Staff Software Engineer: Architecture & Reliability Leader

Matthews Landscaping, Inc.

Nashville (TN)

Hybrid

USD 170,000 - 220,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Matthews Landscaping, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability across systems from Nashville. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, reduce toil, and push for metric-driven problem solving.

This on-site role emphasizes autonomy, strong judgment, and durable solutions. You will lead design across frontend, backend, and infra, implement APIs with Golang/Python, and advance observability with Grafana/Prometheus.

Qualifications

12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong experience with modern web apps, React preferred.
Experience in at least one typed language beyond TypeScript.
Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, and DNS.
Proven ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end.
A strong aversion to manual toil (Google SRE principles).

Responsibilities

Lead design and implementation of complex systems across frontend, backend, and infrastructure boundaries.
Make architectural decisions balancing scalability, reliability, and velocity.
Set standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
Drive CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Mentor mid-level and junior engineers in technical skills and judgment.
Lead incident response and postmortems focusing on systemic improvement.