Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Designs, builds, and ships scalable full-stack features for Toast’s restaurant and retail technology platform. Responsibilities include developing resilient backend services and APIs, responsive web interfaces, distributed systems, and high-throughput enterprise solutions using Java, Kotlin, React, and TypeScript. The role requires solving ambiguous technical problems, ensuring system reliability and observability, applying engineering best practices, collaborating cross-functionally, and mentoring engineers.

Architect and operate scalable backend systems, APIs, distributed services, and secure data platforms using Python and related technologies. Partner with data science and ML teams to productionize AI capabilities, lead cross-team technical initiatives, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers. Own systems throughout the product lifecycle while emphasizing reliability, observability, performance, privacy, and data integrity.

Lead the technical roadmap for partner integrations across APIs, SDKs, and web experiences. Design and build scalable products, standardize external partner integrations, and deliver payment and data-sharing capabilities. Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, Infrastructure, Sales, Partner, and Customer Success teams while remaining hands-on. Drive architecture, code quality, delivery, stakeholder alignment, and technical strategy for high-impact fintech products.

Lead the architecture, development, and scaling of data pipelines and infrastructure for a customer-facing Data Lake platform. Build ETL and ingestion systems using GCP, Debezium, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, Python, Golang, and SQL. Establish engineering standards, deliver strategic projects, mentor engineers, influence cross-functional technical decisions, optimize data services, and shape the platform roadmap.

Lead software engineering for the Patient Onboarding team, building and improving registration, insurance verification, and care-access workflows. Write full-stack production code, lead complex cross-team initiatives, shape technical direction, improve engineering foundations, and support modern AI-enabled development practices. Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering to improve patient conversion and system reliability.

Designs, builds, and scales backend services and integrations for payments, billing, identity, and partner connectivity. Sets technical vision and architecture for distributed systems, leads cross-team delivery, manages production rollouts, builds fault-tolerant services and data pipelines, and mentors engineers. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver frequent, reliable improvements for Flex’s rent payment platform.

Build and own full-stack MarTech services, scalable APIs, event-driven systems, data pipelines, and customer-facing web experiences. Integrate advertising, analytics, messaging, and marketing platforms while supporting attribution, identity resolution, experimentation, acquisition, and retention. Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, product, data, design, and engineering teams to launch measurable growth initiatives. Mentor engineers and establish technical best practices across high-scale marketing infrastructure.

Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase’s enterprise IAM platform spanning human, AI agent, service, and workload identities. Drive adoption across 700+ systems, establish authentication and authorization standards, lead migrations and build-versus-buy decisions, automate audit and regulatory controls, reduce standing privilege, and mentor senior engineering talent. Partner across Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product teams while influencing technical direction without direct authority.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Leads architecture and technical direction for scalable, high-availability software services. Owns complex, multi-team initiatives, makes autonomous technical decisions, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, establishes standards, and advocates for quality. The role develops mission-critical systems supporting millions of endpoints and requires deep Java expertise, scalable system design, API development, relational databases, and strong testing practices.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Build and productionize agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, AI services, backend systems, and ML pipelines for sales automation. Integrate Salesforce, quoting engines, data lakes, and internal platforms using scalable, event-driven architectures. Lead 0-to-1 development of tools for account research, lead prioritization, and quoting while ensuring reliability, observability, performance, and resilience across the GTM technology stack.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Lead modernization of high-throughput cybersecurity detection engines and event pipelines in Go. Own distributed-system reliability, observability, liveness monitoring, load management, schema standards, drift detection, migration validation, and safe cutovers. Provide hands-on technical leadership across teams, set platform direction, write and review production code, and support Sigma-based detection capabilities. Collaborate across a broad stack including Kafka, Temporal, Redis, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and Ruby on Rails.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Lead architecture and delivery of complex web and mobile product initiatives. Build React and React Native applications, scalable components, APIs, data models, and shared libraries. Establish engineering standards, improve testing, performance, security, and reliability, and optimize database queries. Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and partner with leadership and stakeholders to shape the product roadmap. This is a fully remote role supporting veterinary clinic operations and supply-chain workflows.

Own the design, development, and automation of Coinbase’s routing infrastructure connecting services to Kubernetes backends. Build scalable capabilities using Envoy, Istio, Ambient Mesh, and SPIFFE; improve routing latency, reliability, and performance; enhance developer tooling with responsible AI; and collaborate with security, reliability, and observability teams to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.

Design and scale a feature flagging and A/B testing platform, including high-throughput event ingestion, warehouse-native analytics, real-time feature flag delivery, multi-database SQL support, and distributed systems infrastructure. The role involves full-stack development, architecture, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical product influence within a remote startup team.

Build and enhance electricity cost modeling REST APIs and DBT data pipelines that simulate nationwide energy costs. Translate product and subject matter expert requirements into technical designs, specifications, and implementation plans. Participate in design reviews, improve engineering practices, and collaborate with remote teams. The role involves Python, enterprise Java, cloud deployment, data science tools, NoSQL databases, AI/LLM implementation, and mathematical energy analytics.

Staff Software Engineer leading architecture, hands-on development, and delivery of reliable frontend, backend, API, data, and production systems across multiple teams. The role drives multi-quarter initiatives, AI-enabled engineering practices, system scalability, security, observability, incident response, technical standards, mentorship, and alignment between technical investments and product outcomes.