Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

The Software Engineer will develop AI agents for Sazabi, focusing on anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and improving workflow reliability. Responsibilities include prototyping, system design, and working with LLMs.

Develop the interface for an AI-native observability platform. Responsibilities include building features, debugging, and working on real-time streaming functionalities.

As a Founding Software Engineer, you will design and maintain backend services, develop APIs, and collaborate with teams to improve performance and architecture for an AI recruiting platform.

Own and improve cloud infrastructure and CI/CD for a production platform: design IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), operate AWS services (EKS/ECS/Lambda), implement security and observability, automate operations, lead incident response, and contribute to QA automation and application reliability.

Design and build unified testing frameworks enabling portability across SIL, HIL, and simulation. Configure and maintain physical HIL benches and hardware interfaces, integrate automated HIL tests into CI pipelines, collaborate with software teams to improve HIL/CI systems, and monitor runtime performance, system health, and reliability metrics across testing platforms.

Build and operate backend and platform services for the Wikidata Query Service and related data pipelines. Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and automation; respond to incidents; support migrations and deployments; integrate with other Wikimedia systems; participate in design, code review, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

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.

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, 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.

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.