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📍 O Fallon, Missouri, United States
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer that possesses strong experience with Golang with strong communication skills to work within the Next Edge program. The Next Edge program is developing Mastercard’s next generation edge platform with programmatic interfaces for data transport (transactions, messages, events, APIs, files, etc.) that give our customers a single point of entry to Mastercard network via private customer on-prem connectivity as well as from public clouds. Role • Lead the design, development, and evolution of Mastercard's next-generation edge platform an

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📍 Ny Nyc Metro, United States· Remote
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Become a part of our caring community The Lead Software Engineer codes software applications based on business requirements. The Lead Software Engineer works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial. The Lead Software Engineer standardizes the quality assurance procedure for software. Oversees testing and debugging and develops fixes. Researches complaints and makes necessary adjustments and/or recommendations to resolve complex software related issues. Advises executives to develop functional strategies (often segment specific) on matters of significance. Exercises independent judgment and decision making on complex issues regarding job duties and related tasks, and works under minimal supervision, Uses independent judgment requiring analysis of variable factors and determining the best course of action. Key Responsibilities Technical Architecture and Ownership:** Design and own the end-to-end architecture of Centerwell's AI systems, including LLM-powered clinical tools, RAG pipelines, harnesses, agent-based workflows, and intelligent automation. Make and communicate foundational technical decisions in close collaboration with the broader engineering team. Model Development and Fine-Tuning:** Evaluate, select, and where appropriate guide the fine-tuning of foundation models. Establish model evaluation frameworks that prioritize safety, accuracy, and clinical relevance. Clinical and Product Partnership:** Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, clinicians, and data stakeholders to understand care delivery workflows and translate them into well-scoped, high-impact AI features. HIPAA Compliance and Responsible AI:** Ensure all AI systems are designed, deployed, and monitored in compliance with HIPAA and Humana's Responsible AI standards, including participation i

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the role: This is a Product Engineering role specialized in monetization systems, and will lead that space at Replit. It’s a direct line to business impact. But it’s also critical to get right for our users. These are some of the most critical user journeys to get right. Getting them wrong creates the most frustrating experiences for users. So we’re looking for engineers who can build reliable and scalable billing systems and abstractions, while also translating that to an intuitive and friendly user experience. You will: Lead the architecture and implementation of monetization systems at Replit. Create seamless payment experiences for users for both product-led and sales-led motions. Build new abstractions and APIs for other engineers at Replit to monetize their new products. Iterate on pricing and packaging tactics to drive revenue growth. Examples include coupon codes and referral systems. Create monitoring and feedback systems so that we can proactively spot problems, fix them, and optimize performance. Required skills and experience: 6+ years of engineering experience, with strong skills working on the backend. Direct working experience in at least one of the following: Subscription platforms Usage-based billing SaaS Taxation Payment platforms Tokenization Self-directed and comfortable working autonomously in ambiguous environments. Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to debug complex billing issues and edge cases. Experience implementing customer-facing billing interfaces that simplify complex pricing structures. Tools + Tech Stack for this role: Python, TypeScript, React, Postgres, GraphQL, and Nodejs. Bonus Points : Experience working with Orb, Metronome, or Stripe usage based billing. Experienc

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the role: As a Staff Product Engineer at Replit, you’ll work closely with other product and platform engineers, designers, sales representative, and product managers to build features that help users collaborate with their team to go from idea to software fast. You’ll be at the forefront of shaping and experimenting on what our tens of millions of users love. You will: Help lead major projects and take new products from 0->1 Identify the hardest technical and/or quality problems holding us back, and then build solutions Chart high level technical direction and follow up to make sure those projects come together to deliver on results Mentor and develop new senior engineers to help grow the team Ship new features and build infrastructure using: TypeScript, React, CSS, GraphQL, Node.js, and Postgres Required skills and experience: A minimum of 7 years of professional software development experience Experience in a technical leadership role, working cross functionally Working experience building full stack applications with TypeScript Working experience building directly for users Bonus Points : You’re excited about the future of programming and have experience working with IDEs, terminals, or other common developer tools You’ve had previous experience working at a startup in a cross-functional engineering role This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The hybrid role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Full-Time Employee Benefits Include: 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity 💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match ( US Only ) ⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability 🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave 🏝 Flexible

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📍 Tampa Florida United States, United States
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The Engineering Lead Analyst – Test Automation Platform Engineering is a senior-level technical leadership role responsible for driving the architecture, implementation, management, operational support, and continuous enhancement of enterprise test management and automation platforms. In this role, you will lead efforts to modernize test automation capabilities across the global technology ecosystem. You will architect end-to-end integration workflows, embed automated quality gates into enterprise CI/CD pipelines, and administer as well as operationally support both vendor and internally developed enterprise platforms (e.g., Core Performance Engineering / Performance Center, ALM-Quality Center, Zephyr Enterprise, CSDP / Octane). Additionally, you will play a critical role in production operations—delivering tier-3 platform support to rapidly and safely troubleshoot, triage, and remediate performance and availability issues in complex, distributed production environments. The ideal candidate blends deep hands-on expertise in software testing frameworks, modern DevOps pipelines, containerized infrastructure, message-driven integration, and robust operational resilience practices with strong governance, compliance, and stakeholder leadership skills. Key Responsibilities 1. Platform Engineering & Operational Support Install, configure, upgrade, administer, and support enterprise test management and performance engineering toolsets (e.g., Core Performance Engineering / Performance Center, ALM-Quality Center, Zephyr Enterprise, Core Software Development Platform [CSDP] / Octane). Provide end-to-end operational support for

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📍 Colorado Springs, United States
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Lead Systems Engineer - Phantom Works Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer (Level 4) to support the Space Battle Management, Command and Control (SBMC2) programs in Colorado Springs, CO or Berkeley, MO . The Systems Engineer will perform as part of a high-performing team and have the opportunity to contribute to the development and delivery of innovative software solutions in an agile software development environment interfacing with internal and external stakeholders; to include a Joint Industry partnership Team (JIPT) and Working Groups, contributing to the design and development of next generation ground command and control capabilities. As a member of the Boeing team, you will be responsible for key portions of our development lifecycle, from idea creation and development, all the way through to maintenance and support of the customer’s delivered system. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to make an impact on the results of our projects. We offer a collaborative mentoring environment where you have the opportunity to learn from others and be a mentor to others. Position Responsibilities Support definition of requirements, interfaces, and concept of operations through supporting and/or chairing working group meetings. Understand and communicate prioritization of efforts to multi-disciplinary team. Think abstractly and see the big picture while evaluating technical details Perform technical analyses to develop and validate models of system behavior; identify solutions to complex problems. Serve as a direct interface to both internal and external customers Conduct and support trade s

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📍 Hazelwood, United States
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Senior Software Engineer - Vehicle Health Management Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Company is looking for Senior Software Engineer – Vehicle Health Management to join our Government Vehicle Health Management Systems (GHVMS) software team in Hazelwood, MO . This position in the Boeing Global Services (BGS) organization will primarily support Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) Air Dominance programs. The Senior Project Engineer will lead the full lifecycle of embedded software development integrated within specialized devices and systems, ensuring compliance with industry, customer, safety, and regulatory standards. This role directs the translation of complex customer requirements into effective software designs, overseeing code reviews, system integration, and improving software efficiency and stability on specialized hardware. Serving as a technical authority, the engineer guides testing, debugging, and the adoption of emerging technologies, tools, and regulatory changes to advance product performance. Additionally, the position leads the evaluation and coordination of internal and supplier teams, ensuring adherence to project plans and quality standards while providing strategic oversight of embedded software project management activities. In GVHMS, we develop software that enables maintainers to keep military aircraft mission-ready and safe. As a software engineer on our team, you will create solutions that monitor and predict the health of aircraft throughout their lifecycle. Your solutions will be used to enable smarter maintenance decisions, automate processes, and reduce costs. You will also have the opportunity to develop with emerging technologies, such as AI, to advance our software capabilities and drive the future of predictive

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📍 Denver, Colorado, United States· Full-time
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Healthcare is complex. We're here to change that. RVO Health is a health technology company on a mission to make health easier to navigate, more accessible, and more affordable for everyone. Here, you'll help over 40 million people every month, with a team that genuinely cares about the work and each other. AT A GLANCE The Senior Software Engineer is a crucial role within our organization, requiring work in various capacities and adaptation to different work arrangements based on the needs set by the business. Where You'll Be Location: Denver, CO | Hybrid We believe great collaboration happens when we're together, solving problems, learning from each other, and connecting as a team. That's why we're in our offices Tuesday through Thursday each week. You are welcome to work remotely Mondays and Fridays if you wish. Office Address: 1801 California St. Denver, CO 80202 What You’ll Do Lead the end-to-end design, development, and implementation of sophisticated software applications and systems aligned with business goals. Collaborate closely with stakeholders including product managers, designers, and other engineers to gather requirements and translate them into robust technical designs and solutions. Write high-quality, efficient, maintainable, and scalable code adhering to best practices and company standards. Debug, analyze, and resolve complex software defects and performance bottlenecks to ensure optimal system reliability and user experience. Conduct comprehensive testing and validation including unit, integration, and performance testing to guarantee software quality. Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers, fostering professional growth and knowledge sharing. Perform thorough code reviews to maintain high code quality, enforce coding standards, and promote best practices across the team. Continuously improve software development processes, tools, and methodol

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📍 Tampa Florida United States, United States
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Citibank, N.A. seeks an Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst for its Tampa, Florida location. Duties: Responsible for source code review to ensure it satisfies good coding practice. Coordinate all communication between tech team and Ab Initio vendor, including scheduling and chairing weekly meetings. Responsible for reconfiguration and reengineering to optimize performance. Design, develop and modify software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcomes and consequences of design. Prepare reports or correspondence concerning project specifications, activities, or status. Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. Manage the hardware infrastructure and monitor the performance metrices E2E. Identify areas of growth need and proposal scale up activities. Execute on scale up activities by submitting procurement requests, manage regular calls with the deployment team and plan go live/switch activity. Develop shell scripting code base to support the job executions, interactions between systems. A telecommuting/hybrid work schedule may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite, in accordance with Citi policies and protocols. Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Engineering (any) or related field and 6 years of progressively responsible, post-baccalaureate experience as a Software Engineer, Associate Director – Data Engineering, Senior Consultant, Data Specialist, Assistant Systems Engineer or related position involving gathering new business requirements, architecture, analysis, estimation, design, implementation, and leading a team of software developers and software development. 6 years of experience must include: Experience with AbInitio Data Processing (SME), Data Modeling

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About the Role: This is a Principal Product Engineering role focused on Money Infrastructure at Replit. You’ll work on the financial backbone that powers how Replit earns money, how builders earn money, and how Agents transact. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and the business. The systems you build directly impact revenue, trust, and some of the most critical user journeys on the platform. Getting them right enables growth, experimentation, and global scale. Getting them wrong creates broken payments, confusing pricing, and lost trust. We’re looking for engineers who can design and scale reliable financial systems while translating complex monetary logic into intuitive, user-friendly experiences for both Replit customers and builders on the platform. We love folks who have a passion for monetizing innovation and being a part of the greater pricing story. You will: Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of Replit’s core money infrastructure, spanning pricing, billing, payments, and monetization. Own and scale the global order-to-cash foundation supporting credit-based subscriptions, usage-based billing, marketplaces, in-app payments, and commerce for Agents. Enable rapid pricing and packaging experimentation across the company by building flexible abstractions and APIs for new SKUs, plans, and monetization models. Build high-converting, localized payment experiences across geographies — thinking globally while enabling users to pay locally. Power builder monetization by creating payment rails for apps, Agents, subscriptions, and new monetization primitives. Partner closely on data specifications with finance, accounting, and data teams to produce accurate, auditable, and reliable f

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. Replit is building the world’s most accessible AI coding agent. Replit Agent can be used by anybody to bring their ideas to life. Whether it’s an app for yourself, the next great startup idea, or a tool to make you more productive at work, Replit Agent can help build it. Replit builds complete apps better than anybody thanks to our full suite of services that handle app integrations, storage, hosting, analytics, and more. We don’t just build apps in development, we handle the full lifecycle into production and beyond. About the role: Help power the development of Replit Agent as a technical leader for the Replit Cloud organization. You will report to the Vice President of Engineering. The Replit Cloud team builds Replit’s first party cloud infrastructure so users can build, scale, and succeed entirely on Replit. They manage databases, application storage, app publishing and hosting, development/production environment splitting, custom domains, and more. By having a set of first party services that integrate seamlessly, you will power one of Replit’s key product differentiators. You will: Help lead major projects, either by taking new products from 0->1 or doubling down on our first party primitives to keep winning users. Work closely with designers and product managers, to quickly iterate on Replit Cloud to continually grow and improve the product. Identify the hardest technical and/or quality problems holding us back, and then build solutions. Mentor and develop new senior engineers to help grow the team. Ship product and build infrastructure as a true full stack builder using: TypeScript, React, CSS, Postgres, Go, and Terraform. Examples of what you could do: Leverage our unique cloud infrastructure to build diffe

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📍 Foster City, California, United States· Full-time
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Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation. About Replit Replit is building the world’s most ubiquitous AI coding agent. Replit Agent can be used by anybody to bring their ideas to life. Whether it’s an app for yourself, the next great startup idea, or a tool to make you more productive at work, Replit Agent can help build it. Replit is also the leader in secure vibe coding. We protect apps, give users features to manage security risks, and help them vibe code more safely. About the Role In this role you will build powerful tools that help product engineers iterate rapidly on the Agent experience and directly enhance the core Agent itself. You’ll bridge the gap between the AI team (working on the core Agent logic) and the UX team (crafting delightful Agent experiences), enabling both groups to excel within their specialties. This role blends systems engineering, developer experience and product engineering. We tackle complex challenges across the full stack, from browser-based interfaces to high-performance backends to Linux systems engineering. We’re looking for engineers who have a keen sense of the product experience and how to power it with performant systems. On this team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills across our infrastructure and product, and to lead end-to-end efforts with meaningful impact. We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. You Will Build high-throughput backend applications and services, like streaming chat between user and agent. Design a collaborative "Multiplayer Computer" that lets humans and AI agents work together on shared shells, filesystems, and state—conflict-free and in real time. Develop infrastructure (frontend & backend) that empowers product enginee

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📍 Daytona Beach, FL, United States
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Senior Software Engineer Mission Systems Software Developer Company: The Boeing Company The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer Mission Systems Software Developer (Level 5) to join Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) in Daytona Beach, Florida . BDS is a global leader in the development, production, maintenance and enhancement of fixed-wing and rotary wing aircraft, commercial and government satellites, human spaceflight programs and weapons. Key markets include aeronautics, space and weapons. Core capabilities are in development, production and mission enabling upgrades of integrated solutions. BDS delivers the most digitally advanced, simply and efficiently produced and intelligently supported solutions to its customers. Daytona Beach is the company's newest state-of-the-art facility focused on engineering excellence. Florida offers no state income tax and a variety of other desirable personal and financial benefits. This position will include developing software and software tests throughout all phases of the software development life cycle (requirements, architecture, implementation, and verification). The software engineer will develop software in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) DevSecOps software build pipeline using an agile methodology focused on code quality, security and automation. Position Responsibilities: Develop Participates in use case development of software requirements Ability to lead activities to develop, document and maintain software architecture, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for mission systems software Leads development of code and integration of complex Mission Systems softwar

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📍 Louisville, United States
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Become a part of our caring community Humana is seeking a self-driven and collaborative Lead Engineer to join our Interactive Voice Response (IVR) team. In this role, you will deliver innovative IVR solutions and develop robust omnichannel APIs for our enterprise platforms. You will have the opportunity to drive the success of a high-impact, customer-facing application within a Fortune 50 company, working closely with multiple teams throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Lead Engineer –Omnichannel Humana is seeking a self-driven and collaborative Lead Engineer to join our Omnichannel team. In this role, you will design, develop, secure, and enhance enterprise APIs that support high-impact, member facing, applications across Humana's digital and voice channels. This role offers the opportunity to modernize and strengthen existing API capabilities while helping deliver resilient, scalable, and secure omnichannel solutions within a Fortune 50 organization. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable Omnichannel APIs that support enterprise applications and customer-facing capabilities. Enhance the security, resiliency, performance, and reliability of existing APIs through modernization, improved architecture, observability, testing, and operational controls. Apply AI and AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate development, improve quality, automate testing, enhance documentation, and identify opportunities for optimization. Partner with architecture, security, cloud, product, engineering, and operations teams to deliver secure, resilient, and enterprise-aligned API solutions. Collaborate with agile teams to plan, track, and deliver API enhancements, platform improvements, and cloud-based capabilities. Develop proofs of

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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Overview: The Data Acquisition team within the Foundations organization at OpenAI is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. Our team manages web crawling and GPTBot services and works closely with Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling teams. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our Data Acquisition team. Responsibilities: Own and lead engineering projects in the area of data acquisition including web crawling, data ingestion, and search. Collaborate with other sub-teams, such as Data Processing, Architecture, and Scaling, to ensure smooth data flow and system operability. Work closely with the legal team to handle any compliance or data privacy-related matters. Develop and deploy highly scalable distributed systems capable of handling petabytes of data. Architect and implement algorithms for data indexing and search capabilities. Build and maintain backend services for data storage, including work with key-value databases and synchronization. Deploy solutions in a Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code environment and perform routine system checks. Conduct and analyze experiments on data to provide insights into system performance. Qualifications: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field. 4+ years of industry experience in software development. Experience with large web crawlers a plus Strong expertise in large stateful distributed systems and data processing. Proficiency in Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. Willingness and enthusiasm for trying new approaches and technologies. Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an

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