Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Develop and scale backend patch-management software using Java and Kotlin for millions of endpoints. Implement enterprise software, design scalable systems, build REST services, work with relational databases and caching systems, and uphold rigorous testing and quality standards. Collaborate with AI workflow, server, platform, design, and product teams. React or Angular experience may support occasional frontend work.

Design, develop, launch, and maintain scalable backend systems and APIs used by merchant and partner integrations. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders, balance speed with system quality, debug code, conduct code reviews, and write tested, extensible software. The role requires experience with distributed systems, Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes, along with strong communication and ownership of professional growth.

Senior backend-focused engineer to provide technical leadership across backend, APIs, and data pipelines. Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders, author documentation, and drive engineering best practices on a distributed remote team building scalable energy software.

Build and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CDK. Design highly available cloud environments, automate operational workflows with TypeScript, implement policy-as-code guardrails, optimize cloud costs, and lead disaster recovery planning and testing. The role also involves CI/CD, Kubernetes, networking, identity platforms, cross-team consensus building, project ownership, communication, and mentoring junior engineers.

Build product features and improve technology platforms supporting claims processing and payment. Collaborate with subject matter experts, operations, and technology teams to design solutions that improve member experiences, operational efficiency, and provider relationships. The role requires individual technical contribution, ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to work across a broad technology stack in a fast-paced startup environment.

Designs, develops, deploys, tests, and reviews software applications, features, and defect fixes. Collaborates with team leaders and users to support a product roadmap, analyze requirements, document software, provide developer-level support, and learn existing codebases. The role also involves participating in planning meetings, conferences, and occasional team travel.

Design, develop, secure, and maintain mission-critical Microsoft-platform software for DoD programs. Build C# and .NET applications, responsive JavaScript and EXT JS interfaces, REST APIs, and optimized SQL Server databases. Apply secure coding, STIG, RMF, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and compliance practices. Integrate Kiro AI capabilities, collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering teams, and support deployment and sustainment in classified or controlled environments.

Build Exoware’s production infrastructure from the ground up, including deployment, scaling, upgrades, recovery, CI/CD, monitoring, telemetry, security, and operational tooling. Design reliable systems across Kubernetes, ECS, cloud services, networking, and storage while writing software to automate operations. The role requires architectural ownership, production infrastructure experience, and the ability to improve the underlying distributed systems through production insights.

Lead front-end architecture and cross-team technical initiatives for the NodeZero platform. Build scalable React and TypeScript systems, reusable components, developer tooling, and shared frameworks while improving performance, reliability, accessibility, observability, and CI/CD workflows. Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, guide technical strategy, reduce technical debt, and collaborate with Product, Design, Platform, Security, and engineering teams.

A 12-week software engineering internship involving feature development, software testing, and continuous production deployment. Interns own projects end-to-end, collaborate across engineering and business teams, and receive mentorship while gaining experience with product development and reliable, real-time software systems.

Build and maintain production software implementing healthcare interoperability standards, including FHIR and HL7. Develop APIs, services, data pipelines, validation logic, data models, and automated tests while preserving clinical meaning and data quality. Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, healthcare professionals, product managers, and operations staff to deliver scalable healthcare solutions.

Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs and scalable event-driven cloud solutions using TypeScript and AWS. Build infrastructure as code with AWS CDK, implement secure and highly available architectures, troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, participate in technical planning and code reviews, document solutions, collaborate with teams and vendors, and mentor engineers on AWS best practices.

Design and operate large-scale, AI-native cloud infrastructure (especially Kubernetes/AKS). Improve service quality, automate incident prevention/remediation, accelerate engineering productivity, and integrate AI tools into development workflows.

Design and build reliable, scalable backend services, search APIs, semantic and lexical search systems, and platform components serving millions of users. Collaborate with engineering, product, and QA teams to translate requirements into solutions, while improving observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness. Support multi-region systems using CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, high availability, and disaster recovery practices.

Develop and maintain Java and Angular applications supporting USTRANSCOM’s Integrated Booking System. Responsibilities include implementing requirements, writing and reviewing code, troubleshooting defects, integrating services, supporting CI/CD and secure coding practices, participating in Agile ceremonies, documenting solutions, and contributing to unit, integration, and system testing. The developer collaborates with senior developers, QA, DevSecOps, and infrastructure teams in a fully remote environment.

Build and maintain large-scale automation and control systems for Azure Kubernetes Service. Responsibilities include improving Kubernetes cluster performance and reliability, automating cluster lifecycle operations, developing safety and observability tools, supporting secure infrastructure changes, participating in production operations and on-call rotations, and mentoring engineers through design reviews and continuous improvement.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Own end-to-end delivery of complex software features for a virtual care platform. Design scalable systems, build AI-powered agents and workflows, enhance reliable mobile and web experiences, and translate clinical and user needs into technical solutions. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical staff while focusing on patient impact, product quality, and engineering efficiency.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript advertising technology, specializing in Prebid.js, Prebid Server, header bidding, and Google Ad Manager. Own the header bidding wrapper, implement ad tech integrations, monitor Core Web Vitals and performance, review code, track industry standards, and maintain deployed solutions. The role requires deep programmatic advertising expertise, Google Cloud experience, and ownership of reliable client-side monetization systems.

Build production-grade test automation infrastructure across API, integration, end-to-end, contract, regression, load, and performance testing. Develop Playwright suites, integrate automated tests with GitHub Actions release gates, create AI-assisted test generation workflows, maintain coverage dashboards, reduce flakiness, and establish performance-testing frameworks. Partner with engineers and product managers to define coverage, acceptance criteria, performance thresholds, and quality standards across the organization.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs for Chainguard’s platform. Own features end-to-end from technical design through rollout and iteration, partnering with Product and front-end teams. Develop reliable, observable cloud-native services consumed across multiple products, contribute to roadmap prioritization, and deliver iteratively in a remote startup environment.

Lead the technical evolution of Kilo Code, a large-scale VS Code AI coding extension. Responsibilities include setting architecture and performance direction, building advanced AI-assisted workflows, optimizing startup time and memory usage, driving cross-team initiatives, mentoring engineers, owning production delivery, and establishing engineering standards for context optimization and LLM workflows. The role partners with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and requires hands-on technical leadership across a mature codebase serving millions of users.

Own the networking architecture and roadmap for AKS Flex and Unbounded, enabling secure, reliable, high-performance Kubernetes connectivity across sites, clouds, edge environments, and on-premises infrastructure. Design overlay and underlay networks, routing, encrypted tunnels, eBPF dataplanes, and distributed systems for high-latency and partitioned environments. Integrate InfiniBand and RDMA for AI workloads, lead cross-team architecture efforts, improve global fleet performance and reliability, and participate in production operations and on-call rotations.

Leads architecture and development of highly available, distributed backend systems supporting Airbnb’s AirCover insurance platform. Owns policy, coverage, enrollment, regional rules, experimentation, and scalable multi-region capabilities. Partners with product, data science, legal, and engineering teams; analyzes conversion data; ensures auditability, privacy, reliability, and data integrity; mentors engineers; and applies emerging technologies such as LLMs where beneficial.

Lead architecture and reliability for a high-scale alerting platform. Design rule-based, ML-driven, and correlated detection systems; own Kafka-based event delivery, webhook reliability, idempotency, and sustained-load performance. Transform security and network telemetry into topology and dependency models that support LLM-assisted investigation and remediation. Provide cross-team technical leadership, mentor engineers, and guide long-term platform strategy across multiple alerting teams.