Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Build and own production software systems spanning embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, technical design reviews, cross-functional hardware collaboration, hiring, and mentoring. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, distributed systems experience, debugging ability, and proficiency in at least one major programming language.

Develop and maintain COBOL-based Medicare claims processing software in a legacy mainframe environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, debugging, unit testing, implementing enhancements, troubleshooting defects, supporting Agile/Scrum delivery, preparing estimates, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with team members, clients, and vendors. The role supports Durable Medical Equipment claims processing and requires adherence to structured development standards.

Build and expand fintech and payment systems using Go, microservices, databases, and cloud technologies. Design production APIs and tooling, diagnose customer issues, manage full release lifecycles, document systems, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business teams while guiding AI agents to produce maintainable, observable, testable code that meets engineering standards. Work independently in a high-availability environment and contribute to next-generation financial products.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Build and operate backend services, APIs, data models, event-driven pipelines, internal applications, and integrations supporting high-volume grading operations. Develop end-to-end features with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js; troubleshoot data, service, integration, and UI issues; contribute to system design, testing, observability, documentation, and on-call support. Collaborate with Product, Technology, and Operations teams to create scalable systems and improve engineering practices.

Lead technical direction and multi-quarter delivery for a platform modernization effort. Architect TypeScript, Java, PHP, and cloud systems; guide monolith decomposition, distributed services, databases, observability, security, and operational excellence. Mentor engineers, coordinate stakeholders, establish engineering standards, and lead responsible adoption of AI-assisted development across the organization.

Designs software architecture, develops and deploys production code, leads technical and code reviews, improves performance and scalability, maintains automated tests and CI/CD pipelines, collaborates across teams on releases, and mentors engineers. The role requires strong programming, database, API, Git, Agile, and software design experience, with preferred cloud, containerization, microservices, and federal contract experience.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of Grafana Cloud’s Session Replay product across frontend, backend, and data systems. Design columnar storage, ingestion pipelines, data models, and query patterns for high-volume session data. Build cross-product debugging workflows, partner with customers and internal teams, improve engineering practices, make architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.

Staff Software Engineer leading hands-on full-stack development across C#/.NET services, Angular interfaces, databases, and AWS-hosted applications. Builds healthcare data integrations using HL7, FHIR, and X12 EDI; modernizes legacy systems; improves performance; applies secure coding and HIPAA practices; supports production incidents; reviews code; mentors engineers; and collaborates with product and QA teams.

Develop and maintain a Java and Drools business rules engine governing eligibility, suppression, frequency, and consent. Build Spring services, REST APIs, and Kafka integrations; ensure correctness, performance, testing, resiliency, and compliance in a PHI-handling environment. Collaborate with Product and compliance teams, participate in code reviews, and support cloud-based Kubernetes deployments.

Lead technical strategy, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor early-career engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves developing scalable systems on AWS and Kubernetes while working with healthcare data and adhering to HIPAA and data-security best practices.

Lead architecture and roadmap for a company-wide data lakehouse platform. Build platform-as-product components (SDKs, CLIs, control planes), optimize distributed compute/storage, prototype performance R&D, ensure compliance-by-design (lineage, PII masking, access control), enable real-time AI data ingestion, drive engineering standards, and mentor cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and workflow systems supporting healthcare claims identification and recovery. Integrate AI/ML models, legal datasets, and transactional data while developing fault-tolerant Temporal workflows. Maintain AWS infrastructure and secure deployment pipelines using Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and related technologies. Collaborate with product, business, and data science teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-performance systems in a regulated startup environment.

Develop and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservice environment. Build AI-powered solutions using LLMs, RAG pipelines, GenAI agents, vector databases, and AI orchestration frameworks. Responsibilities include frontend development, performance optimization, debugging, code reviews, data integrity, and collaboration with AI/ML teams. The role is remote and requires CST availability and high-speed wired internet.

Own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services. Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs, improve reliability/latency/scale, take end-to-end ownership from design through production support, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor peers while partnering with Product and SRE teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native platform services for phone numbers and KYC compliance. Own end-to-end feature delivery, technical specifications, APIs, microservices, tooling, reliability, security, and incident remediation. Use AI-assisted development to accelerate coding and testing, collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to platform modernization, operational excellence, and regulatory solutions.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s core billing platform across cloud providers. Design and operate scalable billing systems, data pipelines, APIs, and PostgreSQL architecture. Improve reliability, observability, incident response, deployment, and CI/CD practices. Partner with SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Finance teams, guide architecture and roadmap decisions, review technical work, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable production systems for Toast’s retail customers. The role sets long-term technical architecture and strategy, communicates technical direction, mentors senior engineers, improves engineering productivity, diagnoses performance issues, and drives initiatives amid ambiguity. Engineers collaborate directly with retail customers, visit stores, understand operational workflows, and use AI tools to improve development velocity and quality.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain IAM solutions, ensuring security and reliability while working with cloud computing standards.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Designs scalable systems, leads end-to-end technical execution, drives cross-team initiatives, and contributes hands-on production code. The role maintains engineering standards across architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps; leads incident response and root-cause analysis; mentors engineers; troubleshoots production issues; and aligns technical delivery with product priorities.

Develop and optimize payment platforms for performance, reliability, security, fraud prevention, and seamless recurring transactions. Build payment APIs and gateway integrations, improve processing latency and throughput, monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure compliance with payment industry standards. Collaborate with security, payment providers, and cross-functional teams while maintaining high-quality documentation and resilient payment workflows.

Develop, test, debug, and maintain game software for console, PC, and mobile platforms. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to define and implement features, deliver systems to specification, provide ongoing technical support, and balance scope, quality, and development pace.

Lead software engineering teams through Agile development, including architecture, design, coding, testing, DevOps, delivery, and mentoring. Build scalable Java applications and services using SOA, APIs, microservices, containerized deployments, enterprise messaging, relational databases, and modern Spring frameworks. Establish engineering standards for security, automation, testing, and maintainable code while partnering with product owners to deliver customer-focused solutions.