Engineering Lead (Healthcare Interoperability & FHIR Platform)

Quick Facts

Role: Engineering Lead (Healthcare)

Focus: Hands-on technical leadership for a FHIR-based healthcare data platform enabling interoperability across providers, payers, and clinical systems.

Description

Lead engineering for a digital health initiative building a secure, scalable, HIPAA-compliant platform that transforms healthcare data into FHIR standards and delivers it through secure APIs. You will define architecture direction, mentor engineers, and work on aggregating and standardizing data such as lab results, diagnoses, medications, patient visits, and claims/insurance data. The role also includes promoting responsible AI-assisted development in a regulated healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering efforts across healthcare interoperability and data platform initiatives
• Define technical direction and architecture decisions
• Build and evolve secure, scalable, high-availability systems
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical coaching
• Collaborate directly with US-based stakeholders
• Drive engineering excellence, reliability, security, and observability practices
• Promote responsible use of AI-assisted development in regulated healthcare environments

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years as a Tech Lead / Engineering Lead
• Experience in Healthcare, HealthTech, or Digital Health
• Strong knowledge of FHIR R4
• Experience with HL7 / US Core / USCDI
• Hands-on work with HIPAA and PHI-safe engineering practices
• Strong expertise in Python and/or Node.js / TypeScript
• Experience designing distributed, high-scale systems
• APIs, data platforms, and event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar)
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and JWT
• Strong SQL and NoSQL skills
• AWS or Azure experience
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and automated testing
• Proven track record of leading engineers and driving technical decisions
• Practical experience with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar
• English level B2+

Benefits

• Technical leadership in modern cloud-native architecture
• Work on healthcare interoperability standards with real business impact
• AI-native engineering in a highly regulated, meaningful domain