Top Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead Elasticsearch search relevance and vector search initiatives, designing and implementing new search features, algorithms, data structures, and bug fixes in modern Java. Improve search speed and relevance, contribute to Lucene, collaborate with a globally distributed engineering community, guide projects autonomously, review code, and work with technologies including Elasticsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra.

Translate design specs into pixel-perfect, responsive web interfaces using TypeScript, CSS3, and HTML. Follow design systems and accessibility (WCAG) standards, optimize frontend performance, resolve spec ambiguities, collaborate remotely via documentation and code reviews, and provide frontend expertise to support AI model evaluation.

Design, build, and maintain full‑stack features across frontend (TypeScript + React) and backend (Python, Node.js, or JVM languages). Own end-to-end development, testing, CI, databases, and cloud/distributed systems. Mentor engineers, participate in code reviews and pair programming, and work in an agile, remote team.

Senior full-stack engineer responsible for designing and building end-to-end features across frontend (TypeScript + React) and backend (JVM languages, Python/Node.js). Owns code quality, testing, CI, and collaborates in agile teams. Mentors junior engineers, participates in code reviews and pair-programming, and works with cloud, databases, and distributed systems. Remote role with occasional in-person meetups.

Lead Elasticsearch search relevance initiatives, designing and implementing search features, algorithms, data structures, and vector search capabilities. Improve performance, scalability, and relevance; resolve complex bugs; contribute to Lucene; collaborate with globally distributed engineers and open-source contributors; and provide technical direction. The role requires modern Java development, autonomous project ownership, code review, asynchronous communication, and expertise with search or vector databases at scale.

Design and build Go-based control-plane services, CSI drivers, storage integrations, observability tools, and infrastructure automation for Kubernetes AI platforms. Integrate enterprise and scale-out storage, support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning, and deliver declarative Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps workflows. Architect reliable storage solutions for Kubernetes clusters, air-gapped environments, and sovereign infrastructure, including artifact mirrors and PKI/TLS.

Lead development of Runware’s AI platform, including scalable backend APIs, SDKs, developer tools, and inference orchestration systems. Design high-performance distributed architectures, optimize image and video model integrations, improve reliability and observability, shape technical direction, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver robust developer experiences and maintainable systems.

Leads application engineering for an AI-powered email product, owning backend, mobile, and desktop architecture. Designs reliable AI workflows with orchestration, state management, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling; builds APIs connecting AI capabilities to product experiences; and leads a senior engineering team through architectural decisions, reviews, mentorship, and production excellence. Partners with ML leadership to ship scalable, observable, secure, and reliable systems while balancing latency, cost, user experience, and maintainability.

Lead the architecture and development of reliable AI-powered email applications across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design APIs and workflow systems supporting orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Lead a small senior engineering team, make architectural trade-offs, mentor engineers, and establish strong production practices including observability, monitoring, testing, scalability, security, and operational excellence. Partner with ML leadership to deliver robust, high-quality product experiences.

Lead the design and development of mission-relevant software, build backend services and APIs, mentor engineers, and support technical demos.

Design, implement, and operate cloud-scale telemetry platforms and data pipelines for Azure Monitor. Lead cross-team architecture, mentor engineers, improve AI-enabled development practices, ensure security/compliance, and resolve complex production incidents.

The role involves leading initiatives for vector search in Elasticsearch, enhancing features, resolving bugs, and contributing to community engagements in a distributed team setting. A strong background in vector similarity and Java is crucial.

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major software products and systems. Design scalable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; drive architecture decisions; solve production issues; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; lead critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across distributed international teams.

Owns technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; leads architecture decisions; resolves production issues; improves engineering quality; drives critical initiatives; and mentors engineers across teams.

Owns technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; leads critical initiatives from design through production; improves engineering quality through testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentors engineers across teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer in Infrastructure, you will lead a team in building high-performance, distributed systems, guide project direction, mentor engineers, and improve data ingestion architecture.

Design, develop, modify, test, and maintain full-stack software applications. Engineers will understand product areas, codebases, and systems; write high-quality, tested code; analyze data; solve complex problems; collaborate with product and engineering teams; conduct design and code reviews; and mentor junior developers while delivering customer-focused products.

Build and maintain a Java and Drools business rules engine governing eligibility, suppression, frequency capping, and consent. Develop Spring services, REST APIs, and Kafka integrations while ensuring deterministic behavior, exactly-once side effects, performance, testing, and compliance in a PHI-handling environment. Collaborate with Product and compliance teams, participate in code reviews, and support cloud-native deployments using Kubernetes and CI/CD.

Own and evolve Voltus’s infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes and Nomad workloads, AWS architecture, identity and secrets, stateful systems, observability, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and developer tooling. Lead business-critical migrations with minimal downtime, establish reliable deployment and rollback practices, mentor engineers, participate in on-call, and build secure infrastructure supporting AI-assisted development.

Build and scale full-stack platform services for user onboarding, identity management, privacy controls, and secure public-safety workflows. Develop React applications, Node.js APIs, database models, and complex SQL queries. Containerize applications with Docker, deploy Kubernetes microservices using Helm, and leverage AWS services including S3, API Gateway, and SQS. Solve authentication, authorization, performance, and data-security challenges while shaping foundational platform architecture.

Architects, implements, and optimizes cloud infrastructure and automated systems. Maintains scalable, secure, reliable cloud environments; monitors system health, proactively resolves incidents, and minimizes downtime. Mentors junior engineers, advances CloudOps and DevOps practices, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to support mission-critical applications. Requires advanced Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, scripting, networking, and cloud security expertise.

Architect, implement, optimize, and maintain secure, scalable AWS cloud infrastructure. Lead CloudOps and DevOps improvements, mentor junior engineers, deploy automated systems, monitor cloud environments, and proactively resolve production issues. The role requires advanced Kubernetes, AWS networking, infrastructure as code, Docker, scripting, cloud security, and healthcare compliance expertise.

Lead full-stack growth engineering across eligibility, identity, access, client configuration, and reporting systems. Build Python-based GraphQL and REST APIs, React and React Native experiences, scalable database systems, and secure HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant solutions. Own ambiguous cross-domain technical projects, write RFCs, coordinate roadmap delivery, mentor engineers, contribute to engineering strategy, and participate in on-call operations and remediation.

Design, develop, deploy, and support complex OneStream software features and services. Own end-to-end delivery, APIs, SDKs, data contracts, performance, scalability, reliability, and production quality. Lead technical design discussions and code reviews, mentor engineers, improve CI/CD and testing practices, and collaborate cross-functionally. Build user interfaces with modern frameworks, resolve production issues, and responsibly use AI-assisted development tools while ensuring correctness, security, and architectural alignment.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, engineering judgment, explanation quality, and user trust. Provide rigorous, opinionated feedback distinguishing response quality levels and help define best practices for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This contract role requires experienced software engineering judgment rather than production coding.