Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead platform and infrastructure architecture for scalable AI workloads. Design resilient distributed systems, foundational platform services, and cloud environments; solve complex infrastructure challenges; mentor junior engineers; and collaborate with product, research, and security teams to improve reliability, performance, developer experience, and operational efficiency.

Build enterprise control-plane products for managing Hightouch deployments at scale. Responsibilities include developing roles, permissions, and access control; creating change-management tools for evolving data models and warehouses; and helping customers understand and optimize warehouse performance and costs. The role requires backend and distributed-systems architecture, asynchronous workflows, scalability, reliability, product thinking, and engagement with product specifications.

Design, build, and optimize distributed systems powering large-scale data synchronization. Responsibilities include improving sync speed, developing real-time streaming capabilities, scaling high-volume and low-latency systems, troubleshooting customer scaling challenges, and supporting multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure and data residency requirements. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, customer collaboration, system architecture, and reliability improvements.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Design and build Seeq’s internal platform, including infrastructure, services, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, system interfaces, and secure deployment capabilities. Improve scalability, reliability, software delivery, and infrastructure cost and performance. Lead migrations, integrate security practices, architect distributed systems, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on at Staff or Principal scope.

Build and operate site reliability engineering practices for regulated, cloud-based production environments. Responsibilities include observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes and cloud operations, disaster recovery exercises, compliant deployments, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements. The role partners with engineering, product, laboratory, compliance, and quality teams while mentoring peers and helping establish the organization’s SRE culture.

Lead design, implementation, and deployment of core platform tooling enabling secure, cloud-native application delivery. Integrate with defense systems, own architecture, mentor engineers, contribute to open source, maintain documentation, and participate in a shared 24x7 on-call rotation.

Build and operate Numeral’s public API, MCP server, billing and ERP integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform services. Own projects from design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and contribute to architecture decisions. The role requires strong backend engineering, distributed systems knowledge, cloud and container experience, and a customer-focused approach to dependable financial automation.

Build and scale AI-enabled developer experience systems, including CI/CD platforms, deployment safeguards, observability, automated response workflows, and multi-agent orchestration. Reduce developer toil and technical debt while improving software delivery speed, safety, reliability, and production quality. Partner with engineering teams to adopt AI-native delivery practices and convert emerging capabilities into scalable internal platforms.

Lead iOS engineering for the Subscription Growth team, building and improving premium subscription experiences, paywalls, upsell experiments, and promotional offers. Develop high-quality, testable solutions, refactor architecture, support automated app builds and releases, and collaborate across iOS, Android, web, backend, and infrastructure teams. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on design, security, testing, deployment, and rapid experimentation.

Build and operate Numeral’s platform services, public API, MCP server, ERP and billing integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer interfaces. Own projects from technical design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and support scalable background jobs and APIs. Collaborate with product and engineering teams while applying distributed-systems principles and maintaining accurate, dependable financial-data workflows.

Designs and maintains automated and manual testing strategies, test suites, and test plans. Identifies and tracks defects, performs API, load, and performance testing, and contributes to feature development and bug fixes. Provides testing guidance, participates in code reviews and planning, supports release quality decisions, and promotes software quality across cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and own production-grade platform subsystems for Stacklok Enterprise, writing Go software that runs on customer Kubernetes environments. Collaborate with leadership, mentor engineers, support customer onboarding and troubleshooting, contribute to the open-source ToolHive project, and translate customer feedback into product improvements. The role also involves improving engineering workflows through AI-assisted development and owning platform areas from design through ongoing production operations.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Leads architecture, hands-on software development, deployment, and production issue resolution for strategic customer projects. Drives AI innovation, platform resiliency, security, observability, performance, and operational improvements. Partners with executives, engineering, product, and customer success teams to prioritize strategic programs, improve customer value, share technical best practices, and remove production blockers.

Provides technical leadership for Azure cloud-scale distributed data platforms processing network telemetry and operational data. Defines architecture and long-term technical strategy, leads streaming and batch system design, resolves complex scalability and reliability challenges, oversees production readiness and continuous improvement, and influences cross-team technical investments. Partners across Azure Networking, conducts design reviews, establishes reusable engineering patterns, improves observability and quality, and mentors engineers and technical leaders.

Leads architecture, development, and operation of Python-based AWS backend and IoT services. Designs Lambda microservices, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, telemetry pipelines, databases, device communication, and infrastructure as code. Provides hands-on technical leadership through coding, design and code reviews, mentoring, cross-functional planning, security practices, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, and roadmap development.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Build and scale AI-powered web applications using Ruby on Rails and React. Develop full-stack features, prototypes, and LLM capabilities while independently owning projects from inception through delivery. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams, iterate rapidly based on feedback, review AI-generated code, and make sound technical decisions with minimal guidance.

Leads architecture, development, deployment, and operation of scalable Java and Kotlin applications. Responsibilities include backend-focused full-stack development, Kafka data streaming, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, performance optimization, incident response, technical leadership, mentoring, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also drives AI-assisted engineering practices and modernization initiatives while supporting on-call operations.

Own the team’s quality strategy, automation architecture, test frameworks, synthetic-data safeguards, CI feedback, and non-functional testing. Design reliable testing for concurrency, asynchronous workflows, and distributed services; diagnose failures across product, automation, data, and environments; and establish AI-assisted quality practices with human oversight. Define risk-based verification, exploratory testing, PHI protections, testability requirements, and residual-risk communication while partnering with Engineering, Product, and Platform.

Design and maintain Anaconda’s internal package build and release platform, improving security, access control, reliability, and operational resilience. Responsibilities include writing software and architecture documentation, reviewing code, diagnosing complex issues, partnering across teams, using AI tools to reduce toil, mentoring engineers, and driving investments that reduce production risk. The role focuses on Python-based infrastructure, platform tooling, DevOps, and SRE practices in a fully remote environment.

Leads the design, implementation, and support of complex, scalable software components and distributed systems. Provides technical leadership through architecture decisions, mentoring, code and design reviews, troubleshooting, and engineering standards. Partners with product, quality, architecture, and DevOps teams on secure cloud-native solutions, CI/CD, observability, performance, releases, and platform modernization. Participates in hiring and communicates technical risks and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Design, scale, and maintain high-performance services supporting player registration, authentication, identity verification, fraud and AML screening, geolocation, responsible gaming, regulatory compliance, and communications. The role involves architecting features, optimizing production systems, managing monitoring and integrations, mentoring engineers, handling migrations, and collaborating across teams. Candidates will operate containerized services, support on-call rotations, and build secure, auditable systems using modern web frameworks, databases, event infrastructure, and authentication standards.

Designs and builds cloud-native maintenance planning software for U.S. Navy and defense customers. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy systems, developing data transformations and APIs, designing microservices, implementing identity and access controls, ensuring data quality and compliance, and leading architecture and technical delivery. The role collaborates with government, vendor, platform, and engineering stakeholders, mentors engineers, documents systems, and supports development through production sustainment in a remote environment.