Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Leads customer deployments as a hands-on engineering manager, writing production code, building AI agents and integrations, solving complex technical problems, and advising enterprise stakeholders. Builds and coaches the forward-deployed engineering team, develops repeatable deployment processes, and converts customer-specific solutions into reusable platform capabilities. The role requires experience with enterprise deployments, regulated environments, engineering leadership, and production software development.

Design and implement high-performance Go services for a distributed cloud control plane. Lead complex technical initiatives, develop gRPC and REST microservices, solve distributed-systems and operational challenges, mentor engineers, improve architecture and workflows, and support production systems through on-call monitoring and incident response.

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.

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.

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.

Develop and maintain MongoDB server workload resilience infrastructure in C++ or Rust. Design workload policies for rate limiting, prioritization, overload mitigation, availability, and performance. Write unit and integration tests, investigate failures, improve observability, diagnose and fix complex distributed-system issues, and lead technical projects. Collaborate across engineering teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in hiring, and improve operational readiness, monitoring, incident management, and rollout processes.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, payroll integrations, retirement workflows, and financial compliance. Ship reliable production code, debug incidents, improve observability and operational tooling, and collaborate with product, compliance, operations, and engineering teams. Mentor engineers and ensure systems handling customer funds are correct, scalable, and well tested.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Zocdoc’s Provider Engagement Platform. Design data pipelines, real-time practice intelligence systems, APIs, and ML integrations that power personalization and recommendations. Lead complex cross-team initiatives, make infrastructure decisions, ship production code using C#, React, and AWS, and mentor engineers while promoting strong engineering, testing, and observability practices.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.