Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead complex software projects and mentor engineers while building scalable full-stack products for Vanta’s expansion team. Develop purchasing, checkout, upgrade, renewal, billing, and trial experiences that support self-serve growth and revenue automation. Set technical direction, own product functionality and infrastructure, collaborate across teams, and contribute to engineering culture. The role uses TypeScript, React, and Node.js and involves greenfield development in a rapidly scaling startup environment.

Build and own backend services, web applications, REST APIs, webhooks, and enterprise integrations. Lead customer integrations from scoping through launch, improve the operator dashboard, and maintain production reliability through monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with product, success, and customer engineering teams while contributing to code reviews, technical design, mentoring, security, and AI-assisted development.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web application features and distributed microservices. Own complex features from design through deployment, improve application performance and reliability, support on-call operations, troubleshoot incidents, enhance CI/CD and container infrastructure, and collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and API teams. Mentor engineers and contribute to technical standards while delivering customer-focused shipping and fulfillment experiences.

Build and operate Origin’s AI observability platform across data-collection agents, backend services, infrastructure, inference pipelines, APIs, and React interfaces. Design distributed systems using AWS, EKS, ClickHouse, and Kafka for high-throughput, multi-tenant production workloads. Develop internal coding agents and define AI-native engineering practices while making decisions around storage, APIs, performance, and reliability.

Lead, coach, and mentor ServiceNow software engineers delivering complex customer projects. Develop and customize ServiceNow solutions, troubleshoot platform and module issues, maintain integrations, support upgrades and performance optimization, document technical solutions, and perform deployments. The role requires advanced ServiceNow development expertise and SAM/HAM experience, along with ServiceNow certifications.

Build and ship full-stack features used by learners and tutors worldwide. Responsibilities include understanding user problems, contributing product ideas, taking prototypes through deployment, making technical decisions, writing maintainable code, and participating in code reviews and pairing sessions. The role requires close collaboration with designers, stakeholders, and users while supporting a safe, scalable peer-learning platform.

Develop and enhance full-stack digital products across frontend and backend systems. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining applications, contributing to CI/CD and cloud-native practices, and collaborating through Agile ceremonies, paired programming, and knowledge sharing. Senior and Lead engineers additionally mentor teams, influence technical strategy, guide system design, and drive cross-product engineering direction.

Build and scale Bubble’s backend infrastructure and platform services, improving performance, reliability, observability, capacity management, and data scalability. Contribute to workflow engines, data-tier systems, cloud infrastructure tools, and high-volume services. Participate in triage and on-call processes, diagnose incidents, and implement preventative improvements while collaborating effectively with engineering teammates.

Designs and implements manual and automated tests across unit, component, integration, and end-to-end levels. Builds scalable UI and API automation frameworks, conducts performance and load testing, creates test reports, investigates regressions, and provides testability feedback. Collaborates with engineering, product management, and UX teams in an agile environment. The role requires Python and JavaScript automation expertise, cloud and container experience, CI/CD familiarity, SQL, and knowledge of microservices.

Develop comprehensive testing strategies and automated test frameworks for UI, API, component, unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. Build performance and load tests, generate test reports, identify regressions, and provide design feedback. Collaborate with engineering, product, and UX teams in an agile environment while supporting AI-driven products, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD workflows.

Design, implement, and operate core components of Azure Storage, focusing on metadata and data services for a hyperscale distributed file system. Build reliable, durable, and cost-efficient storage platforms using DPUs, optimize OS and networking (TCP/RDMA), participate in design, on-call DRI duties, and drive reliability and performance improvements.

Designs and delivers scalable, resilient, cloud-native infrastructure services for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, creating design documents, writing maintainable code, estimating work, monitoring services, responding to incidents, and improving availability, reliability, observability, efficiency, and performance at hyperscale.

Design, develop, and operate highly scalable and resilient Azure VM Scale Set cloud services. Own features from architecture through deployment and operations, solve distributed-systems challenges at hyperscale, and drive reliability, security, performance, disaster recovery, testing, monitoring, automation, and engineering best practices. Collaborate across teams to deliver platform capabilities and customer outcomes.

Lead design and implementation of Azure full‑stack, scalable skilling platform features. Drive CI/CD, reliability, automation, and AI/LLM-enabled capabilities. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and improve test automation and observability for enterprise-scale services.

Volunteer senior engineer to develop a cross-platform medical/wellness app (web, iOS, Android). Own full SDLC: design, coding, testing, data models, pipelines, deployments, and collaborate in Agile processes. Attend weekly standups and commit at least 4 hours weekly.

Build and operate large-scale data acquisition systems, including web crawlers, distributed processing platforms, backend services, data pipelines, and asynchronous workloads. Improve ingestion reliability, scalability, observability, fault tolerance, and data quality. Collaborate with data product and engineering teams to develop data products, design schemas and pipelines, and deliver resilient systems in a remote-first environment.

Develop production software for maritime route optimization, vessel performance and fuel-consumption modeling, voyage analysis, simulation, and route evaluation. Refine optimization algorithms, build modeling and evaluation tools, and deliver explainable recommendations for U.S. Government and defense customers. Collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime specialists using Rust and Python.

Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud and web software with focus on infrastructure, performance, and hardware integration for IoT devices. Collaborate with hardware teams to ensure connectivity and high availability, implement new features, and improve system efficiency.

Develop and execute comprehensive tests for GIS applications, ArcGIS tools, geospatial workflows, automated validation processes, and web mapping applications. Validate spatial data, geodatabase attributes, Real Property records, business rules, reports, dashboards, and integrations using SQL and scripting. Document defects, investigate root causes, verify fixes, and collaborate with GIS specialists, developers, and analysts. The role requires Esri GIS, Army Real Property and IGI&S knowledge, automated testing experience, and CAC eligibility.

Provides technical leadership for architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed data platforms supporting Azure network telemetry. Designs streaming and batch systems, establishes reusable engineering patterns, drives cross-team technical strategy, and owns capabilities from design through production operations. Ensures scalability, reliability, security, performance, data quality, and operational excellence while mentoring engineers and influencing technical leaders. The role also involves architectural reviews, dependency management, risk reduction, and applying AI or machine learning approaches to operational systems.

Leads software quality assurance across enterprise applications, including SAP and legacy systems. Develops test strategies, plans, cases, automation, and traceability; leads system, integration, regression, end-to-end, and acceptance testing. Manages defects, evaluates release readiness, monitors quality metrics, supports production validation, and improves testing practices. Partners with technical and business teams, mentors junior QA engineers, and provides guidance on testing standards and quality-focused delivery.

Build and maintain Airbnb’s cloud infrastructure platform, including developer APIs, CLIs, Kubernetes automation, service provisioning, autoscaling, multi-region capabilities, and AI-native agent workflows. Improve platform reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience; contribute to open-source infrastructure projects; debug production issues; and collaborate with engineering teams across Airbnb.

Build and operate shared AI platform infrastructure for secure, reliable foundation-model access. Responsibilities include developing scalable systems, model gateways, provider integrations, routing, usage controls, observability, governance, and self-service capabilities. Partner with engineering, product, security, and infrastructure teams; contribute to technical roadmaps, make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and review code while ensuring production systems are resilient, secure, cost-effective, and maintainable.

Leads development and sustainment of secure, scalable production software using AI coding agents. Designs agentic development environments, orchestrates parallel workflows, validates AI-generated code, and integrates LLM platforms and conversational voice technologies. Advances cloud-native engineering, testing, APIs, databases, automation, and compliance practices while mentoring engineers and influencing technical stakeholders.

Lead end-to-end technical ownership for an e-commerce platform service area. Design, build, and ship production features; modernize legacy systems; establish architecture and engineering standards; optimize platform performance; plan roadmaps and sprint priorities; mentor engineers; improve developer productivity; and contribute to hiring. The role requires hands-on TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, AWS, Python, and Django experience in a remote United States or Canada environment.