Top Software Engineer Jobs in Hampton, VA

Develop and ship native iOS software for Ford’s customer-facing mobile app, serving millions of drivers worldwide. Responsibilities include contributing to product architecture and design reviews, evaluating technologies, writing documentation, collaborating with product and design teams, and delivering production-grade software using agile and CI/CD practices. The role emphasizes Swift, SwiftUI, mobile architecture, testing, observability, debugging, and operational support.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Develop scalable test automation frameworks, QA tools, and intelligent testing systems using Playwright, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, build end-to-end, integration, and performance solutions, and apply AI techniques to improve test generation and defect detection. Partner with engineering and QA teams, troubleshoot reliability issues, contribute to test strategy, and mentor colleagues on automation and modern testing practices.

Maintain and optimize SaaS production and demo environments, respond to and resolve incidents, manage Jira-based incident workflows, use Dynatrace and observability tools for troubleshooting, automate operational tasks, enforce security best practices, document runbooks in Confluence, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate cross-team to improve reliability and performance.

Develop cross-platform C++ and Qt software for network device discovery, monitoring, and data collection across Windows and Linux. Build high-performance, concurrent, asynchronous systems that communicate with thousands of devices using SNMP, SSH, ICMP, WMI, and related protocols. Own testing, troubleshoot issues across application, operating-system, and network layers, optimize reliability and performance, and collaborate with backend, UI, QA, and product teams.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.

Build and lead development of high-availability backend services for Affirm’s card loan platform. Design scalable APIs, data models, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting real-time loan attribution, approvals, origination, and refunds. Drive technical strategy, troubleshoot complex performance issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while ensuring long-term system robustness and scalability.

Own Headway’s cloud platform and infrastructure engineering strategy. Lead deployment isolation, container orchestration, AWS networking and compute, autoscaling, capacity planning, Terraform self-service infrastructure, cloud cost attribution, and Python runtime performance. Build reliable paved-road tooling that enables engineering teams to deploy safely and independently while improving scalability, observability, and operational resilience.

Leads architecture and development of SailPoint’s large-scale, multi-tenant identity security SaaS platform. Translates business strategy into technical roadmaps, designs reliable microservices and infrastructure, drives modernization from monoliths to distributed systems, mentors engineers, reviews designs, delivers code, and communicates technology strategy to executives and stakeholders. The role also requires adoption and oversight of AI-assisted engineering tools and technologies.

Develop and maintain scalable backend infrastructure, data models, APIs, features, and core internal capabilities. Write tested, reliable code; create software testing and validation procedures; resolve customer issues; and design elegant systems with strong observability, SLAs, and scalability. The role primarily focuses on backend engineering while collaborating with application and front-end engineers.

Design and implement cloud-native software and managed services on Kubernetes. Own technical and product innovation, analyze systems, recommend solutions, and enable customers to deploy and integrate cloud-native services. Collaborate with engineering teams in an Agile environment throughout the product lifecycle, including building, testing, deployment, and iteration.

Own post-launch bugs, production issues, and enhancements for AI agents and related products. Investigate root causes across logs, code, conversation data, APIs, authentication, telephony, and integrations; implement and test fixes; support customers directly; guide frontline Support Engineers; and build internal tools that improve investigation and resolution speed.

Lead end-to-end development of modern frontend initiatives using React and Electron. Design scalable architecture, improve performance and test coverage, resolve production issues, influence technical decisions, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams. The role includes mentoring engineers, maintaining code quality, supporting observability and incident response, and building secure, high-quality customer-facing payment and form workflows.

Own production bugs, escalations, and enhancements for AI agent products. Investigate issues across logs, code, conversation data, telephony, integrations, authentication, APIs, and LLM prompting; implement, test, and ship fixes. Support customers directly, coordinate testing, guide frontline support engineers, build internal investigation tools, and relay feedback to Product while meeting SLAs.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains software features, APIs, services, and database integrations. Writes unit and integration tests, participates in code reviews and Agile ceremonies, troubleshoots defects, supports production issues, and documents technical changes while collaborating remotely with client teams.

Own and develop a TypeScript monorepo spanning Next.js, Expo, and Cloudflare Worker applications. Build PostgreSQL and Prisma data models, webhook and background job systems, secure financial-data and authentication flows, and AI features using LLM tool-calling. Handle production ownership, on-call responsibilities, incident analysis, code review, and reliability improvements. Collaborate remotely with strong written and verbal English while maintaining security, performance, and data integrity.

Build Python backend services and data-intensive systems supporting member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, reporting, and analytics. Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines; validate, reconcile, retry, replay, and recover inconsistent external data. Improve production reliability, observability, testing, and performance while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Operations. The role offers growth toward independent ownership of services and technical decisions.

Build and scale high-throughput streaming infrastructure that ingests, forwards, and computes on billions of behavioral events in real time. Own projects end to end, solve customer scaling challenges, and influence the technical roadmap. The role focuses on distributed systems capable of processing millions of messages per second with very low latency, supporting real-time personalization and AI-driven marketing products.

Build enterprise control-plane products for managing Hightouch deployments at scale. Responsibilities include developing roles, permissions, and access control; creating change-management tools for evolving data models and warehouses; and helping customers understand and optimize warehouse performance and costs. The role requires backend and distributed-systems architecture, asynchronous workflows, scalability, reliability, product thinking, and engagement with product specifications.

Design, build, and optimize distributed systems powering large-scale data synchronization. Responsibilities include improving sync speed, developing real-time streaming capabilities, scaling high-volume and low-latency systems, troubleshooting customer scaling challenges, and supporting multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure and data residency requirements. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, customer collaboration, system architecture, and reliability improvements.

Develop backend systems for Hightouch’s Customer Studio product, focusing on data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI workflows. Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable distributed systems while contributing to product specifications and customer-focused solutions. The role requires strong product sense and the ability to architect data-processing features end to end.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Build and maintain backend services, APIs, workers, shared libraries, and cloud-native runtime infrastructure for Alteryx Cloud orchestration and job execution. Develop asynchronous, event-driven, distributed systems with queues, persistence, retries, and failure recovery. Improve reliability through observability, testing, deployment tooling, and incident follow-up while collaborating across engineering and product teams.

Own and develop a TypeScript monorepo spanning Next.js, Expo, and Cloudflare Worker applications. Build secure PostgreSQL and Prisma systems, webhook handlers, background jobs, authentication, encrypted financial data workflows, and AI-powered financial features. Responsibilities include production ownership, incident response, code review, and ensuring reliability, security, idempotency, and data isolation across web and mobile products.

Design and build Seeq’s internal platform, including infrastructure, services, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, system interfaces, and secure deployment capabilities. Improve scalability, reliability, software delivery, and infrastructure cost and performance. Lead migrations, integrate security practices, architect distributed systems, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on at Staff or Principal scope.