Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

The Software Engineering Manager will lead and optimize data transformation projects using AI, collaborate with various teams, and ensure project delivery while balancing technical debt and new features.

Leads software engineering teams delivering enterprise applications and SaaS products. Owns architecture, technical design, product lifecycle, roadmap execution, release quality, security, reliability, and operational readiness. Partners with Product, Architecture, Quality, Cloud, and Support teams, while driving engineering practices, AI-assisted development, process improvements, and customer issue resolution. Builds high-performing teams, coaches managers and engineers, and communicates technical direction, risks, and delivery outcomes to stakeholders.

Build and maintain backend systems, payment integrations, data pipelines, and user experiences for Flex’s partner engineering platform. Design robust, fault-tolerant services that integrate with external dependencies, using Java, Spring, AWS, REST APIs, message queues, and scalable architectures. Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, infrastructure, sales, partners, and customer success while mentoring engineers and improving development standards.

Design, implement, and operate features for Temporal’s open source distributed systems server. Solve challenges involving scheduling, task processing, workflow execution, persistence, quotas, visibility, and performance. Improve reliability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in design reviews, contribute to developer experience, and mentor junior engineers.

Build and operate internal software, platform services, developer tooling, Kubernetes infrastructure, and reproducible Nix environments. Develop Go and Rust automation, improve CI/CD and reliability, support Linux systems, networking, identity, endpoints, and SaaS platforms, and resolve ambiguous technical problems independently. Partner across engineering, security, operations, and business teams while mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.

Lead development of high-performance Rust parsers, compilers, automata, indexes, and data structures for structured language-model generation. Optimize decoding-loop performance through profiling and benchmarking, integrate Python bindings and C++/CUDA components into inference engines, collaborate across teams, and maintain production-quality code through testing and CI/CD.

Design and develop electromagnetic warfare and spectrum operations software, including data models, RF propagation integrations, C2 and sensor APIs, AI-assisted coding workflows, and deployments across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Demonstrate software to customers, translate feedback into requirements, document and test solutions, mentor developers, and support agile delivery. The role requires an active US Top Secret/SCI clearance and travel to customer sites.

Lead customer implementations of healthcare data platform solutions by configuring the Smile platform, scripting, troubleshooting, designing technical solutions, and providing architectural guidance. Collaborate with customers and internal teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions, support technical analysts, contribute to RFPs, manage concurrent projects, and participate in on-call support.

Develop and architect Salesforce Commerce Cloud features for a telehealth e-commerce platform. Build responsive React and Builder.io experiences, custom cartridges, integrations, and commerce feeds spanning inventory, pricing, order management, prescriptions, reviews, and analytics. Manage OCAPI/SCAPI integrations, Cloudflare caching, Business Manager configuration, performance monitoring, releases, and compliance. Collaborate with agencies and internal teams, mitigate project risks, and mentor junior engineers.

Leads a domain of GiveDirectly’s cash delivery platform, managing 5–7 senior engineers while owning technical outcomes, reliability, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence. Partners with product and organizational stakeholders on roadmaps, technical debt, infrastructure, incident response, and engineering culture. Recruits, coaches, and retains a high-performing team; sets technical quality standards; and scales payment, core platform, or offline-first data collection systems to support billions in annual cash delivery.