Top Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Design, build, and operate the GraphQL API platform that routes high-volume traffic. Deliver end-to-end projects, improve reliability and performance, own SLOs and incident response, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to evolve platform APIs and tooling.

Responsible for leading a team of engineers, supporting product development, identifying technical issues, and ensuring high-quality code delivery in backend systems at scale.

Build and own a vendor schema registry and semantic validation pipeline that ingests OpenAPI/Swagger/Smithy specs, tracks schema evolution, detects semantic and breaking changes, and provides SDKs and developer tooling to safely map vendor APIs into a canonical knowledge graph used by downstream teams.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver Golang-based microservices, mentor a small pod, estimate and implement features, produce unit and end-to-end tests, collaborate on design and code reviews, improve SDLC, and apply SRE observability practices while working with cloud-scale data stores such as Snowflake, DynamoDB, and Cassandra.

Build and ship backend features using Python, FastAPI, Postgres, and external integrations. Develop AI agents for sourcing, enrichment, summarization, extraction, classification, and routing. Create reliable prompts and structured outputs, evaluate agent quality, and add tests, logging, and observability. Work remotely with founders and users in a fast-moving environment.

Build and launch customer-facing AI product features across the full stack. Develop React and TypeScript web applications, Python and TypeScript backend services, APIs, and PostgreSQL data models. Integrate LLMs, third-party APIs, and customer data sources; deploy and operate services on AWS; and improve performance, reliability, observability, and security. Collaborate with founders, product leaders, designers, and customers while owning projects from problem definition through production.

Build and maintain SaaS product features across backend, frontend, databases, and cloud platforms. Write testable code, participate in reviews and system design, use AI-assisted development tools, support cloud deployments and monitoring, troubleshoot production issues, and document work. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers while developing scalable software and growing across the technology stack.

Architect and develop the frontend and full-stack features for Legion, a real-time Command and Control platform managing large autonomous aircraft swarms. Responsibilities include distributed collaborative infrastructure, telemetry and sensor-data visualization, scheduling and data-link interfaces, deployment, CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps. The role requires building high-performance web applications with React or a comparable framework, potentially incorporating geospatial interfaces, video streaming, and WebGL/OpenGL.

Lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native AI healthcare payment integrity platforms. Provide technical leadership, own production code and releases, design data/retrieval architectures, ensure observability, security, and compliance, and collaborate with ML, product, and architecture teams to deliver performant SaaS solutions.

Full Stack Software Developer responsible for designing, building, testing, and deploying scalable member-facing and internal applications. Work includes building APIs, database components, cloud-native solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and adopting AI-assisted development practices while collaborating in an Agile environment to improve member digital experiences.

Design and implement the core components of the Agents Python framework, focusing on API and abstraction development for AI-driven applications.

Design and develop functionalities for the Agents framework, iterate on feedback, and create documentation while working with various programming languages.

Develop fullstack web applications, enhance platform performance, collaborate on high-impact opportunities, and ensure stable, scalable solutions. Engage in rapid iterations and be a committed team player.

Lead and mentor a team building cloud-based full-stack, microservices solutions to meet regulatory needs. Collaborate with product managers, drive technical direction, experiment with emerging technologies, and deliver scalable AWS-hosted applications using modern languages, databases, containers, and orchestration.

Lead software engineering initiatives in Cloud Operations Resilience Engineering, focusing on AI-driven systems, compliance, and architectural standards.

Lead full‑stack teams to design and deliver cloud-based, microservices solutions. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and build scalable systems using Python, ReactJS, AWS, containers, and modern data tools to meet regulatory and customer needs.

Lead software engineering projects, mentoring developers and collaborating with product managers to deliver cloud-based solutions while utilizing various programming languages and technologies.

Lead full-stack engineering portfolio and mentor developers to deliver cloud-based, microservices-driven solutions. Collaborate with product managers, use modern languages and container orchestration, and drive regulatory-compliant systems and tech innovation.

Lead a portfolio and team to design and deliver cloud-based, full-stack, microservices solutions meeting regulatory needs. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, occasionally code and evaluate implementations, and use modern cloud, container, database, and AI-related tooling.

Lead a team delivering cloud-based back-end financial systems, architect distributed microservices, collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, and build scalable data and reporting solutions using modern languages, containers, and cloud services.

Lead software engineers at Capital One will drive technology solutions using full stack systems and cloud services, mentoring others while working in a collaborative environment.

Build and maintain scalable, highly available payments risk systems that detect, mitigate, and resolve fraud and other malicious activity. Develop service-oriented APIs, real-time risk services, vendor and payment-network integrations, monitoring, and alerting. Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, operations, and engineering teams to evolve risk strategies, deliver product features, conduct experimentation, and maintain high engineering standards.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and supports enterprise software applications using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, APIs, and related technologies. Owns application performance, reliability, scalability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Serves as a technical subject matter expert, contributes to architecture and technology decisions, partners with DevOps on CI/CD automation, and mentors engineers. Collaborates with business stakeholders, product owners, vendors, and project teams throughout the software development lifecycle.