Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Lead and manage an API engineering team owning core services for Fundrise investor applications. Set technical direction, coach engineers, drive architecture, ensure production quality, security, monitoring, and coordinate cross-team delivery.

The role involves building AI applications for government, architecting deployments, collaborating with research, and ensuring effective customer integration.

Customize and enhance the ServiceNow platform within a Nuvolo environment. Develop applications using JavaScript/GlideScript, perform system integrations, gather stakeholder requirements, create documentation, test solutions, troubleshoot issues, and implement best practices to ensure optimal performance and scalability.

Contract 6-month full‑stack role building and shipping web applications. Develop UIs in React, back-end services in Python/Ruby/Node, work with SQL, collaborate with engineers, data scientists and product managers, review/debug code, follow best practices, prototype solutions, and integrate AI/ML tools.

Provide technical leadership and hands-on Oracle EBS development/support for federal G-Invoicing buyer/seller solutions. Develop and maintain RICE-W elements, integrate with client systems, troubleshoot user issues, support testing and change control, and produce system documentation while identifying automation opportunities.

Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and RESTful APIs using Java and Node.js (NestJS). Build scalable, event-driven microservices with Kafka, work with SQL Server/MongoDB, deploy and monitor on AWS/GCP, and containerize/orchestrate with Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS. Collaborate across teams, refactor code for performance, and follow software best practices.

Serve as the senior software development SME while performing full-stack Java web development and O&M activities. Guide developer teams, prioritize work, coordinate technical meetings, resolve issues, optimize processes, analyze requirements, estimate effort, review code, conduct testing, troubleshoot environments, create technical documentation, and implement software updates. The role requires extensive J2EE experience, SPA development, DevOps and CI/CD expertise, and active Public Trust/MBI clearance supporting an IRS Criminal Investigation system.

Lead full-stack development of Virtru's data protection products: build React front-ends and Go backends, deploy and operate SaaS on AWS/GCP, implement automated testing and monitoring, participate in on-call rotations, mentor teammates, and drive delivery of medium-to-large cross-system features.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.

Develop and deploy serverless AWS applications, build and maintain REST APIs, implement CI/CD (ADO) pipelines, write automated tests, and use OpenAPI for API-first design.