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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.\nWhat You'll Do:\nOwn and evolve the technical architecture of Platform Services' core APIs and interoperability solutions, ensuring they remain scalable, secure, and maintainable as usage grows.\nLead 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.\nSet 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.\nMentor and grow other engineers on the team, including pairing, technical coaching, and helping less experienced engineers reason through design trade-offs.\nPartner closely with the Senior Engineering Manager to translate team vision and business priorities into a concrete technical roadmap, and surface technical risks early.\nRepresent Platform Services in cross-team technical discussions, building consensus with other technical leads on shared approaches and integration points.\nBreak down ambiguous or large-scale problems into well-scoped technical plans that others on the team can execute against.\nStay hands-on: contribute production code, especially for the highest-leverage or highest-risk parts of the system.\nContribute to a positive, solution-focused, and collaborative team culture.\nYou’re a great fit for this role if:\n7-8+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer, with a track record of increasing technical scope and ownership.\nDemonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of complex, large-scale, or cross-team technical initiatives.\nDeep understanding of CS fundamentals and of building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems and APIs.\nStrong track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar of a team, without formal management authority.\nExperience making and communicating significant architecture and design trade-offs, and influencing technical direction beyond your own immediate work.\nExperience writing code that is clear, concise, testable, and easily understood by other engineers, and holding others to that same bar.\nProficiency with modern web development technologies and techniques for building web services; strong back-end and API integration background.\nExperience with cloud-based SaaS development and CI/CD practices.\nComfortable navigating ambiguity and multiple concurrent stakeholder demands.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related engineering field required; equivalent practical experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.\nPreferred\nExperience with open standards-based authentication frameworks such as OAuth and SAML.\nExperience with Ruby or Ruby on Rails, Python, or with object-oriented and/or functional programming generally.\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring systems like New Relic or DataDog.\nExperience working in Agile teams, particularly remotely.\nExperience with healthcare or social care technologies such as Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).\nOur Mission:\nUnite Us’ mission is to unlock the potential of every community. Our co-founders started Unite Us in 2013 to serve the people they served with. They witnessed firsthand the barriers and inefficiencies in trying to navigate health and social services, and set out to improve that experience for veterans and their families. Unite Us quickly expanded to serving all people who need connections to care across our country. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community-based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole-person health. If you want to do well and do good, join Unite Us.\nEnvironmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:\nThis position is remote, U.S. based. \nThis position may require 5% travel\nThe 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.\nAll team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification \nBenefits provided by Unite Us:\nMedical, Dental, and Vision\nWe offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.\nWellness\nMental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.\nFlexible Time Off\nTake what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company-wide holidays.\nPaid Parental Leave\nAdoptive parents are included.\nEmployee Resource Groups\nJoin our ERGs to connect and engage with colleagues, like Military Veterans\nSpending Accounts\nWe offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits.\n401(k) + Employer Match\nEnjoy matching, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources\nAdditional Benefits\nLife and AD&D - a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents\nDisability Coverage\nAccident Insurance\nPet Insurance\nAs 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.\nUnite 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. 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