Lead Software Engineer

Provide senior technical leadership for a core Platform Services team responsible for APIs and services powering a broad software platform.
This is a senior individual-contributor role focused on architecture, hands-on engineering, technical direction, and mentorship rather than people management.
You will shape scalable, secure, and maintainable backend systems while leading complex cross-team technical initiatives from design through delivery.
The role requires strong expertise in distributed systems, APIs, interoperability, cloud-based SaaS development, and modern engineering practices.
You will partner closely with engineering leadership and other technical teams to translate strategic priorities into practical technical roadmaps.
You will also help raise engineering standards through architecture reviews, code quality, mentoring, and thoughtful technical decision-making.
This is an opportunity to make a broad technical impact while remaining deeply involved in production engineering.

• 7–8+ years of relevant software engineering experience with progressively increasing technical scope and ownership.
• Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of complex, large-scale, or cross-team technical initiatives.
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals and large-scale distributed backend systems and APIs.
• Strong experience making, documenting, communicating, and defending significant architecture and design trade-offs.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction beyond individual assignments and build consensus across engineering teams.
• Strong track record of mentoring engineers and raising technical standards without formal people-management authority.
• Ability to write clear, concise, testable, maintainable code and establish the same standards across a team.
• Strong backend and API integration experience, with proficiency in modern web development technologies and techniques for building web services.
• Experience with cloud-based SaaS development and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and multiple stakeholder demands while maintaining sound technical judgment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related engineering discipline; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Experience with open standards-based authentication frameworks such as OAuth and SAML is preferred.
• Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, or object-oriented and/or functional programming is desirable.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring platforms such as New Relic or Datadog is a plus.
• Experience working in Agile teams, particularly distributed or remote environments, is preferred.
• Experience with healthcare or social care technologies, including Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), is advantageous.