Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, and own full-stack features and platform primitives for Vanta's Integrations Platform. Develop authentication, data-ingestion, and schema-evolution services; build secure, scalable services and UIs with TypeScript, React, and Node.js; improve performance and operational excellence; use AI tools to accelerate development; collaborate across teams to enable a large ecosystem of integrations.

Develop, test, and maintain platform features and services for a digital health platform. Collaborate with product and design teams, write clean code, participate in reviews, debug issues, assist with API development and integrations, and help improve performance, reliability, and scalability while learning modern tools and cloud technologies.

Lead design and implementation of Doowiis frontend, backend, and data systems. Define architecture, build scalable ingestion and analytics pipelines, optimize storage and query performance, ship AI-driven features (LLM/text-to-SQL, embeddings), improve observability and deployment, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and ML teams.

The Software Engineer, Platform role involves designing and maintaining backend APIs for various services at Speechify, focusing on performance and scalability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The Software Engineer will support data collection for model training, manage the cloud infrastructure, and collaborate on data pipelines to enhance Speechify's AI capabilities.

Senior .NET Software Engineer responsible for end-to-end software development using Microsoft technologies. Requires extensive experience in SDLC, design principles, technical documentation, web application development with .NET, Agile/SCRUM, Entity Framework, database design, and version control. Familiarity with project tools JIRA, TEMPO, Bitbucket, and Confluence preferred.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Design and implement front-end features, build high-quality user interfaces, take ownership of product and architecture decisions, collaborate with engineering team, and deliver performant, user-focused solutions.

Provide technical leadership for cross-functional teams, create and communicate technical vision and strategy, lead new initiatives without defined procedures, remove roadblocks, resolve issues, mentor engineers, and perform related duties. Remote role based in Canada; GM does not provide immigration sponsorship.

Build and maintain backend microservices and content ingestion pipelines. Design and implement RESTful APIs and web services using Java and Spring. Work with NoSQL stores (Cassandra, Solr) and messaging/event systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka). Collaborate cross-functionally to improve system architecture and support customer-facing and internal services.

Develop and maintain web applications using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS. Build with JavaScript MVC frameworks (Ember.js, jQuery), SASS, and Git. Integrate RESTful APIs, produce documentation and well-commented code, collaborate with designers, and work independently on projects.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define technical strategy for Drive-Thru solutions, standardize Android practices, and ensure seamless integration between mobile clients and backend services while mentoring peers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll implement collaboration features, support team architecture, work across tech stacks, and improve developer experience.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead full-stack initiatives, improve system quality, drive technical direction, and mentor peers in a collaborative environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design best practices for AI Agents, develop standards, collaborate on product opportunities, and stay updated on emerging Agent techniques.

Drive the Continuous Integration team, ensuring build systems' reliability and scalability, and mentor CI engineers while improving developer productivity through automation and tooling.

Build and own end-to-end full-stack systems for AI-powered agentic trading across web and React Native mobile. Implement real-time, low-latency UIs and Go backend services, integrate streaming AI/ML features and market data, drive architecture and code quality, and collaborate with AI/ML, design, and product teams to ship production-ready features used by millions.

The Senior Software Engineer at Order.co designs complex features end-to-end, mentors junior engineers, and participates in design reviews while ensuring quality and reliability of systems.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining web applications and microservices (React, Golang). Mentor team members, lead code reviews, influence technical decisions, improve CI/CD and testing strategies (unit, E2E, performance), collaborate across teams on integrations, and promote engineering best practices and documentation.

Design and develop software for Wi-Fi access points, collaborate with hardware teams, and enhance firmware for new devices while resolving technical issues.

Own cross-team, platform-level engineering initiatives end-to-end: architecture, migrations, observability, on-call, and customer outcomes. Drive AI-native tooling and agentic AI adoption, mentor senior engineers, and set technical standards across teams.

Lead technical design, build, and operate scalable, secure healthcare integration systems. Drive architecture, event-driven distributed systems, APIs, observability, IaC, CI/CD, incident response, cross-functional delivery, and mentor engineering teams.

Build and operate billing and payments services using Node.js/Go and Vue.js. Develop integrations with payment and accounting systems, ensure runtime reliability on AWS (SQS, Lambda), drive CI/CD and automated testing, write design docs and runbooks, mentor engineers, and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive workloads.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure backend services in Python. Implement SQL and NoSQL data models, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments. Collaborate with product, front-end, and design teams, perform code reviews, optimize performance, troubleshoot production issues, mentor junior engineers, and improve development processes and infrastructure.

Build and maintain core financial backend systems (trading, ledger, billing), transaction processing, reconciliation, and portfolio state management. Design and scale real-time and batch data pipelines, architect APIs and backend services, ensure reliability and observability, and contribute to distributed system design (event-driven, microservices, streaming). Partner with ML teams as needed.