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Remote software systems engineer jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms, distributed engineering teams, and technology companies in sectors like defense, aerospace, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software. Employers hiring remotely right now include NVIDIA, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and Forterra. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Resp & Qualifications
PURPOSE:
CareFirst is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for ERP Financial Systems to provide technical leadership for the applications, integrations, and data that enable enterprise accounting and finance. The immediate mandate is dependable ownership and modernization of the current Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) financial landscape, including close-critical processes, upstream and downstream interfaces, reporting, controls, and production support.
The Lead will also prepare the organization for a future cloud ERP decision that may include Workday, Oracle Cloud ERP, or another solution. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who understands accounting operations, can improve a complex production environment, and can shape a platform-neutral modernization strategy.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Set architecture and engineering direction for Oracle EBS Financials, related extensions, integrations, data, reporting, security, environments, and observability.
- Lead solution design and engineering reviews across GL, AP, AR, FA, CM, SLA, purchasing-related accounting, banking, tax, expense, reporting, and close processes.
- Define reusable standards for APIs, middleware, batch processing, data transformation, reconciliation, monitoring, testing, deployment, and documentation.
- Guide engineers and partners through complex delivery, performance tuning, critical incidents, releases, and technical-debt reduction.
Service Ownership, Controls & Partnership
- Own technical health, reliability, supportability, risk, controls, and lifecycle planning for the financial technology portfolio.
- Lead response to close-critical and high-severity production issues, ensuring root-cause analysis and preventive improvements.
- Partner with Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Audit, Infrastructure, vendors, and product leadership on roadmap and delivery priorities.
- Strengthen reconciliation, traceability, segregation of duties, access controls, audit evidence, and operational readiness.
Future-State Strategy
- Create a fact-based current-state architecture and modernization backlog covering configurations, customizations, integrations, data, reports, controls, and close dependencies.
- Lead technical evaluation and fit-gap work for Workday Financial Management, Oracle Cloud ERP, or other options, including data, integration, reporting, controls, and implementation readiness.
- Develop transition principles for coexistence, data conversion, integration rationalization, testing, cutover, financial reconciliation, and service continuity.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
Position does not have direct reports but is expected to assist in guiding and mentoring less experienced staff. May lead a team of matrixed resources.
Education Level: Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field OR in lieu of a bachelors degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience in addition to the required work experience.
Experience: 10+ years of experience in financial systems, enterprise applications, software engineering, or ERP integration, including 3+ years providing technical leadership for complex solutions or teams.
Required Qualifications:
- Deep technical experience with Oracle EBS Financials and expert functional understanding of accounting processes, including GL, AP, subledger accounting, and period close.
- Proven leadership across SQL/PLSQL, interfaces, APIs, middleware, data conversion, reporting, security, testing, releases, and production operations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with finance executives, controllers, accountants, auditors, architects, and engineers and convert complex needs into an executable roadmap.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience spanning Oracle EBS and a cloud ERP such as Workday Financial Management or Oracle Cloud ERP.
- Experience with Boomi, MuleSoft, Oracle Integration Cloud, Accounting Center, data conversion, enterprise reporting, or finance transformation programs.
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated industry; architecture, CPA-domain, SAFe, or Agile credentials are a plus.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability to evaluate existing systems and propose scalable, supportable solutions.
- Ability to translate between business processes, functional requirements, data, integrations, and technical design.
- Experience integrating complex enterprise systems using REST/SOAP APIs, XML/JSON, SFTP, middleware, and batch or event-driven patterns.
- Knowledge and understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery, release management, CI/CD, testing, and code-quality practices.
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure and database technologies such as SQL and Oracle.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, documentation, stakeholder-management, and customer-service skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, meet established deadlines, and provide effective service to internal and external customers.
- Familiarity with security, segregation of duties, audit controls, and data governance in a regulated environment.
- Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Salary Range: $115,128 - $228,657
Salary Range Disclaimer
The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the work is being performed. This compensation range is specific and considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, and market and business consideration. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range, as compensation decisions depend on each case's facts and circumstances, including but not limited to experience, internal equity, and location. In addition to your compensation, CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package, various incentive programs/plans, and 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).
Department
Corporate Financial Systems
Equal Employment Opportunity
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Federal Disc/Physical Demand
Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.
Sponsorship in US
Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship
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Resp & Qualifications
PURPOSE:
CareFirst is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for ERP Financial Systems to provide technical leadership for the applications, integrations, and data that enable enterprise accounting and finance. The immediate mandate is dependable ownership and modernization of the current Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) financial landscape, including close-critical processes, upstream and downstream interfaces, reporting, controls, and production support.
The Lead will also prepare the organization for a future cloud ERP decision that may include Workday, Oracle Cloud ERP, or another solution. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who understands accounting operations, can improve a complex production environment, and can shape a platform-neutral modernization strategy.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Set architecture and engineering direction for Oracle EBS Financials, related extensions, integrations, data, reporting, security, environments, and observability.
- Lead solution design and engineering reviews across GL, AP, AR, FA, CM, SLA, purchasing-related accounting, banking, tax, expense, reporting, and close processes.
- Define reusable standards for APIs, middleware, batch processing, data transformation, reconciliation, monitoring, testing, deployment, and documentation.
- Guide engineers and partners through complex delivery, performance tuning, critical incidents, releases, and technical-debt reduction.
Service Ownership, Controls & Partnership
- Own technical health, reliability, supportability, risk, controls, and lifecycle planning for the financial technology portfolio.
- Lead response to close-critical and high-severity production issues, ensuring root-cause analysis and preventive improvements.
- Partner with Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Audit, Infrastructure, vendors, and product leadership on roadmap and delivery priorities.
- Strengthen reconciliation, traceability, segregation of duties, access controls, audit evidence, and operational readiness.
Future-State Strategy
- Create a fact-based current-state architecture and modernization backlog covering configurations, customizations, integrations, data, reports, controls, and close dependencies.
- Lead technical evaluation and fit-gap work for Workday Financial Management, Oracle Cloud ERP, or other options, including data, integration, reporting, controls, and implementation readiness.
- Develop transition principles for coexistence, data conversion, integration rationalization, testing, cutover, financial reconciliation, and service continuity.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
Position does not have direct reports but is expected to assist in guiding and mentoring less experienced staff. May lead a team of matrixed resources.
Education Level: Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field OR in lieu of a bachelors degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience in addition to the required work experience.
Experience: 10+ years of experience in financial systems, enterprise applications, software engineering, or ERP integration, including 3+ years providing technical leadership for complex solutions or teams.
Required Qualifications:
- Deep technical experience with Oracle EBS Financials and expert functional understanding of accounting processes, including GL, AP, subledger accounting, and period close.
- Proven leadership across SQL/PLSQL, interfaces, APIs, middleware, data conversion, reporting, security, testing, releases, and production operations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with finance executives, controllers, accountants, auditors, architects, and engineers and convert complex needs into an executable roadmap.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience spanning Oracle EBS and a cloud ERP such as Workday Financial Management or Oracle Cloud ERP.
- Experience with Boomi, MuleSoft, Oracle Integration Cloud, Accounting Center, data conversion, enterprise reporting, or finance transformation programs.
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated industry; architecture, CPA-domain, SAFe, or Agile credentials are a plus.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability to evaluate existing systems and propose scalable, supportable solutions.
- Ability to translate between business processes, functional requirements, data, integrations, and technical design.
- Experience integrating complex enterprise systems using REST/SOAP APIs, XML/JSON, SFTP, middleware, and batch or event-driven patterns.
- Knowledge and understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery, release management, CI/CD, testing, and code-quality practices.
- Working knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure and database technologies such as SQL and Oracle.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, documentation, stakeholder-management, and customer-service skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, meet established deadlines, and provide effective service to internal and external customers.
- Familiarity with security, segregation of duties, audit controls, and data governance in a regulated environment.
- Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Salary Range: $115,128 - $228,657
Salary Range Disclaimer
The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the work is being performed. This compensation range is specific and considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, and market and business consideration. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range, as compensation decisions depend on each case's facts and circumstances, including but not limited to experience, internal equity, and location. In addition to your compensation, CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package, various incentive programs/plans, and 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).
Department
Corporate Financial Systems
Equal Employment Opportunity
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Federal Disc/Physical Demand
Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.
Sponsorship in US
Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship
#LI-MK1
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote software systems engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- Proficiency in C, C++, or Python for systems-level development
- Experience designing or integrating real-time or embedded systems
- Familiarity with Linux internals, networking protocols, or hardware interfaces
- Ability to obtain or hold a security clearance, depending on the sector
- Experience with systems modeling tools, test frameworks, or CI/CD pipelines for systems code
Tips for Your Remote Software Systems Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote software systems engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly without sorting through postings that require on-site work.
Document your systems work for async review
Remote hiring teams evaluate you without whiteboard sessions. Write up a past system you designed or debugged, including the constraints, your decisions, and the outcome. Reviewers should understand your engineering thinking from the document alone, with no verbal explanation needed.
Signal async fluency in every application
Remote software systems engineer roles move through Slack threads, pull request comments, and design docs rather than meetings. Call out specific async tools you use, whether Confluence, Notion, or GitHub Discussions, and give a concrete example of a decision you drove through written communication.
Target remote-first companies with distributed engineering teams
Companies that built their engineering organization as fully remote from the start have clearer processes for onboarding, code review, and incident response across time zones. Prioritize those postings over hybrid roles that treat remote as an exception, since the day-to-day working conditions differ significantly.
Remote Software Systems Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote software systems engineer job?
Target companies with distributed engineering teams, remote-first cultures, or geographically spread product organizations, since those environments are built around asynchronous collaboration and independent execution. Remote employers screen for strong written communication, the ability to self-direct across time zones, and fluency in tools like Git, CI/CD pipelines, and systems documentation. Candidates who can demonstrate ownership of end-to-end system design without in-person oversight stand out most.
Which companies hire remote software systems engineers?
Employers currently hiring remote software systems engineers include NVIDIA, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, and Forterra, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote software systems engineer roles are concentrated at remote-first technology companies, distributed defense and aerospace contractors, and enterprise software firms operating across multiple time zones.
Can you get a remote software systems engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land because you need to demonstrate independent problem-solving from day one without in-person mentoring. Companies building open-source infrastructure or running remote internship programs are the most accessible starting points. A portfolio of personal or collaborative systems projects, documented clearly enough that a remote team can evaluate your thinking, opens more doors than a blank resume.
Do you need a degree for remote software systems engineer jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh demonstrated systems engineering ability, a portfolio of real shipped work, and relevant certifications alongside or instead of a formal degree. Remote roles often emphasize what you can show over where you studied, so candidates who can document clear contributions to complex systems, distributed architectures, or embedded platforms compete effectively without a traditional four-year background.
Which industries hire the most remote software systems engineers?
Most remote software systems engineer openings sit in Technology & Software, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Those sectors hire software systems engineers remotely because their product and platform teams are already distributed across multiple regions and time zones.
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