Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Develop and operate Java and Kotlin services for a large-scale cloud platform. Responsibilities include designing, testing, deploying, and improving software; diagnosing production reliability and performance issues; addressing scalability bottlenecks; enhancing observability; participating in incident response; and contributing to architecture, code reviews, and operational improvements.

Build and operate an agentic SOC investigation platform using LLMs, including telemetry tools, investigation workflows, evidence-backed outputs, evaluation systems, and analyst productivity features. Develop secure, reliable, observable backend services that handle attacker-influenced data across customer environments. Collaborate with SOC analysts, researchers, technical leads, and product managers to translate investigative expertise into production agent behavior.

Design and deliver scalable, secure software systems for Bankrate’s digital products. Responsibilities include shaping architecture, developing APIs and cloud services, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, partnering with product and design, delivering large initiatives independently, resolving cross-team technical issues, mentoring engineers, improving engineering standards, and evaluating tools that enhance reliability, performance, and team productivity.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Build and maintain backend services and metadata pipelines supporting data discovery, governance, and AI/ML workflows. Responsibilities include integrating relational databases, developing Java, Node.js, and Python services, optimizing distributed pipelines, implementing Terraform infrastructure, supporting GitLab CI/CD, and writing comprehensive tests. The role also involves troubleshooting scalability and reliability issues, designing asynchronous workflows, and collaborating on modern data lake, search, metadata, and LLM-enabled technologies.

Design and architect scalable full-stack software spanning React/TypeScript frontend, GraphQL backend, and GCP infrastructure. Lead technical initiatives, establish engineering standards, document technical decisions, ensure quality through testing, mentor engineers, and partner with product and engineering leadership. Staff-level responsibilities include owning architecture for major or cross-cutting systems and leading complex initiatives with minimal oversight.

Join as an early founding full-stack engineer to architect, build, and deploy a scalable platform serving AI-driven voice applications. You will own frontend and backend development, design infrastructure with the CTO, and deliver reliable production systems for enterprise customers.

Leads and contributes to the design, development, and delivery of scalable Java and Spring Boot software solutions. Designs microservices and APIs, supports cloud initiatives, creates proofs of concept, optimizes performance, conducts code reviews, resolves complex issues, and provides root-cause analysis. Collaborates with architects, business leaders, and engineering teams while mentoring junior developers and promoting technical best practices, quality, and innovation.

Develop and maintain a mission-critical .NET financial web application. Responsibilities include full-stack development with C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, and jQuery; SOAP/XML integrations; Oracle SQL and PL/SQL database work; secure coding; unit testing; production troubleshooting; Agile delivery; documentation; and collaboration with product, business, and testing teams.

Design, build, deploy, and operate secure cloud-native microservices for Cyderes’ Security-as-a-Service platform. Translate customer and business needs into technical requirements, develop APIs, manage containerized workloads across major cloud providers, improve testing and CI/CD, and participate in code reviews, mentoring, documentation, security practices, and on-call production support.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel for its cloud platform. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications across kernel versions; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, hardware, and test teams; and contributing changes upstream to the Linux community.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and infrastructure powering AI-driven healthcare applications. Design distributed data systems, ETL workflows, streaming platforms, and cloud-native architectures while partnering with AI, machine learning, and product teams. Own production reliability, observability, security, automation, and on-call support for business-critical systems.

Build Tailscale’s internal AI-enablement tools, workflows, guardrails, and documentation. Partner with engineering leadership and teams to define the AI roadmap, evaluate coding agents and models, improve adoption, and measure effects on velocity and quality. The role involves developing internal developer-facing automation, teaching and influencing engineers, identifying high-leverage AI opportunities, and promoting safe use of AI-generated code in a distributed engineering organization.

Develops, enhances, tests, debugs, deploys, and supports enterprise mainframe applications using COBOL, IDMS, DB2, and related technologies. Troubleshoots production issues, collaborates with end users to define requirements, ensures performance and security, applies Agile practices, and mentors junior developers. The role supports remote personnel serving a Kansas City, Kansas customer and requires the ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance.

Build and scale Netflix TVUI test infrastructure, including orchestration services, CLI tools, device fleets, observability, and large-scale test execution. Develop screenshot, end-to-end, performance, and on-device testing capabilities; improve parallelization, sharding, test selection, stability, and runtime performance. Own system reliability, incident response, and strategic infrastructure investments while collaborating with TV UI engineers across a distributed team.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

Build and maintain Python services, REST APIs, batch jobs, shared libraries, claims workflows, and internal applications. Develop maintainable, unit-tested code; write SQL for MySQL databases; participate in design, code review, deployment, and production support; and collaborate across departments. The role also involves handling sensitive healthcare data, using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and working in a regulated pharmacy benefits domain.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Optimize GPU performance for Zoox’s motion planner, including profiling GPU hotspots, adapting software to multiple GPU architectures, reducing ML model latency and memory usage, and developing or optimizing CUDA kernels. Serve as a CUDA and GPU performance subject matter expert while working with complex multiprocess robotic systems in a Linux and C++ environment.

Develop cross-platform C++ and Qt software for network device discovery, monitoring, and data collection across Windows and Linux. Build high-performance, concurrent, asynchronous systems that communicate with thousands of devices using SNMP, SSH, ICMP, WMI, and related protocols. Own testing, troubleshoot issues across application, operating-system, and network layers, optimize reliability and performance, and collaborate with backend, UI, QA, and product teams.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using PHP, Laravel, React, Next.js, SQL, and related technologies. Own features from design through deployment and monitoring, develop APIs, optimize databases and legacy systems, troubleshoot performance issues, and contribute to code quality, security, and engineering practices. Collaborate cross-functionally in an agile, continuous-deployment environment while using AI-assisted tools responsibly.

Build and lead development of high-availability backend services for Affirm’s card loan platform. Design scalable APIs, data models, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting real-time loan attribution, approvals, origination, and refunds. Drive technical strategy, troubleshoot complex performance issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring long-term system robustness and scalability.