Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and maintain backend services and infrastructure to support core ML/AI product features. Design scalable, resilient, high-performance systems, implement production REST APIs, deploy and manage applications (Docker/Kubernetes), and collaborate cross-functionally while coding daily.

Design and implement scalable backend and distributed systems for a marketing intelligence platform. Build near-real-time ingestion and processing, scale an incrementality/experimentation product, integrate AI-powered workflows, improve data ingestion/exports and connection-state systems, and contribute frontend components to deliver end-to-end product experiences.

Participate in full SDLC building and integrating software for DoD customers. Develop C++/Python systems, curate synthetic geospatial raster data, apply TDD, operate in DevSecOps pipelines, and use containerization and CI/CD for deployment and testing.

Lead the technical direction for the engineering team, architect systems, design APIs, and mentor engineers while improving backend infrastructure.

Lead technical direction and contribute to the frontend codebase, building user-facing tools and mentoring team engineers to enhance user experiences.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead projects, mentor team members, write code using Python, Django, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript, and impact the healthcare system with software solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Medallion, you'll lead projects, mentor team members, and work with technologies like Python, Django, React, and TypeScript to impact healthcare operations.

Lead architecture and evolution of Juniper Square’s distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and developer platform. Design scalable, multi-tenant, event-driven systems; build paved-road developer tooling, CI/CD, and observability. Hands-on coding, prototyping, and performance troubleshooting. Enable production AI/LLM workloads, ensure security/compliance, support enterprise upmarket needs, and mentor engineering teams to raise operational excellence and reliability.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and maintain frontend applications and reusable components, integrate APIs, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality user experiences in the fintech space.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Flex, you'll design and maintain financial services architecture, mentor junior engineers, and ensure scalability and security for innovative financial products.

Design, develop, and administer databases and web applications for IVR and call center software. Build cloud-based integrations, write and maintain SQL, and participate in call center analytics system development and integration.

The Senior Software Engineer will architect and optimize AI-powered developer tools, enhance the SDLC, collaborate across teams, and mentor peers to improve engineering productivity.

Lead technical strategy and architecture across engineering, advise executives, de-risk early-stage ideas, and drive delivery of scalable web and mobile products. Mentor senior engineers, promote cross-team collaboration and AI adoption, partner with product and clinical stakeholders, participate in on-call rotation, and ensure systems meet standards for stability, maintainability, and scalability.

Build and operate scalable backend services and distributed systems for global payments. Design payment orchestration, ledgering, workflow engines, partner integrations, and public APIs. Own end-to-end projects, influence architecture and engineering standards, mentor teammates, and collaborate with product and engineering leadership to ship production-grade infrastructure.

Design and build scalable backend services and distributed systems powering global payments. Develop payment orchestration, ledgering, workflow engines, partner integrations, and public APIs. Influence architecture, own projects end-to-end, collaborate with product, mentor engineers, and operate production systems.

Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable software for connected products and digital platforms. Provide technical leadership and mentorship, drive architecture and best practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, support CI/CD/DevOps, troubleshoot production issues, and document systems. Participate in project planning, customer escalations, and continuous improvement of engineering processes.

As a Senior/Lead Software Engineer, you'll develop full-stack product features, focusing on AI integration and user experience, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and own disposable isolated microVM sandboxes and related runtime infrastructure for AI coding agents. Improve reliability, performance, and security across macOS, Windows, and Linux; lead architecture, mentor engineers, engage open-source communities, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with Product and adjacent teams.

Lead design, build, and operation of AI-powered product features across backend, frontend, and AI systems. Make architecture decisions, drive production deployments, improve code quality and reliability, mentor engineers, and own features end-to-end.

Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering across AI, data, backend, and frontend systems. Drive architecture, remove technical risks, set engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and influence cross-team technical direction.

Lead company-level technical direction for an AI-native insurance platform. Own architecture across AI, data, infrastructure, and product; resolve high-impact technical decisions; establish org-wide engineering standards; and mentor senior engineers while partnering with founders to shape long-term technical vision.

Lead architecture and implementation to scale a large Kubernetes-native microservice platform into cell-based deployments. Decompose services, build shared libraries and configuration frameworks, enable private/isolated cloud deployments, land changes in product services, set architecture patterns, partner with Cloud Platform/SRE/DevEx, mentor senior engineers, and embed AI tooling into development workflows.

Lead a team of 3-4 engineers to build scalable ad platform services, APIs, and SDKs. Drive architecture and technical direction, collaborate with Product and ML teams, enforce engineering standards, perform design and code reviews, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, and participate in hiring and team development.

Design, develop, and optimize flight and embedded software for bare-metal, RTOS, and real-time Linux platforms. Implement space-grade communication protocols and deterministic Ethernet/avionics fabrics, build automated HIL/SIL/PIL test frameworks, support debugging and validation, and integrate applications across multi-board embedded systems with robust firmware update and recovery mechanisms.

Design, implement, and test hard real-time algorithms, state machines, and application logic for a robotic medical platform. Develop C++/Python production code on Linux and RTOS, collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to testing and simulation environments, participate in design reviews, and ensure safety-critical software quality.