Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Wilmington, NC

Lead technical strategy and architecture for a large-scale Content Platform that powers marketing campaigns. Solve ambiguous cross-team problems, design scalable backend and AI-driven systems, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, design, and marketing to drive execution and engineering standards across the org.

Lead development, testing, and maintenance of scalable accounting integrations using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Design REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth flows, and event-driven systems that synchronize data with external accounting platforms. Diagnose complex issues, improve reliability and performance, document systems, and mentor junior engineers. Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly while managing multiple priorities and supporting high-volume integrations.

Own and improve Attentive's first-party data collection across the JS tag, Cloudflare Workers, and Java backend. Expand edge compute capabilities, build agentic AI systems to detect and fix data-quality issues, harden the event ingestion pipeline for reliability and observability, and lead technical direction on a small autonomous team while mentoring engineers.

Lead design, automation, and operation of a scalable, secure Linux platform across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Build IaC, provisioning, patching, security hardening, and lifecycle automation. Deploy and operate cloud infrastructure, integrate hybrid environments, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform reliability and maintainability.

Lead design and hands-on development of AWS-based serverless backend and IoT cloud services. Build Python Lambda microservices, REST APIs, telemetry pipelines, and secure AWS IoT Core device communication. Mentor engineers, define architecture patterns, ensure production readiness (monitoring, CI/CD, security), and guide cross-functional integrations and technical roadmaps.

Define architectural direction for Azure Specialized platform services and lead the design of highly available distributed cloud systems. Drive reliability, scalability, observability, security, diagnostics, and operational improvements across engineering organizations. Establish service health frameworks, SLOs, metrics, and governance for mission-critical services. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, resolve complex cross-system challenges, and advance AI-assisted troubleshooting and platform modernization.

Design and develop software to onboard hardware accelerators and improve cluster-level storage performance. Collaborate across teams, produce design docs, implement and optimize code, perform tuning and RCA, act as DRI, and participate in on-call operations and scaling/validation efforts.

Design, build, and scale Shepherd’s core platform, backend systems, APIs, user-facing applications, and AI-powered legal workflows. Architect secure, reliable infrastructure for sensitive legal data, collaborate with legal and product teams, build internal tools, optimize performance, and own technical decisions. The role also involves rapid prototyping, mentoring and recruiting engineers, and contributing to SOC 2 readiness and data privacy practices.

Design, develop, and modernize enterprise-scale applications, RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. Build cloud-neutral solutions across AWS and Azure, support legacy application migrations, participate in architecture and code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, document technical designs, and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems, technical leadership, and engineering best practices.

Architect, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack applications using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS. Own features end-to-end, optimize performance and usability, collaborate with founders, and use AI tools to accelerate development in a fast-paced startup.

Build and maintain Safari AI’s cloud infrastructure, including production services, system design, reliability, documentation, and security compliance. The role sets technical direction for the cloud stack, collaborates with engineering and operations teams, improves development processes, and delivers incremental features. Candidates should have 4–6 years of software engineering experience, public cloud expertise, and experience taking complex services from concept through production. Streaming processing and machine learning experience are advantageous.

Develop and maintain Medicare claims-processing software in a mainframe environment using COBOL and related technologies. Responsibilities include technical design, coding, unit testing, debugging, defect resolution, deployment to testing regions, documentation, requirements decomposition, project estimation, and Agile team coordination. The role provides technical guidance and mentorship to developers while supporting complex DME contract maintenance and operations.

Build and maintain scalable, cloud-native APIs and high-value core system components using .NET and related technologies. Lead software architecture and testing discussions, enhance core offerings, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure quality through code reviews, unit testing, functional testing, telemetry, and performance tuning. Mentor teammates and contribute to continuous technical and process improvement.

Build, test, support, and enhance scalable web applications using Node.js, React, MongoDB, and APIs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to architecture and technical documentation, and lead medium-complexity initiatives. Participate in code reviews, Agile development, on-call support, technical debt reduction, and monitoring. Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices, automated testing, CI/CD, and software quality standards.

Design, develop, and improve scalable software for an investment platform. Lead software development across the lifecycle, mentor junior engineers, solve complex technical problems, maintain code quality through testing and reviews, and recommend technology enhancements. The role is remote in the USA with four in-person retreats annually.

Design and implement infrastructure services for a GPU-as-a-Service platform. Build REST and gRPC APIs, bare-metal provisioning workflows, Kubernetes cluster automation, reconciliation loops, and durable asynchronous operations. Manage server enrollment, inspection, OS provisioning, cluster creation, hardware inventory interfaces, error handling, idempotency, and multi-tenant infrastructure reliability.

Lead end-to-end design, development, and delivery of full‑stack features; drive architecture and code reviews; coordinate engineering work, write design docs and tests, and participate in Agile ceremonies. Must have blockchain/crypto experience.

Develops, tests, documents, enhances, and maintains software solutions using Appian and related technologies. Designs integrations with external systems, resolves technical issues, remediates security vulnerabilities, improves performance, participates in requirements analysis and Agile development processes, and documents standards. The role also contributes to planning, mentors other engineers, collaborates with team members, and stays current with software development practices and technologies.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.

Develop and maintain Java enterprise applications using Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, Oracle, and MongoDB. Design scalable systems, conduct testing, remediate vulnerabilities, troubleshoot distributed environments, participate in code reviews, document solutions, and mentor junior developers. The role also involves Linux, Git, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud platforms such as OCI or AWS. An active Public Trust clearance and cybersecurity certification are required.

Lead technical ownership of InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabric operations for hyperscale AI supercomputers. Drive incident response, deep multi-layer debugging across hardware/firmware/drivers/OS, and define failure models, playbooks, telemetry, and automation to improve reliability, observability, and scalability of GPU clusters and platform SLAs.

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

Leads the design and development of a highly distributed edge computing platform using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include building scalable and fault-tolerant systems, designing APIs, conducting code reviews, troubleshooting complex distributed software issues, optimizing performance and security, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring engineers, planning projects, and maintaining technical documentation.

Develop and support a cloud-native workload credentials management solution within a SaaS platform. Responsibilities include designing scalable full-stack services, orchestration, APIs, distributed systems, and microservices; providing technical leadership; leading projects through delivery; collaborating cross-functionally; mentoring engineers; and applying engineering best practices. The role requires extensive Go development, cloud and SaaS expertise, modern JavaScript frameworks, and experience operating enterprise systems at scale.