Top Remote Lead Software Engineer Jobs

Lead a small engineering team to deliver and operate large-scale Roblox game features. Drive technical planning, estimation, code quality, monitoring, releases, and mentorship while partnering cross-functionally to improve performance and player experience.

Hands-on technical lead for an Agile scrum team building Python/Django backend services, REST APIs, and ETL pipelines to ingest, validate, transform, and transfer digital content and metadata. Maintain Java components, design Postgres schemas, tune Solr/Elasticsearch search, implement async processing, CI/CD with Jenkins, and deploy in AWS using Terraform and containers. Mentor mid-level developer, enforce code quality and security, handle CUI, and support ATO/A&A and accessibility requirements.

Lead multiple Agile teams to design, build, and deliver large-scale Java/Linux applications and big-data solutions. Drive engineering excellence via automated testing, DevOps/CI, mentorship, backlog grooming, and cross-organizational influence to advance CAS products.

Design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure and CI/CD for production systems. Run and optimize EKS/Kubernetes at scale, implement IaC (Terraform), observability, security best practices, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. Collaborate with engineering teams, participate in on-call incident response, and produce architecture documentation and operational runbooks.

Lead production operations and incident management for customer-facing applications. Coordinate releases, drive P1/P2 incident response and RCAs, execute DR exercises, manage capacity and CMDB, support cloud platform operations (Kubernetes, Kafka, GCP/HCP), and lead automation and reliability improvements with engineering and vendor partners.

Lead architecture and technical direction for an AI-first SaaS product (Growth Studio). Define scalable services, APIs, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows; guide integrations, run architecture/code reviews and POCs; mentor engineers; produce technical documentation; and partner with product, UX, QA, and ops to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities for GovCon customers.

Lead design, configuration, delivery, and support of Workday Core and Advanced Compensation. Partner with product teams, provide technical leadership, coach product engineers, manage releases, testing, and production support, and drive continuous improvement for compensation processes and user experience.

Lead technical design and delivery of complex, scalable SaaS features using AI-assisted development. Own specification quality, implement and review AI-generated code, design REST APIs, mentor engineers, and drive cohort-wide standards for architecture, testing, and DevOps practices.

Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable backend systems and services. Improve performance, reliability, and deployments; operate production systems (incident response rotation); conduct code reviews; mentor engineers; collaborate with product, sales, and customers.

Lead software engineering efforts for the Proton platform, focusing on system design, mentorship, and innovative drug discovery projects. Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to enhance engineering processes and standards within a minimalist organizational structure.

Lead the testing strategy and hands-on test engineering for CD Baby's customer-facing applications. Architect and build automated, AI-augmented test suites across UI, API/contract, integration, and performance layers; integrate tests into ArgoCD-driven CI/CD; manage test data and environments; embed on a cross-functional Platform team; mentor engineers and raise quality standards while ensuring accessibility, reliability, and fast feedback loops.

Lead a team of software engineers supporting critical retail-banking applications. Design and develop software solutions, provide technical guidance, review code and documentation, troubleshoot complex incidents, and apply SRE practices. Maintain on-call rotation for after-hours critical incidents. Use OpenShift, Hogan, Dynatrace, and Linux; collaborate on releases and modernize application delivery.

Lead technical design and operation of secure, scalable CI/CD and build systems for FedRAMP High/DoD IL5 environments. Translate compliance into implementation, maintain build health, collaborate with SRE and product teams, mentor engineers, and lead incident triage and remediation.

Lead team in developing Enterprise B2B solutions, uphold quality standards, drive AI adoption, mentor engineers, guide architecture and legacy modernization efforts.

Lead a team of 3-4 engineers to build scalable ad platform services, APIs, and SDKs. Drive architecture and technical direction, collaborate with Product and ML teams, enforce engineering standards, perform design and code reviews, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, and participate in hiring and team development.

Hands-on tech lead who writes production C#/.NET or Java/Spring code, owns technical decisions across multi-service backend platforms on Kubernetes (AWS EKS), builds AI-driven developer tooling and automation, mentors engineers, drives cross-service initiatives, participates in production support, and learns lease-to-own business logic to make pragmatic engineering decisions.

Provide technical and architectural leadership to the software development team, design software solutions, mentor team members, and drive projects to completion.

Lead and execute the production photogrammetry pipeline: design, build, train, and deploy 3D reconstruction systems at scale. Drive technical direction, optimize for speed and robustness, own observability and CI/CD, mentor engineers, integrate foundation 3D models and agentic AI tooling, and translate strategic goals into shipped work.

Lead the development and maintenance of Capital One's marketing website, focusing on performance, collaboration with stakeholders, and continuous optimization of front-end technologies.

Provide technical leadership across the simulation platform: define architecture, drive feature delivery, debug complex multi-module issues, conduct code reviews, collaborate on QA/CI/CD, and mentor engineers to modernize and maintain the legacy Windows desktop codebase.

Lead technical direction and hands-on development for Angles for SAP. Design and deliver full‑stack features, uphold engineering standards, mentor engineers, integrate AI-assisted tooling, collaborate with product and customer teams, and contribute to technical roadmap and architecture decisions.

The Lead Software Engineer will design and maintain scalable software solutions, provide technical guidance, mentor junior engineers, and ensure software quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead development of Avride's control system by architecting and shipping Model Predictive Control (MPC) solutions in modern C++, identifying vehicle dynamics parameters from real-world data, profiling for real-time performance, and providing technical leadership, code review, and mentorship to a small controls team while aligning with Planning and Hardware.

Lead Software Engineer will design and build healthcare technology, develop applications, integrate with vendors, and enhance workflows using machine learning.

Lead technical delivery of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, guiding design, development, integrations, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud modernization. Provide hands-on .NET development, incident resolution, operational readiness, and coach engineering teams while ensuring security, retention, and governance for content services.