Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead technology initiatives that transform logistics processes into scalable automation. Set technical direction, coach engineers, identify opportunities for tools and integrations, improve decision-making workflows, and guide AI-native systems from concept through practical implementation. The role operates across data, applications, integrations, automation, and human-in-the-loop AI workflows while maintaining team focus and delivery momentum.

Lead design, development, and modernization of enterprise Ruby/Rails backend systems. Architect REST and GraphQL APIs, build cloud-native apps (AWS/Azure), drive CI/CD and DevSecOps, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and establish secure, scalable engineering practices across the full software lifecycle.

Lead hands-on development of scalable software, APIs, integrations, automations, and core product features. Architect systems, make technical decisions, ensure code quality, optimize performance and security, and collaborate across Product, Design, Data, and Business teams. Mentor developers, conduct code reviews, shape the technical roadmap, and improve engineering workflows, CI/CD, and architecture. The role also explores AI, automation, and API-first technologies in a fully remote startup environment.

Designs, develops, implements, tests, and deploys software solutions and cloud-based applications. The role contributes to architecture, requirements gathering, code and design reviews, CI/CD, documentation, Agile collaboration, user acceptance testing, and production change management. It requires developing scalable and maintainable distributed services while meeting enterprise quality, compliance, and regulatory standards.

Designs, develops, and implements scalable software solutions and modern application components. Participates in Agile development, code and design reviews, and enterprise architecture initiatives. Builds distributed service-based applications with strong scalability, manageability, and maintainability. Collaborates with teams to meet strategic business and consumer-facing product goals while leveraging cloud, containerization, databases, monitoring, and version-control technologies.

Design and deliver scalable full-stack enterprise applications using Node.js and Vue.js. Lead architecture and technical design, integrate AI/ML capabilities, optimize development with AI-assisted tools, contribute to cloud deployments and CI/CD, and ensure security, observability, performance, and maintainability. Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with product, data, and AI teams.

Lead hands-on software engineering and architecture across multiple teams, designing and delivering Angular and .NET applications, APIs, integrations, cloud solutions, and reusable engineering platforms. Modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and security, troubleshoot production issues, strengthen CI/CD and testing, and mentor engineers. Establish practical AI-assisted development practices and customer-facing AI capabilities with appropriate security, validation, traceability, and human oversight.

Manage health and performance of product databases: schema design, permissions, backups/recovery, failover clustering, performance tuning, monitoring, incident response, and cross-team support for releases and customer issues. Participate in on-call rotation.

Own and evolve scalable distributed systems, REST APIs, backend services, and core product areas. Design solutions, improve resilience, reduce technical debt, and drive modularization. Use AI-first and agentic development practices, evaluate emerging AI tools, and help integrate AI across engineering workflows. Collaborate asynchronously with product, data, and go-to-market teams while improving engineering tools, processes, and system reliability.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing hands-on to complex features. Define architecture, drive development best practices, conduct code reviews, coordinate cross-functional requirements, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality ecommerce marketplace software.

Build end-to-end user features under senior guidance: implement REST endpoints in Node.js/TypeScript, microservices in Python, maintain PostgreSQL schemas, process background jobs with QStash/Upstash, deploy to Cloudflare Workers/Pages/R2, write tests, and collaborate with product/design on React UI components.

Build and maintain end-to-end features across backend (Node.js/TypeScript, Python) and frontend (React/TypeScript). Model Postgres schemas, integrate queues (QStash/Upstash), deploy on Cloudflare edge, write tests, enforce CI/CD, and harden systems for security and performance in regulated environments.