Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Nashville, TN

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Provides principal-level technical leadership for scalable learning and skilling platforms. Designs architectures, writes and reviews production software, leads full software lifecycles, and applies Azure, AI, Copilot, Power Platform, and custom solutions. Responsibilities include secure integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, observability, production support, Responsible AI, reusable components, cross-team technical alignment, and engineering mentorship.

Lead the architecture and implementation of high-performance, reliable core services operating at massive scale. Design synchronous and asynchronous APIs, database schemas, and distributed systems; conduct benchmarking, profiling, monitoring, and optimization; participate in reviews and on-call rotations; resolve production issues; and drive independent experiments and solutions.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement systems for AI integration, build scalable backend services, and mentor team members, ensuring high-quality systems that meet user needs.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing hands-on to complex features. Define architecture, drive development best practices, conduct code reviews, coordinate cross-functional requirements, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality ecommerce marketplace software.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-based microservices and foundational platform capabilities for authentication, authorization, onboarding, RBAC, reporting, auditing, notifications, and APIs. Improve reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting, infrastructure automation, and operational reviews. Provide technical leadership, collaborate across teams, guide architecture and best practices, reduce technical debt, and improve engineering efficiency.

Design, deliver, and operate business-critical distributed systems for Signify Health’s value-based care technology platform. The role requires full-stack development, polyglot programming, scalable distributed-systems expertise, cloud engineering, SQL and relational database knowledge, and strong communication. Preferred experience includes event-driven architectures, AI-assisted development tools, Kafka, APIs, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, monitoring, CI/CD, and agile methods. Quarterly or as-needed travel is required.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python applications; collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features; ensure performance and quality; identify and fix bugs; maintain code quality and automation; lead and mentor team members using agile practices.

Architect, build, and maintain scalable full‑stack applications using React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS. Own features end-to-end, optimize performance and usability, collaborate with founders, and use AI tools to accelerate development in a fast-paced startup.

Design, build, and scale Shepherd’s core platform, backend systems, APIs, user-facing applications, and AI-powered legal workflows. Architect secure, reliable infrastructure for sensitive legal data, collaborate with legal and product teams, build internal tools, optimize performance, and own technical decisions. The role also involves rapid prototyping, mentoring and recruiting engineers, and contributing to SOC 2 readiness and data privacy practices.

Develop and document enterprise-grade SaaS platform functionality while improving quality and performance. Responsibilities include full-stack development, functional and unit testing, defect triage, code reviews, API and process documentation, operational support in regulated environments, and collaboration within Agile and DevOps teams. The role requires expertise in C#, ASP.NET Core, T-SQL, Entity Framework Core, web technologies, software design, debugging, distributed architectures, and high-performance APIs.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Azure Storage geo-replication, data protection, failover orchestration, and business continuity. Drive cross-team delivery, operational excellence, telemetry, automation, AI-assisted operations, and represent the team in executive and customer engagements.

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend systems and APIs for ingesting, processing, and routing large-scale telemetry data. Own end-to-end features, contribute to architecture and internal tools, write automated tests, participate in on-call/support rotation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performance distributed systems.

Designs, develops, tests, troubleshoots, documents, and maintains software applications throughout the project lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding, database and system administration, performance testing, debugging, software upgrades, requirements documentation, user support, vendor coordination, and collaboration with analysts, administrators, and engineers. The role also provides guidance to junior development staff and supports cross-departmental projects.

Own the assessment, hardening, testing, modernization, and sustainment of a government SDN software baseline. Develop secure C++ and Python solutions, remediate vulnerabilities, improve testing, debug application and network issues, and support containerization, CI/CD, deployment, and security scanning. Collaborate with platform engineers and government stakeholders, document technical decisions, validate releases, and mentor engineers in Navy environments.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

Design, develop, test, and deploy supply chain software for inventory, warehouse, and fulfillment systems. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-functional Agile projects, decompose work, delegate tasks, and promote strong development and testing practices. Build monitoring systems that ensure business-process correctness and support high-volume, data-intensive applications.

Lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable web and mobile applications using Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, Docker, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Own architecture, APIs, data models, monitoring, performance, and code quality while collaborating with product, data, and DevOps teams. Provide technical leadership through system design, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement in a remote-first healthcare technology environment.

Develop scalable C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior across millions of managed Windows endpoints. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, shipping production code, designing new systems, writing architecture documents, defining subsystem contracts, and collaborating with server, UI, product, and design teams. The role requires deep Windows systems and kernel-driver expertise, with preferred experience in WHQL, minifilter or WFP drivers, macOS Endpoint Security, and Linux kernel development.

Refactor and migrate legacy U.S. Air Force web applications to a DoD software factory with minimal downtime. Build secure, tested software; identify technical debt; improve CI/CD and engineering practices; communicate technical tradeoffs to government stakeholders; and coach government engineers and military developers. The role works remotely with cross-functional teams and includes occasional travel to Air Force bases.

Own test strategy for a portfolio of government web applications, build automated regression suites, integrate testing into CI/CD, and lead four test engineers. The role replaces manual regression, improves release confidence and delivery speed, and embeds security into development pipelines. Responsibilities include coaching government testers and engineers, communicating readiness to nontechnical stakeholders, and supporting adoption of sustainable testing practices in a U.S. Air Force environment.

Build and ship production software for Toast’s retail platform, partnering with engineering, product, and customers. Responsibilities include identifying opportunities, designing and prototyping end-to-end solutions, making foundational technical decisions, incorporating customer feedback, tracking industry trends, and deploying AI-powered experiences. The role supports large grocery and convenience-store customers and may involve visiting stores to understand operator workflows.

Design and own NodeZero’s over-the-air update infrastructure across thousands of customer deployments. Responsibilities include delivery protocols, version negotiation, rollout orchestration, health verification, rollback, fleet state management, constrained-environment delivery, reliability, incident response, architecture, production coding, and mentoring engineers. The role requires secure, highly reliable distributed systems that operate across air-gapped and customer-managed Kubernetes environments.

Staff Engineer responsible for database architecture, performance, reliability, migrations, and operational standards across PostgreSQL, graph, and time-series data stores. The role involves writing production code, analyzing query performance, designing failover and migration systems, mentoring engineers, and guiding database practices across teams. Candidates need deep PostgreSQL expertise, experience with graph and analytical databases, cloud or Kubernetes operations, and proficiency in Go or Python.