Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Own and deliver backend lakehouse infrastructure goals, lead engineers through complex problems, and build highly available distributed data systems. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; define scalable technical solutions; improve code quality and engineering standards; monitor operational health; support on-call responsibilities; and mentor team members.

Set technical direction for Toast’s Developer Experience platform, including local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and developer portals. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, cross-team technical leadership, AI-assisted development, developer productivity measurement, mentorship, and roadmap prioritization.

Develop and maintain scalable enterprise applications across the full software lifecycle. Collaborate with product teams and business stakeholders in Agile teams, contribute to architecture and design, improve system efficiency, manage dependencies, and promote coding, testing, security, and development best practices. Senior developers also provide technical leadership, mentor others, and apply generative AI, RAG systems, and autonomous agent architectures to improve engineering workflows.

Develop firmware, backend systems, and tooling for cellular IoT devices. Responsibilities include C development for STM32 microcontrollers, embedded AI integration, cellular communication, low-power optimization, device debugging and validation, and backend development with Python and Ruby on Rails. The role collaborates with hardware, electronics, and manufacturing teams and requires independently leading complex development initiatives.

Builds and maintains custom software applications using .NET, Java, and JavaScript technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and developing web-based and client-server systems. The role handles complex technical projects autonomously, may provide technical consultation and team leadership, and requires strong collaboration and communication skills. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Builds and maintains custom software applications, performing design, coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and technical consultation. Works autonomously on advanced projects, may lead work groups, and follows coding standards and technical designs. The role supports web-based and client-server systems and requires strong collaboration and communication. Up to 15% travel is expected.

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 lead frontend platform engineering for native and hybrid mobile applications. Build reusable, well-tested Android and iOS SDK components, contribute to architecture and system design, collaborate with product and engineering teams, own customer-facing deliverables, and identify product improvements while maintaining strong engineering standards.

Develop and maintain full-stack applications for an agentic AI platform, including responsive front ends, REST backend services, AI-agent integrations, AWS cloud infrastructure, and Infrastructure as Code. Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and product owners, support testing and performance optimization, document systems and APIs, and mentor junior developers. The role is remote within the United States and requires eligibility for a Secret clearance and completion of CompTIA Security+ within 270 days.

Design and develop highly available, fault-tolerant distributed edge computing platforms using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Build scalable APIs, troubleshoot complex systems, conduct code reviews, optimize performance and security, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, contribute to planning, and maintain technical documentation.

Lead technical vision and architecture for Card Tech while remaining hands-on as a player-coach. Design scalable, secure systems; modernize monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms; establish API and engineering standards; mentor engineers; evaluate AI-generated code; and drive cross-divisional technical initiatives. The role requires expertise in cloud computing, data architecture, distributed systems, enterprise architecture, software development, and strategic use of agentic AI tools.

Develop and maintain scalable SaaS solutions for financial reporting and capital markets customers. Responsibilities include full-stack development, system design, testing, monitoring, performance optimization, security, technical debt reduction, and collaboration with product managers, developers, and SRE teams. The role requires building reliable, secure, maintainable data-driven applications and contributing across the software development lifecycle.

Lead architecture and engineering for a new Provider Onboarding team. Build scalable, database-backed systems and custom tools supporting pricing, payments, client panels, and forms. Establish engineering practices, mentor senior engineers, guide cross-functional delivery, and oversee the full software development lifecycle from planning through post-launch maintenance. The role requires healthcare systems experience and ownership of complex, reliable products.

Lead architecture and development for a new Provider Onboarding engineering domain. Build scalable full-stack, database-backed applications and microservices supporting pricing, payments, client panels, forms, and provider workflows. Mentor engineers, establish design patterns, drive cross-functional delivery across the full software lifecycle, and improve operational reliability for a healthcare platform.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.

Build and ship full-stack web and mobile experiences across Affirm’s consumer products. Break down projects, collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams, develop scalable APIs, write well-tested code, monitor service health, participate in on-call support, review code, and contribute to engineering growth and interviewing.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Leads full-cycle technical implementations of a cloud-native digital banking platform, including requirements discovery, configuration, custom development, integrations, testing, data migration, environment management, deployment, and production support. Serves as the primary technical client contact, translates business needs into solutions, troubleshoots technical issues, coordinates cross-functional delivery, and improves implementation processes, documentation, tooling, and reusable components.

Develop and integrate software, algorithms, and data-processing pipelines for remote sensing, SAR, RF, radar, and geospatial systems. Responsibilities include architecture, backend and API development, workflow orchestration, sensor-data analysis, system integration, testing, optimization, deployment, and technical documentation. Collaborate across software, systems, data science, and intelligence disciplines while providing technical leadership on complex projects.

Build and maintain third-party integrations for HRIS, payroll, ATS, notification, and business intelligence platforms. Develop configuration-driven integration systems, APIs, data pipelines, AI features, developer tooling, monitoring, and alerting. Own the full development lifecycle, including research, implementation, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Collaborate with product, customer success, external partners, and engineering teams to improve reliability and customer impact.

Develop and improve core software services supporting customer intake, application screening, and information dissemination. Design distributed, microservice-based systems; identify bottlenecks; improve reliability, scalability, and business logic; and contribute to modernization and architectural decisions. Work independently across the stack, communicate technical trade-offs, mentor junior developers, and use AI and automation tools to improve engineering outcomes.

Design and lead development of high-performance networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure. Architect low-latency, low-jitter communication frameworks, optimize distributed systems, benchmark scalability, resolve complex networking issues, and improve reliability, observability, and performance. Mentor engineers, create technical designs, manage dependencies, and participate in on-call operations for critical services.

Build and evolve scalable backend systems and APIs for a large SaaS platform. Partner with Product, Design, and QA from ideation through deployment, contribute to microservices architecture, improve testing and observability, identify operational risks, and mentor teammates. The role emphasizes reliable, maintainable solutions, strong collaboration, architectural decision-making, and continuous improvement.

Develop and maintain software applications supporting genetic testing and clinical reporting workflows. Collaborate with geneticists, bioinformaticians, laboratory professionals, and business stakeholders to define requirements and architecture. Troubleshoot defects, ensure data accuracy and system reliability, document processes, support continuous improvement, and comply with security, regulatory, and organizational requirements.