Top Remote Lead Software Engineer Jobs

Lead the design, development, and operation of secure, scalable distributed APIs and data services in cloud environments. Responsibilities include architecting GraphQL and REST services, developing TypeScript and Go applications, managing serverless and containerized workloads, implementing infrastructure as code and CI/CD, designing data and messaging workflows, establishing observability and resiliency patterns, and ensuring security and compliance. The role also mentors engineers and collaborates with product, compliance, and security teams.

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.

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.

Lead development of AI-powered full-stack applications, mentor engineers, define technical direction, build performant front-end and scalable backend services, integrate LLMs/RAG, and establish engineering best practices for production AI workflows.

Lead design, develop, test and deliver high-quality cloud-based web, mobile and backend software. Mentor engineers, set technical direction, own product/project rollout, champion best practices (TDD, CI/CD), and operate high-traffic microservices on Kubernetes and cloud platforms.

Lead Platform Engineer to design and evolve Subaru.com using Java, AEM, and AWS. Lead architecture and technical delivery, mentor teams, run design and code reviews, enforce quality, and build scalable web applications and services integrating front-end, mobile, and third-party clients.

Lead full‑stack development of complex research platforms, set technical direction and architecture, integrate data pipelines and evaluation frameworks, mentor engineers, promote AI-assisted engineering practices (e.g., Claude Code), assist hiring/onboarding, and represent technical work across teams to deliver scalable, secure software for digital safety research.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise software solutions for Public Sector customers, ensuring compliance and technical excellence.

Lead and manage an API engineering team owning core services for Fundrise investor applications. Set technical direction, coach engineers, drive architecture, ensure production quality, security, monitoring, and coordinate cross-team delivery.

Lead the Drive App product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Improve driver experience and satisfaction, guide a major platform evolution, work cross-functionally to deliver high-quality mobile experiences, and define and instrument metrics to drive data-informed prioritization.

Designs and architects digital products using modern tools and frameworks, implements, tests, and documents software, owns production operations and KPIs, partners with product managers, leads standups and retrospectives, coaches engineering practices (pairing, TDD), and establishes CI/CD pipelines and monitoring.

Lead design and implement large-scale backend storage features for Backblaze's object storage platform, focusing on host-managed SMR support, IO benchmarking and performance optimization, driving technical decisions, mentoring, and delivering production rollouts across thousands of servers.

Lead design and delivery of AI-driven product solutions across the commerce platform. Own high- and low-level architecture, implement scalable RAG/LLM systems, select AI infrastructure, mentor teams, and collaborate with product and engineering leadership to execute AI strategy and rapid experimentation.

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.

Design, build, and maintain backend services, RESTful APIs, and web UIs for large-scale systems. Implement database-backed applications (relational and NoSQL), microservices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on design, code reviews, and cloud-based deployments to deliver reliable, customer-facing software.

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.

Design, develop, test, and maintain Java backend services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems supporting enterprise claims and payment solutions. Collaborate with product and business stakeholders, contribute to architecture, build CI/CD pipelines, operate containerized applications, and support production services through monitoring and troubleshooting. Apply clean code, TDD, automated testing, security, and Agile engineering practices while helping guide the platform’s technical direction.

Lead the architecture, development, integration, debugging, and testing of complex real-time embedded software for defense and aerospace products. Responsibilities include bootloaders, device drivers, applications, test software, requirements and design documentation, customer issue resolution, bids and proposals, and cross-functional collaboration with systems and hardware teams. The role requires compliance with military and aerospace standards and ownership of advanced technical issues.

Lead flight control law design and embedded autopilot software development for prototype eVTOL vehicles. Support end-to-end rapid prototyping, simulation, HIL and flight test, set discipline standards, perform feasibility assessments, produce technical documentation, and represent programs with stakeholders.

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.

Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer responsible for developing platform features, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with customers.

The role involves software architecture, design, development, and testing for embedded systems in defense applications, requiring collaboration with cross-disciplinary engineering teams.