Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Develop and maintain enterprise automation solutions using Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio. Translate business processes into scalable applications, bots, web solutions, and AI assistants. Responsibilities include requirements gathering, integrations, API and connector development, testing, Agile delivery, ALM, documentation, monitoring, training, security compliance, and production support. The role also provides technical guidance and stakeholder engagement across business units.

Develop, test, modernize, and sustain secure full-stack mission software using Java and JavaScript. Build UI components, backend services, APIs, messaging integrations, database functionality, automated tests, and deployment workflows. Support XML and JSON data exchange, CI/CD modernization, security scanning, SBOM generation, defect resolution, code reviews, release preparation, documentation, and customer issue investigation. Collaborate with product, systems engineering, QA, operations, and program management teams in defense and intelligence environments.

Design, develop, and deploy RESTful and event-driven APIs supporting USDA enterprise integration. Implement secure authentication, reliability, versioning, interface specifications, ETL/ELT pipelines, and system connectivity. Support Databricks Lakehouse architecture, security, data modeling, migration, reporting, and analytics. Troubleshoot legacy and modern system interfaces, perform integration and quality testing, maintain documentation, and deliver training and knowledge transfer.

Build and maintain metadata capture, transformation, and delivery pipelines for a data management platform. Develop backend services with Python, Java, and Node.js; integrate relational databases and REST APIs; implement Terraform infrastructure; and support GitLab CI/CD. Optimize distributed systems for performance, reliability, scalability, and secure asynchronous processing. Write automated tests, troubleshoot services using operational metrics, and contribute to AI/ML metadata pipelines, search, data lake, and LLM-powered initiatives.

Build and evolve Unity’s PolySpatial core technology across low-level C++ and high-level C# systems. Design high-performance APIs for embedded, cross-process, and networked environments; manage execution timing and resource contention; and synchronize assets and components under bandwidth and latency constraints. Responsibilities include engine architecture, serialization, runtime performance, multithreading, networking, and end-to-end implementation and debugging.

Design and own Ditto’s networking and transport stack for mesh systems, including routing, connectivity, protocols, and edge platforms. Re-architect networking components for scalability and performance, debug reliability and synchronization issues, optimize concurrency and resource usage, and develop resilient protocol abstractions for unreliable networks. Establish observability for production diagnostics while collaborating in a distributed team.

Design, develop, secure, modernize, and support scalable omnichannel APIs for customer-facing web, mobile, contact center, partner, and enterprise applications. Improve API security, resiliency, performance, observability, testing, and reliability. Collaborate with architecture, security, cloud, product, operations, and engineering teams; lead technical delivery, mentor engineers, develop reusable patterns, and provide Tier 3 production support. Apply AI-assisted engineering practices and contribute to API lifecycle management and continuous improvement.

The Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs, collaborating with cross-functional teams and enhancing performance and scalability.

Develop and optimize enterprise database solutions, including complex SQL, stored procedures, data models, ETL processes, migrations, and automated deployments. Lead the transition from SQL Anywhere to SQL Server while supporting Oracle environments, troubleshooting production issues, and ensuring data integrity and security. Collaborate with application developers, DBAs, analysts, and QA engineers. Use AI-assisted development tools and support data pipelines for analytics and AI-enabled features.

Develop and maintain responsive, accessible web applications supporting Smithsonian digital experiences. Integrate front-end interfaces with Drupal and REST APIs, optimize performance, write tests, conduct code reviews, troubleshoot cross-browser issues, and collaborate with UX/UI designers, backend engineers, Agile teams, and museum stakeholders.