Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead design, development, and implementation of complex software systems for life & annuity policy administration. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, architect scalable mainframe solutions, troubleshoot critical issues, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet performance, reliability, and security goals.

Lead design and development of scalable, secure data pipelines and analytics for federal health IT. Build and optimize PySpark/Python batch processing, implement Airflow orchestration, develop serverless AWS components, produce BI dashboards, ensure code quality and test automation, translate federal requirements into software, and mentor team members.

Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native full-stack software to migrate, preserve, and make large volumes of government records searchable and accessible. Build Section 508-compliant frontends and secure backend APIs, follow API-first and CI/CD practices, defend against vulnerabilities, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, performant systems.

Lead Software Engineer responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining a distributed processing application using Python and Java. Collaborate with product owners, data coaches, analysts, DBAs, and Agile teams to meet backend/frontend requirements, implement cloud and big-data solutions (Spark/Hadoop), and ensure program standards and reliable delivery.

Build and maintain backend systems for a large-scale community platform: design APIs, improve performance and scalability, ship well-tested features, triage production issues, mentor engineers, and help define AI-assisted development practices and architecture.

Build and own mission-critical full‑stack features for a cannabis ERP and commerce platform. Work across product, design, and support to deliver high-quality code, tests, and AI-native workflows; define timelines, communicate progress, and ensure data integrity and compliance.

Design and build scalable backend components and indexing pipelines for semantic and hybrid retrieval, build retrieval orchestration and knowledge-graph services, improve retrieval quality via evaluation and observability, design APIs, and optimize latency, throughput, cost, reliability, and security for large-scale AI inference and retrieval workloads.

The Principal Software Engineer leads the design and development of scalable software solutions, mentors engineers, and drives architectural decisions while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and implement full-stack features, develop AI-driven workflows, and ensure code quality for a dental billing platform while collaborating with users to address their needs.

Lead architecture and build scalable, secure production services while championing AI-native development. Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, review PRs, and help evolve a legacy monolith to a modern stack in partnership with product and exec leadership.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems for metrics and monitoring, collaborate across teams, and debug production incidents.

As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you will develop features, test and debug APIs, create technical documentation, and contribute to infrastructure solutions.

Design and build core systems for a new application using Solana's infrastructure. Focus on low-latency, reliable services, and implement security measures.

Lead end-to-end platform engineering projects to build and operate a multi-tenant data lakehouse and scalable compute infrastructure, partner with cross-functional teams, improve reliability/observability, support platform users, and drive platform usability and ML/analytics enablement.

Design, develop, and optimize data infrastructure, focusing on GCP, ETL/ELT workflows, and data governance, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer at PerfectServe, you'll design, build, and maintain high-quality code for healthcare communication systems, mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams to improve patient care and clinical workflows.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop and maintain Ditto's React Native SDK, ensuring ease of use for developers, debugging across platforms, and collaborating with other SDK teams.

The Software Engineer, Mobile Transports will advance Ditto's mobile transport technologies focusing on networking performance and reliability across platforms. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and optimizing mobile transport infrastructure, collaborating with teams, and monitoring system performance.

As a Distributed Systems Engineer, you'll design and evolve LiveKit's core systems, implement resilient architectures, and enhance reliability and developer velocity, working on critical features in production environments.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Attentive's AI-assisted developer platform and productivity systems. Build and scale CI/CD, local dev environments, CLI tooling, service scaffolding, and orchestration layers across a large Java/Spring Boot Gradle monorepo on AWS. Drive cross-team adoption, author RFCs/ADRs, mentor engineers, and improve developer productivity, reliability, and scalability of internal tooling and AI-assisted workflows.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop efficient systems to enhance healthcare delivery and collaborate with various teams to innovate features for patient care tools.

Design, build, and maintain high-availability, cloud-native services and REST APIs; develop scalable, data-intensive full-stack applications; debug production issues; improve performance; participate in code reviews, testing, and architectural decisions.

Join Vanta as a Senior Software Engineer to lead and mentor teams, driving projects on identity systems and improving security infrastructure.

Lead design and implementation of scalable APIs and agent communication layers for an AI-agent driven advertising marketplace. Build high-throughput backend systems, integrate agent frameworks and adtech partners, drive architecture for authentication and protocols, mentor engineers, and prototype agent communication patterns while collaborating with product and design.

The Software Engineer will design and build full-stack features, enhance CI/CD pipelines, support production systems, and collaborate with teams.