Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Portland, ME

Build and maintain Go-based API endpoints, middleware, gateway services, and platform capabilities. Design API contracts using OpenAPI and gRPC, support authentication, rate limiting, reliability monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Write tested, maintainable code and collaborate with platform teams consuming the APIs. Work in Kubernetes and Docker-based environments while contributing to API consolidation, versioning, observability, and service mesh capabilities.

Build Doowii’s conversational analytics platform across frontend, backend, data interaction, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include creating data-query interfaces, developing APIs, integrating AI-driven features, optimizing query and storage performance, managing AWS and GCP systems, designing data models, and maintaining ingestion pipelines involving NiFi, Kafka, Iceberg, and BigQuery. The role also involves model evaluation, schema evolution, change data capture, high-throughput streaming, automation, and rapid startup iteration.

Own post-launch bugs, production issues, and enhancements for AI agents and related products. Investigate root causes across logs, code, conversation data, APIs, authentication, telephony, and integrations; implement and test fixes; support customers directly; guide frontline Support Engineers; and build internal tools that improve investigation and resolution speed.

Lead end-to-end development of modern frontend initiatives using React and Electron. Design scalable architecture, improve performance and test coverage, resolve production issues, influence technical decisions, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams. The role includes mentoring engineers, maintaining code quality, supporting observability and incident response, and building secure, high-quality customer-facing payment and form workflows.

Own production bugs, escalations, and enhancements for AI agent products. Investigate issues across logs, code, conversation data, telephony, integrations, authentication, APIs, and LLM prompting; implement, test, and ship fixes. Support customers directly, coordinate testing, guide frontline support engineers, build internal investigation tools, and relay feedback to Product while meeting SLAs.

Own and develop a TypeScript monorepo spanning Next.js, Expo, and Cloudflare Worker applications. Build PostgreSQL and Prisma data models, webhook and background job systems, secure financial-data and authentication flows, and AI features using LLM tool-calling. Handle production ownership, on-call responsibilities, incident analysis, code review, and reliability improvements. Collaborate remotely with strong written and verbal English while maintaining security, performance, and data integrity.

Build Python backend services and data-intensive systems supporting member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, reporting, and analytics. Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines; validate, reconcile, retry, replay, and recover inconsistent external data. Improve production reliability, observability, testing, and performance while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Operations. The role offers growth toward independent ownership of services and technical decisions.

Build and scale high-throughput streaming infrastructure that ingests, forwards, and computes on billions of behavioral events in real time. Own projects end to end, solve customer scaling challenges, and influence the technical roadmap. The role focuses on distributed systems capable of processing millions of messages per second with very low latency, supporting real-time personalization and AI-driven marketing products.

Build enterprise control-plane products for managing Hightouch deployments at scale. Responsibilities include developing roles, permissions, and access control; creating change-management tools for evolving data models and warehouses; and helping customers understand and optimize warehouse performance and costs. The role requires backend and distributed-systems architecture, asynchronous workflows, scalability, reliability, product thinking, and engagement with product specifications.

Design, build, and optimize distributed systems powering large-scale data synchronization. Responsibilities include improving sync speed, developing real-time streaming capabilities, scaling high-volume and low-latency systems, troubleshooting customer scaling challenges, and supporting multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure and data residency requirements. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, customer collaboration, system architecture, and reliability improvements.

Develop backend systems for Hightouch’s Customer Studio product, focusing on data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI workflows. Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable distributed systems while contributing to product specifications and customer-focused solutions. The role requires strong product sense and the ability to architect data-processing features end to end.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Build and maintain backend services, APIs, workers, shared libraries, and cloud-native runtime infrastructure for Alteryx Cloud orchestration and job execution. Develop asynchronous, event-driven, distributed systems with queues, persistence, retries, and failure recovery. Improve reliability through observability, testing, deployment tooling, and incident follow-up while collaborating across engineering and product teams.

Design and build Seeq’s internal platform, including infrastructure, services, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, system interfaces, and secure deployment capabilities. Improve scalability, reliability, software delivery, and infrastructure cost and performance. Lead migrations, integrate security practices, architect distributed systems, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on at Staff or Principal scope.

Develops, tests, deploys, and supports major software features and services. The role translates product requirements into maintainable technical solutions, makes design and performance trade-offs, performs root-cause analysis, conducts code reviews, improves development and deployment practices, and mentors newer engineers. The position requires collaboration across engineering and product teams and includes working with Java, SQL, XML, web technologies, JavaScript, and Oracle databases.

Build and ship Ori developer tools across CLI, Slack, desktop, and cloud surfaces. Develop multi-model agent runtimes with model switching, provider fallbacks, tool integrations, sandboxing, secrets management, session handling, and version-controlled agent state. Own the full product experience, including installation, authentication, reliability, observability, and evaluations. Collaborate with product, design, and platform teams while feeding platform requirements into OpenRouter APIs and SDKs.

Build and operate Numeral’s public API, MCP server, billing and ERP integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform services. Own projects from design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and contribute to architecture decisions. The role requires strong backend engineering, distributed systems knowledge, cloud and container experience, and a customer-focused approach to dependable financial automation.

Build and scale AI-enabled developer experience systems, including CI/CD platforms, deployment safeguards, observability, automated response workflows, and multi-agent orchestration. Reduce developer toil and technical debt while improving software delivery speed, safety, reliability, and production quality. Partner with engineering teams to adopt AI-native delivery practices and convert emerging capabilities into scalable internal platforms.

Build and operate Numeral’s platform services, public API, MCP server, ERP and billing integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer interfaces. Own projects from technical design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and support scalable background jobs and APIs. Collaborate with product and engineering teams while applying distributed-systems principles and maintaining accurate, dependable financial-data workflows.

Develop and maintain scalable Java backend services, REST APIs, event-driven microservices, and cloud deployments for EV mobility and payments products. Responsibilities include architecture design, system analysis, CI/CD automation, deployment pipelines, testing, and collaboration with distributed agile teams. The role requires working with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, and modern cloud technologies while supporting secure, regulated payment systems.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Toast’s pricing engine across multiple teams. Design and operate highly available distributed systems, APIs, databases, and event-driven services at scale. Serve as the pricing domain expert, improve correctness and performance, lead incident response and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, establish operational excellence, and align technical priorities with Product and engineering leadership.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Build and maintain accessible, reusable React Native and web components for Rocket Money’s design system. Collaborate with designers and engineers on UI primitives, tokens, patterns, documentation, tooling, motion, and interaction quality. Improve accessibility, testing, adoption, migration support, and developer experience through reliable shared infrastructure, Storybook examples, technical documentation, and code reviews.

Design and build scalable frontend and backend features for route planning, routing, navigation, and route execution products. Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to improve planner efficiency, leverage AI appropriately, and promote technical excellence. Mentor junior engineers, contribute to team growth, engage with customers, and help scale products across industries and customer verticals.