Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Columbus, OH

Leads software engineering within an agile team, providing technical guidance and developing, reviewing, debugging, and operationalizing secure production code. Drives adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices, validates AI outputs for security and performance, improves SDLC automation, influences product and application design, and serves as a firm-wide technical subject matter expert. Requires cloud-native experience, advanced programming skills, system design expertise, and independent problem-solving ability.

Own complex software systems and critical workflows end-to-end while ensuring reliability, performance, security, and maintainability. Lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, manage incident response, improve system health, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role requires extensive Ruby on Rails, AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure, Linux production operations, frontend development, relational databases, testing, CI/CD, and observability experience.

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.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services for AI agents, calendar, scheduling, integrations, real-time data pipelines, and APIs. Design platform infrastructure, event-driven systems, and client-server protocols using Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Collaborate with AI, product, and frontend teams, improve reliability through testing and infrastructure as code, and mentor junior engineers.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for leading design and delivery of large-scale order platform capabilities spanning cloud and point-of-sale systems. The role drives architecture, performance, reliability, API design, code quality, incident response, and technical roadmap alignment. It also requires cross-team collaboration, domain expertise in order processing and synchronization, mentoring engineers, and using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Kotlin backend services for NinjaOne’s SaaS backup and recovery platform. Design high-availability features supporting backup, archive, restore, and download workflows at large scale. Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams, own architecture and design decisions, mentor engineers, optimize databases and distributed systems, and deliver reliable production software using technologies including AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and REST frameworks.

Drives performance engineering and scalability across software systems by identifying bottlenecks, optimizing code, queries, databases, and architecture, and implementing fixes. Builds performance frameworks, data-generation tools, benchmarks, and CI/CD automation using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB. Establishes performance standards, investigates distributed systems and cloud environments, documents architectural decisions, and collaborates with engineering teams to improve throughput, latency, reliability, and efficiency.

Leads Affirm’s Resilience Engineering team, defining strategy and building platforms for safe production load testing and chaos engineering. Responsibilities include developing fault-injection and experimentation systems, implementing isolation and rollback safeguards, improving observability and auditability, driving reliability initiatives, and partnering across engineering, infrastructure, product, and security teams. The manager mentors engineers, establishes resilience practices, and enables organization-wide adoption of proactive system validation.

Lead frontend technical strategy for Affirm’s checkout decision orchestration systems. Design and architect scalable web applications, guide major technical initiatives, improve reliability and operational processes, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on building fast, clear, and reliable checkout experiences using modern declarative UI frameworks.

Develop and maintain scalable Python software, integrations, and web applications. Collaborate with QA, IT operations, analysts, and stakeholders in an Agile/Scrum environment. Design technical solutions, translate workflows into requirements, participate in code reviews and Scrum ceremonies, optimize relational and non-relational database queries, troubleshoot production issues, and improve application performance and security.

Owns company-critical, long-term technical problems across multiple teams and organizations. Defines technical strategy, architectures, roadmaps, and engineering standards for large-scale customer-facing systems. Remains hands-on in software development while driving AI adoption in products and engineering workflows. Partners with senior product, engineering, and executive leaders to resolve complex problems, improve reliability and performance, and shape Dropbox’s technical direction.

Build and maintain Vue.js interfaces for Openly’s insurance platform, supporting agents and internal users. Responsibilities include implementing UX initiatives, developing administration interfaces, integrating REST and GraphQL APIs, simplifying technical designs, contributing to architectural decisions, testing applications, identifying technical risks, and collaborating across product and engineering teams.