Top Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Build and maintain premium mobile features, subscription and in-app purchase flows, paywalls, pricing experiences, and advertising functionality for Life360’s consumer app. Own feature quality, performance, reliability, experimentation, and incident response at 100M+ user scale. Collaborate with product, design, data science, and analytics teams; use AI coding agents extensively; contribute to architecture and code reviews; mentor engineers; and help evolve AI-native engineering practices.

Own end-to-end verification and validation for complex cloud-native software systems. Design comprehensive testing strategies, build scalable backend and frontend automation frameworks, identify coverage gaps, perform root cause analysis, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve testing efficiency. Apply AI-assisted tools to testing and debugging, evaluate emerging AI capabilities, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards across teams.

Evaluates AI coding-agent interactions for technical quality, engineering judgment, reasoning, explanations, and user trust. Provides detailed written and recorded feedback, distinguishes response quality levels, and helps define standards for tools such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This remote contract requires strong TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python experience, familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, and senior-level engineering judgment.

Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for engineering judgment, response quality, reasoning, explanations, and usefulness. Provide clear written and recorded feedback, distinguish quality levels, and help define standards for excellent AI-assisted development interactions. This contract role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong Python or TypeScript/JavaScript skills, familiarity with modern AI development workflows, and excellent English communication.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for correctness, usefulness, engineering judgment, explanation quality, and user trust. Provide clear, opinionated written feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. The role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong TypeScript/JavaScript or Python skills, hands-on AI-assisted development experience, excellent English communication, and the ability to assess code without executing or reviewing every line.

Leads technical direction for large-scale accessibility systems that detect, remediate, and prevent web accessibility issues. Designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable distributed systems; drives technical roadmaps; mentors engineers; partners with Product and Design; and promotes responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires hands-on software engineering across JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, databases, storage, real-time data, and AI-enabled tooling.

Build and operate full-stack certificate management, security, monitoring, and vulnerability products. Develop TypeScript APIs and React frontends, design MySQL schemas, manage AWS workers and Kubernetes infrastructure, maintain legacy .NET and Python services, integrate partner APIs, improve CI/CD and observability, participate in on-call support, and develop AI-assisted features. The role includes code reviews, testing, incident resolution, technical documentation, and mentoring engineers.

Develop, test, maintain, and troubleshoot C++ security software for Linux and Windows. Participate in requirements analysis, software design, code reviews, product reviews, QA collaboration, defect resolution, and architecture discussions. The role is remote and requires U.S. citizenship, a background check, and an active Top Secret clearance.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.

Owns end-to-end technical architecture across Rails, Python machine-learning services, agent infrastructure, and data platforms. Leads scalability, reliability, cost optimization, model infrastructure, architectural reviews, technical roadmap decisions, incident response, code reviews, and engineering mentorship. The role remains hands-on, requiring production coding and expertise in computer vision, LLM systems, cloud infrastructure, databases, background jobs, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices.

Develop and support software applications, REST and ASP.NET web services, distributed systems, data integrations, and storage solutions. Analyze requirements, optimize performance, resolve application issues, implement security and data protection, and collaborate with product, business, and QA teams. The role includes technical documentation, quality reviews, managing competing priorities, and mentoring less experienced developers.

Modernize and develop a large-scale React Native mobile application with reliable offline-first functionality, local data storage, synchronization, BLE device integrations, scalability, and strong performance. The role includes shaping architecture, improving engineering practices, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring developers, providing technical leadership, and visiting customer farms to understand workflows. Requires extensive mobile development experience and occasional U.S. travel.

Build and maintain full-stack software for startup clients, including backend services, frontend experiences, new features, redesigns, bug fixes, and product improvements. Collaborate daily with product managers, designers, and engineers in a distributed, agile environment. Take ownership across the technology stack, write clean maintainable code, contribute to client missions, and support team growth and knowledge sharing.

Develop, test, deploy, and maintain full-stack enterprise applications in AWS. Build front-end interfaces, backend services, APIs, integrations, and database components; troubleshoot complex technical issues; contribute to architecture and design decisions; support CI/CD and production readiness; conduct code reviews; collaborate across Product, QA, and DevOps; and mentor junior developers.

Architect and develop production-grade business systems across Salesforce, NetSuite, and integrated enterprise platforms. Build quoting, subscription, and entitlement engines; create automation pipelines and API integrations; establish architecture, security, documentation, and code-review standards; and translate commercial policies into scalable technical solutions. The role partners with Finance, Sales Operations, Customer Success, and product stakeholders while maintaining system reliability, auditability, observability, and production readiness.

Design and implement scalable backend services for MoneyGram’s core transaction and API platforms. Responsibilities include architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, integrations, cloud development, CI/CD automation, testing, deployment, operational excellence, and engineering standards. The role collaborates with product, engineering, and QA teams, mentors junior engineers, leads complex technical solutions, and influences technical direction in an agile environment.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s billing experience platform. Design and evolve public and internal APIs, build full-stack billing and account-management features, and shape scalable architecture and data models. Improve reliability, observability, deployment, CI/CD, and incident response across cloud services. Mentor engineers, review technical work, influence roadmap priorities, collaborate across Product, Design, SRE, Finance, and Cloud teams, and participate in on-call rotations.

Designs and executes manual and automated testing across applications, APIs, databases, data platforms, and integrated systems. Builds QA automation frameworks, validates data quality, manages test environments, supports CI/CD test integration, tracks defects, and performs root cause analysis. Collaborates with Agile engineering teams on sprint planning, releases, and process improvements while testing healthcare technology platforms and regulated workflows.

Design and build unified testing frameworks enabling portability across SIL, HIL, and simulation. Configure and maintain physical HIL benches and hardware interfaces, integrate automated HIL tests into CI pipelines, collaborate with software teams to improve HIL/CI systems, and monitor runtime performance, system health, and reliability metrics across testing platforms.

Design and scale ARM64 compute platform infrastructure, hypervisor integrations, instance management, resource orchestration tools, and compute APIs. Develop and maintain low-level services using Python, Go, or compiled systems languages. Collaborate with hardware and global engineering teams, participate in design reviews, debug distributed Linux systems, and mentor junior engineers.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop backend systems and APIs, mentor other engineers, and resolve complex integration challenges in healthcare technology.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

Design, build, and maintain automation and control systems for bioreactors and bioprocessing equipment. Tune and troubleshoot PID control loops, improve system reliability through monitoring and fault recovery, and develop safe interfaces between cloud software and physical devices. Build sensor, actuator, and embedded-controller integrations while collaborating across mechanical, electrical, process, and software engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable automation solutions.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems and public-facing APIs. Collaborate with Product and Data Science teams, lead initiatives improving efficiency and system performance, and support customer satisfaction. Work may involve distributed systems, pricing engines, identity management, authentication, authorization, API versioning, deprecation, and rate limiting.