Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads the development and deployment of data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AIP. Manages engineering teams, coaches team members, oversees project planning and execution, analyzes system interactions, manages client relationships, and drives innovation. The role applies software engineering, data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML techniques to deliver scalable client solutions while maintaining technical and professional standards.

Leads the development and deployment of software and data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include data engineering, analytics, system improvement, client account management, project ownership, team leadership, coaching, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement. The role requires building scalable applications with large datasets and delivering customer-focused solutions.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services for AI agents, calendar, scheduling, integrations, real-time data pipelines, and APIs. Design platform infrastructure, event-driven systems, and client-server protocols using Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Collaborate with AI, product, and frontend teams, improve reliability through testing and infrastructure as code, and mentor junior engineers.

The Founding Engineer will lead the development of Sailor Health's AI-powered platform, building systems for patient care and mentor the engineering team.

Build the core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and model orchestration. Design secure, observable APIs and runtime components with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks. Build safe trading action infrastructure with deterministic previews, confirmations, idempotency, and audit logs while partnering with product and frontend teams.

Own and improve Hex’s cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, databases, security, cost management, and single-tenant deployment systems. The role involves selecting and delivering infrastructure projects, operating Kubernetes and AWS environments, scaling PostgreSQL, implementing infrastructure as code, and building customer-facing platform capabilities. Engineers are expected to handle on-call responsibilities, write application code when needed, and independently turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into shippable solutions.

Build and ship backend features end-to-end using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Lead complex technical projects, solve architecture challenges, establish standards, conduct meaningful code reviews, resolve high-risk bugs, document systems, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, implement, and optimize MongoDB database integrations, Change Data Capture and streaming capabilities, and observability systems. Develop high-performance C++ services, contribute to query engine and distributed systems architecture, lead projects from design through production support, and collaborate with product and engineering teams on technical roadmaps.

Lead development of scalable Java backend applications and high-availability cloud services. Design architectures, REST APIs, databases, caching systems, and distributed session infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, address performance and scalability challenges, and uphold quality and automation practices for endpoint management products.

Lead technical strategy and execution for Affirm’s account management team, building secure, scalable fullstack systems and customer account security experiences. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams; establish quality, monitoring, testing, and operational standards; support availability and on-call practices; communicate technical decisions; and mentor engineers.

Build and scale mission-critical tips, earnings, and payroll platforms for restaurant employees. Own systems end to end, lead complex projects from design through deployment, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product and design, review code, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable backend services that affect employee pay and product revenue.

Develop and maintain a fraud-analysis web application and platform. Build APIs and user interfaces, write automated tests, troubleshoot production issues, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, analyze product metrics, and support SLA compliance through production on-call rotation.

Develop and maintain a fraud-analysis web application and platform, with 60–70% frontend focus. Build APIs, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, write automated tests, analyze product metrics, troubleshoot issues, maintain service-level requirements, and participate in on-call support. The role uses React, backend languages, databases, Docker, and AWS technologies in a remote U.S.-based environment.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, scalable full-stack systems, team operations, reliability, monitoring, code quality, and talent development. The role involves building customer-facing card experiences and backend services using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, Kubernetes, and React-based frameworks. The engineer will own features end to end, collaborate cross-functionally, manage technical risks and trade-offs, support on-call health, and apply AI safely to improve development and customer experiences.

Build and ship web-based transportation management software for trucking customers. Collaborate with product, UX, engineers, and users to solve domain-specific problems, deliver features quickly, make sound quality-versus-velocity tradeoffs, and contribute across the engineering team in a remote-first environment.

Lead large-scale initiatives for a high-performance Linux-based network sensor, improving ingestion, scalability, continuous capture, queue reliability, observability, and production diagnostics. Own root cause analysis and postmortems, establish engineering standards, translate business goals into technical plans, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews. The role requires deep Rust expertise, distributed systems experience, concurrent programming, packet capture, message brokers, and cybersecurity best practices.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support full-stack enterprise applications for legal operations, matter management, document management, compliance, and business automation. Build React frontends, Java and Spring Boot microservices, APIs, integrations, event-driven solutions, and cloud-native deployments. Work with databases, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and production support while collaborating with legal, compliance, product, architecture, and engineering teams in an Agile environment.

Develop and architect scalable iOS applications serving millions of users. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver features, promote clean architecture and iOS best practices, monitor performance and crash analytics, and guide technical excellence. Requires strong Swift, SwiftUI, MVVM, API integration, persistence, testing, and code quality expertise.

Develop and deploy scalable full-stack healthcare applications using Go, TypeScript, Angular, and AWS. Responsibilities include technical design, coding, automated unit/integration/end-to-end testing, code reviews, troubleshooting, agile ceremonies, mentorship, architecture improvements, and occasional on-call support. The role contributes technical leadership across frontend and backend systems while collaborating with Scrum teams and cross-functional partners.

Develop and maintain accessible, responsive front-end web applications for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Build React, Angular, or similar interfaces; integrate REST APIs and AI-driven insights; collaborate with UX, backend, cloud, and AI/ML teams; and support testing, security, performance, scalability, documentation, and Agile delivery.

Build, support, and optimize enterprise Workday Extend applications and integrations. Develop data models, pages, business process integrations, security configurations, and reusable components using Studio, Orchestrate, Core Connectors, EIBs, APIs, and Workday Web Services. Collaborate with product, security, engineering, and business teams in an Agile environment; troubleshoot production issues, improve automation and CI/CD practices, participate in architecture and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable software for Toast Delivery Services. Develop real-time delivery tracking, driver matching, pricing, refunds, and payment-related systems. Solve distributed-systems and scaling challenges, integrate with partner APIs, uphold production reliability, promote strong engineering practices, and mentor teammates.

Own the architecture and technical direction for provider-sourced client products, including lead management, caseload migration, AI-powered inquiry workflows, and provider marketing tools. Partner cross-functionally with product, design, data, sales, customer experience, and pricing teams. Build reliable user-facing systems, guide technical decisions across teams, measure product impact through experimentation, and influence teams without direct authority.

Designs, develops, maintains, and troubleshoots scalable software applications using .NET, SQL Server, UI frameworks, and cloud technologies. Collaborates with product owners, developers, testers, and technology leads; participates in code reviews; writes documented code; and improves software development practices.

Architect and operate Affirm’s large-scale Amazon EKS compute platform, including cluster lifecycle, node management, autoscaling, shared components, infrastructure automation, workload safety policies, observability, cost and capacity optimization, and self-service workflows. The role drives technical strategy, mentors engineers, partners cross-functionally, and participates in on-call incident response.