[Remote] Lead Platform Software Engineer (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Inspira Financial is seeking a Lead Platform Software Engineer to join its engineering team and help build a smarter health benefits platform. The role leads full-lifecycle development of consumer-facing digital products, collaborates with product and design leaders, guides architecture and technical direction, and responsibly leverages AI to improve engineering productivity and code quality.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and test applications (e.g. API, web apps) in accordance with established standards
- Collaborate with Product and Design Leaders to lead product delivery teams
- Set short to medium term technical direction, creating plans to help achieve goals
- Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
- Package and support deployment of releases
- Foster an environment where different backgrounds, cultures, industry and life experiences are embraced and valued
- Collaborate on architecture decisions, ensuring that we are adapting and evolving to meet organization’s scaling business needs
- Collaborate with other software developers, product managers and software architects to plan, design and deliver applications
- Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
- Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and within budget
- Ensure that non-functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions
- Work in an Agile framework to identify and automate solutions that result in enhanced developer experience and increased developer productivity
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation
- Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures
- Leverage AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity multiplier while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated code meets quality standards
- Full code ownership mandatory - Must understand, explain, and support all AI-assisted code as if written from scratch
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex, enterprise-level solutions using cloud platform
- Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks
- Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery patterns, Cloud foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Practical AI experience required - Comfortable using tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude for prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- Proficiency with:
- Node.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Apollo GraphQL
- Git Version Control System
- PostgreSQL
- Google Cloud
- Jest
- Docker Container
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Experience with one or more cloud platforms, preferably GCP
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Great attention to detail and organizational skills
- Experience delivering individual and institutional client facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and third-party integrations
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology
- Expertise in delivering secure, high performance, fault tolerant, and high availability solutions
- Infrequent travel (10%)
- Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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