Lead Software Engineer

• Unite Us is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide senior technical leadership for our Platform Services team, the core APIs and services that power the entire Unite Us product suite
• This is a senior individual-contributor role, not a people-management role: the Lead Engineer sets technical direction, raises the bar on engineering quality, and multiplies the team’s effectiveness through mentorship, architecture, and hands-on delivery, rather than through direct reports
• The Lead Engineer acts as the primary technical counterpart to the Senior Engineering Manager, translating team goals and long-term architectural context into concrete technical plans, and representing Platform Services’ technical perspective in conversations with other engineering teams and stakeholders
• This role requires deep experience with large-scale, object-oriented backend systems, APIs, and interoperability standards, along with the judgment to make and defend significant design and architecture decisions
• A background in the healthcare or social care problem space is useful but not required
• Own and evolve the technical architecture of Platform Services’ core APIs and interoperability solutions, ensuring they remain scalable, secure, and maintainable as usage grows
• Lead the design and implementation of complex, cross-cutting technical initiatives (e.g., FHIR-based interoperability, authentication frameworks such as SAML, SCIM, OAuth, and SMART), from proposal through delivery
• Set technical standards and best practices for the team; review designs and code to maintain quality, consistency, and long-term maintainability across new and legacy codebases
• Mentor and grow other engineers on the team, including pairing, technical coaching, and helping less experienced engineers reason through design trade-offs
• Partner closely with the Senior Engineering Manager to translate team vision and business priorities into a concrete technical roadmap, and surface technical risks early
• Represent Platform Services in cross-team technical discussions, building consensus with other technical leads on shared approaches and integration points
• Break down ambiguous or large-scale problems into well-scoped technical plans that others on the team can execute against
• Stay hands-on: contribute production code, especially for the highest-leverage or highest-risk parts of the system
• Contribute to a positive, solution-focused, and collaborative team culture

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision: We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.
• Wellness: Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.
• Flexible Time Off: Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 16 paid, company-wide holidays.
• Caregiver Resources: We provide help finding elder care as well as childhood daycare programs.
• Paid Parental Leave: Adoptive parents are included.
• Employee Resource Groups: Join our ERGs to connect and engage with colleagues, like Military Veterans
• Spending Accounts: We offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits
• 401(k) + Employer Match: Enjoy matching and immediate vesting.
• Financial Planning: Receive access to a digital financial planning experience.
• Company-Sponsored Life and AD&D
• Short-Term Disability
• Accident Insurance
• Supplemental Life & AD&D
• Pet Insurance

• Deep understanding of CS fundamentals and of building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems and APIs
• Experience with cloud-based SaaS development and CI/CD practices
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related engineering field required; equivalent practical experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Experience making and communicating significant architecture and design trade-offs, and influencing technical direction beyond your own immediate work
• Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of complex, large-scale, or cross-team technical initiatives
• Experience writing code that is clear, concise, testable, and easily understood by other engineers, and holding others to that same bar
• 7-8+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer, with a track record of increasing technical scope and ownership
• Strong track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team, without formal management authority
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and multiple concurrent stakeholder demands
• Proficiency with modern web development technologies and techniques for building web services; strong back-end and API integration background
• Experience with open standards-based authentication frameworks such as OAuth and SAML
• Experience with Ruby or Ruby on Rails, Python, or with object-oriented and/or functional programming generally
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring systems like New Relic or DataDog
• Experience with healthcare or social care technologies such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
• Experience working in Agile teams, particularly remotely