Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads software teams developing, integrating, deploying, and maintaining full-stack mission applications for DoD and intelligence customers. Builds prototypes and high-performance user interfaces, translates operator needs into features, integrates systems, and conducts deployment and field testing in secure operational environments. The role combines customer collaboration, product discovery, engineering leadership, and software delivery in high-security settings.

Build responsive Web3 applications, web SDKs, developer tools, reusable frontend components, and internal Customer Success tools. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to create scalable, accessible user experiences. Contribute to code and design reviews, automated testing, continuous delivery, coding standards, and AI-assisted development practices.

Deploy and integrate Shield AIs Hivemind autonomy software with customers worldwide. Provide on-site technical support, training, debugging, and documentation. Collaborate with sales and product engineering to support pre- and post-sales activities and improve autonomy products.

Design, optimize, and maintain language execution engines and runtime systems (JIT/AOT, memory management) for scalable applications. Own full development lifecycle, implement high-quality reusable code, profile and optimize performance, integrate AI into workflows, collaborate with product owners, and mentor engineers on low-level systems and optimization techniques.

Lead the development of foundational iOS platform systems, shared frameworks, developer tools, architecture standards, and multi-quarter migrations across Cash App and Square. Drive performance, reliability, security, testing, observability, release safety, and AI-assisted development practices. This hands-on individual contributor role influences multiple teams, develops technical leaders, and partners broadly to improve iOS engineering quality, productivity, and product outcomes.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot REST services, APIs, and microservices for mission-critical geospatial systems. Support containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, DevOps automation, testing, infrastructure deployment, data platforms, and third-party integrations. Contribute to architecture, performance optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder demos, and Agile delivery. The role requires onsite work in Herndon, Virginia and collaboration on national security missions.

Build and own full-stack services and APIs enabling businesses to offer and manage 401(k) plans. Design scalable features, evolve system architecture, establish engineering best practices, collaborate with product, design, compliance, and operations, debug production issues, and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling. The role requires end-to-end system ownership, production support, and cross-team technical influence.

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.

Develop and support software, automation tools, dashboards, and alarms for cloud infrastructure, cost attribution, and cloud efficiency. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior engineers to design reliable systems, APIs, databases, tests, and AI agents. Contribute to architecture and automation strategies while maintaining strong security, communication, and delivery practices.

Build and launch backend identity decisioning systems that validate consumer identity and satisfy KYC regulations. Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Auth, Fraud, Analytics, and engineering teams; decompose projects, write tested and extensible code, monitor system metrics, support availability and on-call operations, debug code, participate in reviews, and contribute to technical decisions and team development.