Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Leads group-wide software engineering strategy, architecture, standards, code quality, release governance, platform performance, risk mitigation, budgets, and team structure. Manages large insourced and outsourced engineering, quality, and technical teams while mentoring leaders and recruiting talent. Directs development of full-stack applications, event-driven microservices, AI/NLP systems, and front-end experiences. Partners with product, UX, support, and other business units to deliver scalable solutions and continuous improvement.

Design, build, and maintain the firm's intranet and automated workflows using SharePoint Online, Power Platform, Exchange Online and related Microsoft 365 technologies. Architect secure, scalable persona-based digital experiences, develop automation and templates, implement SPFx/React solutions, integrate REST APIs, support governance, documentation, analytics with Power BI, and drive user adoption and continuous improvement.

The PostgreSQL Database Developer will migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL, manage database environments, ensure performance, and monitor systems proactively.

Manage and optimize customer SQL Server environments: design and maintain databases, tune performance, implement backup/recovery and HA/DR, perform Windows system administration, automate tasks with scripting, enforce security, support releases, troubleshoot environments, and document procedures. Requires Top Secret clearance and on-site presence.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll design and implement secure APIs, build cloud-native products, optimize databases, and collaborate on enterprise security integration.

Build and maintain tools and services that ingest, classify, store, and review intelligence for Elliptic's graph database. Collaborate with analysts and researchers to automate workflows, deploy AI where appropriate, implement observability, and scale collection and analysis pipelines.

Senior Application Developer to lead major technology assignments, act as technical expert across projects, evaluate performance, mentor or supervise others, and build solutions using Node.js/TypeScript, databases, search, and AI technologies while working in a hybrid, cross-functional team.

Provide IV&V support through system analysis, software QA, test automation, and data validation. Develop SQL and Python scripts, support ETL/ELT and data engineering workflows, operate in AWS/Linux environments, use GitHub/CLI, and produce technical documentation for government stakeholders.

Use the Nexthink platform to analyze endpoint telemetry for Windows and macOS, build telemetry-driven visibility and automated remediation, create Nexthink content (investigations, workflows, alerts, dashboards), integrate Nexthink with ServiceNow, and collaborate with endpoint and support teams to improve employee digital experience and operational efficiency.

Lead .NET Core microservices architecture and backend quality, direct an offshore backend pod, design Azure SQL cache and REST APIs, implement Service Bus integrations, own CI/CD security gating, run demos, triage defects, and conduct client handoffs.