# Lead Software Quality Engineering, Backend

Who Are We? Prolaio believes that continuous learning and collaboration can make a significant difference in how heart care is administered. We are creating smarter ways to address heart disease and heart risks by uniting patients, care teams, and researchers on a secure, technology-enabled platform that drives clinical innovation and offers a path towards better patient outcomes. This is precision cardiology, and we know it’s within reach. What Will You Do? The Overview The Backend Software Quality Engineering Lead will oversee and actively contribute to the validation and verification of our cloud-based data platform. In this role, you will act as a true player-coach-balancing technical leadership, team mentorship, and direct individual contribution. You will be responsible for the integrity of our high-volume data pipelines and backend services, leading a small team of automation test engineers while also contributing to test case automation and executing test strategies. This role is ideal for a technical leader who wants to guide a team and handle management responsibilities, but prefers to remain an active contributor rather than stepping into a pure management role. You must

- **Id**: 896956
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/prolaio-lead-software-quality-engineering-backend>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-01T19:52:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T12:24:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 159
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6006
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- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Patient Monitoring, Health Data & Interoperability

## Company

- **Id**: 688731
- **Name**: Prolaio
- **Domain**: prolaio.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/prolaio>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 96000
- **Max usd**: 210000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 167

## Technologies

- **Cassandra** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **IEC 62304** — Optional: no
- **ISO 13485** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **ISO 14971** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 159

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-14T09:56:29Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.398
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 159
- **Expected fill days**: 37
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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