Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Nashville, TN

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Architect, build, and operate large-scale relational and distributed SQL database infrastructure. Responsibilities include database control-plane automation, provisioning, failover, backups, upgrades, zero-downtime migrations, Kubernetes networking, connection proxy optimization, reliability monitoring, capacity planning, and operational support. The role also leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, establishes quality standards, collaborates cross-functionally, and contributes to team roadmap and on-call operations.

Leads architecture, development, deployment, and operation of scalable Java and Kotlin applications. Responsibilities include backend-focused full-stack development, Kafka data streaming, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, performance optimization, incident response, technical leadership, mentoring, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also drives AI-assisted engineering practices and modernization initiatives while supporting on-call operations.

Define architectural direction for Azure Specialized platform services and lead the design of highly available distributed cloud systems. Drive reliability, scalability, observability, security, diagnostics, and operational improvements across engineering organizations. Establish service health frameworks, SLOs, metrics, and governance for mission-critical services. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, resolve complex cross-system challenges, and advance AI-assisted troubleshooting and platform modernization.

Own the team’s quality strategy, automation architecture, test frameworks, synthetic-data safeguards, CI feedback, and non-functional testing. Design reliable testing for concurrency, asynchronous workflows, and distributed services; diagnose failures across product, automation, data, and environments; and establish AI-assisted quality practices with human oversight. Define risk-based verification, exploratory testing, PHI protections, testability requirements, and residual-risk communication while partnering with Engineering, Product, and Platform.

Design and maintain Anaconda’s internal package build and release platform, improving security, access control, reliability, and operational resilience. Responsibilities include writing software and architecture documentation, reviewing code, diagnosing complex issues, partnering across teams, using AI tools to reduce toil, mentoring engineers, and driving investments that reduce production risk. The role focuses on Python-based infrastructure, platform tooling, DevOps, and SRE practices in a fully remote environment.

Leads the design, implementation, and support of complex, scalable software components and distributed systems. Provides technical leadership through architecture decisions, mentoring, code and design reviews, troubleshooting, and engineering standards. Partners with product, quality, architecture, and DevOps teams on secure cloud-native solutions, CI/CD, observability, performance, releases, and platform modernization. Participates in hiring and communicates technical risks and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Design and develop software to onboard hardware accelerators and improve cluster-level storage performance. Collaborate across teams, produce design docs, implement and optimize code, perform tuning and RCA, act as DRI, and participate in on-call operations and scaling/validation efforts.

Design and operate high-volume batch and streaming pipelines for cloud usage metering and billing. Build rating logic, data lakehouse systems, Airflow workflows, and production Python and Spark or Flink jobs. Develop reconciliation and data-quality checks with auditable billing trails, while contributing tested code, code reviews, and engineering standards. The role requires deep SQL, cloud, and large-scale data engineering experience.

Design, scale, and maintain high-performance services supporting player registration, authentication, identity verification, fraud and AML screening, geolocation, responsible gaming, regulatory compliance, and communications. The role involves architecting features, optimizing production systems, managing monitoring and integrations, mentoring engineers, handling migrations, and collaborating across teams. Candidates will operate containerized services, support on-call rotations, and build secure, auditable systems using modern web frameworks, databases, event infrastructure, and authentication standards.

Designs and builds cloud-native maintenance planning software for U.S. Navy and defense customers. Responsibilities include modernizing legacy systems, developing data transformations and APIs, designing microservices, implementing identity and access controls, ensuring data quality and compliance, and leading architecture and technical delivery. The role collaborates with government, vendor, platform, and engineering stakeholders, mentors engineers, documents systems, and supports development through production sustainment in a remote environment.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and support of scalable, fault-tolerant software applications. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, debugging, performance optimization, cloud-native and microservices development, Kubernetes operations, production monitoring, incident response, code reviews, technical planning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also contributes to product roadmaps, engineering standards, automation, and on-call support.

Build and own partner-facing APIs and backend services in a Python web application. Improve database queries and system performance, develop partner dashboards, and deliver integrations from design through deployment. Collaborate with product and commercial teams to support new partner categories, using metrics and AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery. The role requires independent senior-level impact in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.

Build and maintain scalable billing and monetization systems for subscription, pricing, and payment workflows. Develop large-scale applications using Java, AWS, Lambda, event-driven architecture, REST APIs, and GraphQL. Work with multiple databases, implement automated testing, protect data integrity, and collaborate with internal teams to deliver customer-facing pricing and upgrade experiences.

Designs, develops, tests, documents, and supports secure external data integrations using .NET, Azure, Informatica, Snowflake, APIs, ETL, and file-based interfaces. Leads technical delivery, performs impact analysis, supports production systems, troubleshoots defects, collaborates with business and technology stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role owns integration architecture and solutions for insurance and financial-services partners, including DTCC and iPipeline feeds.

Lead technical collaboration with an external partner contributing to OpenCTI. Guide architecture, design reviews, coding standards, contribution quality, roadmap alignment, and risk reporting. Contribute directly to the codebase while mentoring internal and partner engineers through code reviews and pair programming. The role requires strong TypeScript and full-stack experience with NodeJS, React, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis, plus effective communication in a remote, async environment.

Design and build scalable frontend and backend features for route planning, routing, navigation, and route execution products. Partner with product, design, and engineering leadership to improve planner efficiency, leverage AI appropriately, and promote technical excellence. Mentor junior engineers, contribute to team growth, engage with customers, and help scale products across industries and customer verticals.

Leads full-stack software engineering and technical delivery for enterprise applications across the Microsoft .NET and Azure ecosystem. Designs scalable architectures, APIs, integrations, distributed and event-driven systems, and cloud-native solutions. Provides hands-on development, code reviews, troubleshooting, DevOps collaboration, CI/CD, production support, and operational improvement. Mentors engineers, coordinates technical delivery, manages risks and dependencies, and partners with Product, Architecture, Security, QA, and infrastructure teams.

Build a modern web application from its earliest stages as a contract senior software engineer. Responsibilities include backend and frontend development, clean architecture, dependency inversion and dependency injection. The technology stack includes .NET Core, Entity Framework, MediatR, FastEndpoints, Next.js, React, PostgreSQL and Azure.

Senior backend-focused engineer to provide technical leadership across backend, APIs, and data pipelines. Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders, author documentation, and drive engineering best practices on a distributed remote team building scalable energy software.

Build and scale a telemedicine platform using React, TypeScript, Python, Flask, and PostgreSQL. Own features through development, deployment, and launch; develop integrations; write tests; conduct design and code reviews; resolve production issues; and collaborate with Product, Design, and Quality teams in a Scrum environment. The role also involves mentoring engineers, improving development processes, and communicating technical decisions to nontechnical stakeholders.

Leads and mentors ServiceNow engineers delivering complex customer projects. Develops and customizes ServiceNow solutions, troubleshoots platform and integration issues, maintains modules, supports upgrades and performance optimization, documents technical solutions, and performs deployments while following development best practices.

Lead the design, development, and architecture of scalable Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, integrations, Agentforce, and Salesforce Data Cloud. Responsibilities include AI agent architecture, data ingestion and activation, security and governance, performance optimization, CI/CD support, code reviews, mentoring, troubleshooting, and translating business requirements into technical designs.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile engineering teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include translating product requirements into scalable designs, writing and reviewing code, leading sprint teams, removing delivery impediments, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and guiding technical strategy. The role emphasizes microservices, cloud platforms, containerization, APIs, messaging, workflow orchestration, DevSecOps, observability, performance, security, and operational excellence.

Build and operate end-to-end, consumer-scale features across backend services, APIs, iOS, and Android for Life360’s Aging in Place vertical. Use AI-native and agentic workflows with LLMs, contribute to architecture and code reviews, participate in on-call response, mentor teammates, and establish AI engineering practices adopted across the organization. Collaborate with product and design while ensuring performance, reliability, accessibility, and member-focused outcomes.