Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Design and implement scalable full-stack solutions for institutional platforms. Lead API and microservices design, cloud (AWS) deployments, CI/CD and DevSecOps, collaborate with product and QA, troubleshoot production, and mentor distributed teams.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications for intermediary clearing and custody platforms. Collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering teams to modernize applications, implement cloud migrations, build APIs, automate workflows, and improve CI/CD, observability, security, and deployment practices in an Agile environment.

Design and build Java-based, messaging and microservice applications. Lead API design, cloud/container solutions (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure), CI/CD, and relational database development (DB2/Oracle). Provide technical leadership, mentoring, code reviews, and resolve cross-technology roadblocks. Work on blockchain and digital asset solutions (Ethereum, Solana) and smart contracts (Solidity, Rust, Move) within financial services.

Design, architect, and build enterprise Java microservices and APIs; lead technical delivery, mentor engineers, implement cloud-native and CI/CD practices, design database schemas and PL/SQL, and develop blockchain/digital-asset solutions including smart contract work and lifecycle integration in financial services.

The Senior Software Engineer II at Freenome will design and develop reliable backend services, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams in a remote setting.

Lead the development of a search and data integration platform, ensuring architecture, integration, and delivery of complex software systems in a safety-focused environment.

Develop and manage control plane services for Flink, focusing on orchestration and reliability. Responsibilities include code quality, mentoring, and communication across teams.

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end, accessible, secure full-stack software for a federal health/civilian agency. Build Section 508-compliant UIs, backend APIs, and services; follow API-first, CI/CD, automated testing, and security best practices; identify and remediate technical debt; mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, performant government software.

Design and build secure, scalable cloud-native, AI-enabled applications and microservices for utilities. Lead architecture, translate requirements, develop APIs and data-driven solutions, mentor engineers, and ensure software quality and delivery.

Design, configure, and administer the Splunk observability platform for enterprise-scale log and event ingestion. Optimize pipelines for performance, cost, and retention; integrate Splunk with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes), CI/CD and deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible), and enterprise systems (ServiceNow, PagerDuty). Implement automation using Python/Bash, manage Splunk apps/roles, and support observability and APM initiatives while collaborating within SAFe using Jira and Confluence.

Lead architecture and evolution of enterprise observability platforms (APM, infrastructure monitoring, session replay, log analytics). Define integration patterns, telemetry standards, and governance. Partner with Engineering, SRE, Product, and Infrastructure to embed observability best practices, evaluate new technologies (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, AI-driven observability), drive platform standardization, and manage vendor relationships to improve MTTD/MTTR and system reliability.

Build polished, maintainable React-based front-end product experiences; evolve front-end architecture and component patterns; translate ambiguous product ideas into executable plans; collaborate with product and design; prioritize UX quality, testing, and pragmatic tradeoffs; mentor and raise team effectiveness at the Staff level.

As a Staff Data Engineer, you'll architect and build data pipelines, champion small data strategies, mentor teams, and ensure operational excellence in data workflows.

Lead design and implementation of batch and stream loading systems to ingest terabytes daily. Provide technical leadership on the Streamloader team, collaborate with architects, engineers, product, sales, and customers, and develop high-performance distributed software in C++ and/or Java while ensuring system reliability and customer success.

Lead Platform Engineer to design and evolve Subaru.com using Java, AEM, and AWS. Lead architecture and technical delivery, mentor teams, run design and code reviews, enforce quality, and build scalable web applications and services integrating front-end, mobile, and third-party clients.

Build and maintain the GG App across Windows, macOS, and iOS including installers, background services, auto-update systems, enterprise deployment paths, health reporting, AWS backend, and documentation. Lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and champion AI adoption and automation across engineering.

Design, build, and operate managed compute primitives for Temporal Cloud: autoscaling, multi-tenant safety, multi-cloud integrations, secure cross-account execution, observability (SLOs, tracing/metrics), and ship end-to-end APIs with strong operational ownership and mentorship.

Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch core storage and query engine components for observability workloads. Drive architectural improvements, resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing and serialization, optimize data layouts for object storage, lead cross-organizational initiatives, mentor engineers, triage community issues, and write idiomatic modern Java in a distributed team.

Lead design and delivery of large-scale, cloud-native services powering millions of devices. Architect solutions for scalability and integration, own full service lifecycle in Kubernetes, mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and drive engineering best practices across cross-functional teams.

Drive architecture and technical vision for Elasticsearch core storage and query engine. Lead performance and storage-efficiency improvements, design indexing/serialization/data layouts, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-organizational initiatives, triage community issues, and write idiomatic modern Java for logs and metrics workloads.

Lead frontend technical direction for the Trellis design system: design and build a production component library, define accessibility and theming models, create tooling and migration pipelines (codemods, refactoring automation), leverage AI coding agents, mentor senior engineers, and partner with PM/UX to drive frontend architecture and adoption across product teams.

Lead technical direction for the Growth team at Sanity.io, focusing on scalable solutions, mentoring engineers, and making data-informed architectural decisions.

You will develop and maintain components of the LLVM based toolchain, collaborating with the community while ensuring platform-specific optimizations and tests.

Work with senior engineers to develop, test, and maintain full-stack web applications. Build front-end interfaces, implement back-end APIs, write clean code, assist with testing and code reviews, participate in Agile ceremonies, and continuously learn new tools and best practices.

The role involves developing and optimizing core components of the Flow blockchain protocol, focusing on performance, scalability, and reliability, while also ensuring interoperability with the web3 ecosystem.