Top Software Engineer Jobs in Memphis, TN

Join as the founding full-stack engineer to extend a TypeScript React/Next.js prototype, design product features, integrate AI/OCR, write tests and infrastructure, talk to users, and iterate quickly to drive growth.

Build and maintain high-performance, resilient SDKs across multiple programming languages and platforms. Develop features, improve reliability, collaborate with engineering and product teams, maintain open-source repositories, and influence technical and product decisions. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, polyglot development ability, library-building experience, production-quality coding, and expertise in unit, integration, load testing, and benchmarking.

Work directly with the founder to design and build core product features: integrations that pull license data, automation to file renewals/applications, data cleaning with AI, dashboard and alerting UX, and establish engineering practices for testing, deployments, and security. Term contractor role with potential conversion to full-time based on performance.

Build, test, review, deploy, monitor, debug, and maintain full-stack software used in K-12 classrooms. Work primarily with React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS while improving complex codebases and service design. Participate in incident response, refactoring, code reviews, pairing, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and education experts. Use AI tools thoughtfully and prioritize reliable, accessible, and equitable learning experiences.

Build Tailscale’s internal AI-enablement tools, workflows, guardrails, and documentation. Partner with engineering leadership and teams to define the AI roadmap, evaluate coding agents and models, improve adoption, and measure effects on velocity and quality. The role involves developing internal developer-facing automation, teaching and influencing engineers, identifying high-leverage AI opportunities, and promoting safe use of AI-generated code in a distributed engineering organization.

Lead end-to-end development of reliable care-agent tooling and software services integrating contact-center platforms with backend systems. Own architecture, performance, security, production operations, and technical direction while partnering with product, care operations, QA, and engineering teams. Translate operational workflows into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and improve tools using agent feedback, operational metrics, and AI-assisted development practices.

Build and scale backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and applications for multimodal sensing and AI intelligence platforms. Responsibilities include processing sensor, audio, video, and environmental data; supporting data pipelines and model inference; ensuring reliability, scalability, and data integrity; and contributing to engineering standards and long-term technical strategy.

Lead technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Cards backend engineering organization. Architect scalable and reliable platforms, guide cross-team initiatives, champion AI adoption and engineering excellence, influence technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers through Staff level. The role requires strong architectural expertise, organizational leadership, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Develop and debug production-grade full-stack applications across front-end and back-end systems. Build features, APIs, databases, and data models; troubleshoot end-to-end issues; analyze unfamiliar codebases; translate implementations across programming languages; and review AI-generated and developer-written code for correctness, security, scalability, performance, and maintainability.

Develop and evaluate coding tasks for AI systems, including bug fixes, feature development, refactoring, optimization, reproducible environments, reference solutions, automated testing, and deterministic evaluation. The role also involves debugging complex codebases, reviewing contributions, documenting technical decisions, and refining evaluation criteria. Candidates should have strong software engineering fundamentals, backend or API development experience, open-source contributions, and proficiency in at least one listed programming language.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Own and deliver backend lakehouse infrastructure goals, lead engineers through complex problems, and build highly available distributed data systems. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; define scalable technical solutions; improve code quality and engineering standards; monitor operational health; support on-call responsibilities; and mentor team members.

Build and maintain secure, scalable APIs and infrastructure for an AI-powered fintech platform. Develop features across the stack, integrate third-party APIs, deploy infrastructure with Terraform, apply compliance and security practices, and support customers as a technical point of contact. The role involves close collaboration with the CTO in a greenfield, early-stage startup environment.

Design and scale foundational APIs and backend services for LogicGate’s multi-tenant GRC platform. Build distributed systems using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, databases, caching, and messaging technologies. Improve reliability, observability, performance, testing, and CI/CD practices. Lead technical design reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and use AI coding tools to improve development efficiency.

Set technical direction for Toast’s Developer Experience platform, including local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and developer portals. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, cross-team technical leadership, AI-assisted development, developer productivity measurement, mentorship, and roadmap prioritization.

Build and ship core 0-to-1 systems connecting software, hardware, and finance. Responsibilities include designing abstractions over complex data and legacy systems, owning the full product lifecycle, developing production-grade LLM systems for loan underwriting and compliance, and contributing to engineering and product culture. The role requires strong backend and systems thinking, with comfort in full-stack development and UI design.

Unpaid software engineering internship focusing on full-stack web development with TypeScript, Next.js/React and Node/Express. Work on front- and back-end features, responsive UI with Tailwind, animations with Framer Motion, PostgreSQL and MongoDB integration, REST APIs, microservice-based architecture, code reviews, debugging, and product planning in a remote-first startup.

Develop scalable Java-based distributed systems for BILL’s Growth team, focusing on customer acquisition, activation, onboarding, and product expansion. Build high-performance SaaS applications using AWS services, SQL and NoSQL databases, Gradle, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate with feature teams and product managers while applying generative AI and LLM technologies to accelerate engineering workflows.

Develop firmware, backend systems, and tooling for cellular IoT devices. Responsibilities include C development for STM32 microcontrollers, embedded AI integration, cellular communication, low-power optimization, device debugging and validation, and backend development with Python and Ruby on Rails. The role collaborates with hardware, electronics, and manufacturing teams and requires independently leading complex development initiatives.

Builds and maintains custom software applications using .NET, Java, and JavaScript technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and developing web-based and client-server systems. The role handles complex technical projects autonomously, may provide technical consultation and team leadership, and requires strong collaboration and communication skills. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Builds and maintains custom software applications, performing design, coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and technical consultation. Works autonomously on advanced projects, may lead work groups, and follows coding standards and technical designs. The role supports web-based and client-server systems and requires strong collaboration and communication. Up to 15% travel is expected.

Build and ship customer-facing digital platform features for Slate’s direct-to-consumer EV brand. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, reviewing, and owning the quality of software components; integrating third-party APIs; collaborating with product and UX teams; solving problems independently; and supporting teammates through knowledge sharing.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Develop and deliver native iOS features for MyFitnessPal’s Cal AI food-logging experience. Responsibilities include building interfaces in Swift, optimizing UI, storage, and network performance, implementing tests, researching technical solutions, collaborating with product and design teams, promoting engineering best practices, and mentoring junior developers.

Develop and lead frontend platform engineering for native and hybrid mobile applications. Build reusable, well-tested Android and iOS SDK components, contribute to architecture and system design, collaborate with product and engineering teams, own customer-facing deliverables, and identify product improvements while maintaining strong engineering standards.