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

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Lead cross-pod technical direction and system design for high-scale backend services, embed AI-native development practices, collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from design through production.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

The Engineering Manager for Developer Productivity will lead a remote team to enhance developer productivity, focusing on AI integration, tooling evaluation, and team development while collaborating with cross-functional partners.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines; integrate AI-powered infrastructure; implement and support complex computing algorithms and distributed services; own systems end-to-end including architecture, observability, reliability, and operational support; lead architectural initiatives and reduce system complexity while maintaining performance on large-scale real-time data.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Lead design and delivery of complex web and mobile product areas, build and maintain React/React Native applications, architect scalable systems and APIs, optimize databases and performance, drive engineering standards and test coverage, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership and stakeholders in a fully remote environment.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Design, build, and operate core CIAM backend services for registration, authentication, authorization, account lifecycle, and profile management. Implement OAuth2/OIDC/SAML/SCIM, develop APIs in Python/Kotlin, integrate identity platforms, automate deployments with IaC/CI-CD, and monitor/optimize services for reliability, security (MFA, token handling, encryption), and abuse detection at scale.

Lead design and delivery of enhancements to a next-generation AI agent platform. Own large features and infrastructure, mentor engineers, set technical standards, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability and SLOs, and influence product and process decisions to scale systems supporting millions of interactions.

Lead end-to-end engineering of an AI-driven biomanufacturing platform: design and deploy LLM-powered agents and RAG systems, build full-stack React/Node/MongoDB pipelines, harden AWS infrastructure for regulated (GxP/Part 11) production, and deploy/integrate with customer LIMS/ERP/QMS.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Ocient's Loading and Transformation platforms, designing scalable batch and stream ingestion systems. Own ambiguous, cross-team initiatives end-to-end, mentor engineers, and implement high-performance distributed software using modern C++ and/or Java. Partner with product, sales, and customers to translate needs into reliable, petabyte-scale solutions.

Lead engineering of core scheduling and orchestration subsystems for an orbital edge compute platform. Own an MVP for autonomous scheduling across compute node fleets, scale to larger satellite fleets with data sovereignty, design performant and reliable distributed engines, build scheduling and workload-placement logic for intermittent-connectivity edge environments, and provide technical leadership while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, customer-focused solutions.

Lead a small engineering team to design, build, and deliver full-stack features using React, TypeScript, Python (Django), Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Own technical delivery from design through deployment, driving testing, CI/CD, containerized deployments (Kubernetes), event-driven architectures (Kafka), performance, reliability, and mentoring across the team while partnering with Product and Design.

Build and operate backend systems and APIs (Go, REST/gRPC) for entitlements, policies, and customer onboarding. Lead cross-team integrations, extend AI features into customer experiences, own features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and drive a product-focused roadmap with iterative delivery.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ingestion agents for fleet robotics. Define efficient data formats/protocols, implement observability and big-data processing (Spark/Kafka), and build cloud tools (S3, Athena, SageMaker) for analytics, IoT integration, and long-horizon forecasting to improve robot performance and operational insights.

Lead architecture and development of high-scale systems for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving user profiles. Drive cross-team initiatives across APIs, streaming infrastructure, and data processing. Improve scalability, reliability, data quality, observability, and performance while mentoring engineers and partnering with product, data, and ML teams to enable segmentation, personalization, and ML use cases.

Lead design and implementation of scalable APIs and agent communication layers for an AI-agent driven advertising marketplace. Build high-throughput backend systems, integrate agent frameworks and adtech partners, drive architecture for authentication and protocols, mentor engineers, and prototype agent communication patterns while collaborating with product and design.

Lead architecture and implement core backend services and data models that manage account state, eligibility, and entitlements at scale. Collaborate with product, design, Payments/Wallet, and identity teams to ensure correctness, reliability, and extensibility. Drive cross-team architecture decisions, mentor engineers, run design reviews, and proactively identify and mitigate scalability, reliability, and data-integrity risks.

Lead technical strategy and execution for build, test, release, and deployment systems. Drive initiatives to improve developer productivity, deployment safety, and platform reliability. Coordinate cross-team projects and migrations, contribute high-impact code, coach engineers, and lead incident response and resilience improvements for shared engineering systems.