Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

This role requires shaping technical direction, leveraging AI tools for production systems, and making crucial decisions to align product intent with engineering realities.

The Software Engineer will build features across the stack, design AI/LLM-driven workflows, translate requirements, and collaborate closely with the founding team and customers.

The Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer will design, build, and scale backend services and APIs for financial transactions while collaborating with frontend engineers and contributing to technical design.

As a Senior Backend Developer, you'll design and maintain high-volume pipelines and databases, implement ETLs for automated abuse-prevention, and develop monitoring solutions while collaborating with teams on safety systems.

As a Senior Fullstack Developer, you will build and maintain moderation and user-safety applications for Bluesky's Trust & Safety team, collaborating with product teams and improving tools based on user feedback.

The Staff Engineer will lead the Systems team, design scalable cloud infrastructure, optimize data pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and security.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and implement AI technologies to address complex logistics challenges and mentor team members.

Lead the creation of an AI-powered software generation platform, partner with AI and infrastructure teams, and define success metrics to enhance developer experience.

Lead design and reliability of a financial data extraction platform, minimizing human validation through AI, and enhance system correctness for scale.

Lead the architecture and reliability of a financial data extraction platform, reducing human validation reliance by enhancing accuracy and scalability of systems while leveraging AI-driven solutions.

Lead design and delivery of self-service platform capabilities: provisioning, deployment, observability, and multi-region networking. Drive RFCs and cross-team alignment, build APIs (primarily in Go), implement Terraform/GitOps flows, improve EKS reliability and Grafana-based SLOs, and reduce operational toil via safe, auditable automation. Own on-call rotation and platform adoption outcomes.

The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining iOS applications, driving technical architecture, and promoting knowledge sharing within the team.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Ayama, you will build and improve AI-based systems, design data pipelines, and develop full-stack product features. This role requires strong architectural judgment and hands-on experience with optimization problems and large-scale data processing.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop backend systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams while contributing to product features and roadmaps.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of a scalable lending ecosystem, architect customer-centric financial products, and maintain product performance through collaboration with teams and implementation of best practices.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Upwave, you will build scalable backend systems, develop APIs, and engineer data pipelines while collaborating with product and data science teams.

Provide technical leadership across the simulation platform: define architecture, drive feature delivery, debug complex multi-module issues, conduct code reviews, collaborate on QA/CI/CD, and mentor engineers to modernize and maintain the legacy Windows desktop codebase.

Build and maintain Back of House data delivery and related BOH projects using AWS serverless technologies. Write code and unit tests, collaborate with SRE/QE/security/product teams across Yum! Brands, document data flows, and improve tooling and processes to increase restaurant operational efficiency and data integrations.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of an offline-first edge computing platform in Go. Design distributed messaging and cloud-to-edge synchronization, optimize services for resource-constrained in-store hardware, maintain Kubernetes/Helm deployments, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product and DevOps for phased rollouts and migrations.

Design and build systems for managing bare-metal infrastructure, focusing on automation, hardware provisioning, and software integration with Linux systems.

We are seeking a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to build advanced web applications using JavaScript and ReactJS, collaborating with a team to enhance user experiences.

The Senior Backend Software Engineer will build intricate backend systems, develop APIs, ensure high availability, and improve application scalability and performance.

Lead and manage software engineering teams, architect scalable systems, and innovate solutions while collaborating with stakeholders across various technology stacks.

Develop and expand software products and platforms across backend, frontend, cloud, AI, and machine learning systems. Build efficient, reliable, and testable code; collaborate with business partners to launch features; influence product and engineering decisions; mentor team members; and help shape team culture and product vision in an agile environment.

Design, build, and own reliable, secure, and performant production systems for clinical workflows. Make high-stakes technical decisions, improve code and designs via reviews, collaborate with product/design/clinical experts, debug and harden complex systems, and help shape technical and architectural direction at senior levels.