Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Own and evolve high-scale backend and data-layer services. Design, build, test, and operate distributed backend services and APIs, improve reliability/latency/scale, take end-to-end ownership from design through production support, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor peers while partnering with Product and SRE teams.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s core billing platform across cloud providers. Design and operate scalable billing systems, data pipelines, APIs, and PostgreSQL architecture. Improve reliability, observability, incident response, deployment, and CI/CD practices. Partner with SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Finance teams, guide architecture and roadmap decisions, review technical work, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Design and build reliable backend services and integrations for Coinbase’s Unified Merge Gate. Lead automated code review, policy evaluation, CI evidence, authorization, merge controls, repository migrations, safe rollouts, observability, and operational ownership. Partner with Security, Compliance, Infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve software review and deployment workflows while measuring merge quality, review volume, time-to-merge, and escaped defects.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Designs scalable systems, leads end-to-end technical execution, drives cross-team initiatives, and contributes hands-on production code. The role maintains engineering standards across architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps; leads incident response and root-cause analysis; mentors engineers; troubleshoots production issues; and aligns technical delivery with product priorities.

Lead software engineering teams through Agile development, including architecture, design, coding, testing, DevOps, delivery, and mentoring. Build scalable Java applications and services using SOA, APIs, microservices, containerized deployments, enterprise messaging, relational databases, and modern Spring frameworks. Establish engineering standards for security, automation, testing, and maintainable code while partnering with product owners to deliver customer-focused solutions.

Develop, design, test, maintain, and enhance web-based multi-tier business applications using .NET technologies, C#, databases, and web services. Responsibilities include gathering and documenting requirements, translating business needs into software specifications, conducting code reviews and testing, managing integrations and installations, troubleshooting application issues, performing data analysis, supporting change management, and collaborating with business and technical teams.

Develop and optimize payment platforms for performance, reliability, security, fraud prevention, and seamless recurring transactions. Build payment APIs and gateway integrations, improve processing latency and throughput, monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure compliance with payment industry standards. Collaborate with security, payment providers, and cross-functional teams while maintaining high-quality documentation and resilient payment workflows.

Design and implement high-performance, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core control- and user-plane functions on ARM-based embedded Linux. Develop in C/Go/Rust, use DPDK for packet processing, optimize latency/throughput, debug protocol and performance issues, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate carrier-grade systems.

Build and modernize Carrum Health’s data platform by developing Python and SQL pipelines, AWS services, Terraform infrastructure, dbt transformations, observability, testing, and CI/CD. Automate carrier integrations, reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and support Databricks adoption. Extend AI-assisted ingestion and classification using Bedrock and collaborate across engineering, analytics, data science, and client-facing teams. The role includes production ownership, incident response, technical documentation, and healthcare data platform development.

Build reusable interactive front-end components for a browser-based product, focusing on graphics rendering, performance, and engaging user experiences. Own features from concept through release, collaborate with product, design, and content teams, and maintain clean code that supports both human developers and AI tools. The role requires solving demanding browser-rendering challenges and designing clear APIs for people and automated systems.

Staff-level platform engineer to improve and scale inherited Scala systems, redesign data layers for ML/AI, build a Rust service framework, enhance observability and resilience, shape developer tooling and standards, and work across JVM, Rust, Python, SQL, and Spark.

Own end-to-end frontend development for core crypto payment flows across web and mobile. Improve latency, availability, and SLOs; build user-facing features (contacts, real-time transaction status); identify and fix performance bottlenecks; partner with product/design/backend; mentor junior engineers to reduce customer friction at scale.

Own and evolve patient-facing clinical application surfaces, including a React widget, clinician portal, and Python service layer. Lead full-stack architecture, AI application integrations, encounter data flows, internal tooling, versioned shared components, and operational reliability. Partner with AI engineers on LLM-enabled workflows, maintain dependencies, protect consumers from breaking changes, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires durable ownership of rapidly built systems and delivery of critical healthcare technology.

Build and maintain developer-facing tools and APIs for MongoDB Atlas and Compass. Work full-stack on customer-facing UIs and backend services, design scalable, highly available web applications, collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot distributed systems, and improve performance and developer experience.

Lead full-stack software development across frontend and backend systems, delivering user-facing healthcare features from concept through iteration. Design APIs and application architecture, write technical specifications, improve testing and CI practices, collaborate with product, AI/ML, clinical, and UX teams, and guide cross-team technical decisions. The role involves React, Python, cloud infrastructure, databases, asynchronous workflows, and healthcare data technologies.

Build and evolve scalable systems that capture, ingest, and process real-time and recorded audio/video streams from telephony and meeting platforms. Design distributed media pipelines optimized for reliability, performance, and low latency; provide technical leadership and mentorship; solve complex systems problems; implement testing and quality practices; contribute to architecture and code reviews; and maintain security and compliance standards.

Build and ship product features incorporating machine intelligence and large language models. Architect scalable AI-powered functionality, conversational agent experiences, data pipelines, and third-party integrations. Collaborate with subject-matter experts and designers, make pragmatic technical decisions, and mentor teammates on data and AI practices. The role requires hands-on server-side web development, flexible scripting skills, strong system design judgment, and experience delivering AI-enabled products in a startup environment.

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.

Own and evolve Thrive Global’s enterprise identity platform, including sign-up, authentication, authorization, user identity management, and integrations with enterprise identity providers. Independently deliver complex projects, partner with Product and stakeholders, maintain reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, and ensure secure, scalable systems using modern identity protocols and credential-management practices.

Lead the architecture, development, and evolution of Keeper Commander, including Python and .NET SDKs, CLI tooling, APIs, and developer automation. Remain hands-on with coding, debugging, architecture, integrations, security, testing, and release engineering while mentoring a small team. Partner with Product, QA, and Security teams, support the open-source ecosystem, improve developer experience, and guide technical strategy for enterprise and DevOps integrations.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems. Provide engineering leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance while driving reliability, automation, CI/CD, security, performance optimization, and technical strategy. Investigate emerging technologies, oversee complex problem-solving, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product and business stakeholders to align technology roadmaps with organizational goals.

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.

Build and scale accounting software synchronization solutions connecting BILL’s payment network with third-party accounting platforms. Lead end-to-end software design and delivery, develop scalable AWS microservices, improve platform performance, guide testing and CI/CD practices, resolve customer problems, mentor engineers, and use generative AI to accelerate development.

Build and maintain Curai’s marketing platform, including web features, APIs, data flows, event tracking, attribution measurement, SQL models, dashboards, and ClickHouse-backed marketing analytics. The role partners with marketing to scope engineering projects, improves site performance and conversion, investigates data quality issues, reviews code, strengthens testing and monitoring, and makes technical decisions across the engineering team.