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

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.

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.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement core services and systems, provide technical leadership, and mentor engineers while focusing on scalable, high-performance software development.

Design, develop, test, and maintain cloud-native, scalable search and distributed system features. Contribute to architecture, ensure reliability, scalability, and security of global cloud infrastructure. Troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, collaborate with product and UX, and mentor junior engineers.

As a Staff Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain backend functionality for scalable services, focusing on storage systems and reliability.

Lead and scale GridUnity's quality engineering strategy: harden agent-driven test pipelines, enforce evidence-backed release gates, retire manual tests, build agent-verdict calibration, embed automated testing in CI/CD, mentor teams, define quality metrics, and expand the system across product lines.

Own and operate the full-stack application surfaces of a live patient-facing product: embeddable React/TypeScript widget, clinician portal, and Python service layer. Advise and make architectural decisions, integrate AI Intake features, ship versioned shared surfaces, keep dependencies current, and mentor junior engineers while partnering closely with AI/ML teammates to coordinate application and model work.

Technical leader for Android POS and handheld apps: define architecture and roadmap, ensure offline-first reliability and performance, lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, drive developer productivity, and write production code for large multi-module Android applications.

Design, build, and maintain automation and testing infrastructure for the North platform: CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, containerized test environments (Docker/Kubernetes), Helm and ArgoCD deployments, infrastructure-as-code, benchmarking, parallel test execution, and cross-team standards to improve test coverage, reliability, and deployment confidence.

As a Founding Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of robust backend systems and APIs, optimize large-scale data workflows, and mentor a growing engineering team.