Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Join as an early founding full-stack engineer to architect, build, and deploy a scalable platform serving AI-driven voice applications. You will own frontend and backend development, design infrastructure with the CTO, and deliver reliable production systems for enterprise customers.

Lead technically complex card-acquiring payment projects from design through production. Build and operate highly reliable payment systems, integrations, testing and certification tooling, and shared engineering frameworks. Analyze ISO messages, network mandates, routing, authorization, clearing, settlement, and processing costs. Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, participate in on-call operations, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices for critical financial systems.

Leads architecture and development of scalable, high-availability software systems supporting millions of endpoints. Owns complex multi-team initiatives, makes technical decisions, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and improves software quality. Requires deep Java development, distributed systems, API design, database engineering, system scalability, testing, and AI-assisted development experience.

Build and own Arcadia’s internal developer platform across a large-scale data lakehouse and Kubernetes applications. Develop self-service APIs, templates, golden paths, CI/CD capabilities, observability, security controls, and reliability practices. Lead platform migrations, improve developer experience, manage stakeholder needs and costs, set technical direction, and coach senior engineers. The role requires hands-on software development alongside expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, infrastructure as code, SLOs, incident response, and platform product management.

Build and own end-to-end technical solutions for strategic customers, including architectures, product features, and full-scale integrations. Collaborate with customer engineers and executives, apply Python and software development expertise to solve complex problems, and communicate technical concepts clearly. The role is remote-first in the United States with regular travel to customer onsite engagements.

Build and operate backend systems for securities lending, short borrowing, clearing, settlement, and brokerage operations. Own projects from scoping through production, develop partner APIs and batch pipelines, improve system scalability and reliability, integrate with external partners, and participate in on-call support. The role requires strong distributed-systems fundamentals and interest in securities finance and market infrastructure.

The Software Engineer will build and own features for the AI-driven matching and screening platform, focusing on data structuring and full-stack development. Collaboration with users and maintaining high quality through testing is essential.

Owner of core clinical backend systems: design and build TypeScript/Nest.js APIs, model clinical domains in PostgreSQL/Prisma, implement onboarding/migration flows, ensure CI/CD, monitoring, HIPAA/SOC2 readiness, collaborate with clinical stakeholders, and build monitoring/reporting with Sentry/Datadog on AWS.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise full-stack applications using React, Java/Spring Boot, and Python. Build secure APIs, microservices, integrations, chatbot interfaces, and cloud-native solutions. Work with Azure or AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, databases, messaging systems, and enterprise security practices. Collaborate in agile teams, participate in architecture discussions, refine requirements, conduct code reviews, and maintain quality through automated testing. Experience integrating AI or generative AI solutions is preferred.

Develop and support full-stack enterprise applications for legal operations, matter management, document management, compliance, and business process automation. Build React frontends, Java and Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, event-driven integrations, and cloud-native solutions. Work with databases, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, CI/CD, monitoring, security, production support, and Agile delivery while collaborating with legal, compliance, product, architecture, and engineering teams.

Build and scale backend-focused systems supporting truckload freight operations, including high-volume carrier quotes, automated transactions, distributed services, and APIs. Design scalable data models and architectures, contribute across the React and TypeScript stack, make key technical decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product leadership. The role also involves developing AI-powered logistics tools and maintaining reliable, secure infrastructure on Kubernetes and GCP.

Develop and implement Shopify e-commerce solutions for U.S. online sales. Configure order-management workflows, integrate Shopify with external systems, apply e-commerce best practices, monitor and optimize website performance, and protect customer and product data. The role requires strong communication, proactive problem-solving, attention to detail, and at least three years of Shopify experience.

Design, implement, test, and modernize backend services and integrations (TypeScript/Node.js and C++). Lead large projects, write technical specifications and API contracts, enforce coding standards, coach engineers, and drive legacy-to-modern migrations within online banking and core systems.

Join Azure PostgreSQL to design, implement, and test features in a relational database engine (query processing, logging, storage, IO, scale-out). Collaborate with stakeholders, write maintainable code, define test plans, operate live services (on-call), and contribute to open-source PostgreSQL and Linux.

Build and maintain full-stack features for secure, high-volume fintech and cryptocurrency transactions. Develop Golang and Java backend services, Node.js and TypeScript APIs, and React/Next.js applications. Integrate third-party systems, implement OAuth 2.0 authentication, work with microservices, and ensure security, performance, reliability, and observability. Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, technical documentation, and end-to-end feature ownership in a fully remote environment.

Design, build, and operate highly available, high-throughput backend services for Twilio SendGrid. Modernize Go-based microservices, manage dual-cloud AWS/Azure infrastructure with Terraform, improve observability and reliability, mentor engineers, and balance feature delivery with platform refactoring.

Develop, test, troubleshoot, and support high-volume software applications in an Agile environment. Collaborate with architects, product teams, customers, and engineers throughout the software development lifecycle. Participate in design and code reviews, automated testing, production monitoring, security and privacy practices, and root-cause analysis. Use approved AI-assisted development tools responsibly across coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and delivery while maintaining accountability for software quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Design and develop backend components for enterprise payroll tax, financial, payment processing, and compliance applications. Build scalable RESTful APIs with C# and .NET, optimize Microsoft SQL Server databases, integrate financial systems with CRM platforms and state tax portals, implement secure authentication, automate high-volume processing, modernize legacy modules, and ensure auditability, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

Design, develop, test, and optimize system software for NVIDIA ARM-based SoCs across pre-silicon and post-silicon phases. Analyze bottlenecks, optimize performance, develop benchmarking tools, evaluate CPU and GPU workloads, and conduct competitive architecture and performance analysis. The role requires collaboration and communication with internal and external audiences.

Lead the architecture and evolution of native iOS foundations supporting seller-facing applications. Identify systemic problems, define platform strategy and standards, build prototypes and reference implementations, lead multi-quarter migrations, and establish practices for quality, testing, observability, release safety, and maintainability. Develop senior engineers and create scalable ownership models across teams.

Work directly with the founder to design and build core product features: integrations that pull license data, automation to file renewals/applications, data cleaning with AI, dashboard and alerting UX, and establish engineering practices for testing, deployments, and security. Term contractor role with potential conversion to full-time based on performance.

Build and operate an agentic SOC investigation platform using LLMs, including telemetry tools, investigation workflows, evidence-backed outputs, evaluation systems, and analyst productivity features. Develop secure, reliable, observable backend services that handle attacker-influenced data across customer environments. Collaborate with SOC analysts, researchers, technical leads, and product managers to translate investigative expertise into production agent behavior.

Join a small engineering team as a hands-on full stack developer. Accelerate frontend delivery, then take on backend services, infrastructure, and core capabilities. Own features from design through release and operational stability, collaborate with customer-facing engineers and founders, and promote effective AI-assisted development practices. The role requires strong backend-oriented full stack skills, product-launch experience, system design judgment, self-direction, and periodic travel to a California office.

Design and build backend services and distributed systems for a customer-facing no-code product. Improve query performance across large data warehouses, develop analytics and experimentation capabilities, explore real-time computation and data syncing, and apply generative AI to user workflows. The role also involves writing product specifications, collaborating directly with users, making long-term architecture decisions, and ensuring services remain robust, maintainable, and scalable.

Own the end-to-end development of a secure SMS Adapter connecting retail and grocery store systems, beginning with BRdata, to Ottimate’s AP platform. Responsibilities include sync architecture, retries, conflict handling, local credential security, monitoring, testing, packaging, updates, installation, and deployment on Windows machines. The engineer will work directly with pilot customers to troubleshoot network, permissions, and data-access issues while evolving data models and integrations for additional store systems.