Lead Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead Software Engineer

• Focus: Healthcare EHR platform (regulated/HIPAA environment)

• Work: Fully remote; work from home

• Salary: $203,798 per year

Description

Build and evolve a healthcare electronic health record (EHR) technology platform enabling medical practices to deliver more informed, personalized, interactive, and adaptable care. Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure full-stack applications, including HIPAA-compliant systems and patient data management. Provide technical leadership across architecture, engineering best practices, CI/CD, and production issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications for healthcare or regulated environments

• Build backend services, APIs, and data models using relational databases

• Develop responsive, accessible React-based frontend applications

• Maintain and migrate legacy Elm frontend systems

• Implement server-rendered web applications using Python and Django templates

• Develop RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, and service-oriented architectures for internal and partner integrations

• Collaborate with engineering, product, and QA teams in Agile environments

• Mentor engineers and contribute to system design and architecture

• Define engineering best practices and technical standards across teams

• Create reusable components and shared libraries

• Participate in technical design discussions and documentation

• Build CI/CD pipelines using Docker, Git, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions

• Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and engineering productivity

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues; participate in code reviews and planning

• Implement automated testing (unit and integration)

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field

• 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer or closely related occupation

• Demonstrated technical leadership/mentoring and contribution to software architecture and system design

• Experience building full-stack applications for healthcare or other regulated, HIPAA-compliant environments

• Experience with at least one relational database: MySQL or PostgreSQL or MariaDB

• Experience developing frontend applications with JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks including React

• Experience with Elm and maintaining/migrating legacy Elm frontend systems

• Experience building server-rendered web applications with Python and Django including Django template frameworks

• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL plus service-oriented architectures

• Experience implementing CI/CD with Docker, Git, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions

• Experience implementing automated testing (unit and integration)

• Ability to define and apply engineering best practices and technical standards across teams

• Experience troubleshooting and resolving production issues in complex software systems

• U.S. employment authorization (no F-1 or H-1 status and no employer sponsorship required)