Lead Software Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help shape the future of our core product. You'll work closely with our Technical Architect to increase velocity, build features on the 2026 roadmap, and lead a strategic initiative to consolidate our microservices architecture - simplifying infrastructure while maintaining the reliability our customers depend on.

This is primarily an individual contributor role, but we expect leadership by example: mentoring teammates, championing best practices, and elevating the quality of everything you touch. For the right person, there are clear paths to technical leadership and/or team leadership as the organization grows.

• Design, build, and ship features for healthcare platform serving thousands of senior living communities
• Lead efforts to consolidate and simplify our microservices architecture, reducing operational complexity
• Collaborate with our Technical Architect on pragmatic decisions that balance velocity with maintainability
• Write clean, well-tested Groovy/Java code following domain-driven design principles Contribute to our Spring Cloud ecosystem (service discovery, API gateway, inter-service communication)
• Integrate with AWS services and optimize cloud infrastructure
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance
• Help shape engineering culture and practices as the team scales
• Frameworks:
  Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security (OAuth2/JWT)
• Cloud: AWS (ECS, Cognito, SQS, SNS, S3, Secrets Manager)
• Architecture:
  Microservices with Eureka, Spring Cloud Gateway, Open Feign
• Testing:
  Spock Framework, Test Containers
• Observability:
  Elastic APM, Launch Darkly feature flags
• Build & Deploy:
  Gradle, Docker, AWS Copilot
• Healthcare: HL7 integrations, HIPAA-compliant infrastructure

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Java or Groovy with Spring Boot
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Solid understanding of relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL preferred)
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Track record of delivering production systems at scale
• Comfort using AI coding assistants as part of your workflow
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Experience consolidating or simplifying distributed systems
• Spring Cloud experience (Gateway, Eureka, Feign)
• Healthcare technology experience (HL7, FHIR, or HIPAA-compliant systems)
• Spock or BDD-style testing experience