Top Senior Level Software Engineer Jobs in Charlotte, NC

Leads full-stack development of scalable enterprise applications across frontend, backend, APIs, data, cloud, and DevOps. Resolves complex technical problems, establishes architecture and engineering standards, drives reliability and operational excellence, evaluates technologies, and mentors engineers. Collaborates directly with customers, product teams, architects, and engineering teams to translate business needs into technical solutions and guide delivery.

Leads ServiceNow software engineering across design, development, configuration, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Develops platform workflows, integrations, and JavaScript solutions; establishes coding standards; ensures secure, scalable, compliant delivery; manages technical backlog activities; collaborates with architects, analysts, stakeholders, and agile teams; participates in code reviews, continuous integration, and retrospectives; and mentors less-experienced engineers.

Principal Engineer advising leadership and shaping enterprise technology solutions across application, database, security, operating system, network, and web technologies. Leads complex technical challenges, translates strategic business objectives into scalable engineering solutions, drives innovation, and influences decisions across distributed Agile teams. Requires extensive Java/Spring Boot or .NET, React or Angular, NoSQL database, and AI-assisted development experience.

Lead software engineering initiatives for Enterprise Counterparty Risk Technology. Design, develop, test, debug, document, deploy, and support scalable technology solutions for counterparty credit risk. Collaborate with risk and capital markets stakeholders, evaluate technical challenges, resolve issues, guide junior staff, and support strategic planning. The role requires Java or Python, distributed data processing, SQL, data lakehouse technologies, and familiarity with Airflow, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Agile delivery, and investment banking processes.

Design and implement integration solutions and platform architectures for core banking technology. Build APIs and ESB-based integrations, leverage cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP), lead enterprise application integrations (Mulesoft, Apigee), perform requirements analysis, apply Agile delivery, troubleshoot interoperability issues, and develop client relationships to support banking and capital markets initiatives.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Build and maintain MongoDB’s distributed database infrastructure for cluster scalability. Design data partitioning, data movement, dynamic scaling, workload execution, and resilient distributed protocols. Solve complex performance and low-latency systems problems, contribute production-quality C++ code, participate in design and code reviews, lead new feature development, and mentor engineers.

Lead Headway’s Web Platform team of five frontend engineers. Own frontend strategy, design systems, web architecture, accessibility, performance, testing, and agentic UI workflows. Hire and develop engineers, manage performance, align with Design and product teams, define roadmaps and metrics, and advocate for frontend standards company-wide. Remain hands-on with code and AI tools while evolving shared frameworks, tooling, documentation, and automated quality checks.

Build and maintain authentication and fine-grained authorization systems using Auth0 and OpenFGA. Own OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect implementations, identity federation, token flows, and permissions for AI agents. Lead cross-team technical projects, set engineering standards, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend development skills and experience with identity providers, ReBAC systems, and complex multi-tenant authorization models.

Develop and scale backend Java and Kotlin software powering patch discovery, packaging, and deployment across millions of endpoints. Design scalable systems, APIs, data structures, caching solutions, and relational databases while maintaining high testing and code-quality standards. Collaborate with AI workflow, server, platform, design, and product teams. Occasional React or Angular work may support patching workflows and dashboards.

Designs and evolves AWS infrastructure as code using CDK, develops backend software primarily in TypeScript, and applies secure engineering practices for regulated environments. The role contributes to architecture, code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, production support, observability, and on-call operations. It collaborates cross-functionally, builds scalable and reusable systems, supports SOC 2 compliance, and uses AI coding assistants to improve development, testing, and documentation.