Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will enhance our investment screening and fraud prevention platform, overseeing the software development lifecycle and collaborating with various teams for compliance-driven solutions.

As a Staff Engineer for Cloudera's Context Search Team, you will lead technical design, platform integration, and optimization of search infrastructure while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to the OpenSearch community.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable software systems and RESTful microservices; write reliable, tested code; implement CI/CD and cloud deployments; optimize performance; troubleshoot defects; mentor junior engineers and participate in code reviews and cross-functional sprints.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable software systems using Python/Java/C++. Build APIs and microservices, manage SQL/NoSQL databases, implement CI/CD, write automated tests, optimize performance, troubleshoot production issues, collaborate in Agile/Scrum, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, implement, and scale event-driven, distributed backend systems in Python on AWS to process and enrich large-scale document and media datasets. Lead technical projects, mentor engineers, integrate ML/LLM components, optimize performance, maintain observability, and collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Product to deliver reliable high-throughput content processing services.

Own and scale quality infrastructure for web engineering during a transition from a monolith to microfrontends. Build shared testing frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, metrics, and AI-enabled tooling to improve test ownership, reliability, and developer productivity. Mentor engineers, define testing strategy across unit/component/integration/contract layers, and create verification loops for agentic code generation.

Lead technical direction and architecture for the Fable backend, own platform reliability (databases, CI/CD, queues, observability), run incident response and postmortems, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally with product/design/ML, and build platform capabilities enabling faster, safer delivery.

Lead design and evolution of Nubank's storage and database platforms (Datomic, provisioning, caching). Ensure performance, availability, regulatory compliance and multi-region resilience. Support country launches, run incident response, mentor engineers, and collaborate horizontally to deliver shared database infrastructure at scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will develop AI security features, enhance vulnerability detection, integrate AI patterns, and collaborate across functions to deliver solutions.

The Senior Software Engineer develops user-facing features and backend systems, collaborating with design and product teams, and focuses on efficiency, product craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.

Design, build, test, integrate, secure, and maintain mission-focused software for classified national security and law enforcement programs. Develop APIs, databases, features, and scripts; participate in Agile delivery, release preparation, production support, troubleshooting, and documentation. Mentor team members and drive modernization, automation, and technical debt reduction.

Lead Software Developer SME providing architecture, secure development, modernization, DevSecOps and CI/CD leadership for classified national security and law enforcement applications. Responsibilities include complex feature and integration development, production issue resolution, code and design reviews, mentoring, and supporting proposal and account-growth activities.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop scalable software systems utilizing AI technologies, mentor junior engineers, and lead architectural discussions.

The Principal Software Engineer builds and scales data pipelines for threat intelligence, ensures production reliability, and drives architectural improvements while collaborating across teams.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the long-term technical strategy for Nubank's credit card platform, ensuring scalability, mentoring engineers, and solving complex architectural challenges while maintaining compliance.

Lead Software Engineer with 6+ years experience to own product development from backend to frontend, focusing on developer experience and product mindset.

Evaluate AI-generated coding interactions, assess quality of engineering judgments, provide feedback, and define standards for AI coding agents. Comfortable making subjective judgments about engineering quality.

The role involves developing secure native mobile applications for iOS and Android, focusing on high-quality performance and security standards while collaborating with teams and articulating complex designs.

The Senior Software Development Engineer will design and implement scalable web services, collaborate across teams, and ensure software simplicity while participating in the full software development lifecycle.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and scale APIs, build backend services, and enhance user experiences, while participating in code reviews and collaborating on project roadmaps.

The role involves architecting scalable crypto systems, leading technical designs, managing brokerage platforms, mentoring teams, and optimizing transactions.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will improve existing code, solve performance issues, mentor team members, and develop web applications using Java and Spring.

Lead design and delivery of secure native iOS and Android apps. Architect security- and privacy-focused features, integrate backend microservices, optimize performance, mentor peers, and uphold best practices in testing and deployment.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the development of Apache Iceberg, enhancing data handling capabilities for large-scale systems, collaborating with teams, and architecting solutions for modern data lakes.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and build scalable solutions for Cloudera's Data Platform, contribute to Apache Spark, enhance engineering processes, and work with large-scale distributed systems.