Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Build and deploy production software directly with customers in sensitive operational environments. Responsibilities include developing custom integrations, AI agent configurations, analytics, and operator workflows; debugging live agent behavior; adapting the platform to mission-specific needs; and feeding deployment insights back to core engineering. The role requires full-stack engineering, AI/ML understanding, self-direction, regular travel, and extended customer-site work in the DMV region.

Build and maintain full-stack applications, APIs, data pipelines, and applied-AI capabilities for Carlyle’s Global Private Equity platform. Develop Python backends and React or Next.js frontends, integrate enterprise and third-party data sources, and create RAG, knowledge graph, and agentic workflows. Partner directly with investment professionals to identify automation opportunities, translate requirements into software, support adoption, and ensure solutions meet security, governance, privacy, and engineering standards.

Lead modernization of EWG's technology and data infrastructure: define technical roadmap, improve data ingestion/validation/processing, implement automation and AI, establish engineering standards and release processes, strengthen delivery discipline, manage and mentor engineers, remain hands-on coding, and communicate strategy and progress to leadership and external stakeholders.

The Kong API Gateway Specialist will design, implement, and maintain Kong solutions to modernize and secure enterprise APIs, ensuring compliance with federal standards and optimizing API performance.

Own architecture and implementation across React, Node.js, and Web3 integrations. Build decentralized applications, integrate wallets, DeFi protocols, blockchain data, and third-party APIs, and scale real-time data infrastructure. Lead features from design through deployment and production support while improving performance, security, reliability, and interoperability. Work independently in a demanding startup environment with substantial technical ownership.

Develops and delivers resilient full-stack applications and services for Vantage’s reinsurance business. Responsibilities include application design, coding, debugging, testing, architecture discussions, risk management, roadmap estimation, stakeholder consultation, and coordination across project teams. The role promotes software engineering standards, DevSecOps, CI/CD, agile practices, innovation, and mentoring while building solutions with JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, cloud, serverless, and modern infrastructure technologies.

Leads a distributed product engineering team, overseeing hiring, coaching, performance, delivery, quality, incident response, and production releases. The manager partners with Product, writes and ships code weekly using C# and .NET, reviews pull requests, and advances AI-assisted engineering practices. The role requires experience operating regulated systems, managing engineers across time zones, and building secure, reliable software for a healthcare-related SaaS platform.

Develops and administers SharePoint Online collaboration and intranet services in Microsoft 365 GCC. Responsibilities include building SPFx solutions, web parts, forms, workflows, and automations; administering sites, permissions, metadata, governance, and content; maintaining secure accessible web content; supporting APIs and integrations; troubleshooting platform issues; modernizing intranet services; and creating training, documentation, usage reports, and performance logs.

Designs, administers, optimizes, and secures PostgreSQL databases across on-premises and cloud environments. Responsibilities include performance tuning, backups, replication, recovery, high availability, disaster recovery, access controls, auditing, and governance. The role also manages Kubernetes clusters, containerized operations, CI/CD automation, Linux systems, and production support while communicating technical risks and maintaining mission-critical database reliability.

Operate and deploy AI services for U.S. federal agencies, owning service reliability, performance, observability, and stability. Investigate outages, respond to alerts, resolve customer issues, reduce technical debt, and implement lasting fixes. Partner with product, research, infrastructure, legal, and government stakeholders to prototype solutions and improve systems. Participate in on-call rotations, including occasional weekends, and support resilient, high-uptime production environments.