Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Nashville, TN

Architects and develops secure, high-performance distributed applications, APIs, microservices, and data pipelines on AWS. Leads application architecture, cloud infrastructure, data governance, testing automation, CI/CD, security, performance optimization, and technical modernization. Coordinates complex project lifecycles, manages risks and schedules, advises management, resolves cross-functional technology issues, documents systems, and mentors junior engineers in a financial services environment.

Design and build scalable distributed backend systems in Golang using PostgreSQL and Redis. Architect highly available services across microservices, networking, and cloud platforms; prototype and productionize platform capabilities and internal tooling; collaborate with CTO leadership on strategic initiatives; and influence engineering standards. The role focuses on greenfield AI infrastructure, developer tooling, performance, reliability, and systems operating at scale.

Build and maintain full-stack software products across frontend, backend, data, and AI layers. Own product architecture, deployment, observability, reliability, and maintenance; establish unified data models, secure access controls, AI guardrails, and engineering standards. Collaborate directly with non-engineering users to create self-service workflows and translate ambiguous needs into practical solutions. Ship production LLM-powered systems and support governed data transformation, quality, lineage, and testing.

Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and optimization of scalable distributed applications and web services. Build Python/FastAPI backend services, ReactJS interfaces, and PostgreSQL data systems. Deploy and monitor cloud-native applications on GCP, collaborate on AI/ML integrations, contribute to architecture and SDLC practices, and mentor junior developers through code reviews and technical leadership.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain accounting software for transaction categorization, revenue recognition, and accurate financial reporting. Own projects end to end, create technical designs and rollout plans, conduct code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, investigate production issues, improve reliability, and mentor teammates. The role involves working with typed Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, Terraform, AWS, and PostgreSQL in a remote environment.

Lead ambiguous, multi-team software projects for core accounting systems. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, build and deploy reliable software, review technical specifications, investigate production issues, and improve system reliability. Collaborate with product and cross-functional stakeholders, mentor and sponsor engineers, and maintain high standards for clean, tested code. The role focuses on typed Python backend services, financial systems, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

Design and implement scalable, secure cloud-native microservices and data platforms. Collaborate with product and stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, build CI/CD pipelines, and translate business needs into developer-ready stories.

Lead platform reliability: define SLOs/error budgets, own observability and deploy pipelines, harden integrations with dental systems, operate LLM-driven workflows safely, build incident practices, and raise engineering reliability across the company.

Build and maintain test automation, performance testing and analysis tooling for a distributed database (primarily in Python). Collaborate with stakeholders to create reproducible tests, extend developer tooling, and produce documentation and runbooks for maintainers and developers.

Design and implement automated tests, frameworks, and fixtures for embedded hardware and software. Execute regression, performance, stress, and reliability tests. Build and maintain R&D and production test environments, collaborate to debug firmware and hardware, define testability in design reviews, support manufacturing partners, and enable customers onsite (10-20% travel).

Lead backend architecture and system design for an AI-driven manufacturing planning platform. Build and scale a Node.js/Python stack with Azure Databricks, implement optimization and scheduling algorithms, establish engineering patterns, and mentor/lead a small early-stage engineering team while collaborating with product and data functions.

Lead technical delivery of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, guiding design, development, integrations, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud modernization. Provide hands-on .NET development, incident resolution, operational readiness, and coach engineering teams while ensuring security, retention, and governance for content services.

Lead design and implementation of Pinterest Edge systems (CDN, TLS, DNS, proxies) to manage automation traffic and rate limiting at scale. Develop request-processing logic in Envoy, collaborate with vendors and platform teams, mentor engineers, use AI to accelerate workflows, and participate in on-call incident response and reliability improvements.

Lead implementation of software safety programs for underwater robotic/autonomous vehicles per MIL-STD-882. Produce safety plans and assessments, perform hazard analyses, track coverage metrics, catalog safety artifacts, review software independently, and present findings at reviews and customer meetings. Coordinate across programs and support demanding schedules with occasional travel.

The role involves building decision science libraries and tools for mineral exploration, collaborating with teams to improve decision-making processes.

Improve performance and scalability of web applications by identifying and resolving front-end and back-end bottlenecks. Optimize load times, API responses, and database queries; develop scalable features across the stack, monitor performance, conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams.

Design, build, and maintain large-scale, resilient systems; develop features and automated tests; mentor engineers; implement CI/CD and cloud-native infrastructure; integrate AI tools; lead projects, code reviews, and cross-team initiatives while improving engineering practices and documentation.

Lead design and delivery of platform capabilities that power a Federated GraphQL API and event-driven systems. Build and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL for scale; own observability (DataDog, Bugsnag), mentor engineers, drive integrations, improve performance and reliability, and support customer-facing product teams across the organization.

Own the technical direction of a core Helius backend system, including architecture, reliability, performance, roadmap, and production operations. Design scalable distributed systems, storage, streaming, or edge infrastructure; drive profiling and performance improvements; establish operational excellence; partner with founders on strategy; mentor engineers; and lead ambiguous cross-team initiatives.

Own and advance a core Helius backend system supporting Solana infrastructure. Design and release high-performance products, optimize latency and throughput, make architectural decisions, improve observability and incident response, and mentor engineers. The role requires end-to-end ownership of production systems at scale, with close collaboration with founders and engineering leadership. Relevant systems include data streaming, historical APIs, account indexing, and access control infrastructure.

Develop full-stack solutions using TypeScript and AWS cloud technologies. Responsibilities include building GraphQL APIs, business logic libraries, AWS Lambda functions with CDK, AWS Glue automation, and Angular/Ionic user interfaces. The engineer will also support CI/CD, Git repositories, linting, developer workflows, requirements management, and HIPAA-compliant software development. Collaboration with engineers, management, and business analysts is required.

Design and build distributed storage systems optimized for AI and machine learning workloads at hyperscale. Lead architecture, development, testing, deployment, scalability, performance, security, and efficiency initiatives for zettabyte-scale Azure storage. Collaborate with AI researchers and cloud infrastructure teams, mentor engineers, evaluate emerging technologies, and solve complex problems involving availability, durability, replication, high-performance I/O, metadata, indexing, caching, and data placement.

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to design and develop large-scale distributed systems, mentor junior engineers, and manage complex projects in a dynamic setting.

Develop and optimize Elasticsearch performance across distributed and serverless architectures. Responsibilities include implementing performance models, profiling systems, identifying bottlenecks, building benchmarks and regression detection, improving logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL performance, and creating AI-assisted optimization tools. The role also involves architectural and code-level optimization, technical analysis, peer reviews, and guidance for fellow engineers.

Lead design and implementation of backend services for payments, billing, ledgers, settlements, and reconciliation. Drive architecture, integrate with external payment and banking partners, ensure financial accuracy, security, compliance, scalability, and operate mission-critical production services.