Staff Software Engineer (TN)

Matthews Landscaping, Inc.

Nashville (TN)

Hybrid

USD 170,000 - 220,000

Full time

3 days ago

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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.

Skills

12+ years experience

React experience

Typed language beyond TypeScript

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

SRE/automation mindset

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

The Staff Software Engineer is a technical leader who drives reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability across our systems. This role goes beyond feature delivery: you will shape architecture, mentor engineers, reduce operational toil, and help the organization see problems in metrics before customers experience them.

You are expected to operate with high autonomy, strong judgment, and a bias toward durable solutions over quick fixes.

This role is based on-site at our Nashville, TN office. Please note that we do not currently have the capability to provide visa sponsorships of any kind.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

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.
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.
Mentor mid-level and junior engineers in technical skills and engineering judgment.
Provide thoughtful, constructive code reviews.
Communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and long-term needs clearly to leadership.

Requirements