Senior Software Engineer

Barn2Door, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer providing technical innovation and mentoring at Barn2Door, a food+tech startup. Creating next generation products while advocating for local food accessibility and quality.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeNashville • Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresReactRedisTerraformVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create well thought-out code with the assistance of AI tooling with emphasis on quality, maintainability and performance --- while mentoring others to do the same
Consider and advocate for the customers’ perspective and experience
Coach a team through code reviews, including testing and documentation
Be responsible for understanding and adapting to new technologies, tools, methods and processes
Help optimize our platform for performance, maintainability, ease-of-use and scalability
Work closely with product owners to define the scope of work for upcoming releases
Build and improve small and large scale testing tools, frameworks, and methodologies
Challenge yourself by exercising self-driven learning and team problem-solving on a daily basis
Cultivate a broad technical and non-technical skills driven by a startup culture
Participate in the full life cycle of our products including design, development, code reviews, patent creation, testing, documentation, deployment, and maintenance

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS Computer Science, or comparable degree
6+ years of experience in full stack development using an object oriented language
2+ years of experience in building responsive UI’s using latest JS Frameworks (React, Vue, etc)
3+ years in leading technical designs and implementation of highly scalable and adaptable systems
3+ years in mentoring developers and helping drive engineering maturity
1+ years of experience with AI assisted development using tools such as Claude Code, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot or similar.
Hands-on experience integrating AI into customer facing applications using RAG, MCP, Vector DBs, and other technologies is a highly desirable bonus.
Experience maintaining and updating a large codebase
A real passion for solving complex software engineering puzzles in a dynamic environment
Deep understanding of software design principles, algorithms, data structures, and asynchronous concepts
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Experience optimizing queries, slicing functionality into services, use of caching, sharding DBs, etc.
Experience with any of the following testing: performance testing, security testing, privacy testing, accessibility testing, and localization / globalization testing
Experience with: NodeJs, React, AWS, Terraform
Bonus experience: Stripe, Redis, Postgres, large scale data analytics and failure analysis

Benefits

Comp & perks

10 days PTO
5 days Sick Leave
11 Paid Holidays
100% premium coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision and AD&D (Employee-only)
Real experience in a high profile startup company just hitting its growth curve
Ongoing training and professional development
Opportunity to be a rock star - great exposure and upside
To grow your skill set and experience with end-to-end engineering influence and responsibilities

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Hard Skills & Tools

full stack developmentobject oriented programmingresponsive UI developmentJavaScript frameworksAI assisted developmentsoftware design principlesalgorithmsdata structuresperformance optimizationtesting methodologies

Soft Skills

mentoringteam problem-solvingcommunicationcustomer advocacyself-driven learningcoachingcollaborationadaptabilityleadershipquality assurance

Certifications

BS Computer Science