Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Wilmington, NC

Design, build, and operate the GraphQL API platform that routes high-volume traffic. Deliver end-to-end projects, improve reliability and performance, own SLOs and incident response, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to evolve platform APIs and tooling.

Responsible for leading a team of engineers, supporting product development, identifying technical issues, and ensuring high-quality code delivery in backend systems at scale.

Build and own a vendor schema registry and semantic validation pipeline that ingests OpenAPI/Swagger/Smithy specs, tracks schema evolution, detects semantic and breaking changes, and provides SDKs and developer tooling to safely map vendor APIs into a canonical knowledge graph used by downstream teams.

Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver Golang-based microservices, mentor a small pod, estimate and implement features, produce unit and end-to-end tests, collaborate on design and code reviews, improve SDLC, and apply SRE observability practices while working with cloud-scale data stores such as Snowflake, DynamoDB, and Cassandra.

The role involves building core infrastructure for orchestrating intelligent agents, defining platform primitives, and ensuring systems scale and reliability. Collaboration with internal teams and end-to-end system ownership are essential.

Develop fullstack web applications, enhance platform performance, collaborate on high-impact opportunities, and ensure stable, scalable solutions. Engage in rapid iterations and be a committed team player.

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines; integrate AI-powered infrastructure; implement and support complex computing algorithms and distributed services; own systems end-to-end including architecture, observability, reliability, and operational support; lead architectural initiatives and reduce system complexity while maintaining performance on large-scale real-time data.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Lead complex software projects, mentor engineers, and set technical direction at Vanta while contributing to security and compliance solutions.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Design and develop backend services and APIs for identity resolution, optimize event-driven systems, and enhance system reliability. Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll design and develop GenAI platforms, integrate LLMs, mentor engineers, and solve technical challenges for scalable solutions.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Lead design and implementation of the PSA Liquidity Platform connecting buyers and sellers. Build buyer tooling, matching/ranking engines, and seller experiences. Architect and operate microservices and Kafka-driven systems on Kubernetes/AWS, instrument observability, apply AI tooling across the SDLC, and drive cross-functional delivery from 0-to-1 while owning end-to-end outcomes.

Lead backend and full-stack work on the Payments team, building multi-gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal), payment APIs, and customer payment UIs. Ensure secure, compliant (PCI-DSS) payment flows, reliability, observability, and scalability across AWS/Kubernetes microservices. Partner cross-functionally to design architecture, implement settlement/reconciliation, and maintain high availability.

Build and scale full-stack systems to improve provider onboarding and supply; design distributed, maintainable services; lead high-priority projects; mentor engineers; integrate AI-assisted and LLM-based features; drive provider-facing product quality and reliability.

Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle resolution, settlement, and payouts. Build low-latency, high-throughput microservices and event-driven systems, drive reliability via SLOs and observability, lead incident response, set technical standards, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product and compliance-aligned roadmaps.

Lead design and delivery of complex web and mobile product areas, build and maintain React/React Native applications, architect scalable systems and APIs, optimize databases and performance, drive engineering standards and test coverage, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership and stakeholders in a fully remote environment.

The Senior Engineer will build and operate backend systems for AI agents, design APIs, optimize performance, and uphold engineering standards to ensure platform reliability and scalability.

Lead design and delivery of full-stack, AI-powered products and platform capabilities. Own technically complex, mission-critical areas end-to-end, partner with product and customer teams, scale data ingestion and APIs, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality and velocity.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for mobile app infrastructure, owning shared components (design system, networking, CI/CD, observability, releases, tooling). Collaborate cross-functionally, set code/design standards, ensure operational readiness and on-call processes, mentor engineers, and drive large, business-impacting projects and migrations across the JS↔native boundary.

Lead design, build, and deploy scalable, reliable Java-based microservices in a cloud-native, event-driven AWS environment. Own backend feature design, code quality, automated testing, and FedRAMP release processes. Mentor engineers, participate in on-call/TechOps, integrate AI tools into development, and drive architecture, observability, and cross-team initiatives.

The Senior Search Engineer will focus on improving the search system for Vannevar's product, collaborating with engineers to leverage full-text search and emerging technologies, and enhancing user experience by improving search latency and relevance.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.