Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads software design, architecture, development, testing, deployments, production support, and technical debt reduction for WEX Health applications. Mentors engineers, coordinates cross-functional delivery, reviews code, and guides feature lifecycles. Uses AI-assisted development practices, including GitHub SpecKit, model selection, MCP integration, prompt engineering, automated testing, refactoring, and governance of AI-generated code. Requires strong C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, communication, and leadership skills.

Build and maintain backend systems, payment integrations, data pipelines, and user experiences for Flex’s partner engineering platform. Design robust, fault-tolerant services that integrate with external dependencies, using Java, Spring, AWS, REST APIs, message queues, and scalable architectures. Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, infrastructure, sales, partners, and customer success while mentoring engineers and improving development standards.

Design, implement, and operate features for Temporal’s open source distributed systems server. Solve challenges involving scheduling, task processing, workflow execution, persistence, quotas, visibility, and performance. Improve reliability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in design reviews, contribute to developer experience, and mentor junior engineers.

Design and implement PostgreSQL internals and indexing/query features for large-scale document workloads, extend query engine with BSON-aware operators and custom scan nodes, tune index pruning and storage, profile distributed systems for performance, collaborate with open-source DocumentDB/PostgreSQL communities, and participate in design/code reviews.

Design, evolve, and operate core data models and APIs for complex communications networks. Build durable abstractions for heterogeneous physical and logical networks, while maintaining interface quality, compatibility, consistency, and performance. Collaborate with experienced engineers to manage priorities, timelines, and deliverables across production systems. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Golang, C/C++, Rust, or Java.

Build and operate managed compute primitives for Temporal Cloud, including autoscaling systems, cloud integrations, control-plane and data-plane services, and multi-tenant execution infrastructure. Own architecture, APIs, reliability, observability, rollout strategies, incident response, and long-term maintenance. Lead technical design, cross-team platform initiatives, code reviews, and mentorship while ensuring secure, performant, and fault-tolerant customer-facing services.

Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed storage systems for Temporal Cloud. Responsibilities include developing persistence APIs, replication paths, caches, tiered storage, and observability; improving reliability and performance through SLO ownership, chaos testing, profiling, and incident reviews; and providing technical leadership through roadmap planning, RFCs, mentoring, and cross-team delivery.

Lead the design and development of globally scalable traffic management and networking systems. Drive architecture, technical roadmaps, secure-by-default infrastructure, network optimization, cloud orchestration, and operational excellence. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, product, security, customers, and internal teams while mentoring engineers and guiding high-impact distributed systems projects.

Designs and builds scalable, reliable infrastructure systems across compute, networking, cloud orchestration, storage, and observability. Drives technical strategy, architecture, roadmaps, cross-team alignment, cost optimization, and secure-by-default practices. Requires extensive experience with coding, concurrent and distributed systems, cloud platforms, system-level tradeoffs, and infrastructure engineering.

Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable backend systems supporting customer onboarding, account lifecycle management, billing, metering, marketplace integrations, revenue data synchronization, and customer-facing usage reporting. Build reliable distributed systems, data pipelines, and integrations while ensuring correctness, observability, compliance, and operational readiness. Partner with Finance, RevOps, Sales, Support, Product, and Engineering, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and improve customer and developer experiences.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and implementation of large-scale cloud infrastructure powering Temporal Cloud. Drive multi-cloud compute, traffic, security, automation, scalability, performance, and reliability initiatives. Provide hands-on coding, technical mentorship, design review leadership, roadmap development, cross-team alignment, executive advising, and customer engagement while elevating engineering and operational excellence.

Design, build, and operate highly scalable, multi-tenant cloud storage systems for workflow data. Responsibilities include developing persistence APIs, storage abstractions, replication paths, caches, tiered storage, and observability; improving reliability and performance through SLOs, chaos testing, profiling, and incident reviews; leading technical designs, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.

Build and evolve Nexus interfaces across Temporal SDKs, integrating language runtimes with durable, deterministic workflow execution. Design APIs, implement concurrent distributed-system features, support multiple programming languages, collaborate with open-source communities, debug complex issues, and document technical concepts. The role also contributes foundational runtime capabilities for agentic AI systems and requires occasional coworker travel.

Design and develop electromagnetic warfare and spectrum operations software, including data models, RF propagation integrations, C2 and sensor APIs, AI-assisted coding workflows, and deployments across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Demonstrate software to customers, translate feedback into requirements, document and test solutions, mentor developers, and support agile delivery. The role requires an active US Top Secret/SCI clearance and travel to customer sites.

Designs, develops, maintains, troubleshoots, and enhances enterprise mainframe applications using COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, and VSAM. The role includes performance tuning, database optimization, incident and change request management, technical documentation, requirements analysis, and implementation planning. Acts as a technical lead, supports critical applications, works across Agile and waterfall methodologies, and guides junior team members.

Build and maintain Doowii's core product: front-end interfaces and UX for data querying, backend APIs and cloud infrastructure, real-time data interaction and optimized data models, ingestion pipelines (NiFi->Kafka->Iceberg->BigQuery), and model evaluation/LLM-driven features to deliver accurate, performant conversational analytics for education.

Design and deliver scalable control-plane and management services for Azure Storage at hyperscale. Lead architecture, reliability, and performance work for storage platforms that support AI workloads, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and own system health, incident response, and long-term technical roadmaps.

Design, build, ship, and own high-scale, user-facing product features across frontend, backend, and data systems. Define problems, scope and prioritize work, collaborate with Product, monitor production usage, debug incidents, improve reliability, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend expertise alongside React proficiency and ownership from product discovery through long-term maintenance.

Design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems. Contribute to architecture, build CI/CD pipelines, design distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and improve observability, performance, and operational reliability across teams.

Build, operate, and extend data platform and application-layer services enabling secure, self-service data applications at scale. Implement provisioning, CI/CD, access control, integrations, observability, automation, and incident response while contributing to semantic layer and AI-ready tooling roadmaps.

Design and implement scalable first-mile networking solutions for Microsoft 365 Substrate and COSMIC. Drive design, dependency identification, coding, optimization, debugging, and on-call monitoring. Analyze production telemetry to improve reliability, performance, and observability. Act as a DRI, lead design and release plans, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet product requirements at global scale.

Designs, develops, and maintains automated test frameworks and suites for complex API and web applications. Tests software functionality, performance, scalability, and database integrations; debugs defects and verifies fixes. Collaborates with engineering, QA, product, and cross-functional teams on test strategy, code reviews, sprint planning, and root-cause analysis. Contributes to CI/CD automation and creates test plans, cases, procedures, and reports.

The Open Source Engineer will expand LanceDB's integration with big data systems, manage dataset operations, and enhance open-source community efforts.

Leads software design, development, debugging, testing, deployment, and production support for web applications. Conducts code reviews, builds reusable code, improves legacy systems, monitors system health, optimizes performance, and responds to on-call incidents. Collaborates with engineering, product, design, customers, and vendors; mentors junior engineers; maintains development standards; and champions API-first development. Requires full-stack experience, cloud-native application deployment, database expertise, REST APIs, testing, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript monetization solutions using Prebid.js, Prebid Server, and Google Ad Manager. Own the header bidding wrapper, integrate auction and ad-tech standards, optimize Core Web Vitals and client-side performance, operate Google Cloud services, review code, document architecture, and resolve production issues.