Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads technical vision and architecture for Card Tech while remaining hands-on in software development. Modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, establishes API and design standards, ensures scalable and secure implementations, and mentors engineering teams. The role requires expertise in cloud computing, data architecture, distributed systems, enterprise architecture, and AI-native development, along with leadership of cross-divisional initiatives and talent recruitment.

Supports and enhances Genworth’s COBOL-based mainframe long-term care policy administration system. Responsibilities include monitoring system health, resolving incidents and job abends, analyzing business issues, designing and testing code changes, producing regulatory reports, supporting releases, and collaborating with developers, analysts, QA, business partners, and IT teams. The role also provides technical guidance, participates in Agile ceremonies, and supports production operations and continuous improvement.

Leads software engineering and architecture for Card Tech, combining hands-on development with technical mentorship. Defines technical vision, modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, establishes API and design standards, and drives scalable, secure, operable solutions. Partners across divisions, mentors senior engineers, evaluates AI-generated code, and leads architectural strategy and engineering excellence initiatives.

Lead architecture and development of significant backend platform features from concept through release. Design scalable distributed systems, write technical proposals, assess business impacts, and ensure dependable performance. Use AI coding assistants while validating code quality and safety, coach engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and collaborate with product and cross-functional teams. The role requires expert Node.js and TypeScript skills, experience with message queues, and ownership of substantial product areas.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and infrastructure powering AI-driven healthcare applications. Design distributed data systems, ETL workflows, streaming platforms, and cloud-native architectures while partnering with AI, machine learning, and product teams. Own production reliability, observability, security, automation, and on-call support for business-critical systems.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable platform software and services. Collaborate with architecture and cross-functional teams, implement platform features, participate in code reviews, document technical specifications, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance and scalability. The role requires Go development, scripting, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, containerization, cloud networking, and CI/CD experience.

Build and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for Mindbody products. Design microservices, write tested and maintainable code, monitor applications, participate in reviews, and collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams. The description also includes leadership responsibilities such as managing backend development teams, coaching managers and engineers, establishing delivery processes, and driving technical and organizational improvement.

Build and maintain Python services, REST APIs, batch jobs, shared libraries, claims workflows, and internal applications. Develop maintainable, unit-tested code; write SQL for MySQL databases; participate in design, code review, deployment, and production support; and collaborate across departments. The role also involves handling sensitive healthcare data, using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and working in a regulated pharmacy benefits domain.

Design, build, and operate foundational developer infrastructure across CI, build systems, deployment orchestration, and test platforms. Improve build speed, deployment safety, and test reliability while owning services end to end, including SLOs, observability, and on-call responsibilities. Partner with engineering teams to address platform pain points and lead cross-cutting technical projects through production.

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.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

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.

Build and operate highly scalable Go backend services and data infrastructure for the AT Protocol ecosystem. Scale systems to support hundreds of millions of users, hundreds of millions of events, petabytes of NVMe storage, thousands of CPU cores, and tens of terabytes of RAM. Responsibilities include developing mission-critical services, managing production operations, and working with databases, distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and storage technologies.

Lead the technical direction of Carrum Health’s billing and payments platform. Centralize pricing, define billing service boundaries and data models, and build reliable systems for invoicing, provider payments, and financial reporting. Partner with Product, Finance, Operations, and Data on cross-team initiatives, write architectural documentation, mentor engineers, and ensure financial correctness, observability, auditability, and safe rollbacks. Work primarily with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS in a remote-first startup environment.

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 maintain scalable full-stack web applications using PHP, Laravel, React, Next.js, SQL, and related technologies. Own features from design through deployment and monitoring, develop APIs, optimize databases and legacy systems, troubleshoot performance issues, and contribute to code quality, security, and engineering practices. Collaborate cross-functionally in an agile, continuous-deployment environment while using AI-assisted tools responsibly.

Build secure software for government and defense clients using Palantir Foundry and modern engineering practices. Responsibilities include decomposing business problems, supporting agentic development, pairing with client and military engineers, delivering continuously, measuring user outcomes, facilitating technical discussions, managing technical debt, and mentoring less experienced engineers. The role requires full-stack development, API development, containerization, DevSecOps, TDD, agile methods, and active DoD clearance.

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.

Designs and develops scalable full-stack eCommerce platforms using Java, Spring Boot, React, and TypeScript. Leads microservices and micro-frontend architecture, cloud-hosted platforms, distributed data and messaging solutions, streaming and batch pipelines, payment integrations, performance optimization, accessibility, and PCI-DSS compliance. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, architecture guidance, code reviews, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead technical strategy and execution for build, test, release, and deployment systems. Drive initiatives to improve developer productivity, deployment safety, and platform reliability. Coordinate cross-team projects and migrations, contribute high-impact code, coach engineers, and lead incident response and resilience improvements for shared engineering systems.

Develop and architect scalable iOS applications used by millions of customers. Lead mobile engineering practices involving clean architecture, dependency injection, performance optimization, testing, reliability monitoring, and maintainable code. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver features, stay current with iOS technologies, and promote technical excellence across the iOS engineering community.

Leads architecture and development of complex backend services for a commercial health plan platform. Designs .NET Core and Azure systems, develops claims, eligibility, and benefits functionality, manages healthcare data integrations, and owns cloud infrastructure and CI/CD architecture. Provides technical leadership through code reviews, testing standards, mentoring, and architecture decisions while ensuring performance, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.

Leads backend architecture and technical direction for the Node.js sub-team while developing complex Node.js, TypeScript, and Next.js services. Designs APIs, authentication, data models, caching, messaging, and resilient systems; oversees performance, testing, CI/CD, security, and HIPAA compliance. Mentors engineers, leads code reviews, establishes coding standards, and collaborates with frontend and mobile teams. The role is remote for candidates in Eastern or Central time zones, with an in-person Dallas interview required.

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.

Develop and support scalable Python services, APIs, and event-driven systems for digital freight pricing and booking. Build experimentation frameworks, AI-assisted pricing harnesses, validation guardrails, real-time platforms, and machine-learning integrations. Lead architecture decisions, ensure security and reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, operations, revenue management, data science, and engineering teams.