Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead technical vision and architecture for Risk Technology, design scalable resilient systems, mentor engineers, contribute high-quality code, and drive cross-organizational technical strategy and reusable solutions.

Lead technical design and delivery of scalable APIs, data contracts, and cloud-native platform services for large-scale customer data. Drive architecture for GraphDB and distributed systems, enable self-service onboarding and developer productivity, ensure resiliency/observability, automate operations, and mentor engineering teams while aligning cross-functional platform and product stakeholders.

Leads multiple software engineering teams focused on developer experience and AI tooling. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring engineers, partnering with product managers, improving engineering practices, designing and supporting full-stack solutions, and ensuring scalability, resilience, and availability. The role also leads AWS deployments, microservices modernization, Agile delivery, engineering intelligence initiatives, and adoption of emerging AI and developer productivity technologies.

Leads software engineering projects and developer teams building distributed microservices and cloud-based backend solutions. Collaborates with product managers, mentors engineers, evaluates code, and addresses regulatory and customer needs. Uses Java, Python, SQL, Node.js, Go, Scala, AWS, containerization, orchestration, relational databases, and NoSQL technologies while driving innovation and delivery across Capital One.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Owns delivery of backend money movement and card ledger systems, leading engineers through complex problems and ambiguity. Collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; defines scalable technical solutions; supports system availability, monitoring, on-call operations, code quality, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring and developing team talent while building highly available distributed systems for Affirm’s financial products.

Design, build, and own backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting customer care workflows. The role connects Salesforce, billing, identity verification, document management, and iPaaS platforms; requires automated testing, code reviews, incident response, performance monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The engineer will also apply AI tools and may build production LLM solutions.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable software for Toast Delivery Services. Develop real-time delivery tracking, driver matching, pricing, refunds, and payment-related systems. Solve distributed-systems and scaling challenges, integrate with partner APIs, uphold production reliability, promote strong engineering practices, and mentor teammates.

Build and optimize MongoDB’s SQL interface, including query engines, SQL-to-MQL translation, database connectors, and BI integrations. Develop backend systems that improve performance, scalability, reliability, and usability for large datasets and complex queries. Collaborate with product managers and customer experience teams, contribute to roadmap initiatives, resolve bugs, and lead major technical projects.

Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications. Owns the engineering lifecycle, writes high-performance code, establishes testing and reliability practices, resolves production issues, guides technical roadmaps, collaborates cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in object-oriented backend development, distributed cloud systems, automated testing, system monitoring, and technical leadership.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Lead and mentor engineering teams to build full-stack, cloud-native microservices and products. Collaborate with product managers, design scalable solutions using TypeScript/Node.js/Python and cloud/container technologies, and drive architectural consistency while occasionally coding and evaluating implementations.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Build and own Eve's marketing site and GTM engineering stack: integrate and optimize external tools, design AI agents for sales and marketing, implement webhooks and middleware to sync product/CRM data, and create programmatic campaigns and internal tools in partnership with Marketing, Sales, RevOps, and Product to drive growth and automation.

Lead frontend-leaning full-stack implementation work for carrier and enterprise integrations: architect reusable UI and API layers, author RFCs, guide technical delivery, enforce testing and security best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to scope and ship production integrations.

Build and maintain Python services, REST APIs, batch jobs, shared libraries, claims and eligibility workflows, and internal applications. Write and optimize MySQL queries and stored procedures, develop tested and maintainable code, and participate in design, reviews, deployment, and production support. Collaborate across departments, work with sensitive healthcare data, and use AI-assisted development tools while ensuring code correctness and quality.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Develop and configure enterprise-scale digital software solutions for asset performance management and predictive analytics. Responsibilities include translating customer requirements into software architectures, designing and implementing applications, documenting solutions, testing technologies, supporting customer implementations, and collaborating with subject matter experts, project managers, product managers, and development teams. The role also involves presentations, scalable application development, secure distributed architectures, and occasional customer project travel.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain cloud-native AWS applications using Node.js, React.js, and JavaScript/TypeScript. Build infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CDK, create CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot Linux environments, and support secure cloud operations. Collaborate with UI/UX, cloud engineering, architecture, and DevOps teams while contributing to compliance, hardening, architectural decisions, and on-call operations.

Build and own Dia’s enterprise administration products, including the Admin Console, entitlement and provisioning APIs, identity and policy configuration, usage metering, commerce integrations, and Atlassian Admin Hub integration. Partner with platform and client engineers to deliver enterprise features across web and native clients, establish technical direction, and shape the enterprise roadmap in a high-ambiguity startup environment.

Develop, test, maintain, and support secure, scalable full-stack Java applications with Angular user interfaces. Write complex code and SQL, create technical designs and documentation, conduct code and design reviews, and ensure compliance with security, audit, regulatory, and SDLC requirements. Collaborate with architects and business partners in an Agile/Scrum environment, lead project delivery, mentor globally distributed junior engineers, and participate in on-call support.

Designs, develops, tests, debugs, and maintains scalable React Native mobile applications for iOS and Android. Owns major mobile projects, defines architecture and APIs, manages backend and third-party integrations, improves performance and reliability, and supports modernization efforts. Collaborates across engineering, product, design, QA, security, and business teams while mentoring engineers and promoting Agile, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and mobile development best practices.

Design and lead the technical strategy for search across Vannevar’s products. Build and improve full-text, vector, and LLM-powered retrieval systems, optimizing latency, relevance, index quality, freshness, and performance. Collaborate with ML, product, design, and mission strategy teams to translate user needs into search innovations. Apply expertise in information retrieval, NLP, machine learning, indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, vector search, and evaluation frameworks.

Lead frontend development for Coinbase identity experiences including login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-factor authentication. Own projects from design through deployment and monitoring, guide Native versus Webview architecture, author technical designs, resolve systemic technical debt, lead on-call and incident response, and mentor engineers.