Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Columbus, OH

Lead development of scalable Java backend applications and high-availability cloud services. Design architectures, REST APIs, databases, caching systems, and distributed session infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, address performance and scalability challenges, and uphold quality and automation practices for endpoint management products.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend systems and APIs for ingesting, processing, and routing large-scale telemetry data. Own end-to-end features, contribute to architecture and internal tools, write automated tests, participate in on-call/support rotation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performance distributed systems.

Designs, develops, tests, troubleshoots, documents, and maintains software applications throughout the project lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding, database and system administration, performance testing, debugging, software upgrades, requirements documentation, user support, vendor coordination, and collaboration with analysts, administrators, and engineers. The role also provides guidance to junior development staff and supports cross-departmental projects.

Develop and maintain Python-based software applications integrating with hardware, sensors, peripherals, and single-board computers. Responsibilities include software design, testing, debugging, GUI development, hardware interfaces, system integration, documentation, troubleshooting, prototyping, and deployment support for government and mission-focused customers. The role is hybrid/remote-friendly and suited to an early-career or journeyman developer with approximately 2–5 years of experience.

Develop and maintain Tailscale’s open-source client and backend networking software. Design, test, document, and optimize networking components, distributed systems, and overlay routing features. Own services through observability, incident response, and customer escalations while collaborating with product managers and designers. Apply security-first practices and improve system efficiency, scalability, and stability in a fully remote, asynchronous startup environment.

Build and maintain core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers. Responsibilities include developing user flows, robust REST APIs, backend services, and third-party integrations such as Plaid and SendGrid. The role emphasizes clean, tested, documented code, system design, error handling, logging, domain-driven design, microservice architecture, agile Scrum practices, architectural decision-making, technical guidance, and code reviews.

Design and own secure, scalable wallet infrastructure for custody, key management, transaction signing, authorization, recovery, and multichain systems. Architect support for MPC, HSMs, secure enclaves, TEEs, smart contract wallets, account abstraction, and emerging cryptographic approaches. Define security boundaries, policy engines, secrets management, authentication, and programmable authorization while making foundational build-versus-buy decisions and guiding systems from first principles through production.

Own the assessment, hardening, testing, modernization, and sustainment of a government SDN software baseline. Develop secure C++ and Python solutions, remediate vulnerabilities, improve testing, debug application and network issues, and support containerization, CI/CD, deployment, and security scanning. Collaborate with platform engineers and government stakeholders, document technical decisions, validate releases, and mentor engineers in Navy environments.

Leads software engineering for a large-scale Apache Cassandra platform. Designs and delivers automation, self-service tooling, infrastructure frameworks, and cloud capabilities across private and public environments. Partners with engineering teams to improve developer velocity, code quality, resiliency, security, and customer experience. Applies AI-assisted infrastructure practices with validation, auditability, and data-sensitivity controls. Requires expertise in software development, databases, Linux, distributed systems, configuration management, and Database Reliability Engineering.

Build and maintain developer tools, SDKs, CLI, MCP interfaces, integrations, and supporting backend services. Collaborate on API contracts, compatibility, testing, releases, documentation, and shared tooling. Support developers through GitHub issues and pull requests while designing reliable systems with authentication, retries, idempotency, rate limits, monitoring, and error recovery.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

Design, develop, test, and deploy supply chain software for inventory, warehouse, and fulfillment systems. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-functional Agile projects, decompose work, delegate tasks, and promote strong development and testing practices. Build monitoring systems that ensure business-process correctness and support high-volume, data-intensive applications.

Own and evolve a shared engineering platform spanning cloud infrastructure, delivery tooling, reliability, security, authentication, and deployment. Build backend and full-stack solutions, improve production availability, lead platform projects and technology decisions, and support internal engineering teams through shared tooling, documentation, reviews, and coaching. Participate in on-call rotations and help scale an established product platform.

Lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable web and mobile applications using Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, Docker, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Own architecture, APIs, data models, monitoring, performance, and code quality while collaborating with product, data, and DevOps teams. Provide technical leadership through system design, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement in a remote-first healthcare technology environment.

Design, build, and ship native Android features in Kotlin for BJAK's AI Neobank app. Integrate backend APIs, improve performance, reduce crashes, collaborate with product/design, use analytics to iterate, and add on-device AI where it improves UX.

Develop scalable C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior across millions of managed Windows endpoints. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, shipping production code, designing new systems, writing architecture documents, defining subsystem contracts, and collaborating with server, UI, product, and design teams. The role requires deep Windows systems and kernel-driver expertise, with preferred experience in WHQL, minifilter or WFP drivers, macOS Endpoint Security, and Linux kernel development.

Lead the technical vision and architectural evolution of Huntress’s Core Platform. Build complex Ruby on Rails features, solve scaling challenges, manage cross-team dependencies, drive architectural decisions, and oversee system lifecycle and technical risk. Mentor engineers, establish engineering excellence, collaborate with managers and product leaders, and help teams adopt AI coding tools responsibly.

Build and ship production software for Toast’s retail platform, partnering with engineering, product, and customers. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, designing and prototyping end-to-end solutions, making foundational technical decisions, incorporating customer feedback, tracking industry trends, and deploying AI-powered experiences. The role supports large grocery and convenience-store customers and may involve visiting stores to understand operator workflows.

Develop and release full-stack features from discovery through production for a consumer-facing education technology product. Collaborate with engineers, designers, and program staff; make product and architectural decisions; write and review maintainable code; participate in on-call rotation; and improve platform operations and internal tooling.

Develop and support enterprise full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, Python, React, and cloud technologies. Build secure APIs, microservices, integrations, chatbot interfaces, and conversational UI features. Deploy cloud-native applications with Azure or AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes while contributing to CI/CD, testing, monitoring, security, and architecture. Collaborate with product, engineering, architecture, and business teams in an agile environment.

Build and scale the PSA Liquidity Platform connecting buyers and sellers across PSA Partner Offers and eBay Consignment. Responsibilities include developing buyer tooling, pricing and ranking engines, seller experiences, microservices, distributed event-driven systems, and observability. The role owns end-to-end product delivery, cross-functional execution, technical architecture, ecosystem integrations, and production outcomes while using AI throughout the software development lifecycle.

Build and operate secure, scalable backend services for OnePay’s co-branded credit card product. Design APIs and event-driven systems, integrate partner platforms, ensure regulatory and security compliance, and own reliability for real-time credit transactions. Collaborate with risk, compliance, and platform teams, make architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and improve code quality, testing, and operational practices.

Build performant, accessible front-end interfaces for AI agents, dashboards, conversational user interfaces, and visualization tools. Collaborate with designers, AI engineers, and backend developers to create scalable components, optimize cross-browser experiences, and iterate on UX using testing, feedback, and usage data.

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.