Staff Software Engineer (TN)

Matthews™; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Matthews™ is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to drive reliability, performance, and maintainability in our Nashville, TN office. This role involves leadership responsibilities across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, along with the architectural decision-making necessary to shape our platforms.

Candidates should have over 12 years' experience with modern web applications, particularly in React, and a strong understanding of system operations. The role offers a salary range of $170k-$220k based on experience and skills.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep experience with modern web applications, particularly React.
• Strong background in typed languages beyond TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, security, and DNS.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of complex systems across multiple boundaries.
• Make architectural decisions balancing scalability, reliability, and developer velocity.
• Set standards for code quality and testing.
• Communicate technical risks and long-term needs clearly to leadership.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers in technical skills.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Golang

Python

GraphQL

Postgres

CI/CD automation

Kubernetes

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Terraform

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

• 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
• 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
• Linux internals and CLI tooling
• Experience with LLMs, LangChain/LangGraph, and vector databases

Salary Range – $170k-220k depending on capability level and industry experience