Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Lead full-stack development for secure, scalable mission planning and command-and-control software supporting space communications programs. Build frontend interfaces and backend services, design APIs, translate mockups into applications, conduct code reviews, improve quality and security, and mentor junior engineers. Work with modern web frameworks, containerized microservices, and highly secure government environments while owning technical problems end to end.

As a Principal Software Dev Engineer, lead full-stack engineering, oversee complex initiatives, mentor engineers, and align technical strategies with business goals to enhance content management systems.

Build and ship production software across the frontend and backend, working closely with founders, customers, and product teams. Develop AI-powered features and systems involving web scraping, unstructured data, PDF parsing, and cloud infrastructure. Translate real-world real estate and financing problems into technical solutions, make high-impact decisions, and own shipped code. The internship may convert to a full-time role.

Leads the architecture, development, testing, deployment, and documentation of complex full-stack software solutions. Builds scalable Java and Spring Boot backends, Angular interfaces, APIs, database integrations, and CI/CD pipelines. Ensures security, performance, coding standards, and software quality while mentoring developers, leading code reviews, evaluating technologies, and collaborating with product, business, QA, and other stakeholders in Agile environments.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, building, testing, and documenting scalable Node.js/TypeScript services and APIs. Lead projects end-to-end, enforce coding standards, write technical specifications, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers. Champion Agile and CI/CD practices while providing technical thought leadership on backend architecture and data modeling.

Assist in developing and maintaining cross-platform Flutter apps for Android and iOS, implement UI/UX with Flutter widgets, integrate Firebase and REST APIs, debug and optimize performance, and collaborate with the team while staying current with Flutter/Dart technologies.

Build and maintain Java backend services, REST APIs, and full-stack web application features. Develop frontend functionality, use Python for supporting work, and apply AI coding tools such as Claude Code for development, testing, and debugging. Collaborate on design decisions and code reviews, troubleshoot issues, and support application deployment and maintenance across cloud environments.

Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. Integrate with third-party billing/commerce systems, maintain serverless/event-driven architectures on AWS, ensure security and performance, implement automated tests and CI/CD, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions.

Build end-to-end features in a JS/TS stack, designing scalable backend services and responsive real-time frontends. Improve observability, performance, and reliability, collaborate with product/design, and own full-stack implementation from APIs and data models to UI.