Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

Develop and maintain Python-based software applications integrating with hardware, sensors, peripherals, and single-board computers. Responsibilities include software design, testing, debugging, GUI development, hardware interfaces, system integration, documentation, troubleshooting, prototyping, and deployment support for government and mission-focused customers. The role is hybrid/remote-friendly and suited to an early-career or journeyman developer with approximately 2–5 years of experience.

Paid six-week remote internship supporting government data infrastructure. Responsibilities include building and maintaining web scrapers and ingestion pipelines, researching data sources, validating data quality, monitoring source failures, improving scraper resilience, and documenting extraction logic. The role uses TypeScript, Python, browser automation, APIs, structured data formats, Git, and AI-assisted tooling.

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.

Lead architecture and roadmap for a company-wide data lakehouse platform. Build platform-as-product components (SDKs, CLIs, control planes), optimize distributed compute/storage, prototype performance R&D, ensure compliance-by-design (lineage, PII masking, access control), enable real-time AI data ingestion, drive engineering standards, and mentor cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and workflow systems supporting healthcare claims identification and recovery. Integrate AI/ML models, legal datasets, and transactional data while developing fault-tolerant Temporal workflows. Maintain AWS infrastructure and secure deployment pipelines using Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and related technologies. Collaborate with product, business, and data science teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-performance systems in a regulated startup environment.

Senior individual-contributor backend engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating production-grade, highly available, strongly consistent services for wallet operations, transaction orchestration, blockchain integrations, and event-driven workflows. Implement secure, scalable APIs, cryptographic key management, Kafka-based event systems, observability with OpenTelemetry, CI/CD pipelines, and produce tests, API specs, and operational runbooks.

Own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services. Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs, improve reliability/latency/scale, take end-to-end ownership from design through production support, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor peers while partnering with Product and SRE teams.

Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud and web software with focus on infrastructure, performance, and hardware integration for IoT devices. Collaborate with hardware teams to ensure connectivity and high availability, implement new features, and improve system efficiency.

Lead architecture and implementation of scalable web applications using NestJS and Next.js. Build and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries, implement responsive UIs with Tailwind CSS, integrate LangChain-driven AI features, manage authentication with Clerk, and create end-to-end tests and automation with Puppeteer to ensure launch readiness and reliable user experiences.

Develop and maintain scalable Java backend systems using Spring Boot and microservices architecture. Collaborate with customer teams, review specifications, write clean code, participate in code reviews, document solutions, and troubleshoot and optimize backend performance, reliability, and security. The role also contributes technical expertise to training next-generation AI systems, though prior AI experience is not required.