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

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.

Build and own front-end features from concept through delivery for cybersecurity products. Collaborate with Product and Design to create intuitive UIs, improve engineering practices and tooling, simplify complex systems, and contribute to architecture and design systems. Use modern front-end tech (React, TypeScript) and AI-assisted tools to increase quality and delivery.

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.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

Build and operate Coinbase's LLM and agent platform: design the LLM gateway, agent runtime, knowledge bases, AI spend governance, observability/eval tooling, and ship production agents while partnering cross-functionally to ensure secure, cost-effective, and responsible generative AI at scale.

Join the MongoDB Server Query Optimization team to build a distributed open-source query optimizer, focusing on enhancing query performance and robustness. Responsibilities include innovation in flexible schema databases, mentoring team members, and contributing to the technical roadmap based on extensive experience in the database domain.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Drive the Continuous Integration team, ensuring build systems' reliability and scalability, and mentor CI engineers while improving developer productivity through automation and tooling.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead full-stack initiatives, improve system quality, drive technical direction, and mentor peers in a collaborative environment.

The role involves leading application performance improvements across multiple platforms, focusing on measurable metrics and driving engineering standards and workflow optimization, using both hands-on coding and strategic influence.

Lead technical vision and implement high-impact Ruby on Rails solutions for an internal demo platform. Improve reliability, observability, instrumentation, and integrations; partner with Product, Sales, and cross-functional teams; mentor engineers and drive architecture, testing, and engineering best practices.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build scalable data solutions, manage backend systems, and enhance performance leveraging Golang and Python. Responsibilities include optimizing ETL processes and collaborating with teams to meet evolving customer needs.

Lead technical direction for the ControlCheck team, design cross-domain systems (frontend, backend, infra), drive architectural decisions for Ruby on Rails and FastAPI services, de-couple and scale microservices, debug distributed systems, mentor senior engineers, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and influence engineering roadmaps without direct people management.

Design, build, and deploy enterprise-scale AI systems (agents, retrieval/RAG, generative AI) and reusable platforms. Own end-to-end solutions from discovery through production, testing, observability, and mentoring, driving architecture, standards, and cross-team adoption.

Build, operate, and scale core data services and APIs to process, store, and deliver large-scale patient health records with low latency and high availability. Provide technical leadership, contribute to architecture and design, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and coach engineers.

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 delivery of high-complexity digital banking implementations: design and build Java Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, cloud-native containerized deployments, data and DB migrations, event streaming, monitoring and performance optimization. Act as a customer-facing technical lead conducting code reviews, test strategies, and cross-functional coordination to resolve operational issues.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead AI integration into software design, develop scalable systems, and mentor other engineers while improving best practices.