Top Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Design, build, and operate Airbnb’s large-scale change data capture and batch export platforms. Improve reliability, performance, and efficiency across multi-tenant data infrastructure, collaborate with partner teams and internal customers, contribute to platform architecture, and participate in on-call operations. The role requires hands-on development, testing, debugging, and ownership of complex distributed systems supporting critical business functions.

Designs, builds, deploys, and maintains secure full-stack identity governance software for federal customers. Responsibilities include backend and frontend development, distributed systems architecture, cloud and on-premises infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, reliability, audit readiness, and operations in disconnected or classified environments. The role also requires collaboration across engineering, product, and design; architectural leadership; AI-augmented software development; and mentoring peer engineers.

Build and evolve scalable full-stack systems for People Data Labs’ APIs, self-serve products, and customer success tools. Responsibilities include designing frontend and backend architecture, developing React and Python applications, ensuring data integrity, implementing reliable APIs, optimizing performance, operating production services, collaborating with stakeholders, writing technical designs, mentoring engineers, and improving development practices.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Design and build data infrastructure automation, observability, health tooling, dashboards, and system improvements for large-scale object storage platforms. Lead technical designs and feature rollouts across services, improve fleet stability and throughput, automate hardware lifecycle processes, and partner with on-call teams to reduce operational toil and incidents.

Build and operate the platform supporting Honeydew’s digital dermatology product. Responsibilities include migrating data infrastructure to RDS, strengthening AWS security and compliance, standardizing logging, developing AI-assisted vulnerability remediation workflows, creating infrastructure and automation, supporting feature teams, and reviewing code. The role requires backend service and API development, platform security, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and strong data and architecture skills.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and frontend applications. Own projects from architecture through monitoring, collaborate with product and design teams, participate in technical and code reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve engineering practices. The role focuses on secure, reliable systems across cybersecurity, AI, and distributed systems while providing technical guidance to peers.

Leads engineering for one or more product-domain teams, partnering with Engineering Managers, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Insurance stakeholders. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy and roadmaps, coaching engineers, driving cross-team initiatives, contributing code, leading incident response and resiliency improvements, and establishing engineering standards. Requires strong Ruby on Rails expertise, Rust familiarity, software leadership experience, and excellent communication skills.

Develop, test, deploy, and support resilient software solutions for Root’s payments and billing product domain. Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to understand customer problems, communicate technical work, improve code and processes, and resolve production incidents affecting customers. The role requires software engineering experience, Ruby on Rails or equivalent expertise, and familiarity with React or React Native.

Build, maintain, and steward open source cloud-native software for defense environments. Responsibilities include designing and implementing features, reviewing code, managing releases, engaging open source communities, resolving technical ambiguity, documenting systems, making architecture decisions, improving security and interoperability, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong Go development, Kubernetes and cloud architecture expertise, collaboration with contributors and users, and participation in ecosystem standards and projects.

Develops high-quality software and AI-powered prototypes for national security missions. Responsibilities include architectural design, feature development, automated testing, backlog grooming, sprint execution, API and SDK development, integration debugging, and research involving LLMs, embeddings, and smaller trained models. The engineer independently leads focused efforts while collaborating with product and engineering teams, using modern DevSecOps and CI/CD practices.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating distributed market data systems. The role focuses on real-time blockchain data ingestion, streaming, normalization, storage, APIs, reliability, data correctness, observability, incident recovery, and production support. The engineer will lead technical decisions, mentor teammates, translate ambiguous requirements into designs, and use AI-assisted development throughout the software lifecycle.

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of complex backend software systems. Owns significant features end to end, makes architectural decisions, improves scalability and performance, ensures code quality, mentors engineers, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. Builds production-ready C# and .NET APIs within microservices and containerized environments, using cloud databases and services. Participates in code reviews, testing, debugging, and continuous improvement.

Develop and operate Airbnb’s large-scale cloud infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes, developer APIs and CLIs, autoscaling, capacity management, and cloud automation. Build secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available distributed systems using public cloud technologies. Optimize existing infrastructure, improve performance and operational efficiency, troubleshoot production systems, and collaborate across engineering teams and open-source communities.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservices environment. Build AI-powered applications with LLMs, RAG pipelines, GenAI agents, vector databases, and AI services. Optimize performance, implement responsive user interfaces, troubleshoot systems, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with AI/ML engineers and cross-functional teams in a remote setting.

Lead hands-on development and operation of billing, usage, rates, and marketplace systems. Build primarily in Go while contributing to TypeScript and React applications, Kubernetes infrastructure, databases, CI/CD, and cloud services. Improve reliability, automation, observability, auditability, and production recovery. Deliver projects end to end, investigate incidents, participate in on-call, collaborate across teams, and provide technical leadership through design, reviews, mentoring, and operational improvements.

Own backend services from design through production support, solve ambiguous technical problems, improve reliability, build automation, and contribute to architecture and technical decisions. The role involves developing secure software in a regulated healthcare environment, debugging production issues, writing tests, mentoring engineers, and using modern cloud, deployment, observability, and AI-assisted development tools.

Leads technical direction for the Partner Services engineering area while remaining hands-on with mission-critical financial systems. Owns architecture roadmaps, ADRs, observability, reliability, security, technical investment, OKRs, and KPIs across multiple teams. Leads major incidents, drives AI-native engineering practices, partners with product and executive stakeholders, participates in architecture governance, and mentors engineers at every level. The role requires strong payments or banking familiarity, executive communication, and extensive technical leadership experience.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a multi-team billing engineering workstream supporting payments, banking, treasury, and financial settlement. Remains hands-on while owning architecture roadmaps, ADRs, reliability, observability, security, AI-native engineering practices, technical investment, and business outcomes. The role partners with senior engineering and product leaders, manages high-stakes incidents, strengthens engineering maturity, and mentors engineers at every level.

Develop coding tasks and reference solutions for evaluating AI systems. Build deterministic verifiers, test suites, scalable backend services, and APIs. Debug complex defects, assess code quality, refactor legacy implementations, optimize performance, and evaluate AI-generated technical reasoning. Document requirements and verification criteria while independently applying software engineering judgment across algorithms, system design, testing, and reliability.

Evaluates AI-generated software for correctness, quality, efficiency, security, and maintainability. Designs programming challenges, reference solutions, test cases, and evaluation criteria. Reviews technical reasoning related to debugging, architecture, and system design, then provides structured feedback and documentation. The role requires strong programming fundamentals, software testing and code review experience, analytical problem-solving ability, and clear technical communication.

Own the architecture and delivery of major backend services and long-term engineering initiatives. Design scalable, dependable transaction-heavy systems, write technical proposals, assess business impact, and collaborate with product teams. Use and validate AI coding tools, coach engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap. The role requires expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, distributed systems, and message brokers, with remote work from the US or Canada.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Design, develop, and improve scalable software for an investment platform. Lead software development across the lifecycle, mentor junior engineers, solve complex technical problems, maintain code quality through testing and reviews, and recommend technology enhancements. The role is remote in the USA with four in-person retreats annually.

Build and operate a stablecoin payment rail for merchant checkout, subscriptions, refunds, reconciliation, and onchain settlement. Deliver full-stack features across Go services and React/Next.js interfaces, including APIs, protobufs, database migrations, wallet connectivity, and durable Temporal workflows. Improve accessibility, conversion, performance, and observability through logs, metrics, and traces. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate Payment Acceptance into Coinbase’s developer platform.