools.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure software (primarily in Go) to manage VMs across global data centers. Collaborate on product requirements, participate in code reviews, optimize performance and reliability, contribute to architecture decisions, and stay current with industry trends.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you'll enhance the data infrastructure, develop ETL pipelines, maintain data quality, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers.

As a Fullstack Engineer, you'll design, build, and operate web applications, collaborating with product teams and mentoring peers while ensuring best practices in coding and system architecture.

Lead systems engineering for Hivemind-based autonomy products: define and manage requirements, develop system architectures and trade studies, coordinate hardware/software interfaces, support integration/verification/validation and testing, and identify and mitigate technical risks across the system lifecycle.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Join a small AI-native engineering team building and operating Affirm's bank systems. Own end-to-end bank infrastructure, durable workflows, vendor integrations, data platform, CI/CD, monitoring, and examiner-ready documentation. Use AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development, collaborate with Compliance/Risk/Finance, and mentor growing engineering talent.

Design and build end-to-end web and AI-powered dashboard features, scale cross-platform full-stack infrastructure, standardize product patterns, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and collaborate with product and design to improve user workflows and AI adoption.

Senior fullstack engineer to build and scale Brigit's consumer finance platform. Own end-to-end features across frontend (React/React Native/TypeScript) and backend (Java/REST/SQL), optimize database and APIs for high scale, integrate 3rd-party services, implement risk and transaction algorithms, improve CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and internal tooling to support millions of users.

Own technically complex, mission-critical areas and define technical strategy for new products. Design and ship full‑stack, AI‑driven features end‑to‑end, build scalable data ingestion and API systems, partner with product/design/customer teams to translate ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes, mentor engineers, and raise engineering quality and standards across the organization.

Serve as the senior software development SME while performing full-stack Java web development and O&M activities. Guide developer teams, prioritize work, coordinate technical meetings, resolve issues, optimize processes, analyze requirements, estimate effort, review code, conduct testing, troubleshoot environments, create technical documentation, and implement software updates. The role requires extensive J2EE experience, SPA development, DevOps and CI/CD expertise, and active Public Trust/MBI clearance supporting an IRS Criminal Investigation system.

Senior full-stack engineer responsible for architecting, developing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting production capabilities across a React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Rust, and Azure Kubernetes platform. The role includes delivering AI and LLM features, owning complex technical initiatives, improving reliability and security, contributing to architecture and engineering standards, partnering with stakeholders, and mentoring engineers.

Develop backend services and APIs that streamline client activation and production onboarding. Build and enhance integrations with core provider APIs, checkbook ordering, ACH transfers, and product services. Collaborate with clients to understand account-opening nuances and partner with product teams to incorporate them into the platform. Write clean, documented, tested code; address error handling, logging, edge cases, system design, performance, and architectural tradeoffs. Provide technical guidance and code reviews.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, leading complex initiatives, partnering with product and design, mentoring engineers, and owning reliability, performance, observability, and on-call operations. The role spans backend data models and asynchronous processing through frontend design systems and visualizations. Required experience includes 10+ years of full-stack software development, Ruby, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript, scalable relational systems, and AI-assisted development practices.