Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Build and architect Clear Street Active, a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams on large-scale initiatives while emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, and developer experience.

Leads delivery of complex software features for desktop utility design tools, translating ambiguous requirements into technical plans and managing performance, correctness, and reliability. Establishes architecture, coding standards, CI/CD and AI-assisted development practices; mentors engineers and leads design and code reviews. Partners with product, QA, delivery, and customers to create reusable solutions, contribute to roadmaps, and represent the team in architecture discussions.

Build and scale full-stack benefits renewal products using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/React. Design frontend experiences, backend APIs, automated workflows, and tests; own features from specification through launch and iteration. Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives, collaborate cross-functionally, conduct experimentation, mentor engineers, and apply AI tools to accelerate development and improve testing. The role focuses on reducing errors and simplifying health insurance renewal processes for customers.

Leads architecture and technical direction for scalable, high-availability software services. Owns complex, multi-team initiatives, makes autonomous technical decisions, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, establishes standards, and advocates for quality. The role develops mission-critical systems supporting millions of endpoints and requires deep Java expertise, scalable system design, API development, relational databases, and strong testing practices.

Lead organization-wide technical initiatives for Gusto’s API and AI agent platform. Design reliable, scalable API contracts and agent-facing tools, write clean Ruby on Rails code, mentor engineers, improve reliability and observability, engage developer customers, and troubleshoot production issues.

Lead end-to-end development of reliable care-agent tooling and software services integrating contact-center platforms with backend systems. Own architecture, performance, security, production operations, and technical direction while partnering with product, care operations, QA, and engineering teams. Translate operational workflows into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and improve tools using agent feedback, operational metrics, and AI-assisted development practices.

Lead technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Cards backend engineering organization. Architect scalable and reliable platforms, guide cross-team initiatives, champion AI adoption and engineering excellence, influence technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers through Staff level. The role requires strong architectural expertise, organizational leadership, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Set technical direction for Toast’s Developer Experience platform, including local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and developer portals. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, cross-team technical leadership, AI-assisted development, developer productivity measurement, mentorship, and roadmap prioritization.

Own and expand Gusto’s third-party integrations, building reliable Ruby on Rails and Sidekiq backend services that synchronize data with partner platforms. Evaluate traditional APIs and AI agent protocols such as MCP, shape the technical roadmap, collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science, establish engineering practices, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires end-to-end project ownership in an ambiguous, evolving domain.

Lead architecture and engineering for a new Provider Onboarding team. Build scalable, database-backed systems and custom tools supporting pricing, payments, client panels, and forms. Establish engineering practices, mentor senior engineers, guide cross-functional delivery, and oversee the full software development lifecycle from planning through post-launch maintenance. The role requires healthcare systems experience and ownership of complex, reliable products.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Build and operate AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu and Spacelift. Lead multi-account architecture migrations, develop reusable infrastructure modules, improve reliability and disaster recovery, support compliance, troubleshoot cloud environments, and automate recurring issues. Partner with engineering teams, strengthen observability and incident response, and participate in an internal infrastructure support on-call rotation. The role also drives multi-quarter platform initiatives with significant autonomy.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems and high-impact product initiatives for Toast’s Catering & Events platform. Own critical architecture, drive technical strategy, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and collaborate with Product and Design. The role also involves applying AI tools to improve developer productivity and enable new capabilities.

Build and lead development of full-stack digital engineering software serving as systems of record for product, manufacturing, and operations data. Design domain models, APIs, integrations, event-driven workflows, migrations, and production infrastructure with strong traceability, observability, security, and auditability. Mentor engineers, set technical direction, collaborate with engineering and manufacturing users, and support reliable software operations in an aerospace and national security environment.

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 own backend services and APIs supporting retirement money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, compliance integrations, payroll, and financial workflows. The role involves shipping reliable production code, debugging incidents, improving observability, partnering with product, compliance, and operations, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, financial systems expertise, end-to-end ownership, and Ruby on Rails or comparable backend framework experience.

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.

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 own backend services and APIs supporting money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, payroll integrations, retirement workflows, and financial compliance. Ship reliable production code, debug incidents, improve observability and operational tooling, and collaborate with product, compliance, operations, and engineering teams. Mentor engineers and ensure systems handling customer funds are correct, scalable, and well tested.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Toast’s pricing engine across multiple teams. Design and operate highly available distributed systems, APIs, databases, and event-driven services at scale. Serve as the pricing domain expert, improve correctness and performance, lead incident response and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, establish operational excellence, and align technical priorities with Product and engineering leadership.