Staff Software Engineer: Architecture & Reliability

Matthews Landscaping, Inc.; Scottsdale, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Matthews Landscaping, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Engineer to drive reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability across our systems. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and reduce operational toil while delivering scalable features from an on-site Scottsdale, AZ office.

This role emphasizes durable solutions and strong judgment, with no visa sponsorship available. You will lead design, instrumentation, and incident response, mentoring junior engineers as you raise the bar

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience with modern web applications (React)
• Strong background in at least one typed language beyond TypeScript
• Understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, and DNS
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end
• Aversion to manual toil (per Google SRE)

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of complex systems across frontend, backend, and infrastructure boundaries.
• Make architectural decisions balancing scalability, reliability, and developer velocity.
• Set standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Build and maintain web apps using React and TypeScript.
• Design and implement APIs and data models with Golang, Python, GraphQL, and Postgres.
• Drive CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and IaC practices.
• Identify and eliminate toil through automation and system improvements.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Golang

Python

GraphQL

Postgres

CI/CD

Terraform

Kubernetes

Observability

Distributed systems

SRE principles

Code reviews

Open-source

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Job description

Matthews Landscaping, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Engineer to drive reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability across our systems. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and reduce operational toil while delivering scalable features from an on-site Scottsdale, AZ office.

This role emphasizes durable solutions and strong judgment, with no visa sponsorship available. You will lead design, instrumentation, and incident response, mentoring junior engineers as you raise the bar