Staff Software Engineer (TN)
Matthews Real Estate Investment Services
Nashville, United States of America
14 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
$ 220KJob location
Nashville, United States of America
Tech stack
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
Code Generation
Software Quality
Continuous Integration
Database Queries
Distributed Systems
DNS
Github
Python
PostgreSQL
Linux kernel
Reliability Engineering
Prometheus
Software Engineering
TypeScript
Web Applications
React
Large Language Models
Grafana
Backend
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Free and Open-Source Software
GraphQL
Front End Software Development
Terraform
Go
Job description
- Lead design and implementation of complex systems across frontend, backend, and infrastructure boundaries.
- Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, and developer velocity.
- Set standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
Engineering Execution
- Build and maintain web applications using React and TypeScript.
- Design and implement APIs and data models using Golang, Python, GraphQL, and Postgres.
- Drive CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Identify and eliminate sources of toil through automation and system improvements.
Operational Excellence
- Proactively identify reliability risks using metrics, logs, and traces.
- Lead incident response and postmortems with a focus on systemic improvement.
- Champion observability using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Web applications?, You are expected to operate with high autonomy, strong judgment, and a bias toward durable solutions over quick fixes., * 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep experience with modern web applications (React strongly preferred)
- Strong background in at least one typed language beyond TypeScript
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, and DNS
- Strong SQL skills (schema design, performance, complex queries)
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end
- A strong aversion to manual, repetitive toil (per Google SRE principles)
Preferred Extras
- Golang in production systems
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Terraform and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer
- Open-source contributions
- Code generation frameworks
- GraphQL schema design
- Linux internals and CLI tooling
- Experience with LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, and vector databases