Top Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you'll build user-facing features, optimize GraphQL backend, and develop scalable systems, contributing significantly to the company's growth.

Build and maintain the core backend product: design and implement features, take ownership of end-to-end outcomes, iterate and fix bugs without a QA team, collaborate with product on scoping, and contribute to company culture and hiring.

Develop, configure, integrate, and operationalize command-and-control (C2) and Common Operating Picture (COP) applications. Build workflow automation, event management, alerting, data fusion, dashboards, and operator-focused UX. Support testing, interoperability validation, demonstrations, and operational readiness while collaborating with systems engineering and stakeholders.

Develop and improve software, provide technical leadership to development teams, build APIs and BPMN-based process automation, support user documentation, and deliver low-code/no-code solutions using Appian, Salesforce, or Nintex with Microsoft SQL Server and .NET in agile/hybrid environments.

Lead a team and portfolio to design and deliver distributed microservices and full-stack cloud solutions (regulatory-focused). Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and use modern languages, databases, container orchestration, and AWS services to build scalable customer-facing systems.

Lead a team to design and deliver cloud-based, full-stack microservices solutions. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, adopt emerging technologies, and ensure scalable, secure systems using containers, databases, and cloud services.

Lead and mentor a team building distributed microservices and full‑stack cloud solutions. Collaborate with product managers to deliver secure, scalable AWS-based applications using modern languages, containers, and databases while driving technology adoption and regulatory compliance.

Seeking a Software Engineer with 3+ years experience in software development, programming (Go, Java, C++, C#), and strong analytical skills.

Build and maintain cross-platform Electron desktop apps focused on reliability, performance, and real-time behavior. Implement desktop features (file access, notifications, auto-updates), integrate AI via backend APIs, optimize startup/memory, profile Electron overhead, manage large local state and message history, and ensure stability on macOS and Windows.

Build and ship end-to-end features across a TypeScript/Next.js monolith: dashboard, marketing site, billing, email, and AI-assisted tools. Own data models, APIs, third-party integrations, testing, observability, and production quality. Collaborate with the founder, review code, and improve engineering practices while delivering customer-facing features rapidly.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Lead technical vision and implement high-impact Ruby on Rails solutions for an internal demo platform. Improve reliability, observability, instrumentation, and integrations; partner with Product, Sales, and cross-functional teams; mentor engineers and drive architecture, testing, and engineering best practices.

Lead and mentor engineers to design, build, and own scalable backend systems, APIs, and platform primitives for Vanta's Integrations Platform. Drive complex projects, set technical direction, collaborate across teams, and contribute to engineering culture while enabling integrations across cloud, identity, MDM, and HRIS ecosystems.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices and developer-facing APIs, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, design secure/versioned APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and develop microservices using a cloud-native tech stack, with a focus on financial services and secure systems.

Lead end-to-end development of production web application features using Python and Next.js/TypeScript. Drive system design, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and automated testing. Champion safe AI-assisted development and agentic coding workflows, build shared libraries and developer tooling, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, multi-tenant healthcare SaaS capabilities.

Design, build, and improve shared services and engineering capabilities for government systems. Develop software in Go and Python, review teammates' code, write design documents, and own projects. Work independently, apply engineering best practices, and ramp quickly in complex environments.

Build, integrate, and stress-test full-stack applications and backend services that leverage advanced AI models. Develop production APIs, front-end features, databases, and cloud infrastructure; troubleshoot integrations; prototype rapidly and deliver high-quality code and documentation in fast-moving environments.

Lead and mentor a team to design and deliver cloud-based, full-stack microservices solutions (Go/Angular) on AWS. Collaborate with product managers, use containerization and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), and integrate databases and cloud services to meet regulatory and customer needs.

Lead a team delivering full-stack, cloud-native microservices and applications. Collaborate with product managers, mentor engineers, experiment with emerging tech, and build solutions using JavaScript/Java/TypeScript/Python/Go, containers, databases, and AWS to meet regulatory and customer needs.

Build and own backend surfaces for Plane: APIs, data models, migrations, real-time sync (CDC/event streams), caching, and query performance. Instrument, monitor, and debug production incidents; collaborate with product and frontend teams across locations.

Build and maintain Plane's local-first browser client surfaces: large, virtualized workspaces, collaborative editor, offline/caching layers, and shared design-system components. Work cross-functionally with designers and backend engineers, extend sync and conflict-resolution behavior, optimize rendering performance, and triage cross-browser and self-hosted issues.

Own and build Node.js/TypeScript backend services that power integrations, importers, queues, and developer-facing OAuth surfaces. Design reliable queue/worker systems (retries, idempotency, backpressure), integrate third-party APIs, collaborate with Django engineers, and repair partial failures to ensure safe, auditable data migrations and integrations.

Provide expert-level technical support for web and mobile products, debug high-performance RESTful services, triage incidents, coordinate cross-team incident response, collaborate with Client Success, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to resolve complex issues and improve product reliability.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for real-time data synchronization and streaming. Optimize latency, throughput, and reliability, guide multi-region and disaster-recovery architecture, own projects from concept to production, and improve observability, automation, and incident response.