277 remote software engineer jobs open worldwide: backend, full-stack and AI engineer roles at fully remote startups.
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Own Edge fleet manager and residential-network control/data plane for web data extraction; on-call rotation; 5+ years production Rust, distributed systems, deep TCP/TLS/HTTP/gRPC networking, proxy infrastructure, SLOs/observability, Windows/Linux/Android; bonus: mobile/desktop Rust, fleet management, anti-bot, scraping, OSS
Remote anywhere
Own Edge fleet manager and control/data plane for residential devices used in web data extraction; on-call; 5+ years production Rust, distributed systems, deep networking, proxy infrastructure, SLOs/observability, Windows/Linux/Android; bonus: mobile/desktop Rust, fleet management, anti-bot, web scraping, OSS
Remote anywhere
Own production uptime, backups/recovery, Windows/SQL/Java hosting ops for higher-ed HR software; night/weekend on-call; 7+ years, Windows Server, SQL Server restores/clustering, AD, Apache/Tomcat, DNS, Cloudflare/WAF, PowerShell, AWS/Azure, SIEM/XDR, patching, SOC 2/compliance
Remote policy unclear
Own security controls for cloud, apps, employee systems, and AI agents in onchain finance data infrastructure; 4+ years security/infrastructure/software engineering, major cloud platform, identity, networking, operating systems, access control, depth in two of cloud security/detection-response/appsec/vulnerability management/corporate security; early-stage equity
Remote worldwide; must maintain a 2-hour overlap with NYC mornings (10am-12pm ET) Monday through Thursday.
Own and operate backend infrastructure for AI tooling and MCP services; global remote, async; on-call required; 5+ years, TypeScript or Go, APIs, OAuth/OIDC/JWT, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Docker, IaC, observability; equity
Remote anywhere
Leads full-stack build projects across a SaaS portfolio while coaching teams on AI-native and agentic development; 7+ years, full-stack across infra/backend/web/mobile/databases, AI coding tools, CI/CD, testing, observability, architecture/security/performance.
Remote policy unclear
Own BI analytics platform architecture for insurance claims software; 8+ years data engineering/architecture/warehousing, 3+ years accountable architect, expert SQL, Python, Snowflake, dimensional/normalized modeling, PII/regulatory controls; bonus: dbt, Terraform, Airflow/Dagster, catalog tools; equity
Remote anywhere
Own self-managed infra for mobile subscription/paywall SaaS; on-call; 10+ years infrastructure incl. physical hardware, 5+ years Kubernetes, bare metal, OVH/Hetzner, AWS/GCP, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, FinOps; bonus: Proxmox, Ceph, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Aerospike; fast-growing SaaS
Remote anywhere; optional onsite in Serbia or UK offices
Own API change requests, published API correctness, quickstarts/SDK fixes, and partner technical escalations for a crypto/fintech API platform; senior developer advocacy or partner-facing engineering in crypto/fintech/B2B APIs, REST/WebSocket, technical writing; bonus: exchange integrations, SDK or AI/agent surface ownership
Conflicting location signals: remote global, with Ukraine explicitly named
Own core member-facing iOS features for a places app end to end; 7+ years iOS, Swift, UIKit, MVVM, RxSwift, shipping large-scale consumer apps; bonus: StoreKit 2, subscriptions, Mapbox, SwiftUI, backend APIs, Redux-style state; equity
Remote anywhere
Own SQL/Python data migrations and integrations for legal tech enterprise apps across modern and legacy databases; 4–7 years; SQL, PostgreSQL, Python, ETL, schema analysis, data mapping, validation/reconciliation, AI coding tools; bonus: ADS, ODBC/JDBC, ETL frameworks, PostgreSQL tuning
Remote policy unclear
Own org-wide frontend architecture, design system, toolchain/CI while staying hands-on on FinOps UI; must have design system or large React/GraphQL migration experience, GraphQL caching/fragment colocation, performance/toolchain improvements, AI tooling fluency; staff-level cross-team influence.
Remote globally; compensation examples listed for Chile, Brazil, Colombia, and Dominican Republic.
Lead developer and product docs for a fintech payments API; 8+ years technical writing/developer docs, API reference, OpenAPI, Git/PRs/CI, Markdown/MDX, TypeScript or Python, AI coding agents; bonus: payments/fintech, Fern; leads 2 writers, reports to CTO, venture-backed
Remote policy unclear
Own and scale web-scraping Actors and internal tooling for AI/web automation; must communicate in English; 3+ years, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, web technologies, AI tools; bonus: web scraping, user-facing products, open source; hybrid Prague/Brno or fully remote, stock options
Hybrid Prague/Brno or fully remote; remote location not specified
Own manual QA for growth funnels, landing pages, onboarding and checkout in an AI ad platform; English Intermediate+; 3+ years manual web QA, A/B testing, cross-browser/responsive testing, basic API testing with Postman/DevTools; bonus: subscription B2C, payment flows, web2app, analytics tracking.
Remote anywhere; remote-first with optional offices in Poland and Ukraine.
Own developer integration experience for a regulated payments API stack; requires hands-on US payments expertise; API integrations/docs, Postman/Bruno/Datadog, webhooks, technical writing, AI tools; bonus: stablecoins/digital assets, demo apps, Mintlify, KYB/KYC; reports to VP
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Own growth and retention features for a dermatology platform across TypeScript APIs and React UI; must have production TypeScript on AWS Lambda/ECS, React, growth experiments/A/B tests, feature flags, analytics instrumentation, performance/accessibility; bonus: healthtech, HIPAA/PHI, healthcare AI, mentoring
Remote policy unclear
Own large-scale data ingestion, transformation, entity resolution, and data quality infrastructure for people/company data; 5–7+ years; Python, Spark, SQL, Databricks, AWS/cloud, orchestration, warehousing, modern storage formats; bonus: Airflow, entity resolution, Kafka, Python data stack
Remote anywhere
Own large-scale data ingestion, transformation, entity resolution, and data quality infrastructure for people/company data; 3-5+ years; Python, Spark, SQL, Databricks, AWS/cloud, orchestration tools, warehousing, modern storage formats; bonus: Airflow, entity resolution, Kafka.
Remote anywhere
Own ML platform for Earth-observation models, from training/inference systems to agent integration; 5+ years, PyTorch, Lightning, AWS/cloud, production Python, reliability/observability/cost, agentic coding tools; bonus: diffusion/transformers, video/time-series, multimodal/geospatial, startup; early-stage, one of first AI hires, equity
Remote policy unclear
Own core AI model for earth-observation world modeling; PhD or equivalent, 2+ years shipping AI systems, publications/projects, large-scale training, unconventional modalities; bonus: geospatial/earth observation, math/physics, Python, PyTorch; early AI hire at seed-stage climate startup with equity.
Remote policy unclear
Own engineering and SaaS operations for logistics software, driving AI-native development, quality, reliability, architecture, and delivery; regular overlap with North American hours, professional English; 12+ years software engineering, 5+ leadership, 2+ managing managers, B2B SaaS ops, AI adoption, experiments, CI/CD.
Fully remote worldwide; any country where they can lawfully engage you, with regular overlap with North American business hours.
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38% of the 272 postings list pay. Among the 93 priced in US dollars, the median is $185K a year and the middle half runs $125K to $210K.
175 companies have open software engineer roles worldwide. The most active right now:
Share of the 272 postings that name each skill:
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Median listed pay is $185K a year across 93 postings priced in US dollars; the top 5% exceed $264K. 62% of postings do not list pay.
Yes: every posting on this page either names no location restriction or states it hires worldwide. Companies still tend to prefer a few hours of overlap with their core time zone, so check the location line on each posting.
58% ask for 5 to 10 years, 25% for 2 to 5 years, 13% for 10 or more, and 4% are open to candidates with under 2 years.
27 in the last 7 days, 277 over the last 6 months, from 175 companies.
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