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Lead Software Engineer
Unite Us
United States
Source: Unite Us careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $160,000 — $190,000 USD per year
Employer job description
From Unite Us's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
Job Title:
Lead Software Engineer
Department:
Product Development
About the Role:
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.
What You'll Do:
- 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.
- You’re a great fit for this role if: 7-8+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer, with a track record of increasing technical scope and ownership.
- Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of complex, large-scale, or cross-team technical initiatives.
- Deep understanding of CS fundamentals and of building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems and APIs.
- Strong track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team, without formal management authority.
- Experience making and communicating significant architecture and design trade-offs, and influencing technical direction beyond your own immediate work.
- Experience writing code that is clear, concise, testable, and easily understood by other engineers, and holding others to that same bar.
- Proficiency with modern web development technologies and techniques for building web services; strong back-end and API integration background.
- Experience with cloud-based SaaS development and CI/CD practices.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and multiple concurrent stakeholder demands.
- 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.
- Preferred
- 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.
The target pay range for this role is: $160,000-$190,000. This salary range represents our target hiring range for this role. The proposed salary will be dependent on the candidate's skills, experience, and competencies, as well as location.
All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification
Benefits provided by Unite Us:
- 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 14 paid, company-wide holidays.
- 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, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources
- Additional Benefits
- Life and AD&D - a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents
- Disability Coverage
- Accident Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- As part of this work at home job, we will provide you with all the necessary equipment to perform your duties, including a computer, mouse, keyboard as well as other items on our approved list of WFH supplies.
- Unite Us is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in race, religion, color, national origin, gender, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, and other characteristics. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability please email us at peopleops@uniteus.com to request an accommodation.
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