Top Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead the technical vision and architecture for backend systems supporting experimentation, personalization, analytics, and conversion optimization. Design and operate high-throughput distributed systems and APIs, build data infrastructure, and productionize AI/ML capabilities. Drive complex multi-team initiatives, influence engineering strategy, establish technical standards and operational excellence, and mentor senior engineers. Partner with product, data science, ML, and engineering teams to translate business needs into scalable solutions.

Own performance optimization, reliability, observability, capacity modeling, and automated failover for Coinbase’s blockchain node infrastructure. Diagnose resource bottlenecks, reduce infrastructure costs, define SLOs and SLIs, support protocol upgrades, and improve node performance across distributed systems at scale. Collaborate with protocol integration, wallet, and indexer teams while applying backend programming and systems profiling expertise.

Build and maintain multi-layer test automation, improve CI/CD release integrity, and develop internal tools that enhance testability and developer experience. Establish quality metrics, dashboards, and observability for product stability and release readiness. Partner across engineering, infrastructure, product, SRE, and quality teams to implement shift-left practices, performance, resilience, security, API, and dependency testing. Drive automation-first quality improvements and promote consistent engineering standards.

The role involves designing CLI and backend services, maintaining code quality, collaborating on technical issues, and writing documentation.

Lead a team and portfolio building distributed microservices and full-stack systems to meet regulatory needs. Design and deliver cloud-based solutions, mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and adopt emerging technologies (containers, orchestration, databases, cloud, AI tooling) to drive customer-facing experiences.

Lead a team to design and deliver cloud-based full‑stack microservices and regulatory solutions. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, adopt new technologies, and build scalable Docker/Kubernetes and AWS/GCP/Azure solutions using JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL and NoSQL.

Lead a team and portfolio to design and deliver cloud-based, full-stack microservices that meet regulatory needs. Mentor engineers, collaborate with product managers, and build scalable solutions using modern languages, databases, container orchestration, and cloud services. Advocate tech trends, participate in communities, and drive transformation across the organization.

Lead a team and portfolio building full-stack, microservices-based risk management systems using cloud and AI technologies. Design, deliver, and mentor on cloud-native solutions, micro UI/architecture, and data-driven tooling that meet regulatory needs and scale across the enterprise.

Lead full‑stack engineer role in Risk Tech to lead teams building cloud-based, microservices and micro‑UI solutions that leverage machine learning/AI for risk management. Deliver scalable products using Node.js/Java/TypeScript/Python, Angular/Vue, Kafka, containerization (Docker, AWS Fargate), and AWS services while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product and GRC partners.

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and build a cutting-edge identity search platform and implement AI systems for defense applications, working closely with cross-functional teams to enhance user workflows and support national security.

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you'll create and conduct automated tests, resolve technical issues, and collaborate with development teams to ensure software quality.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and maintain systems, mentor team members, and improve both code quality and team practices.

Lead cross-pod technical direction and system design for high-scale backend services, embed AI-native development practices, collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from design through production.

Lead frontend development using React and TypeScript to design scalable frontend architecture, components, and developer workflows. Own feature delivery from concept to launch, improve CI/CD and testing, collaborate with backend on APIs, evaluate new technologies, and mentor other engineers while ensuring performance, accessibility, and reliability across web surfaces.

Build full‑stack web features from zero to one, integrate with third‑party APIs, design and manage state machines for financial workflows, own features through launch and post‑launch customer iteration, and maintain high code quality and accountability.

Modernize and maintain a large-scale React Native mobile app with offline-first architecture, BLE device integrations, data synchronization, and performance improvements. Influence architecture, mentor developers, collaborate across teams, and occasionally visit customer farms to understand workflows.

Build full-stack features and infrastructure analytics products to improve Netflix's cloud and AI efficiency. Design frontends (React/TypeScript), backend services/APIs (GraphQL/Node), shape data models, collaborate with analytics and data engineers, and own product direction from design through implementation.

Modernize and evolve a large-scale React Native mobile app with offline-first architecture, BLE device integrations, local data storage and sync. Improve performance, reliability, and scalability, influence architecture, mentor developers, collaborate cross-functionally, and occasionally visit farms to understand user workflows.

Build and maintain user-facing math tools (2D/3D graphing, geometry, Desmos Notebook). Collaborate on design, code review, testing, deployment, and accessibility. Ship features, pair program, and grow as an early-career engineer.

Unpaid software engineering internship focusing on full-stack web development with TypeScript, Next.js/React and Node/Express. Work on front- and back-end features, responsive UI with Tailwind, animations with Framer Motion, PostgreSQL and MongoDB integration, REST APIs, microservice-based architecture, code reviews, debugging, and product planning in a remote-first startup.

Contribute to full-stack features for Hatch and Unity, write, test, and ship reliable code, use AI tools responsibly, participate in code reviews, learn Elixir/Phoenix, and work with teammates and end users to solve product problems.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).