Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead architecture and ship complex full-stack features across the stack, mentor engineers, partner with Product and Clinical teams, reduce technical debt, and integrate AI tools to improve mental healthcare outcomes.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing scalable, high-availability backend services for investment and financial products. Work primarily on backend APIs, integrations with financial institutions, databases, testing, troubleshooting production issues, and contributing across the stack while focusing on performance, security, and maintainability.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and build scalable solutions for Cloudera's Data Platform, contribute to Apache Spark, enhance engineering processes, and work with large-scale distributed systems.

Design and develop high-performance services and APIs, focusing on cloud-based applications using Golang and Python, while ensuring code quality and security.

The role involves end-to-end ownership of AWS infrastructure, managing Kubernetes platforms, and ensuring system reliability through observability and automation. Responsibilities include incident response and maintaining CI/CD systems.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Socure, you'll develop scalable backend services for identity verification, optimize system performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on document processing integrations.

Build and maintain federated identity and authorization platform services for a multi-tenant SaaS environment. Implement integrations (OAuth/OIDC/SAML/JWT), design observable, fault-tolerant backend services in .NET or Python, use AI-assisted development tools, write tests and observability, participate in on-call and mentoring, and produce documentation and tooling to enable product team integrations.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead frontend development, define architecture, optimize performance, and collaborate across teams to create user-friendly logistics applications.

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.

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 features, maintain quality, review code, and collaborate on product design for the EnrollWise platform, focusing on back-end and some front-end work.

Develop and enhance features for EnrollWise, contribute to a scalable software architecture, review code, collaborate on design and technical feasibility, and maintain software quality.

Build and ship full-stack features in weekly loops, owning problems end-to-end from stakeholder discovery to production, using TypeScript/Node backend and React/React Native frontends, leveraging AI-paired tools, and making scalable architectural decisions while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develop a quest gameplay engine for game server and mobile apps and build a visual no-code quest editor. Collaborate in one-week Scrum sprints, design software architecture, and use C++/Qt, JavaScript/TypeScript, git, and Linux.

As a Full Stack Developer at Nurture, you'll design scalable APIs, develop user interfaces, and ensure data flow across systems in a collaborative environment.

The Embedded Software Engineer will analyze and develop embedded software systems, provide customer support, and apply software engineering and cybersecurity methods.

Improve performance and scalability of web applications by identifying and resolving front-end and back-end bottlenecks. Optimize load times, API responses, and database queries; develop scalable features across the stack, monitor performance, conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack systems and APIs. Extend products to handle large datasets, reporting, and third‑party/Microsoft Graph integrations. Write secure, testable production code, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot performance issues, and mentor engineers. Own features end‑to‑end from design through deployment using CI/CD and DevOps practices in a distributed team.

Lead design, build, and operate scalable backend services and carrier integrations. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, drive architecture and best practices, write and test code, troubleshoot production incidents, and improve monitoring and reliability while collaborating with product and cross-functional teams.

Lead technical delivery of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, guiding design, development, integrations, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud modernization. Provide hands-on .NET development, incident resolution, operational readiness, and coach engineering teams while ensuring security, retention, and governance for content services.

Lead implementation of software safety programs for underwater robotic/autonomous vehicles per MIL-STD-882. Produce safety plans and assessments, perform hazard analyses, track coverage metrics, catalog safety artifacts, review software independently, and present findings at reviews and customer meetings. Coordinate across programs and support demanding schedules with occasional travel.

Lead design and implementation of Pinterest Edge systems (CDN, TLS, DNS, proxies) to manage automation traffic and rate limiting at scale. Develop request-processing logic in Envoy, collaborate with vendors and platform teams, mentor engineers, use AI to accelerate workflows, and participate in on-call incident response and reliability improvements.

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities. Implement IaC, improve CI/CD, observability, and automation. Lead incident response, reliability, and DevSecOps practices. Mentor engineers, drive platform standardization, document runbooks, and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support production systems and remediation of systemic infrastructure issues.

Design and implement scalable, secure cloud-native microservices and data platforms. Collaborate with product and stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, build CI/CD pipelines, and translate business needs into developer-ready stories.

Design, build, and maintain scalable full-stack web applications. Implement backend APIs and responsive frontends, deploy to cloud, ensure security/performance, write tests, debug issues, participate in reviews, and mentor junior developers.