Lead Software Engineer

Unite Us

United States Posted October 3, 2026

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Remote Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$160,000 - $190,000

Job Description

Join Unite Us as a Lead Software Engineer, where you will provide senior technical leadership for our Platform Services team. In this individual-contributor role, you will set technical direction, raise the bar on engineering quality, and mentor other engineers. You will own and evolve the technical architecture of our core APIs and interoperability solutions, lead the design and implementation of complex technical initiatives, and represent Platform Services in cross-team technical discussions. This role requires deep experience with large-scale, object-oriented backend systems, APIs, and interoperability standards.

  • Assumer la responsabilité de l'architecture technique des API et des solutions d'interopérabilité de Platform Services, en veillant à ce qu'elles restent évolutives, sécurisées et maintenables.
  • Diriger la conception et la mise en œuvre d'initiatives techniques complexes et transversales, de la proposition à la livraison.
  • Mentorer et développer d'autres ingénieurs de l'équipe, y compris le pairage, le coaching technique et l'aide aux ingénieurs moins expérimentés.
  • 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
Required Skills
software development leadership cross-team collaboration coaching CI/CD communication mentoring mentoring engineers OAuth SAML Ruby Rails Python functional programming Docker Kubernetes
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