Top Senior Level Software Engineer Jobs in Charlotte, NC

Design, develop, and operate Lowe’s scalable Search Platform using OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. Build cloud-native services, REST APIs, and batch or near real-time data ingestion and ETL pipelines on Google Cloud. Improve indexing, search performance, reliability, and scalability while implementing monitoring, automation, and CI/CD. Troubleshoot production issues, contribute to architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with platform and product teams.

Leads enterprise software engineering initiatives supporting financial forecasting, planning, and reporting. Designs, codes, tests, documents, and supports Oracle Essbase 21c solutions and associated infrastructure. Develops ETL solutions using Python, PySpark, and object storage; manages platform capacity, availability, performance, security, middleware, and production issue resolution. Establishes engineering standards, mentors teams, resolves complex technical issues, and supports modernization toward cloud-based data engineering and analytics platforms.

Leads complex, enterprise-scale payment technology initiatives, designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting, and reviewing Java Spring Boot microservices. Develops engineering standards, resolves technical challenges, mentors team members, and coordinates multi-domain support. Requires expertise in REST architectures, MongoDB, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and payment systems, with preferred experience in ISO 20022, Kafka, CI/CD, API management, automation frameworks, and banking technology.

Lead frontend engineering initiatives by designing, building, testing, and supporting secure, accessible, high-performance web applications. Define enterprise frontend architecture and standards, implement micro frontends, integrate backend services, optimize performance and observability, and improve CI/CD practices. Partner with Product, UX, Security, Platform Engineering, and Architecture teams while reviewing code, addressing technical debt, mentoring engineers, and guiding modernization and technical decisions.

Design and implement integration solutions and platform architectures to enable efficient data flow and hybrid cloud operations. Collaborate with clients to translate business requirements into technical designs, lead enterprise application integration and API strategies, manage project lifecycles, troubleshoot processes, and mentor junior team members to improve operational efficiency in banking environments.

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.

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.

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.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Leads and develops a 5–10-person software engineering team, sets technical strategy, guides architecture and API design, and partners with product, design, data science, and business stakeholders. Owns product delivery, reliability, observability, incident response, security, automation, testing, continuous delivery, and operational health while hiring talent and fostering an inclusive, high-performing team culture.

Build and operate production-grade Python backend services, APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and agentic workflows for an AI observability platform. Own ambiguous projects from prototyping through architecture, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation. Collaborate with product, machine learning, and infrastructure teams, while contributing React front ends when needed. The role requires strong backend depth, distributed-systems expertise, cloud experience, and end-to-end product ownership.

Leads a cross-functional engineering team responsible for GameChanger’s basketball coverage products across iOS, Android, and backend platforms. Coaches and develops engineers, sets delivery and reliability standards, partners with Product and Design on priorities, hires talent, and contributes to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness. The role requires technical depth, architecture fluency, product judgment, and active development of AI fluency.