Top Remote Python Jobs in Washington, DC

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, engineering judgment, reasoning quality, and developer trust. Provide clear, opinionated feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for excellent interactions with tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This contract role requires staff- or principal-level software engineering experience and familiarity with modern AI-assisted development workflows.

Lead technical onboarding and enablement for contact center partners, architecting scalable Zendesk, Amazon Connect, and AWS solutions. Provide co-selling support, technical strategy, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, training, documentation, governance, and mentorship. Collaborate with partners, sales, engineering, and vendors to drive successful implementations, security compliance, innovation, and adoption of AI, automation, and omnichannel contact center technologies.

Develops and delivers resilient full-stack applications and services for Vantage’s reinsurance business. Responsibilities include application design, coding, debugging, testing, architecture discussions, risk management, roadmap estimation, stakeholder consultation, and coordination across project teams. The role promotes software engineering standards, DevSecOps, CI/CD, agile practices, innovation, and mentoring while building solutions with JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, cloud, serverless, and modern infrastructure technologies.

Lead a team of software engineers building and scaling Spark’s broker productivity platform. Responsibilities include architecting full-stack solutions, guiding technical direction, reviewing code, managing infrastructure priorities, coordinating product planning, sequencing projects, coaching engineers, hiring, and ensuring reliable, high-quality delivery. The role balances hands-on engineering with people management and is fully remote within the United States.

Build and lead development of high-availability backend services for Affirm’s card loan platform. Design scalable APIs, data models, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting real-time loan attribution, approvals, origination, and refunds. Drive technical strategy, troubleshoot complex performance issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring long-term system robustness and scalability.

Own Headway’s cloud platform and infrastructure engineering strategy. Lead deployment isolation, container orchestration, AWS networking and compute, autoscaling, capacity planning, Terraform self-service infrastructure, cloud cost attribution, and Python runtime performance. Build reliable paved-road tooling that enables engineering teams to deploy safely and independently while improving scalability, observability, and operational resilience.

Develop and maintain enterprise geospatial applications, web GIS interfaces, dashboards, workflows, APIs, and integrations in a federal environment. Support ArcGIS Enterprise and Server solutions, geospatial visualization and data management, testing, troubleshooting, deployment, performance tuning, documentation, cybersecurity requirements, user support, and training. Collaborate with infrastructure, security, GIS, data, and program teams to meet DHS IT requirements.

Owns the full lifecycle of operational software products, from concept through production. Builds and tests reliable, user-focused features; scales prototypes; triages issues and identifies root causes; and partners with product teams, mission engineers, architects, and end users to deliver effective solutions. The role requires strong React, TypeScript, and Python skills, performance optimization experience, and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Designs and develops cloud-based and on-premises data and integration solutions for payer operations. Responsibilities include architecting integrations across SaaS, Epic EMR, and enterprise data platforms; coding, testing, debugging, and performance optimization; troubleshooting data issues; collaborating with product and business stakeholders; incorporating AI/ML; and maintaining architecture documentation, governance, and best practices.

Leads architecture, full-stack development, scalable application design, dashboards, backend integrations, AI-enabled features, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, monitoring, and production support. Mentors engineering teams, establishes technical standards, guides strategy, and develops solutions for payer operations, metadata, contracts, and performance measurement.

Build and scale AI-enabled developer experience systems, including CI/CD platforms, deployment safeguards, observability, automated response workflows, and multi-agent orchestration. Reduce developer toil and technical debt while improving software delivery speed, safety, reliability, and production quality. Partner with engineering teams to adopt AI-native delivery practices and convert emerging capabilities into scalable internal platforms.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Develop and scale backend streaming and data infrastructure using Kafka, Flink, AWS, Kubernetes, and related technologies. Break down projects, deliver tested software, collaborate with product and engineering teams, monitor system availability, participate in on-call support, debug code, conduct code reviews, and contribute to team development.

Own Anthropic’s ChromeOS platform end to end, including device standards, Google Admin and Chrome Enterprise policies, policy-as-code automation, zero-touch enrollment, international procurement, security controls, telemetry, lifecycle management, and vendor access models. Support Android Enterprise as a second platform, collaborate with IT, Security, and procurement teams, and create runbooks for vendor programs.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Lead development of full-stack software systems and platforms supporting digital safety research, data analysis, evaluation, and dissemination. Set technical direction, design architectures and data frameworks, establish engineering practices, and guide AI-assisted development. Mentor engineers, support hiring and onboarding, collaborate with stakeholders, communicate technical work, and contribute to cross-functional initiatives.

Build and operate production-grade Python backend services, APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and agentic workflows for an AI observability platform. Own ambiguous projects from prototyping through architecture, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation. Collaborate with product, machine learning, and infrastructure teams, while contributing React front ends when needed. The role requires strong backend depth, distributed-systems expertise, cloud experience, and end-to-end product ownership.

Lead technical integrations of Cedar's platform with client healthcare systems: discover requirements, map data formats, validate data/UAT, communicate technical security and authentication needs, manage complex projects, and represent customer needs to engineering and product teams.

Manages the Marketplace Performance software engineering team, setting technical strategy and delivering business-critical backend and consumer marketplace systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, revenue, and merchant teams; oversees system reliability, monitoring, testing, on-call operations, and technical standards. Develops engineering talent, drives quality and ownership, and contributes to Affirm’s ads platform and marketplace monetization initiatives.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Lead architecture and full-stack development for scalable applications, including interactive dashboards, backend microservices, APIs, data integrations, AI-enabled features, MFT orchestration, and cloud-native DevOps infrastructure. Establish monitoring and operational standards, resolve complex production issues, guide technical strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product leadership on technical roadmaps.

Build and maintain full-stack web applications, interactive dashboards, backend integration services, resilient APIs, and AI-enabled features. Collaborate with engineering, data, product, and DevOps teams to integrate databases, automate deployments, troubleshoot cloud and hybrid environments, and scale enterprise application capabilities. Apply modern frontend, backend, DevOps, data visualization, and continuous delivery practices.

Build AI-powered tools, scalable services, APIs, automations, and community experiences for Brilliant Black Minds. Lead projects independently from design through release, integrate LLM capabilities, and manage community operations including Discord moderation, member engagement, and study groups. Serve as the program’s sole engineer while translating community needs into reliable technical solutions.

Build and maintain Django-based web applications, design RESTful APIs, implement frontend features (HTML/CSS/JS), optimize performance and security, collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the development lifecycle.

Lead enterprise data, ontology, cloud, and AI architecture across Palantir, Snowflake, and AWS. Define data models, governance, integration standards, platform roadmaps, and responsible AI patterns. Oversee Palantir Foundry and AIP ontology architecture, event-driven and API integrations, and AI/GenAI workflows. Lead architecture reviews, establish reusable standards, guide engineering teams, develop executive-level business cases, and align technology investments with business outcomes.