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

Build and maintain a full-stack sewer inspection analysis platform using React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, AWS, computer vision, geospatial analysis, and Temporal.io. Responsibilities include developing interactive dashboards, scalable APIs, video-processing workflows, mapping and risk-assessment tools, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and automated testing and deployment pipelines.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Nextdoor’s monetization platform, building scalable, reliable, secure systems for advertising and subscription products. Partner with Product, ML, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver complex initiatives. Improve engineering standards, observability, release safety, and developer productivity while remaining hands-on in implementation, debugging, launches, and production operations. Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leaders.

Leads technical vision and roadmap for Freenome’s cloud platform, designs and operates scalable Kubernetes-based systems, and drives cross-team initiatives. The role troubleshoots complex platform issues, improves reliability and cloud-cost efficiency, supports AI adoption, and builds secure infrastructure for AI and data workflows. It also mentors engineers, partners with scientific and technical teams, and remains hands-on with architecture, coding, design reviews, and operations.

Lead the technical direction of backend systems for a cybersecurity assessment platform. Design and build scalable services, APIs, data models, and event-driven workflows; make architecture and reliability decisions; write production code; improve observability and safe deployment practices; lead cross-team initiatives; mentor engineers; contribute to hiring; and translate customer and product goals into technical strategy.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise-scale software supporting healthcare revenue cycle operations. Designs scalable applications, APIs, microservices, integrations, cloud-native solutions, and healthcare interoperability workflows using HL7, FHIR, and EDI/X12. Leads architecture, automation, security, performance, code reviews, troubleshooting, modernization, and technical strategy while collaborating with product, operations, analytics, infrastructure, and engineering teams.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Design and build Temporal Cloud’s multi-cloud infrastructure platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Own platform architecture, declarative infrastructure modeling, Kubernetes reconciliation, deployment control planes, reliability, recovery, and safe production rollouts. Lead system design, roadmap development, incident response, technical reviews, coaching, hiring, and cross-team collaboration while continuing to write production code in Go or another systems language.

Design, prototype, and productionize Generative AI and LLM features across backend and frontend. Integrate ML models, fine-tune, perform prompt engineering, operate inference platforms, and support AI-based product launches while participating in on-call duties.

Lead strategically important software and platform initiatives for Vanta’s Growth organization. Design and build customer-facing SaaS capabilities using TypeScript, React, and Node.js; identify friction through customer research and product analytics; and guide multi-quarter efforts from architecture through adoption. Establish technical direction, coordinate dependencies across teams, coach engineers, and partner with Product, Design, Sales, and Customer Success to improve conversion, activation, time to value, retention, and expansion.

The Lead Rust Software Engineer will design and build scalable applications, mentor teams on Rust, and contribute to complex product development.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting retirement money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, compliance integrations, payroll, and financial workflows. The role involves shipping reliable production code, debugging incidents, improving observability, partnering with product, compliance, and operations, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, financial systems expertise, end-to-end ownership, and Ruby on Rails or comparable backend framework experience.

Own the technical strategy and architecture for Vanta’s government product line. Design and build scalable compliance capabilities for federal, state, local, and education customers; establish reusable platform patterns; lead multi-quarter initiatives; collaborate with design partners and cross-functional teams; and mentor engineers while raising technical quality and engineering practices.

Lead the strategy, architecture, and operation of an internal agent platform, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, and workflow automation. Build reliable, governed agents and tools, establish adoption practices and success metrics, partner cross-functionally, contribute feedback to Temporal products and open-source architecture, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call operations.

Set the multi-year technical direction for the Builder Platform, leading agent platforms, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, and productivity engineering. Establish governance, architecture, standards, metrics, and adoption strategies across the company. Partner with engineering and business leaders to prioritize AI opportunities, improve developer productivity, guide customer-zero feedback into products and open-source frameworks, mentor technical leaders, and reduce operational burden through systemic improvements.

Own and evolve the architecture of Agiloft’s AWS-based cloud services and infrastructure. Lead scalable, secure, reliable, and observable distributed-system design; define service boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns; and drive modernization, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Partner with CloudOps and engineering leadership on reliability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and operational readiness. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, improve developer experience, and guide long-term platform evolution.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading design reviews and sprint delivery, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and driving technical strategy, quality, security, performance, observability, and operational excellence.

Leads and grows an engineering team responsible for customer-facing web, mobile, and backend products. Owns delivery, technical direction, architecture, reliability, hiring, coaching, and career development. Partners with Product and Design to prioritize work and deliver dependable releases. Establishes AI-assisted engineering practices, supports AI-powered customer experiences, and builds systems for scheduling, payments, client management, notifications, and integrations.

Lead development of scalable backend services and platform infrastructure for an AI agent platform. Responsibilities include architecture and code reviews, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, reliability, distributed systems, ML/NLP workload support, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in Java, Python, cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring tools, and data infrastructure.

Lead the technical direction, design, development, and operation of Airbnb’s large-scale Observability platform. Build distributed systems for metrics, logs, traces, querying, anomaly detection, and telemetry cost management. Scale high-throughput pipelines, improve reliability and performance, guide build-versus-buy decisions, mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and help teams self-serve production debugging while collaborating across infrastructure and product teams.

Co-own the architecture and long-term health of a Laravel platform, including its database, APIs, background jobs, integrations, CI/CD, observability, and security. Lead scaling initiatives, modernization decisions, reliability improvements, and agent-ready engineering practices. Set technical direction, review designs and code, mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and help prepare systems for growth and SOC 2 compliance.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Build and own AI-enabled developer experience infrastructure, including agent orchestration, coding-agent runtimes, cloud development environments, CI/CD and build systems, developer portals, and automated compliance guardrails. Make architectural decisions, write production code, lead large platform initiatives, mentor engineers, own major platform components, and partner with engineering leadership on multi-quarter delivery strategy.

Lead the technical direction of Carrum Health’s billing and payments platform. Centralize pricing, define billing service boundaries and data models, and build reliable systems for invoicing, provider payments, and financial reporting. Partner with Product, Finance, Operations, and Data on cross-team initiatives, write architectural documentation, mentor engineers, and ensure financial correctness, observability, auditability, and safe rollbacks. Work primarily with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS in a remote-first startup environment.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.