Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Provides principal-level technical leadership across engineering teams, shaping architecture, engineering standards, scalable software solutions, and delivery practices. The role combines hands-on software development with design reviews, technical decision-making, mentoring, CI/CD and platform improvements, system reliability, and cross-team collaboration. It also partners with product and design stakeholders and may lead high-impact initiatives. Remote work is available with required quarterly travel to Tampa, Florida.

Owns end-to-end test strategy, designs scalable backend and UI automation frameworks, integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, performs exploratory testing, and advocates for testability and reliability across engineering and product. The role requires strong programming, Kubernetes and distributed-systems knowledge, debugging ability, and cross-functional ownership in a fast-moving startup.

Lead technical direction for a central infrastructure team supporting all product engineering. Design and maintain AWS infrastructure, Terraform modules, CI/CD workflows, observability, security, networking, cost-visibility tooling, and operational platforms. Coordinate multiple initiatives, improve reliability and incident response, establish paved roads adopted by feature teams, guide infrastructure strategy, and coach engineers across the organization.

Build and maintain premium mobile features, subscription and in-app purchase flows, paywalls, pricing experiences, and advertising functionality for Life360’s consumer app. Own feature quality, performance, reliability, experimentation, and incident response at 100M+ user scale. Collaborate with product, design, data science, and analytics teams; use AI coding agents extensively; contribute to architecture and code reviews; mentor engineers; and help evolve AI-native engineering practices.

Own end-to-end verification and validation for complex cloud-native software systems. Design comprehensive testing strategies, build scalable backend and frontend automation frameworks, identify coverage gaps, perform root cause analysis, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve testing efficiency. Apply AI-assisted tools to testing and debugging, evaluate emerging AI capabilities, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards across teams.

Evaluates AI coding-agent interactions for technical quality, engineering judgment, reasoning, explanations, and user trust. Provides detailed written and recorded feedback, distinguishes response quality levels, and helps define standards for tools such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This remote contract requires strong TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python experience, familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, and senior-level engineering judgment.

Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for engineering judgment, response quality, reasoning, explanations, and usefulness. Provide clear written and recorded feedback, distinguish quality levels, and help define standards for excellent AI-assisted development interactions. This contract role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong Python or TypeScript/JavaScript skills, familiarity with modern AI development workflows, and excellent English communication.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for correctness, usefulness, engineering judgment, explanation quality, and user trust. Provide clear, opinionated written feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. The role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong TypeScript/JavaScript or Python skills, hands-on AI-assisted development experience, excellent English communication, and the ability to assess code without executing or reviewing every line.

Build and operate full-stack certificate management, security, monitoring, and vulnerability products. Develop TypeScript APIs and React frontends, design MySQL schemas, manage AWS workers and Kubernetes infrastructure, maintain legacy .NET and Python services, integrate partner APIs, improve CI/CD and observability, participate in on-call support, and develop AI-assisted features. The role includes code reviews, testing, incident resolution, technical documentation, and mentoring engineers.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.

Develop and support software applications, REST and ASP.NET web services, distributed systems, data integrations, and storage solutions. Analyze requirements, optimize performance, resolve application issues, implement security and data protection, and collaborate with product, business, and QA teams. The role includes technical documentation, quality reviews, managing competing priorities, and mentoring less experienced developers.

Build and maintain full-stack software for startup clients, including backend services, frontend experiences, new features, redesigns, bug fixes, and product improvements. Collaborate daily with product managers, designers, and engineers in a distributed, agile environment. Take ownership across the technology stack, write clean maintainable code, contribute to client missions, and support team growth and knowledge sharing.

Architect and develop production-grade business systems across Salesforce, NetSuite, and integrated enterprise platforms. Build quoting, subscription, and entitlement engines; create automation pipelines and API integrations; establish architecture, security, documentation, and code-review standards; and translate commercial policies into scalable technical solutions. The role partners with Finance, Sales Operations, Customer Success, and product stakeholders while maintaining system reliability, auditability, observability, and production readiness.

Design and implement scalable backend services for MoneyGram’s core transaction and API platforms. Responsibilities include architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, integrations, cloud development, CI/CD automation, testing, deployment, operational excellence, and engineering standards. The role collaborates with product, engineering, and QA teams, mentors junior engineers, leads complex technical solutions, and influences technical direction in an agile environment.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s billing experience platform. Design and evolve public and internal APIs, build full-stack billing and account-management features, and shape scalable architecture and data models. Improve reliability, observability, deployment, CI/CD, and incident response across cloud services. Mentor engineers, review technical work, influence roadmap priorities, collaborate across Product, Design, SRE, Finance, and Cloud teams, and participate in on-call rotations.

Design and scale ARM64 compute platform infrastructure, hypervisor integrations, instance management, resource orchestration tools, and compute APIs. Develop and maintain low-level services using Python, Go, or compiled systems languages. Collaborate with hardware and global engineering teams, participate in design reviews, debug distributed Linux systems, and mentor junior engineers.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems and public-facing APIs. Collaborate with Product and Data Science teams, lead initiatives improving efficiency and system performance, and support customer satisfaction. Work may involve distributed systems, pricing engines, identity management, authentication, authorization, API versioning, deprecation, and rate limiting.

Develop and maintain enterprise full-stack applications using Java Spring Boot, REST APIs, modern front-end frameworks, Oracle Exadata, and OpenShift/Kubernetes. Responsibilities include legacy code analysis, full-lifecycle development and testing, SQL and PL/SQL optimization, microservices deployment, CI/CD, code reviews, architecture discussions, monitoring, and Agile collaboration. The role requires an active transferable IRS MBI moderate-risk public trust investigation, U.S. citizenship, and substantial full-stack and cloud-native development experience.

Build and own Android growth and monetization experiments across subscriptions, pricing, advertising, purchases, and upgrade flows. Partner with product, design, data science, and analytics to instrument experiments, manage staged rollouts, monitor performance, and act on results. Use AI tools throughout development, contribute to Android architecture and engineering practices, participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, and help scale reliable mobile experiences to tens of millions of users.

Leads technical direction and cross-team delivery of scalable software capabilities for a digital banking platform. Designs secure APIs, microservices, integrations, data contracts, and reliable full-stack systems. Partners across product, design, security, architecture, data, and engineering; mentors engineers; leads incident response; improves testing, CI/CD, developer tooling, and operational readiness. The role requires hands-on coding, architecture leadership, dependency management, and influence without direct people management.

Designs, develops, configures, and supports Edifecs healthcare EDI solutions and transaction mappings. Works with 837, 834, 835, 820, and 270/271 transactions; troubleshoots transmissions, configures validations, and develops Groovy scripts. Leads Agile and DevOps efforts, mentors engineers, supports QA, and designs scalable AWS applications using containers, microservices, and CI/CD. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, performance tuning, and stakeholder consultation.

Build and improve scalable, accessible Android applications for Wikipedia and Wikimedia users worldwide. Responsibilities include leading technical discovery and system design, implementing Kotlin and Jetpack Compose features, optimizing performance, developing testing and observability practices, managing delivery risks and scope, and collaborating with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams.

Lead software engineering for the Patient Onboarding team, building and improving registration, insurance verification, and care-access workflows. Write full-stack production code, lead complex cross-team initiatives, shape technical direction, improve engineering foundations, and support modern AI-enabled development practices. Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering to improve patient conversion and system reliability.

Develop and maintain software using C#, .NET, web technologies, SQL Server, and AWS. Participate in the full SDLC and Agile Scrum processes, including design, development, unit testing, defect resolution, backlog refinement, and collaboration with product and QA teams. Build solutions using Microsoft-stack technologies, optimize databases and stored procedures, and support cloud-based application delivery.