Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Design, build, and own scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications across frontend, backend, and data layers. Improve system architecture, performance, reliability, and testing practices. Integrate AI-assisted tools, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, production-grade software.

Lead systems engineering for Hivemind-based autonomy products: define and manage requirements, develop system architectures and trade studies, coordinate hardware/software interfaces, support integration/verification/validation and testing, and identify and mitigate technical risks across the system lifecycle.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Build and own full-stack features for a global peer-to-peer learning platform. Responsibilities include defining problems with users and stakeholders, developing prototypes and experiments, writing maintainable code, coordinating contributions, deploying products, and improving existing systems. The engineer will also participate in code reviews, pair programming, product ideation, and technical decisions balancing speed, quality, safety, and user experience.

The Senior SDET will design and execute automated and manual tests across smoke, regression, integration, and performance testing. Responsibilities include building regression automation, documenting test behavior and results, identifying defects and quality risks, maintaining GitHub repositories and scripts, collaborating throughout the software development lifecycle, incorporating customer feedback, supporting planning and estimations, and participating in on-call rotations.

Designs, develops, and leads scalable healthcare software solutions involving transaction processing, interoperability standards, integrations, and data platforms. Provides hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, quality ownership, risk management, technical mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires building high-performance cloud-based SaaS solutions using microservices and serverless architectures, while guiding engineering strategy and ensuring secure, reliable delivery.

Design and build complex customer-facing product features, own technical decisions, contribute to architecture and technical direction, uphold code quality, mentor engineers, and support production incidents. The role collaborates closely with Product and Design across a modern web stack including React, TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, relational databases, and Microsoft Azure.

Lead development of Device OS platform infrastructure connecting industrial machines and applications to Apkudo. Own integration services, APIs, software and model deployment, staged rollouts, rollback, fleet monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, and operator-facing control surfaces. Partner with robotics, AI, design, and operations teams to create reliable interfaces and deployment workflows for heterogeneous distributed devices.

Build and own Android growth and monetization experiments across subscriptions, advertising, purchases, and upgrade flows. Partner with product, design, data science, and analytics to instrument experiments, evaluate results, and ship reliable experiences at consumer scale. Use AI-native workflows for specification, coding, testing, and review; improve mobile engineering practices; contribute to architecture and code reviews; participate in on-call; and mentor engineers.

Lead design and implementation of Pinterest Edge systems (CDN, TLS, DNS, proxies) to manage automation traffic and rate limiting at scale. Develop request-processing logic in Envoy, collaborate with vendors and platform teams, mentor engineers, use AI to accelerate workflows, and participate in on-call incident response and reliability improvements.

Develop and ship features for mobile games across Unity/C# clients and Go backend services. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Art, troubleshoot live-product issues, improve code quality, maintain build and content pipelines, conduct testing and code reviews, support releases, and investigate regressions. The role requires ownership from implementation through production with limited supervision.

Design, build, and maintain software using Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, CQRS, and Event Sourcing. Use Cursor and Claude to plan, write, refactor, and test code. Collaborate with small teams, product owners, clients, and engineers to solve business problems, translate requirements into maintainable systems, and mentor teammates on architecture and agentic development workflows.

Leads architecture and development of Trellix’s high-throughput cloud threat detection platform. Designs microservices, asynchronous submission pipelines, sandbox execution systems, full-stack analyst interfaces, secure AWS infrastructure, identity integrations, telemetry pipelines, and compliant multi-region architectures. Owns infrastructure as code, observability, production reliability, security practices, technical documentation, incident response, and SLA commitments while integrating AI-assisted development tools.

Build and scale reliable software systems supporting donor platforms, cash payments, and rapid-response programs. Own features end to end from architecture through deployment and monitoring, improve CI/CD and testing, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, operations, and data teams. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps and sustainable engineering practices in a mission-driven, fully remote organization.

Design and deliver scalable full-stack enterprise applications using Node.js and Vue.js. Lead architecture and technical design, integrate AI/ML capabilities, optimize development with AI-assisted tools, contribute to cloud deployments and CI/CD, and ensure security, observability, performance, and maintainability. Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with product, data, and AI teams.

Lead hands-on software engineering and architecture across multiple teams, designing and delivering Angular and .NET applications, APIs, integrations, cloud solutions, and reusable engineering platforms. Modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and security, troubleshoot production issues, strengthen CI/CD and testing, and mentor engineers. Establish practical AI-assisted development practices and customer-facing AI capabilities with appropriate security, validation, traceability, and human oversight.

Own and evolve scalable distributed systems, REST APIs, backend services, and core product areas. Design solutions, improve resilience, reduce technical debt, and drive modularization. Use AI-first and agentic development practices, evaluate emerging AI tools, and help integrate AI across engineering workflows. Collaborate asynchronously with product, data, and go-to-market teams while improving engineering tools, processes, and system reliability.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, migration, reliability, scalability, performance, and security of cloud-native authentication services. Drive complex multi-quarter initiatives using Go and Python across AWS and GCP, establish engineering standards, support incident response and observability improvements, and influence cross-functional roadmaps. Mentor engineers through technical guidance, reviews, and collaboration while participating in on-call support.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Build and maintain scalable backend applications, serverless functions, microservices, data workflows, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native architectures using Python and AWS. Manage databases, APIs, batch jobs, and real-time integrations while optimizing performance, scalability, security, compliance, and cost. Collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, and data teams; contribute to architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, development standards, and technical mentorship. Healthcare claims data experience is required.

Build full-stack features for a real-time collaborative content platform, spanning backend services, APIs, and frontend systems. Design and implement maintainable, well-tested software; contribute to architecture and technical decisions; collaborate with product and design; integrate AI into development and product workflows; participate in code reviews; and help establish engineering quality standards on an early-stage team.

The Senior Software Engineer for the Treasury team will develop backend services for fund management, ensuring system reliability and leading projects in a fast-paced environment.

Leads architecture and development of Thunderbird’s web-based Services products, including calendar and secure file storage offerings. Responsibilities include writing code, prototyping, selecting technologies, developing analytics and infrastructure, solving complex problems, guiding product direction, mentoring engineers, and improving scalability and sustainability. The role collaborates across engineering, product, design, QA, Mozilla, and open-source communities in a fully remote environment.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Thunderbird’s web-based Services products, including calendar and secure file storage offerings. Responsibilities include writing code, prototyping, making technology decisions, developing analytics and infrastructure, solving complex problems, mentoring engineers, collaborating across product and design teams, and improving system scalability and maintainability. The role also contributes to product growth, open-source collaboration, and data-informed decisions within a fully remote international team.