Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Lead architecture and delivery of complex web and mobile product initiatives. Build React and React Native applications, scalable components, APIs, data models, and shared libraries. Establish engineering standards, improve testing, performance, security, and reliability, and optimize database queries. Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and partner with leadership and stakeholders to shape the product roadmap. This is a fully remote role supporting veterinary clinic operations and supply-chain workflows.

Own the architecture and technical roadmap for core backend, infrastructure, and AI platform areas. Write and review production code, resolve complex production issues, improve reliability and scalability, and drive technical initiatives across teams. Build prototypes and customer-facing technical content, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in an in-person environment.

Own the design, development, and automation of Coinbase’s routing infrastructure connecting services to Kubernetes backends. Build scalable capabilities using Envoy, Istio, Ambient Mesh, and SPIFFE; improve routing latency, reliability, and performance; enhance developer tooling with responsible AI; and collaborate with security, reliability, and observability teams to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.

Lead design and delivery of enhancements to a next-generation AI agent platform. Own large features and infrastructure, mentor engineers, set technical standards, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability and SLOs, and influence product and process decisions to scale systems supporting millions of interactions.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable Java microservices on AWS. Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, code reviews, troubleshooting, proof-of-concept development, and cross-functional collaboration. Work with high-throughput data, messaging systems, distributed architectures, observability, and AI-assisted development tools. Participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, lead architectural initiatives, and deliver reliable SaaS platform features.

Own technical strategy and architectural decisions across multiple engineering squads. Design scalable distributed systems, APIs, data models, and cloud-native platforms while building shared systems that improve delivery. Partner with product and engineering leadership, resolve ambiguous technical challenges, establish AI-assisted development practices, and mentor engineers through design reviews and cross-team collaboration. The role requires full-stack expertise and strong influence, communication, and technical leadership in a high-stakes B2B SaaS environment.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial services, routing and map-matching foundations, and reusable APIs. Scale storage, queries, and computation for real-time products, consolidate fragmented geospatial solutions, develop customer self-service capabilities, and provide mentorship through code reviews and design leadership. Collaborate across teams and represent Samsara in the mapping and geospatial community.

Provides technical leadership for designing, building, and scaling distributed software systems supporting a virtual healthcare platform. Responsibilities include writing high-quality code, guiding architecture, developing AI-powered clinician tools and agents, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product and clinical leaders on technical strategy. Requires extensive software engineering experience, database and systems expertise, modern frontend framework experience, and proficiency in one or more programming languages.

Lead the technical direction of Zocdoc’s patient acquisition platform, building scalable APIs, microservices, AWS infrastructure, and React experiences. Improve SEO, page speed, system reliability, and patient-facing data access. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Marketing, integrate third-party data and Contentful, apply LLM technology, promote engineering excellence, mentor engineers, and drive AI-focused innovation across distributed teams.

Lead technical strategy and engineering for autonomy on new platforms (space, maritime, contested logistics). Define architecture, guide development and integration, mentor senior engineers, support testing and deployments, resolve complex hardware/software integration issues, and transition R&D into operational programs.

Lead technical delivery and integration of autonomy software for launched effects, including autopilot integration, multi-agent coordination, and fleet-scale deployments. Collaborate with autonomy, perception, vendors, and customers; lead design, testing, debugging, mission support, documentation, and pre-deployment readiness for disconnected or air-gapped operational environments.

Lead technical delivery and integration of autonomy software for V-BAT and X-BAT, defining flight-autonomy interfaces, integrating payloads and mission autonomy, coordinating cross-team engineering, ensuring mission readiness, supporting flight tests and deployments, mentoring engineers, and improving integration workflows and testing infrastructure.

Lead technical direction and integration for launched-effects autonomy across platforms. Develop and field mission autonomy, multi-agent coordination, and platform interfaces; drive architecture, standards, testing, deployments, and mentor senior engineers while supporting flight tests and operational customers.

Lead technical delivery and integration of autonomy software for new platforms (air, maritime, space). Own end-to-end development, testing, and fielding of autonomy features, mentor teams, drive architecture and ICDs, support live tests, and transition R&D into operational capabilities.

Lead technical direction and architecture for expeditionary autonomy across V-BAT and X-BAT. Drive development, integration, validation, and fielding of mission autonomy, flight-autonomy interfaces, payloads, and multi-agent capabilities. Mentor senior engineers, influence cross-team engineering standards, support deployments and operational readiness, and define long-term strategy and interoperability for defense customers.

Design and scale a feature flagging and A/B testing platform, including high-throughput event ingestion, warehouse-native analytics, real-time feature flag delivery, multi-database SQL support, and distributed systems infrastructure. The role involves full-stack development, architecture, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical product influence within a remote startup team.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Alpaca’s margin and risk systems across equities, options, crypto, and future asset classes. Design low-latency, high-throughput services for margin calculation, real-time risk enforcement, exposure limits, margin calls, and operational workflows. Drive reliability, correctness, transactional integrity, observability, incident prevention, technical reviews, mentorship, and cross-functional integration with product, brokerage operations, compliance, and engineering teams.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Lead design and evolution of SentiLink's data platform for fraud detection. Architect scalable batch and streaming pipelines, improve reliability, performance, and observability, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical initiatives, participate in production support/on-call, and evaluate build-vs-buy and emerging technologies.

Build and scale accounting software synchronization solutions connecting BILL’s payment network with third-party accounting platforms. Lead end-to-end software design and delivery, develop scalable AWS microservices, improve platform performance, guide testing and CI/CD practices, resolve customer problems, mentor engineers, and use generative AI to accelerate development.

Architect and lead RapidFort’s scalable build platform for producing hardened container images. Responsibilities include designing distributed build systems, automating image creation and validation, improving reliability and performance, solving Linux and container infrastructure challenges, establishing software supply chain standards, influencing cross-team architecture, and mentoring engineers. The role requires deep expertise in Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Bash, CI/CD, distributed systems, and build automation.

Lead architecture and development of scalable full-stack systems spanning web, mobile, backend, data, and partner integrations. Build React and TypeScript applications, Node.js services, APIs, and AWS-based distributed systems. Drive cloud-native DevOps, reliability, security, compliance, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Influence cross-team technical direction, establish shared standards, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives across frontend, backend, mobile, and data domains.

Lead backend-focused software architecture and development across distributed systems, data ingestion, experimentation platforms, AI workflows, and product capabilities. Build primarily in Python while contributing to React and TypeScript frontend work. Translate ambiguous product needs into scalable production systems, guide technical direction, partner with product and data teams, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.