Top Software Engineer Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Build and ship AI-powered automation features, third-party integrations, full-stack web applications, and cloud infrastructure. Design background job processing systems, improve reliability and observability, address security risks, contribute product ideas, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires strong TypeScript skills, experience scaling AWS systems with infrastructure as code, and proficiency with React, Node.js, and Postgres.

Leads architecture and development of Azure Storage table, metadata, and indexing systems at massive cloud scale. Designs distributed-system primitives for partitioning, indexing, transactions, consistency, replication, caching, and high-performance data access. Drives architectural decisions, prototypes innovations through production, and improves performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Requires deep expertise in distributed storage, databases, or large-scale systems.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for a large-scale Content Platform that powers marketing campaigns. Solve ambiguous cross-team problems, design scalable backend and AI-driven systems, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, design, and marketing to drive execution and engineering standards across the org.

The Lead Rust Software Engineer will design and build scalable applications, mentor teams on Rust, and contribute to complex product development.

Lead development, testing, and maintenance of scalable accounting integrations using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Design REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth flows, and event-driven systems that synchronize data with external accounting platforms. Diagnose complex issues, improve reliability and performance, document systems, and mentor junior engineers. Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly while managing multiple priorities and supporting high-volume integrations.

Own and improve Attentive's first-party data collection across the JS tag, Cloudflare Workers, and Java backend. Expand edge compute capabilities, build agentic AI systems to detect and fix data-quality issues, harden the event ingestion pipeline for reliability and observability, and lead technical direction on a small autonomous team while mentoring engineers.

Principal Engineer responsible for owning complex software initiatives from problem framing through architecture, implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. The role involves building web applications, services, APIs, MCP servers, data pipelines, and platform integrations; leading architecture and code reviews; improving security, reliability, and maintainability; mentoring engineers; and shaping technical strategy. The engineer will also use and improve AI-assisted development practices while maintaining human accountability for quality and operational outcomes.

Lead design and hands-on development of AWS-based serverless backend and IoT cloud services. Build Python Lambda microservices, REST APIs, telemetry pipelines, and secure AWS IoT Core device communication. Mentor engineers, define architecture patterns, ensure production readiness (monitoring, CI/CD, security), and guide cross-functional integrations and technical roadmaps.

Leads the design and development of scalable SaaS applications, including AI-powered features such as semantic search, vector databases, RAG, and LLM orchestration. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, architectural guidance, code reviews, and engineering standards enforcement. Collaborates cross-functionally to translate requirements into robust solutions, champions AI-assisted development tools, builds developer experience tooling, and drives innovation, quality, security, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.

Build and independently deliver full-stack healthcare software features using Java or Groovy, React and TypeScript, MongoDB, and Kafka. Responsibilities include design, implementation, testing, deployment, production debugging, code reviews, design documentation, dependency coordination, process improvements, and mentoring. The role requires reliable delivery with minimal oversight and collaboration across engineering, product, and QA teams in a remote-first environment.

Define architectural direction for Azure Specialized platform services and lead the design of highly available distributed cloud systems. Drive reliability, scalability, observability, security, diagnostics, and operational improvements across engineering organizations. Establish service health frameworks, SLOs, metrics, and governance for mission-critical services. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, resolve complex cross-system challenges, and advance AI-assisted troubleshooting and platform modernization.

Build scalable frontend interfaces for distributed systems, including APIs, streaming and static data visualization, graph libraries, geospatial maps, charts, video playback, and interactive 2D/3D renderings. Develop performant React applications using modern web technologies such as WebGL, support real-time collaboration, optimize web performance, and contribute to an SDK for third-party application development.

Develops, integrates, tests, and sustains cloud software solutions for large-scale content and metadata repositories. Responsibilities include Apache Accumulo development, web interfaces and REST APIs, parallel analytics on petabyte-scale data, cloud service integration, requirements analysis, performance evaluation, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration. The role requires expertise in Java, C++, or Python; distributed databases, MapReduce, HDFS, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms; and a TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Develop and ship full-stack web and mobile experiences across Affirm’s consumer app and website. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams to break down projects, make technical decisions, write tested and extensible code, launch scalable APIs, monitor service health, support on-call operations, review code, and participate in team development and interviewing.

Develop software for high-performance computing, large-data analytics, and advanced information technology systems. The role supports engineering and full lifecycle systems engineering services for federal programs and requires extensive experience delivering software on contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.

Build and support scalable payment systems using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, microservices, APIs, messaging, and event-driven architectures. Integrate third-party payment providers, troubleshoot production issues, automate deployment and infrastructure management, and contribute to reliable, secure, scalable payment platforms. Collaborate with product and business teams to develop payment capabilities and leverage generative AI and LLMs to improve software engineering workflows.

Design, develop, and maintain core database features for VillageSQL Cloud, emphasizing performance, stability, scalability, security, and reliability. Build distributed systems using Go and Kubernetes, collaborate on technical vision and architecture, contribute to open-source projects, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and engage with the developer community. The role focuses on database-as-a-service infrastructure and cloud service evolution.

Design, build, and scale Shepherd’s core platform, backend systems, APIs, user-facing applications, and AI-powered legal workflows. Architect secure, reliable infrastructure for sensitive legal data, collaborate with legal and product teams, build internal tools, optimize performance, and own technical decisions. The role also involves rapid prototyping, mentoring and recruiting engineers, and contributing to SOC 2 readiness and data privacy practices.

Provides software engineering and full-lifecycle systems engineering services supporting high-performance computing, large-scale data analytics, and advanced information technology initiatives. The role requires an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and supports projects serving Maryland and the Greater Washington, D.C. area.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and sustains secure, scalable AWS cloud platforms for federal government customers. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, monitoring, remediation, cost-benefit analysis, platform operations, performance enhancement, and technical planning. The role requires extensive software development experience, Linux expertise, AWS capabilities, and an active TS/SCI clearance with agency-appropriate polygraph.

Develop and deliver end-to-end software solutions in an agile environment. Responsibilities include designing and implementing applications, writing and enhancing source code, analyzing architectures, gathering client requirements, automating workflows, resolving complex problems, collaborating cross-functionally, and using automated testing tools. The role requires a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and supports classified government missions.

Develops full-stack software and complex systems from concept through production in an agile environment. Designs architectural solutions, builds Java and Spring Boot applications, integrates APIs and databases, works with Linux and container technologies, and identifies system improvements. The role also involves troubleshooting, documentation, system integration, and potentially leading software development teams in support of government missions.

Develops production-ready software and end-to-end solutions in an agile environment. Responsibilities include analyzing architectures, writing and enhancing application code, gathering client requirements, automating workflows, resolving complex problems, collaborating cross-functionally, and using automated testing tools. The role requires TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and supports government defense and intelligence missions.

Develop end-to-end software and systems from architecture through production in an agile environment. Build Java applications, RESTful services, messaging components, cloud integrations, and data services across Linux and multiple cloud platforms. Support deployment, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational improvements while collaborating with engineering, testing, administration, and customer teams. The role requires extensive software engineering experience and TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.

Develop end-to-end software and analytic data-processing systems from concept through production. Build and maintain data pipelines, process large datasets, optimize SQL and NoSQL queries, and develop cloud-based solutions using Python, Java, Spark, and related technologies. Collaborate in agile environments, evaluate architectures, identify system improvements, and support mission-critical government systems.