Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and validate reinforcement-learning tasks for AI agents exploring unfamiliar C repositories. Responsibilities include investigating runtime behavior, rewriting engineering questions, refining rubrics and foils, running validation workflows, documenting solutions, and addressing expert review. Work focuses on production systems such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and other foundational C codebases.

Design, develop, test, and maintain secure, scalable software applications and backend services for federal modernization initiatives. Build Java and Groovy services, REST and GraphQL APIs, database integrations, and distributed systems. Collaborate with engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure, product, and delivery teams while contributing to CI/CD, automated testing, cloud adoption, troubleshooting, documentation, and application modernization.

Lead a development team while remaining hands-on in full-stack engineering. Design, build, test, deploy, and support secure web applications using C#/.NET, Angular, databases, and AWS. Drive cloud migrations, architecture, CI/CD automation, application security, troubleshooting, performance and cost optimization. Mentor developers, establish engineering standards, lead technical delivery, and collaborate with product, data, DevOps, and architecture teams.

Build and validate challenging codebase-exploration tasks for AI agents using production Python repositories. Responsibilities include investigating runtime behavior and issue history, rewriting questions, refining rubrics and foils, running validation workflows, documenting solutions, and addressing expert review. The role is fully remote, asynchronous, contract-based, and task-paid, with work performed in a dedicated Studio environment.

Build responsive Web3 applications, web SDKs, developer tools, reusable frontend components, and internal Customer Success tools. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to create scalable, accessible user experiences. Contribute to code and design reviews, automated testing, continuous delivery, coding standards, and AI-assisted development practices.

Work with customers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver cloud-based solutions. Lead design, identify dependencies, mentor engineers, act as DRI and on-call, and improve availability, reliability, observability, and performance. Contribute to open-source assets and collaborate with Microsoft product teams to produce extensible, maintainable code and scalable solution patterns.

Own commercial navigation features end to end across mobile, backend, and web surfaces. Build reliable, customer-facing navigation experiences for commercial fleets despite poor connectivity, dynamic schedules, and changing routes. Define product priorities and success metrics, ship maintainable and tested code, improve observability, and collaborate with product, design, Maps, Telematics, and adjacent engineering teams. The role requires strong customer focus, technical depth, and the ability to make practical tradeoffs in ambiguous problem spaces.

Senior frontend-focused software engineer responsible for authentication, verification, and fraud experiences across web, mobile, and backend systems. The role owns team goals, designs and delivers highly available systems, collaborates with product and design partners, improves engineering standards, supports operations and on-call efforts, and mentors engineers. Candidates should have strong web application architecture experience, proficiency with React or Vue and JavaScript or TypeScript, and excellent communication skills.

Drive projects that improve AI agent effectiveness across software development workflows. Build and maintain reliable developer tooling, iOS frameworks, libraries, build systems, and testing infrastructure. Collaborate with cross-functional partners to improve developer productivity, increase AI agent efficiency and reliability, and deliver roadmap initiatives across large-scale codebases.

Lead iOS platform initiatives that improve developer productivity and AI-agent effectiveness across software development workflows. Build and enhance frameworks, tooling, libraries, build systems, CI, and testing infrastructure for Airbnb’s large-scale Swift codebase. Collaborate cross-functionally to identify inefficiencies, drive roadmap projects, support migrations, and improve AI-agent execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.

Design, build, and operate scalable distributed systems for real-time restaurant payment and financial workflows. Responsibilities include architecting reliable services, protecting sensitive financial data, improving observability and production performance, debugging distributed systems, participating in on-call rotations, applying AI-assisted engineering tools, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring engineers.

Design and implement experiments deep within browser engine subsystems, including DOM, layout, rendering, accessibility, JavaScript runtimes, and networking. Investigate browser behavior, prototype capabilities for programmatic web interaction, measure performance and correctness, profile overhead, and document results. The role requires hands-on systems engineering, browser platform expertise, large-codebase development, and collaboration on AI-agent tooling.

Build and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, test reliability, observability, and engineering productivity at scale. Own services from architecture through production, including SLOs and on-call operations. Lead cross-functional technical projects, partner with engineering teams, mentor engineers, and shape platform strategy.

Build and ship customer-facing transaction features end to end, including APIs, data models, pipelines, integrations, and user interfaces. Collaborate with product and design teams, contribute high-quality code, drive technical discussions, identify risks, and deliver production systems using a modern Python stack.

Own the architecture, implementation, and operational excellence of major Azure Boost DPU software components. Develop low-level systems software spanning operating systems, virtualization, networking, storage, device management, and hardware interfaces. Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, optimize hyperscale performance and reliability, resolve system-level issues, establish engineering practices, influence platform architecture, and mentor engineers across Azure infrastructure teams.

Build and maintain large-scale healthcare data platform software using HL7/FHIR, Apache Spark, Python, Scala, Databricks, and cloud technologies. Shape technical roadmaps, architecture, and implementation approaches; collaborate with product and business stakeholders; maintain CI/CD and staging environments; and mentor junior engineers. The role requires deep healthcare data expertise, technical leadership, and experience with modern software engineering and integration practices.

Develop and maintain full-stack TypeScript applications using React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Build intuitive user interfaces, scalable APIs, and secure systems; collaborate on architecture, code reviews, testing, deployments, incident response, and infrastructure improvements. Mentor engineers, reduce technical debt, participate in Agile ceremonies, and support production systems in a remote-first environment.

Build and maintain full-stack software supporting patient-centered healthcare products. Contribute to architecture, technical standards, code reviews, design discussions, and reliable implementation. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, while advocating for privacy, security, and access to care. Mentor engineers, document knowledge, identify technical improvements, and help shape project direction. The role requires backend, database, cloud, and AI development-tool experience in a fully remote environment.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for Microsoft's virtualization platform, focusing on hypervisor and VMM capabilities. Design, implement, and optimize systems software across Windows, Linux, macOS, Azure, and containers. Improve performance, security, reliability, testing, and operational readiness; diagnose low-level hardware/software issues; enable virtualization on new silicon; mentor engineers; and influence platform strategy across teams and hardware partners.

Lead hands-on full-stack development of scalable product features, from database models through UI components. Set technical direction, architect and optimize systems, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, improve workflows, and champion testing, code quality, and continuous deployment. Collaborate with product and design teams, resolve technical bottlenecks, and lead production releases in a fast-paced startup environment.

Provides technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, a data migration and integration product. Designs and implements reliable distributed systems spanning CDC pipelines, migration engines, APIs, and cloud services. Leads architecture, complex technical initiatives, production troubleshooting, observability, testing, and operational improvements. Partners with product, support, customers, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted development and migration capabilities.

Build full-stack software, backend services, APIs, frontend experiences, and shared integration capabilities supporting AI initiatives across Keeper’s products. Integrate LLMs, agents, and tool-calling workflows into secure production environments while maintaining zero-knowledge principles. Troubleshoot cross-product systems, improve reliability and observability, contribute to architecture and code reviews, automate testing and CI/CD, and collaborate with AI, product, and engineering teams.

Lead development of a massively distributed edge compute platform. Design fault-tolerant systems, external APIs, high-throughput traffic routing, and Kubernetes-based resource management. Establish architecture standards, reliability metrics, security practices, and technical governance. Collaborate with AI/ML, hardware, networking, and security teams; communicate risks to executives; manage customer requirements; review code; and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.

Lead backend TypeScript development and maintain services used by ~5M users. Contribute to full-stack features, code reviews, architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with PM/design to build React-based web and mobile experiences.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.