Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Alpaca’s margin and risk systems across equities, options, crypto, and future asset classes. Design low-latency, high-throughput services for margin calculation, real-time risk enforcement, exposure limits, margin calls, and operational workflows. Drive reliability, correctness, transactional integrity, observability, incident prevention, technical reviews, mentorship, and cross-functional integration with product, brokerage operations, compliance, and engineering teams.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Design, build, and operate backend Go services and smart contracts that mint, burn, bridge, and reconcile wrapped assets across multiple chains. Own end-to-end delivery from smart contract deployment through API design, SLOs, and production rollout. Drive asset migration pipeline improvements, run on-call operations, build observability and runbooks, and mentor junior engineers.

Design and deliver blockchain network infrastructure and platform APIs, lead multi-quarter initiatives (chain integrations, re-architecture, data migrations), define APIs/SLOs/observability and on-call ownership, ship SDKs and platform primitives, establish data contracts, and simplify cross-chain operations to enable analytics, ML, and data engineering teams.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native, enterprise-grade SaaS services on Azure. Lead architecture and design, develop APIs and UIs, apply AI-enabled engineering tools, ensure observability, support production incidents, and drive reliability, performance, and CI/CD improvements across teams.

Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable cloud compute functionality across ARM64 and x86 platforms. Design hypervisor layers, cross-platform build pipelines, and performance optimization solutions while writing, reviewing, documenting, and testing production software. Coordinate globally to deliver compute features and resolve low-level software issues. Provide technical, organizational, and functional leadership to engineers.

Build and scale Ruby on Rails backend systems powering StackBlitz and Bolt.new. Responsibilities include improving application scalability, reliability, and performance; optimizing PostgreSQL and object storage; developing platform features and integrations; supporting developer infrastructure; and reviewing code. The role works across Rails and Node.js/TypeScript stacks in a globally distributed, remote team.

Lead a developer productivity engineering team responsible for CI/CD, build systems, internal tooling, and AI-augmented development workflows. Improve developer experience, engineering velocity, and software quality through scalable infrastructure, productivity metrics, AI tool adoption, coaching, and governance. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, evaluate AI technologies and costs, and establish standards for security, correctness, licensing, and data handling.

Own the enterprise test automation strategy, scale a Playwright and JavaScript framework, expand coverage across Salesforce, MuleSoft, D365, and reporting systems, and build scalable execution and reporting infrastructure. Design QA standards, metrics, and review processes while developing AI-powered agents with Cursor for performance testing, regression analysis, and defect triage. Partner with engineering, product, business, and AI platform teams to deliver governed, reusable quality tooling.

Designs, develops, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Writes high-quality code, leads design and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable architectures, leads sprint delivery, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in programming, databases, APIs, messaging, microservices, containerization, DevSecOps, and technical strategy.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Write tested, high-quality code; translate product requirements into scalable designs; lead design, code, and sprint activities; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role also drives technical strategy, resolves delivery impediments, and promotes secure, maintainable, and reusable engineering solutions.

Build scalable full-stack software for a cloud-based bioprocessing platform connecting scientific workflows, cloud infrastructure, and laboratory hardware. Develop emulators and hardware-in-the-loop testing systems, establish verification and traceability practices for regulated environments, deliver Console platform features, collaborate across software, hardware, and scientific teams, and mentor engineers.

Architect and lead RapidFort’s scalable build platform for producing hardened container images. Responsibilities include designing distributed build systems, automating image creation and validation, improving reliability and performance, solving Linux and container infrastructure challenges, establishing software supply chain standards, influencing cross-team architecture, and mentoring engineers. The role requires deep expertise in Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Bash, CI/CD, distributed systems, and build automation.

Lead architecture and development of scalable full-stack systems spanning web, mobile, backend, data, and partner integrations. Build React and TypeScript applications, Node.js services, APIs, and AWS-based distributed systems. Drive cloud-native DevOps, reliability, security, compliance, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Influence cross-team technical direction, establish shared standards, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives across frontend, backend, mobile, and data domains.

Design, build, and scale high-throughput, low-latency Go services powering blockchain RPC infrastructure. Architect distributed systems, own production delivery, improve uptime and latency, resolve complex production issues, and collaborate across Product, Infrastructure, and Developer Experience teams.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput blockchain infrastructure using Go and Rust. Own distributed systems end to end, including architecture, performance optimization, security, testing, deployment, observability, incident response, and reliability. Lead technical designs and code reviews, mentor engineers, debug complex production issues, and collaborate across Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Developer Experience teams.

Lead backend-focused software architecture and development across distributed systems, data ingestion, experimentation platforms, AI workflows, and product capabilities. Build primarily in Python while contributing to React and TypeScript frontend work. Translate ambiguous product needs into scalable production systems, guide technical direction, partner with product and data teams, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices.

Leads full-stack software development across the Censis application stack, including design, coding, testing, deployment, production support, and defect resolution. Develops C#/.NET and Vue.js applications, REST APIs, and SQL Server solutions. Improves security, reliability, observability, and performance through automated testing, secure coding, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering practices. Mentors developers, leads technical discussions, collaborates across Product, QA, DevOps, Security, and Support, and uses approved generative AI tools responsibly.

Leads and mentors ServiceNow software engineers delivering complex customer projects. Develops and customizes ServiceNow solutions, troubleshoots platform and CSM issues, maintains integrations and modules, collaborates with stakeholders, supports upgrades and performance initiatives, documents technical solutions, and performs deployments.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Build simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Develop tools that model hypothetical scenarios, vary configurations and assumptions, compare outcomes, surface tradeoffs, and identify risks. Design scalable, reliable backend systems for complex, evolving network states while collaborating across product engineering to integrate capabilities into broader workflows. Responsibilities span system design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operational support.