Top Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, event-driven data pipelines and customer integrations (especially EHRs). Evolve core data models and APIs, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, define best practices, and drive end-to-end testing and AWS-based solutions.

Design, implement, and operate features for Temporal’s open source distributed systems server. Solve challenges involving scheduling, task processing, workflow execution, persistence, quotas, visibility, and performance. Improve reliability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in design reviews, contribute to developer experience, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead initiatives that enable production-like system testing across engineering. Build realistic test environments, workload generation and replay, fault-injection tooling, shared testing frameworks, and continuous or release validation. Partner with infrastructure, reliability, release, and product teams to convert incident learnings into durable test coverage. Mentor engineers, influence testing strategy, and improve observability, debuggability, and operational readiness.

Design, evolve, and operate core data models and APIs for complex communications networks. Build durable abstractions for heterogeneous physical and logical networks, while maintaining interface quality, compatibility, consistency, and performance. Collaborate with experienced engineers to manage priorities, timelines, and deliverables across production systems. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Golang, C/C++, Rust, or Java.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable distributed observability systems for internal developers and customers. Lead the software development lifecycle, develop and review designs, ensure testing and production readiness, investigate reliability and performance issues, participate in on-call support, and collaborate across teams to improve Temporal’s infrastructure and platform capabilities.

Lead the design and development of globally scalable traffic management and networking systems. Drive architecture, technical roadmaps, secure-by-default infrastructure, network optimization, cloud orchestration, and operational excellence. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, product, security, customers, and internal teams while mentoring engineers and guiding high-impact distributed systems projects.

Designs and builds scalable, reliable infrastructure systems across compute, networking, cloud orchestration, storage, and observability. Drives technical strategy, architecture, roadmaps, cross-team alignment, cost optimization, and secure-by-default practices. Requires extensive experience with coding, concurrent and distributed systems, cloud platforms, system-level tradeoffs, and infrastructure engineering.

Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable backend systems supporting customer onboarding, account lifecycle management, billing, metering, marketplace integrations, revenue data synchronization, and customer-facing usage reporting. Build reliable distributed systems, data pipelines, and integrations while ensuring correctness, observability, compliance, and operational readiness. Partner with Finance, RevOps, Sales, Support, Product, and Engineering, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and improve customer and developer experiences.

Design, build, ship, and own high-scale, user-facing product features across frontend, backend, and data systems. Define problems, scope and prioritize work, collaborate with Product, monitor production usage, debug incidents, improve reliability, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend expertise alongside React proficiency and ownership from product discovery through long-term maintenance.

Design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems. Contribute to architecture, build CI/CD pipelines, design distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and improve observability, performance, and operational reliability across teams.

Design, build, and maintain high-performance React/TypeScript web applications and reusable UI libraries. Integrate AI/LLM-powered agents and workflows, write tests, participate in code reviews, mentor developers, and collaborate with product, research, and data teams to deliver scalable, secure front-end solutions.

Looking for a Sr. PowerBuilder Software Engineer to work on the TAX IRMS - Advantage Revenue Application for a 4+ months contract, requiring expertise in PowerBuilder and Oracle SQL.

Lead frontend development for a satellite-data monitoring application serving defense and intelligence customers. Design and implement React and TypeScript features, guide frontend architecture, contribute to backend APIs, mentor engineers through reviews and technical discussions, and collaborate with product managers and designers. Own feature delivery from discovery through deployment while improving state management, data fetching, component design, testing, and frontend best practices.

Architect and develop foundational edge-computing runtime and integration platforms for connected-home devices. Build software models for device, spatial, and occupancy data; prototype and productionize new concepts; evaluate architectures; and provide technical leadership through design reviews, coding standards, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The role spans edge computing, IoT, distributed systems, embedded environments, intelligent agents, networking, and secure systems within an exploratory R&D organization.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

The role involves developing APIs, building internal tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance system performance while solving engineering challenges.

The Software Engineer (Fullstack) at Sumble will develop and optimize software applications, manage data integration, enhance security, and ensure a high-quality user experience.

Design and build scalable log ingestion pipelines, ensure system reliability, and optimize performance in a high-throughput environment.

The Software Engineer will develop AI agents for Sazabi, focusing on anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and improving workflow reliability. Responsibilities include prototyping, system design, and working with LLMs.

Develop the interface for an AI-native observability platform. Responsibilities include building features, debugging, and working on real-time streaming functionalities.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network and product requirements into computational models, improve solution quality, runtime, scalability, and explainability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability under increasing complexity and load. The role also involves managing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and maintaining production software.

Build and operate multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities across commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Responsibilities include cloud foundations, networking, identity, cluster lifecycle, packaging, GitOps delivery, infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, staged rollouts, observability, incident response, and backup/recovery. The engineer will also create self-service infrastructure primitives for internal engineering teams and support reliable fleet-scale deployments.

Lead the architecture and modernization of a complex enterprise SaaS platform while remaining hands-on with critical software design and development. Define technical direction, improve scalability, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability, and guide design and code reviews. Partner across engineering and product teams, resolve complex technical challenges, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and translate architectural strategy into practical delivery.

Build core digital banking experiences for bank administrators and customers by developing streamlined user flows, robust APIs, and third-party integrations. Write clean, documented, tested code with strong error handling, logging, and performance. Design scalable systems using domain-driven design and microservices, contribute to architectural decisions, and provide technical guidance and code reviews in an Agile Scrum environment.

Lead the technical vision, roadmap, and development of Elasticsearch’s ES|QL analytical engine and query capabilities. Design data-intensive systems, algorithms, APIs, and compute infrastructure; research search and analytics technologies; collaborate across product and engineering teams; mentor senior engineers; and contribute hands-on modern Java development. The role requires autonomous technical leadership, expertise in database internals and analytics systems, and the ability to guide complex projects from conception through delivery.