Top Engineering Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, scalable full-stack systems, team operations, reliability, monitoring, code quality, and talent development. The role involves building customer-facing card experiences and backend services using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, and React-based frameworks. The engineer will own features end to end, collaborate cross-functionally, manage technical risks and trade-offs, support on-call health, and apply AI safely to improve development and customer experiences.

Develop and scale full-stack web applications for Toast’s digital storefront, including online ordering and website products. Design solutions, improve performance and usability, collaborate with Product and Design, run experiments, resolve critical issues, and contribute to API design, testing, and cross-team product integration.

Develop and scale full-stack software that calculates and delivers restaurant employee pay, including tip pooling, wage calculations, earnings retrieval, and payroll delivery. Responsibilities include designing reliable services, participating in code reviews and architecture discussions, influencing technical roadmaps, and collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams. The role requires backend development, modern web technologies, databases, distributed systems, messaging, microservices, and a strong focus on precision and production reliability.

Build and scale mission-critical tips, earnings, and payroll platforms for restaurant employees. Own systems end to end, lead complex projects from design through deployment, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product and design, review code, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable backend services that affect employee pay and product revenue.

Leads the design, development, testing, and qualification of solid rocket motor nozzles, shells, insulators, and interfaces. Translates mission requirements into manufacturable designs, performs design trades and first-order analyses, reviews test data, resolves build issues, and supports production. Collaborates with analysis, manufacturing, test, systems, and supply chain teams while maintaining documentation, schedules, and risk mitigation plans. Provides technical guidance to junior engineers and contributes to scalable, high-rate propulsion manufacturing.

Design, develop, integrate, and qualify solid rocket motor thrust vector control structures and mechanisms. Lead TVC architecture, actuator and mechanism design, requirements allocation, design trades, CAD and analysis, test campaigns, hardware integration, troubleshooting, and technical documentation. Collaborate with manufacturing, systems, test, supply chain, and analysis teams while supporting production scalability and mentoring junior engineers.

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, developer tooling, observability, security defaults, backup recovery, and incident response. Build reliable automation and self-service workflows, establish SLOs and actionable alerting, support engineers across environments, lead platform initiatives, improve security and reliability practices, and mentor engineers serving millions of users.

Lead the technical direction for Babylist’s new search team, building an in-house search platform from scratch. Own indexing, retrieval, ranking, query understanding, personalization, relevance measurement, conversational search, and integration with recommendations and AI. Drive architecture, product decisions, cross-team initiatives, production delivery, platform adoption, and search quality improvements while coaching senior engineers and partnering with product, design, and data.

Lead the architecture, design, development, integration, testing, and deployment of advanced radar systems. Define requirements and system concepts, develop RF sensing and radar solutions, conduct simulations and performance analysis, create Cameo system models, and guide cross-functional engineering teams. Translate customer mission needs into end-to-end solutions, lead technical reviews, support verification and validation, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires extensive radar systems expertise, technical leadership, customer engagement, and active Secret clearance with eligibility for Top Secret access.

Develop, integrate, test, and maintain embedded software and ground-system applications. Build CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and containerized solutions while applying systems engineering practices for requirements, interfaces, verification, and validation. Support customer design reviews and mission integration activities, collaborate across engineering teams, present technical information, and provide leadership and mentorship. The role requires on-site work, an active Secret clearance, and eligibility to obtain TS/SCI.

Supports manufacturing and test operations through manufacturability improvements, production planning, scheduling, forecasting, process development, material and asset control, and compliance. The role applies industrial engineering principles to reduce costs, meet delivery and quality requirements, solve moderately complex technical problems, and coordinate with engineering, operations, programs, and other business units. Work is performed onsite across office, laboratory, production floor, and cleanroom environments.

Performs operational and industrial engineering for aerospace manufacturing and test operations. Responsibilities include improving product manufacturability, developing production plans and schedules, enforcing manufacturing processes and material controls, supporting quality and compliance, and resolving technical issues. The role is onsite five days per week and may involve work in offices, laboratories, production areas, or cleanrooms.

Develop, integrate, test, and maintain embedded software and ground-system applications. Build CI/CD pipelines, automated testing infrastructure, and technical solutions for complex software integration challenges. Support systems engineering activities, customer program reviews, presentations, and mission integration. Provide technical leadership, mentor less-experienced employees, and collaborate across engineering teams. The role requires on-site work, an active Secret clearance, and the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI clearance.

Manages the lifecycle, technical performance, costs, schedules, risks, maintenance, upgrades, certification, and calibration of Electrical Ground Support Equipment used to test spaceflight hardware. Coordinates with production, AI&T, supply chain, security, and information assurance teams to ensure equipment is mission-ready, compliant, and secure. Supports procurement, inspections, technical decisions, and CONOPS development for equipment movement from sensitive areas.

Leads space vehicle architecture and new business pursuits across spacecraft bus, payload, launch, and ground systems. Develops technical baselines, architectures, roadmaps, proposals, RFI/RFP responses, and design reviews. Represents engineering teams to customers and partners, supports capture strategy, manages technical risks, and promotes product reuse. Leads multidisciplinary systems engineering teams, coaches engineers, and oversees requirements, interface, verification, validation, and technical documentation throughout pursuit and program execution.

Develop, integrate, test, and maintain embedded software and ground systems, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and integrations with industry-standard applications. Apply systems engineering practices for requirements, verification, validation, interfaces, and design reviews. Support customer program gates, mission integration, and technical presentations while providing leadership and mentoring to less experienced engineers. The role requires on-site work five days per week and an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI.

Performs operational and industrial engineering for manufacturing and test operations. Develops manufacturable product designs, production plans, schedules, forecasts, process documentation, material controls, and compliance systems. Supports cost reduction, quality, delivery, and operational improvement initiatives across aerospace programs. Works with manufacturing, supply chain, facilities, and program teams in an on-site office, laboratory, production floor, or cleanroom environment.

Leads spacecraft and space vehicle architecture for new business pursuits and mission areas. Develops technical baselines, architectures, requirements, proposals, and design reviews while coordinating spacecraft subsystems, customers, partners, and multidisciplinary engineering teams. Supports capture strategy, RFIs/RFPs, technical roadmaps, risk assessments, and technology investments. Coaches systems engineers, manages technical documentation, and transitions pursuits into program execution. Requires extensive spacecraft or related systems engineering experience and active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Supports spacecraft constellation operations, health monitoring, performance optimization, anomaly resolution, commissioning, mission rehearsals, and spacecraft sustainment. Participates in the design, integration, testing, and requirements verification of future spacecraft, including clean-room activities and design reviews. Also supports ground software requirements and provides spacecraft operations expertise across business segments.

Build and maintain developer tooling, internal platforms, testing frameworks, and core libraries used by Toast engineers. Improve development workflows, diagnose bottlenecks, integrate AI-assisted tools, measure developer productivity, operate production services, participate in on-call support, and collaborate with engineering teams on platform improvements.

Supports electrical architecture, circuit and subsystem design, component selection, reliability analysis, schematics, and power budgeting for spacecraft avionics. Performs lab bring-up, debugging, verification testing, documentation, and integration activities. Collaborates on harness design, design reviews, and spacecraft-level electrical checkout while developing systems engineering expertise under senior guidance.

Develops and deploys cloud-based application modules, analyzes feature specifications, writes and tests code, debugs integration issues, and implements CI/CD pipelines. The role designs scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions using distributed systems, event-driven programming, Kubernetes, containerization, infrastructure as code, and managed cloud services. It also contributes to technology innovation, application architecture, system administration, and network-related problem solving while collaborating with project managers and development partners.

Build and ship web-based transportation management software for trucking customers. Collaborate with product, UX, engineers, and users to solve domain-specific problems, deliver features quickly, make sound quality-versus-velocity tradeoffs, and contribute across the engineering team in a remote-first environment.

Designs, validates, and optimizes manual and automated manufacturing processes. Implements PLC, HMI, SCADA, robotics, sensors, and instrumentation; develops 3D CAD designs, control panels, fixtures, and electrical schematics. Creates SOPs and maintenance procedures, applies Lean Manufacturing and AI-driven predictive analytics, and leads automation engineering projects from concept through deployment while meeting safety and technical standards.

Develop and maintain scalable ServiceNow software and web applications, create custom scripts and business rules, build REST and SOAP integrations, troubleshoot configuration issues, and resolve software bugs. The role supports customer implementations, requirements reviews, Scrum ceremonies, and multiple projects. Candidates need at least five years of JavaScript or ServiceNow development experience, ITOM expertise, strong communication skills, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.