Job Summary: The Full Stack Developer will focus on modernizing ETL processes, migrating data, implementing database solutions, and developing backend application functionality. This role involves working with .NET/C#, O…
Engineering & IT · Richmond, VA
Backend Developer jobs in Richmond, VA
Backend developers build the server-side logic, APIs, and data layers that applications run on. The job is designing services that stay correct, fast, and secure as usage grows.
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Role: Senior Full-Stack Developer Vue 3 / TypeScript / .NET Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid 2 days onsite per week) Duration: 12 months contract Experience: 7+ years in full-stack development; strong recent experience wit…
Job Summary: The Senior Full Stack Developer (.NET / Vue) will lead the design and development of user-facing applications, APIs, validation workflows, reporting modules, and integration components. This role requires ex…
$102.5k - $170.9k
offering provides a full spectrum of solutions for designing, developing, and operating cutting-edge Data and AI platforms, products, insights... ...+ years of experience developing, integrating, or maintaining backend a…
$209k - $238.5k
driving a major transformation across Capital One. What You’ll Do: Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to cre…
$197.3k - $225.1k
driving a major transformation across Capital One. What You’ll Do: Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to cre…
cloud and information security operations. This role focuses on developing production-grade services that ingest, analyze, and act on... ...experience with Azure/AWS, including deploying and operating backend services.Fa…
$179.4k - $204.7k
owning Account Participants Management, driving credit card participant capabilities across Capital One's servicing platforms. We develop and maintain a multi-region, serverless Go monorepo deployed on AWS Lambda, Durabl…
$123.3k - $140.7k
major transformation across Capital One. What You’ll Do: Collaborate with Agile teams and their product managers to design, develop, test, and deliver robust, full-stack, cloud-based solutions that drive financial empowe…
$215.2k - $245.6k
driving a major transformation across Capital One. What You’ll Do: Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to cre…
$197.3k - $225.1k
software, and data streaming—to build, enhance, and support critical financial technology infrastructure. What You’ll Do Design, develop, test, automate, and deploy end-to-end full-stack software solutions across our ATM…
$179.4k - $204.7k
driving a major transformation across Capital One. What You’ll Do: Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of developers with deep experience in distributed microservices, and full stack systems to cre…
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What backend developers earn in Richmond
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $34–$48 | $71k–$99k |
| Mid level | $48–$69 | $99k–$144k |
| Senior | $67–$90 | $139k–$188k |
Adjusted for the Richmond market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
A server language (Java, Go, Python, C#)API design (REST, gRPC)SQL and schema designCaching and queuesAuthentication and securityDistributed systems basicsDocker and CI/CDObservability and logging
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Design an API for a feature like comments or notifications.
Clarify requirements, then cover endpoints, data model, pagination, and error handling. Mentioning versioning and rate limits shows production experience.
How would you find and fix a slow database query?
Walk through reading the query plan, checking indexes, and considering caching or denormalization. Ground it in a query you actually fixed.
How do you keep two services consistent when both need to update data?
Discuss transactions, idempotency, and eventual consistency with outbox or saga patterns. Acknowledge tradeoffs rather than promising perfect consistency.
What do you monitor on a service you own?
Name the basics — latency, error rate, saturation — plus business-level signals. Bonus points for talking about alerts you tuned to reduce noise.
Tell me about a production incident you handled.
Structure it: detection, mitigation, root cause, prevention. Emphasize what changed afterward, not just the firefight.
How do you approach securing an API?
Cover authentication, authorization, input validation, and secrets handling. Naming OWASP-style risks concretely is enough; you are not expected to be a security engineer.
When would you choose a message queue over a direct call?
Talk about decoupling, retries, and absorbing spikes, and be honest about the added complexity of async debugging.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For backend developers specifically — generic advice costs you here
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State scale where you can: requests per second, data volume, or number of services — it is the fastest way to signal seniority.
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Name the databases and infrastructure you ran in production, not just languages.
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Describe reliability work — migrations without downtime, incident reduction, test coverage on critical paths.
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If you designed an API others consume, say so and note how many teams or clients depend on it.
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Avoid listing every framework you have touched; two stacks with depth read better than eight without.
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Where this role goes
Typical progression
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