Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.

Lead the design and evolution of predictive maintenance platform, build and scale ML-powered features, and mentor other engineers.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role involves leading web platform initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, architecting web applications, and implementing technical strategies for improved performance.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead and support a team in developing reliable and scalable backend systems, collaborating on product development, and improving infrastructure for secure communication between services.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Lead Engineer responsible for end-to-end feature design, development, testing, and delivery of a cloud-based healthcare platform. Work full stack from database to frontend, design scalable data services and APIs, mentor junior engineers, ensure testing and security best practices, and deploy to modern cloud infrastructure.

Lead full‑stack development and architecture for Spark’s broker platform. Deliver customer‑facing features, partner with product/design, mentor engineers, resolve technical debt, and set engineering standards while using AI developer tools.

Lead quality assurance and test strategy across Agile teams, drive automation for testing, mentor QA teams, and ensure high-quality software delivery.

Lead architecture and technical direction for an AI-first SaaS product (Growth Studio). Define scalable services, APIs, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows; guide integrations, run architecture/code reviews and POCs; mentor engineers; produce technical documentation; and partner with product, UX, QA, and ops to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities for GovCon customers.

Build and own a vendor schema registry and semantic validation pipeline that ingests OpenAPI/Swagger/Smithy specs, tracks schema evolution, detects semantic and breaking changes, and provides SDKs and developer tooling to safely map vendor APIs into a canonical knowledge graph used by downstream teams.

Unpaid software engineering internship focusing on full-stack web development with TypeScript, Next.js/React and Node/Express. Work on front- and back-end features, responsive UI with Tailwind, animations with Framer Motion, PostgreSQL and MongoDB integration, REST APIs, microservice-based architecture, code reviews, debugging, and product planning in a remote-first startup.

As a Founding Software Engineer, you'll architect and evolve core backend systems and streaming data pipelines, optimize performance and storage, and define data models to enhance AI deployment safety and performance in real-time environments.

Lead fullstack technical work connecting Python/Django backend services with Unity (C#) client, drive technical roadmap, own live-ops reliability and incident management, mentor cross-functional teams, deliver scalable features, and reduce technical debt for a live-service mobile/PC game.

Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js and React.js on AWS. Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), build CI/CD pipelines, perform Linux troubleshooting, ensure secure-by-design patterns, and collaborate with architects, UI/UX, and DevOps teams to deploy and operate scalable AWS services.

Lead full-stack development across Superset frontend and backend services. Design and ship end-to-end features, improve performance and scalability, own major technical initiatives, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, and the open-source community.

Design, build, and ship native Android features in Kotlin for BJAK's AI Neobank app. Integrate backend APIs, improve performance, reduce crashes, collaborate with product/design, use analytics to iterate, and add on-device AI where it improves UX.

Design, modify, and program software for local, networked, cloud, or internet applications. Write code, test and debug, document installation and maintenance procedures, gather user requirements, implement enhancements, and perform related duties.

Develop and maintain scalable Node.js/JavaScript services on AWS (Lambda, Fargate), build and monitor RESTful APIs, manage data in S3, contribute infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation/CDK), and support integrations with Salesforce (LWC, Apex). Collaborate with senior engineers and product managers, improve systems, and document work.

Develop, maintain, and automate Twilio's Compute cloud infrastructure including scalable cloud-native environments, VM orchestration, hardened AMIs, ASG/EC2 management, container images, and OS libraries. Collaborate with architects and engineers, produce IaC-compliant implementations, author documentation and runbooks, participate in on-call rotation, and support legacy and new platform components using automation and best practices.

The role involves building core infrastructure for orchestrating intelligent agents, defining platform primitives, and ensuring systems scale and reliability. Collaboration with internal teams and end-to-end system ownership are essential.

Design and develop software solutions enhancing user experience for Governance features, contribute to open-source software, communicate technical designs, and support team quality through reviews.

Design and implement front-end features, build high-quality user interfaces, take ownership of product and architecture decisions, collaborate with engineering team, and deliver performant, user-focused solutions.

Map and analyze Epic system tables and data to the Premier spec, develop data transformations and scripts, build SQL queries, stored procedures, and indexes, document mappings, act as SME with vendors/clients, and report project status via tools like JIRA.

Lead research and design of high-power wireless EV charging systems: perform high-fidelity electromagnetic and thermal FEA, model and simulate resonant circuits and power electronics, prototype and evaluate designs, prepare proposals and technical presentations, and collaborate with industry and internal teams. Publication and automotive experience expected.