Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Lead architecture and delivery of complex AI-native software features for ServiceNow Flow. Build agent runtimes, tool integrations, prompt and context layers, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop controls. Establish AI-assisted development practices, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, partner cross-functionally on product delivery, and own production quality, observability, release readiness, and defect resolution.

Lead architecture and delivery of AI-native software for Flow’s conversational service desk. Build agent runtimes, tool integrations, prompt and context layers, retrieval systems, and evaluation harnesses. Establish AI-assisted development practices, mentor engineers, set standards for quality and observability, and partner across product and engineering. Own production quality, defect triage, release readiness, and governance for reliable, secure, enterprise-scale AI capabilities.

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.

Design, build, and operate highly available, secure, large-scale cloud services and infrastructure. The role focuses on performance optimization across infrastructure, databases, and APIs; establishing engineering standards; shaping technical direction with Product; and mentoring engineers. The team uses Kotlin, Go, AWS, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Terraform, and Apache Pulsar to support distributed, event-driven systems processing billions of requests daily.

Lead the technical direction for Babylist’s new search team, building an in-house search platform from scratch. Own indexing, retrieval, ranking, query understanding, personalization, relevance measurement, conversational search, and integration with recommendations and AI. Drive architecture, product decisions, cross-team initiatives, production delivery, platform adoption, and search quality improvements while coaching senior engineers and partnering with product, design, and data.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of a scalable fraud and payment risk platform. Build backend services, APIs, feature pipelines, configurable rules, experimentation infrastructure, and machine-learning lifecycle tooling. Own reliability, observability, monitoring, performance, and safe production deployments. Collaborate with product, risk policy, data science, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and driving complex initiatives from design through production.

Lead full-stack engineering for Rula’s patient portal, designing scalable, secure, and reliable systems across scheduling, billing, communications, and treatment planning. Own technical direction, architecture, complex initiatives, and long-term improvements while mentoring engineers and collaborating cross-functionally. Build and operate solutions using React, TypeScript, Node.js, microservices or event-based architectures, Kafka, and AWS. Participate in on-call support and troubleshoot production issues.

Architects, builds, and operates resilient backend services, cloud infrastructure, automation tools, and self-service interfaces supporting MDR and incident response operations. Partners with security practitioners and engineering teams to translate operational needs into scalable solutions, establish CI/CD and observability practices, improve reliability, and integrate AI-driven workflows. The role also provides technical mentorship, leads architecture and design decisions, and drives complex initiatives through iterative delivery.

Lead technical strategy and execution for Affirm’s account management team, building secure, scalable fullstack systems and customer account security experiences. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams; establish quality, monitoring, testing, and operational standards; support availability and on-call practices; communicate technical decisions; and mentor engineers.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, scalable full-stack systems, team operations, reliability, monitoring, code quality, and talent development. The role involves building customer-facing card experiences and backend services using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, and React-based frameworks. The engineer will own features end to end, collaborate cross-functionally, manage technical risks and trade-offs, support on-call health, and apply AI safely to improve development and customer experiences.

Lead large-scale initiatives for a high-performance Linux-based network sensor, improving ingestion, scalability, continuous capture, queue reliability, observability, and production diagnostics. Own root cause analysis and postmortems, establish engineering standards, translate business goals into technical plans, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews. The role requires deep Rust expertise, distributed systems experience, concurrent programming, packet capture, message brokers, and cybersecurity best practices.

Own the architecture and technical direction for provider-sourced client products, including lead management, caseload migration, AI-powered inquiry workflows, and provider marketing tools. Partner cross-functionally with product, design, data, sales, customer experience, and pricing teams. Build reliable user-facing systems, guide technical decisions across teams, measure product impact through experimentation, and influence teams without direct authority.

Architect and operate Affirm’s large-scale Amazon EKS compute platform, including cluster lifecycle, node management, autoscaling, shared components, infrastructure automation, workload safety policies, observability, cost and capacity optimization, and self-service workflows. The role drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, partners cross-functionally, and participates in on-call incident response.

Lead the architecture and technical strategy for Affirm’s high-volume observability platform. Design telemetry pipelines and sampling strategies, improve reliability and cost efficiency, integrate observability into AI-assisted development, and drive platform adoption across engineering teams. Remain hands-on while mentoring six engineers, leading cross-functional initiatives, establishing engineering standards, and overseeing monitoring, alerting, on-call operations, and system availability.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for leading design and delivery of large-scale order platform capabilities spanning cloud and point-of-sale systems. The role drives architecture, performance, reliability, API design, code quality, incident response, and technical roadmap alignment. It also requires cross-team collaboration, domain expertise in order processing and synchronization, mentoring engineers, and using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.

Lead frontend technical strategy for Affirm’s checkout decision orchestration systems. Design and architect scalable web applications, guide major technical initiatives, improve reliability and operational processes, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on building fast, clear, and reliable checkout experiences using modern declarative UI frameworks.

Designs and deploys AI-powered features and scalable AI/ML services across SaaS products. Responsibilities include translating business problems into AI solutions, integrating large language models, preparing data, evaluating model performance, writing Python, building secure deployment infrastructure, and collaborating with product, data, and cloud operations teams. The role requires production AI/ML experience, scalable data infrastructure expertise, AWS familiarity, and modern DevOps practices.

Lead the design, development, and operation of integrations and API products. Establish standards for API contracts, authentication, authorization, versioning, reliability, observability, documentation, and developer experience. Drive cross-team system architecture, production readiness, scalability, security, and resilience while mentoring engineers and aligning technical decisions with product and business goals.

Build and architect Clear Street Active, 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 teams on large-scale initiatives while emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, and developer experience.

Develop software, pipelines, AI-powered tools, and performance metrics for autonomous vehicle systems. Analyze large datasets, evaluate autonomy-stack performance, ensure data quality, and deliver actionable insights. Define technical roadmaps, collaborate across perception, prediction, planning, controls, simulation, and validation teams, and provide technical leadership, documentation, mentoring, and architectural guidance.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and development of Compass, an LLM-powered agent platform. Design multi-agent systems, MCP and A2A integrations, orchestration, evaluation, and observability infrastructure. Drive cross-team technical projects, production support, engineering quality, mentoring, and adoption of AI-assisted development practices. Partner with Product, QA, Design, Operations, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver reliable agentic systems.

Leads architecture and technical direction for a high-traffic Next.js and React web platform. Responsibilities include improving Core Web Vitals, technical SEO, rendering, caching, APIs, CMS capabilities, experimentation, analytics, testing, deployment, production reliability, and developer mentorship. The role also architects AI-powered web features, establishes responsible AI standards, and partners with product, marketing, SEO, and engineering teams.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for setting technical strategy and building infrastructure for vulnerability remediation across Anaconda’s package distribution platform. The role includes architecting build, test, scanning, signing, SBOM, and release systems; remediating complex CVEs; improving reliability, observability, access controls, and automation; defining security SLAs; partnering with open-source maintainers; and leading cross-team technical initiatives.

Lead end-to-end development of reliable care-agent tooling and software services integrating contact-center platforms with backend systems. Own architecture, performance, security, production operations, and technical direction while partnering with product, care operations, QA, and engineering teams. Translate operational workflows into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and improve tools using agent feedback, operational metrics, and AI-assisted development practices.

Lead technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Cards backend engineering organization. Architect scalable and reliable platforms, guide cross-team initiatives, champion AI adoption and engineering excellence, influence technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers through Staff level. The role requires strong architectural expertise, organizational leadership, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.