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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Technical leader for the Planning and Recruiting team responsible for designing and scaling backend services for clinical trial matching, patient workflows, and provider integrations. Primarily backend-focused (Java/Kotlin) while contributing to frontend (React/TypeScript). Define architecture, APIs, observability, CI/CD, and production operations. Partner with product and design, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, scalable systems that improve clinical trial access.

Lead technical direction and deliver collision-free motion planning for humanoid robots. Design, implement, test, and deploy trajectory optimization, MPC, and sample-based planners; architect modular planning systems integrated with perception, state estimation, and control; develop algorithms robust to uncertainty; and provide cross-team technical leadership and mentorship.

As a Staff Engineer, you will manage and evolve shared multi-cloud database infrastructure, work with streaming systems, lead initiatives, and ensure observability and performance.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical initiatives, drive quality code, mentor engineers, and work on scalable systems in a high-impact team environment.

Lead design and implementation of the payment integrations platform (APIs, SDKs, embedded web), build scalable payment rails (ACH), drive technical roadmap, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and improve operations via automation, tooling, and observability.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll enhance the release and configuration systems across environments, optimize release pipelines, and provide tooling for reliable deployment, ensuring consistency and scalability while collaborating with various engineering teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop core banking experiences, craft user flows, build APIs, and integrate third-party software, ensuring high-quality, well-documented, and test-driven code.