Top Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

Lead design and development of high-performance, offline-capable iOS (iPad) and Android apps for mission-critical drone operations. Build real-time maps, video streaming, telemetry overlays; integrate with hardware; optimize battery, memory, and latency; implement offline-first sync; collaborate with backend/hardware teams; mentor engineers and establish CI/CD, testing, and security best practices.

Design, build, and operate low-latency authentication and authorization services (OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery). Lead technical designs, ensure strong security and observability, collaborate cross-functionally, simplify integrations, and mentor engineers while running production services with measurable SLOs.

The Staff+ Software Engineer will shape the technical direction, mentor junior engineers, and lead complex software system development while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Build and architect insurance and data infrastructure for eligibility, verification, and claims. Lead partner implementations to get employers, health plans, and channels live. Make technical decisions at the 0-to-1 stage, write clear documentation, maintain production systems, and use AI tools to scale impact on a fully remote team.

Lead design and implementation of Headway's insurance systems (eligibility, pricing, matching, claims). Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms and automation, mentor engineers, write high-impact code, and improve accuracy and reliability across state and payer complexity to scale insurance-covered therapy.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain Elixir backend services and React frontend features. Work across stack including infrastructure and monitoring, optimize performance, handle incidents and support tickets, collaborate on designs and code reviews, and contribute to prototyping and open-source engagement.

Build, own, and operate cloud-native .NET services powering real-time trading, market data, and brokerage integrations. Ship features end-to-end, write tests, participate in on-call rotations, improve observability, and occasionally contribute to React/TypeScript frontend work.

Join ROOST's Coop project to design, implement, test, document, and release trust-and-safety features. Work across backend APIs, GraphQL, databases, and UI to improve reviewer workflows, detection integrations, and reporting. Lead code quality, security practices, community contribution reviews, and stakeholder coordination while engaging with users and the open source community.

Join the ROOST Osprey team to design, implement, test, and maintain a high-performance, real-time safety rules engine. Work includes building data/event pipelines, scaling and containerizing services, integrating with Kafka and gRPC, reviewing community contributions, maintaining code quality and security, and engaging with users and open source contributors to prioritize and deliver features.

Lead end-to-end feature development across frontend and backend for an enterprise data analytics platform. Design, implement, and maintain React UIs, backend services, APIs, databases, and distributed systems. Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering, mentor engineers, improve quality through testing/CI, and introduce new technologies including AI-assisted development.

Design and implement scalable backend and frontend systems, build and maintain data pipelines, design SQL/GraphQL database systems, collaborate on product and metrics, improve performance, security, and reliability, and support customer-facing features.

Design and own CI/CD and configuration management for a large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet. Define GitOps-driven, declarative reference architectures and templated production environments. Implement progressive delivery (canary, automated rollback), improve pipeline reliability and speed, evolve the Internal Developer Portal, embed AI tooling into delivery workflows, and partner with Cloud, Security, and Compliance while mentoring senior engineers.

Senior backend engineer on an education-focused technology consulting team. Own complex backend systems end-to-end: estimate scope, build and support production Python services, design REST/GraphQL APIs, work with cloud and Docker, use relational databases, maintain strong automated tests and Git workflows, and represent technical work to clients. Role values mentorship, ownership, and mission-driven work.

Build and maintain on-chain smart contracts and backend services for branded USDC-backed stablecoins. Own issuance, reserves, mint/burn, and rewards systems; drive architecture, security, and operational excellence; ship features with product and design partners and ensure well-tested, auditable production deployments.

Build and deploy integrations between the Bayesian platform and large EHR systems, implement automated integration and end-to-end tests, support production deployments and go-lives, develop tooling and automation (including LLMs), and collaborate with implementation and clinical teams to deliver clinician-facing workflows.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Affirm Bank's cloud, data, vendor integrations, and operational tooling. Design, build, and operate high-stakes systems end-to-end, own incident response, vendor selection, and the Bank↔Affirm Inc integration boundary. Ensure examiner-ready documentation, compliance, reliability, and observability while mentoring engineers and pushing AI-assisted engineering practices to increase velocity and product safety.

Design and implement core payment infrastructure including workflow engines, partner integrations, ledgering systems, and public APIs. Make architectural decisions with leadership, own projects end-to-end, and help shape engineering culture and technical practices at an early-stage fintech.

As a Staff Frontend Software Engineer, you'll lead the frontend architecture using React and TypeScript, manage code releases, and integrate AI tools to enhance efficiency while ensuring high performance and system reliability.

Lead architecture and implementation of software for autonomous UAS systems; mentor engineers; ensure compliance with aerospace standards; optimize CI/CD pipelines.

Develop and enhance the new Stores platform while supporting various e-commerce tools to improve seller success online.

As a Software Engineer at Realm, you will develop backend services, create web and mobile UIs, and deploy tech at industrial sites. You will solve real-world challenges using various technologies and work with top leadership to build a stellar engineering team.

As a Front-End Engineer, you'll create intuitive UIs for AI tools, collaborating with design and backend teams, focusing on performance and user experience.