Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead a team in developing cloud-based solutions, manage a portfolio of projects, mentor engineers, and drive technology innovations in a collaborative environment.

Lead diverse technology projects, collaborate on cloud-based solutions, mentor developers, and stay up-to-date with new technologies in software engineering.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Build and maintain the AI-powered learning platform across a TypeScript/React frontend and Python/FastAPI backend. Integrate LLMs for classification, extraction, personalization, and conversation practice. Design scalable APIs, develop real-time interactive features, apply AI-assisted development workflows, write well-tested code, and collaborate with product, design, and education teams to optimize learning experiences and A/B tests.

Define and own autonomy architecture for large-scale UAV swarms: design perception, planning, control, and inter-robot/C2 protocols; make system tradeoffs; mentor engineers; write production-quality code; support test events (up to 25% travel).

Lead design and implementation of scalable backend services and member-facing APIs using Python/Django, PostgreSQL, BigQuery/dbt and GCP. Own infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), async/event-driven systems, observability, and performance tuning. Mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Data teams, and ensure secure, low-latency, AI-driven member experiences.

Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js and React. Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), deploy CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot Linux systems, ensure secure AWS deployments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to operate cloud workloads.

Build and enhance full‑stack cloud-native applications using Java/Spring and JavaScript/React. Own the full SDLC, apply TDD and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical direction as experience increases from contributor to Lead.

Join an early-stage platform team to scale and mature a mortgage origination platform. Work across the stack to improve distributed systems, performance, observability, and infrastructure tooling, and help define engineering standards and frameworks for growth.

Design, build, scale, and operate a Kafka-compatible, object-storage-backed streaming platform. Own backend services, storage engine, multi-tenant control plane, transactions and multi-region features. Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, ensure operational readiness and SLAs, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute across the full stack including developer console UI.

Develop, configure, integrate, and operationalize command-and-control (C2) and Common Operating Picture (COP) applications. Build workflow automation, event management, alerting, data fusion, dashboards, and operator-focused UX. Support testing, interoperability validation, demonstrations, and operational readiness while collaborating with systems engineering and stakeholders.

Develop and improve software, provide technical leadership to development teams, build APIs and BPMN-based process automation, support user documentation, and deliver low-code/no-code solutions using Appian, Salesforce, or Nintex with Microsoft SQL Server and .NET in agile/hybrid environments.

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.

Design and deliver large-scale, resilient AI and Kubernetes infrastructure for hybrid environments. Implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-native, container orchestration solutions; integrate AI capabilities; participate in on-call rotations; mentor engineers and drive reliability, observability, and performance at scale.

Design, implement, debug, and ship features for Azure Storage front end at cloud scale. Drive design, dependency identification, automation, reliability, observability, and on-call incident response while collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring engineers.

Design and deliver large-scale, cloud-native and AI-enabled Kubernetes/AKS solutions. Implement, optimize, and maintain Kubernetes components and container orchestration across Azure, on-prem, and edge. Integrate AI capabilities, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve reliability, observability, performance, and operational consistency at scale.

Build and ship end-to-end features across a TypeScript/Next.js monolith: dashboard, marketing site, billing, email, and AI-assisted tools. Own data models, APIs, third-party integrations, testing, observability, and production quality. Collaborate with the founder, review code, and improve engineering practices while delivering customer-facing features rapidly.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python applications; collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features; ensure performance and quality; identify and fix bugs; maintain code quality and automation; lead and mentor team members using agile practices.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices and developer-facing APIs, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, design secure/versioned APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and develop microservices using a cloud-native tech stack, with a focus on financial services and secure systems.

Develop and maintain PowerUp Sports’ software platform, build and release new features, integrate technologies, optimize PHP applications on Azure, manage SQL Server databases, participate in code reviews, mentor junior developers, and support scalable, reliable architecture.

Develop and operate high-throughput, low-latency telemetry pipelines and cloud services for Azure AI/HPC infrastructure. Build observability, monitoring, analytics, and automation capabilities; own architecture through deployment and operations; and lead incident response, root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, and operational readiness. Partner across engineering and platform teams, influence technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and apply distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and cloud operations practices at hyperscale.

Provide expert-level technical support for web and mobile products, debug high-performance RESTful services, triage incidents, coordinate cross-team incident response, collaborate with Client Success, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to resolve complex issues and improve product reliability.