Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Build and launch complex backend projects, design scalable architectures, lead code reviews, resolve high-risk issues, and contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives. The role involves Java development, distributed systems, cloud platforms, databases, performance optimization, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical decisions across teams.

Lead technical direction and implementation of large-scale product features, delivering secure, reliable, maintainable full-stack software. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams, address production issues, conduct code reviews, document solutions, and mentor teammates. Build and test front-end and server-side systems using modern frameworks, APIs, databases, and data-driven development practices.

Lead the technical direction and delivery of Bitcoin and stablecoin experiences for iOS across Cash App, Square, and Bitkey. Build and ship complex features end to end, establish architecture and shared systems, integrate backend services, improve testing and release safety, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across product, design, Android, web, and backend teams while applying AI-assisted development practices and contributing to secure, reliable customer experiences.

Lead technical direction and hands-on development of Bitcoin and stablecoin iOS products across Cash App, Square, and Bitkey. Own architecture, implementation, testing, service integration, rollout, observability, security, and post-launch improvements. Build foundational systems, mentor engineers, influence cross-team standards, collaborate across platforms, and integrate AI-assisted development tools while maintaining software quality and reliability.

Design and evolve shared backend infrastructure, including APIs, realtime transport, storage frameworks, background job systems, workflow orchestration, and internal tooling. Improve reliability, performance, observability, and security while partnering with product teams on reusable abstractions. Lead technical design discussions, drive migrations and refactors, mentor engineers, and help establish backend architecture and engineering standards.

Build backend-leaning product features for Hex’s AI analytics platform, including APIs, CLI workflows, MCP integrations, access-control systems, enterprise administration, and full-stack product changes. Design scalable systems, implement complex business logic, collaborate through RFCs and code reviews, and contribute across the application stack. The role uses TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, and related infrastructure technologies.

Build and improve backend services, REST APIs, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, content-management integrations, and reliable customer-facing features. The role requires collaborative software development experience with prominent programming languages, REST integrations, Git, and server technologies such as Docker, NGINX, and Node.js. Experience with enterprise content management systems, AWS, Java, Freemarker, or Rust is advantageous.

Build and operate full-stack compliance platforms for transaction search, entity labeling, ingestion, and workflow automation. Responsibilities include designing microservices and event-driven systems, writing tested code, improving sensitive financial data quality, building self-service tools and high-volume pipelines, partnering with Compliance and Risk teams, and participating in on-call operations. The role also involves using AI-powered development tools, reviewing code, and supporting engineering standards.

Build and launch scalable fullstack web applications and APIs for Affirm’s Ads Platform. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering partners to break projects into deliverable phases, make technical trade-offs, write tested and extensible code, monitor service metrics, support on-call operations, review code, and participate in team development and interviews.

Develop backend tools and systems that improve batch development, testing, workflow efficiency, and reliability. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, design, and analytics teams; break projects into deliverable phases; build scalable, well-tested code; monitor metrics; support system availability and on-call operations; debug code; conduct reviews; and contribute to engineering growth and hiring activities.

Build and improve high-traffic consumer web experiences using React and TypeScript. Contribute to experimentation, client-side tagging, marketing integrations, attribution, measurement, performance, testing, observability, and privacy-aware development. Collaborate with Product, Design, Marketing, Analytics, Data Engineering, and senior engineers. Break down projects, write reliable and extensible code, support operations and on-call efforts, participate in code reviews, and contribute to team growth.

Lead the design and development of ETL solutions for regulatory risk compliance at PNC, requiring advanced programming skills and collaboration on data-intensive applications.

Design and implement backend APIs, microservices, and checkout platform components for Affirm’s financial products. Own system health, improve performance and reliability, collaborate across engineering teams, and contribute to technical standards, tooling, and processes. The role requires developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale while making customer-centric technical decisions.

Lead the development of foundational iOS platform systems, shared frameworks, developer tools, architecture standards, and multi-quarter migrations across Cash App and Square. Drive performance, reliability, security, testing, observability, release safety, and AI-assisted development practices. This hands-on individual contributor role influences multiple teams, develops technical leaders, and partners broadly to improve iOS engineering quality, productivity, and product outcomes.

Develop and maintain backend services for OppFi’s financial technology platform. Responsibilities include building Java applications and services, collaborating in an Agile environment, conducting code reviews and testing, documenting best practices, and refining technical requirements into production-ready solutions. The role uses AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, APIs, and related cloud-native technologies.

Develop and scale backend streaming and data infrastructure using Kafka, Flink, AWS, Kubernetes, and related technologies. Break down projects, deliver tested software, collaborate with product and engineering teams, monitor system availability, participate in on-call support, debug code, conduct code reviews, and contribute to team development.

Build, optimize, and maintain software systems using AI while collaborating across disciplines on healthcare technology. Develop distributed, event-driven systems, learn new languages and frameworks, and protect user privacy through data security and HIPAA-compliant practices. The role works with AWS, Kubernetes, and large-scale medical datasets in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Design, deploy, and optimize Philo’s distributed video streaming infrastructure, including ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery, RESTful services, analytics pipelines, DRM, and ad insertion. Improve platform reliability, performance, latency, security, video quality, and cost efficiency. Collaborate with content partners and internal video, advertising, client, and data teams while supporting streaming quality across new platforms. The role also involves architectural ownership, cloud operations, and mentoring.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve reliability, performance, observability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call and incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews and documentation.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve performance, observability, reliability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews, documentation, and guidance.

Design, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Build full-stack, agent-driven software for SOX control testing and internal audit workflows. Design reliable and observable LLM agent systems, create structured audit deliverables, own end-to-end technical workstreams, and collaborate with product, design, auditors, and domain experts. Engineers will help shape agentic architecture, AI tooling, evaluation practices, and product direction while working on ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives.

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

Lead complex card-acquiring projects from design through production, building reliable payment systems, tooling, testing frameworks, and network integrations. Work hands-on with ISO messages, routing, authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, interchange, and tokenization. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, improve reliability, participate in on-call operations, and establish standards adopted across teams. The role requires deep acquiring expertise and experience operating large-scale financial systems.

Architect and build a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on large-scale initiatives, emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, developer experience, and end-user usability.