Lead Platform Software Engineer

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Take the next step in your journey at Inspira Financial. You will help businesses and individuals thrive today, tomorrow, and into retirement. Become part of a company that is people centric and client obsessed in every interaction; a community of forward-thinking individuals focused on driving results to deliver our mission with an unwavering commitment to integrity. Join us as we strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey -- relentlessly pursuing better outcomes for all. We believe in finding the best talent! While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote roles can sit in any of the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA and WV. Remote status and role locations are subject to change. Relocation is not provided.
Employees within a 90-minute radius of our Oak Brook, IL headquarters are required to adhere to the company in-office work guidelines of 4 days per month minimum from 10 am to 2 pm (1 of the 4 days must be a Monday or Friday).
This requirement does not apply to support specialist positions.
Don't meet every single requirement? Here at Inspira Financial, we believe there is no "perfect" candidate and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren't met. Our goal is to build an authentic workplace by valuing diversity in our candidates. We work to ensure that our team reflects the diversity of the businesses and clients we serve. We are always looking to expand our growing team with dynamic and enthusiastic individuals. If you enjoy a collaborative, fun environment that champions career development, Inspira Financial is the place for you! We look forward to receiving your application! Check out this Inspira Financial video to learn more about our company!
Inspira Financial provides health, wealth, retirement, and benefits solutions that strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey. With more than 7 million clients, representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira works with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners -- helping the people they care about plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Inspira relentlessly pursues better outcomes for all with our automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings funds, custody services, and more. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com .
We have been recognized for our remarkable growth on lists such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and for our outstanding workplace culture and benefits with Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer awards.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
This role is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Lead Platform Software Engineer, you will have relevant experience with both front-end and back-end coding languages, software development architecture and design patterns, development frameworks and third- party libraries. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing consumer-facing digital products in collaboration with product and design leaders. This individual must be creative, client focused, team player, organized, and can thrive in a dynamic environment.
Our engineering team is built on the principle of humans over code. We are a tight-knit group of lifelong learners in a constant quest to be a team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Come join us!

• Design, develop, and test applications (e.g. API, web apps) in accordance with established standards.
• 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.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications
Education & Experience:

• 7-10 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.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Technical Proficiency and Skills:

• Proficiency with:
• 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
• Experience with DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, SecDevOps, Containers, Serverless

Other Requirements:

• Infrequent travel (10%)
• Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Compensation & Benefits
$165,000-$184,000 per year