Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead design and implementation of backend services for payments, billing, ledgers, settlements, and reconciliation. Drive architecture, integrate with external payment and banking partners, ensure financial accuracy, security, compliance, scalability, and operate mission-critical production services.

Develop and independently execute backend features, build APIs, design data models, maintain infrastructure, and resolve customer issues. Write tested, scalable, reliable code and develop validation procedures. Support internal capabilities and ML systems while designing elegant solutions with strong observability, SLA, and scalability considerations. Collaborate with application and front-end engineers and own large backend-focused projects.

Build, maintain, and scale cloud-first microservices using TypeScript/Node.js. Contribute to front-end features with Angular, optimize SQL and NoSQL queries, use CI/CD pipelines, adopt AI-assisted tools, participate in Agile ceremonies, and collaborate with senior engineers to deliver reliable software.

Lead design, implementation, and operation of Signifyd's GCP/Kubernetes cloud platform. Architect scalable, secure infrastructure, embed AI-driven automation, own SLOs and incident response, improve developer experience via CI/CD/GitOps tooling, mentor engineers, manage cloud capacity/FinOps, and build observability and security into the platform.

Build and operate distributed, event-driven backend services for Stacklet’s cloud governance platform. Responsibilities include developing GraphQL APIs, policy execution pipelines, cloud asset and cost data stores, and scalable multi-cloud systems. The role requires designing for reliability, observability, retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency; managing PostgreSQL schemas and migrations; and using AWS serverless services, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated testing. The engineer will also lead backend initiatives, mentor teammates, and contribute to architectural decisions.

Build and maintain full-stack donor-facing giving forms, payment flows, recurring giving, memberships, and administrative tools. Own projects from architecture through production support, ensuring reliability, accessibility, performance, and data integrity. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers; mentor junior engineers; contribute to technical standards, security monitoring, hiring, and rotational on-call support. Potentially serve as a Tech Lead for roadmap implementation and technical decision-making.

Senior Software Engineer joining Fetch’s Data Platform team to architect and evolve scalable data pipelines, governed data access, delivery infrastructure, and partner integrations. The role owns ambiguous technical problems, leads multi-system initiatives and migrations, improves reliability and engineering efficiency, shapes technical direction, collaborates across teams, and mentors engineers. Candidates need strong backend or platform engineering experience, data infrastructure knowledge, cross-team leadership, operational judgment, and excellent communication skills.

Leads end-to-end development of high-scale Yahoo Mail web features, from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. Uses AI-assisted development tools while validating code for security, performance, accessibility, and correctness. Collaborates with product and UX teams, conducts code reviews, mentors engineers, and improves software lifecycle efficiency through automated workflows.

Build and maintain high-throughput, low-latency backend services for Life360’s AdServer and Exchange platform. Own projects from architecture and implementation through deployment, improve real-time bidding and auction logic, integrate advertising partners, and support observability, incident response, and reliability. Collaborate with architects and product teams, use AI coding tools daily, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to engineering standards.

Lead initiatives in designing and building large-scale distributed data systems and ML infrastructure, while collaborating across various engineering teams.

Lead the architecture, development, and operation of Airbnb’s global Payments Compliance systems. Set technical direction for compliance experiences, regulatory screening, information collection, and continuous auditing. Collaborate with Product, Design, Policy, Operations, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, configurable, auditable, highly available solutions. Mentor engineers, lead project teams, improve engineering processes, and ensure compliance systems adapt to evolving global regulations.

Design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend services and APIs for KeeperApp. Own backend components, optimize MySQL schemas/queries, ensure performance and reliability, apply secure coding practices, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver features iteratively.

Develop and maintain IoT edge technology, including cloud architecture, device firmware, fleet management, remote connectivity, and software updates. Build scalable systems that receive data from and manage thousands of devices, ensure fleet uptime and quality, and collaborate with customers, field support, manufacturing, and engineering teams. The role requires production software development, AWS and database experience, Linux knowledge, and basic electronics familiarity.

Build performant, well-tested, responsive frontend UIs in collaboration with product and design. Translate Cloud Custodian concepts into user-friendly interfaces, lead frontend initiatives, mentor engineers, and work on a distributed Agile/DevOps team.

The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will lead technical vision and architecture, develop software for autonomous drones, and mentor team members, ensuring high-quality delivery and system health.

The Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack will lead product development by collaborating with teams, owning projects from inception to production, and ensuring high-quality code and system performance.

Design, build and ship native Android features using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Integrate REST APIs, improve performance and reliability, debug production issues, and create AI-assisted on-device experiences (TensorFlow Lite). Collaborate with product and design to simplify complex financial user journeys.

Serve as technical lead for software development, testing, deployment support, release management, requirements analysis, defect resolution, and technical oversight for MIS. Lead development, testing, UAT, Section 508 compliance, performance/capacity testing, documentation, and modernization/migration efforts.

Join Docker's IAM team as a Senior Software Engineer to design and operate backend identity services focusing on authentication, authorization, and security for millions of developers. You'll lead projects, mentor teammates, and evolve Docker's identity model in a remote-first global environment.

Lead technical vision and full-stack development for a large-scale content platform and no-code tools. Build AI-driven, agentic systems, mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, and collaborate with product, design, and marketing to deliver scalable content solutions.

Remote Senior Software Engineer who evaluates Microsoft and complementary technologies, designs and implements custom software (C#, JavaScript, SQL), applies cloud and DevOps practices (Azure/AWS, CI/CD, containers), mentors and networks professionally, and continuously learns and advises clients.

Design, build, and operate core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform. Collaborate with cross-functional and ML teams to enable scalable, high-performance systems, provide production support and troubleshooting, and drive platform features that serve multiple products and engineering teams.

Design, develop, and maintain core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI product. Lead foundational components, collaborate with cross-functional and ML teams, support production systems, troubleshoot performance and scalability, and cultivate developer-friendly frameworks and practices to enable large-scale distributed, AI-oriented workloads.

Lead development of the production toolchain that compiles complex Python packages (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch). Build and maintain build/release pipelines, create and review conda recipes, automate processes, mentor engineers, run incident response and postmortems, and advise leadership on technical tradeoffs. Partner with distribution and wheels teams and validate AI-assisted code where used.

Design, build, and scale embedded connectivity and security for distributed energy devices. Implement networking (Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/Thread/Zigbee/BLE), secure provisioning, OTA firmware pipelines, telemetry, and diagnostics. Support testing, certification, manufacturing validation, and cross-functional collaboration from prototype to deployment.