Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Platform Service 

Department: Product Development 

About the Role: The Sr. Software Engineer is a backend and API expert, helping advance healthcare and social care interoperability through scalable platform development. This role centers on building and maintaining core APIs and services that power the Unite Us product suite, requiring experience with object-oriented programming, large-scale systems, and platform contributions. Working within the highly collaborative Platform Services team, the engineer will partner with both internal and external stakeholders, balancing multiple workstreams across greenfield and legacy systems while prioritizing team success over individual contributions. The role also involves developing integration solutions that connect the Unite Us platform with community-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and broader care networks; while experience in healthcare or social care is beneficial, it is not required.

What You'll Do:

• Lead end-to-end development of backend systems, from architecture and design through implementation, deployment, and monitoring
• Design, build, and evolve scalable APIs and platform services that support interoperability and a growing ecosystem of partners
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, ensuring long-term scalability, performance, and reliability
• Drive architectural decisions and contribute to both greenfield and legacy systems with a focus on modular, reusable design
• Build and maintain data integration solutions, including standards-based interfaces (e.g., FHIR) and secure authentication protocols (OAuth, SAML, SCIM, SMART)
• Own system observability, performance, and reliability by defining metrics, monitoring, and proactively addressing issues
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex scalability and performance challenges across distributed backend services
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and by promoting engineering best practices
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and engineering partners to refine requirements and deliver high-quality solutions
• Champion best practices in testing, CI/CD, and agile development while contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team culture

You’re a great fit for this role if:

• At least 5+ years of software development experience, with strong preference for experience in healthcare
• Experience with FHIR is highly desirable
• Deep expertise in building and scaling RESTful backend services in a production environment
• Expertise designing and building SaaS products in a cloud environment (preferably AWS) with containerized applications (e.g., Docker, ECS, EKS)
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, GoLang, Python (Flask/FastApi frameworks) and/or other general programming languages
• Proficiency in relational databases such as Postgres
• Strong understanding of testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring best practices
• Experience with open standards-based authentication frameworks, such as OAuth and SAML
• Experience with APM and logging systems like Datadog or New Relic
• Experience working in cross-functional agile teams, with a product-focused and customer-centric mindset
• Experience working with popular front-end JavaScript frameworks, like React

Our Mission:

Unite 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.

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:

• This position is remote, U.S. based. 
• The target pay range for this role is: $140,000-$175,000. 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.
• All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification 

Benefits provided by Unite Us:

Medical, Dental, and Vision

We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.

Wellness

Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.

Flexible Time Off

Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company-wide holidays.
Paid Parental Leave

Adoptive parents are included.

Employee Resource Groups

Join our ERGs to connect and engage with colleagues, like Military Veterans

Spending Accounts

We offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits.

401(k) + Employer Match

Enjoy matching, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources

Additional Benefits

Life and AD&D - a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents

Disability Coverage

Accident Insurance

Pet Insurance

As 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.

Unite 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. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability please email us at [email protected] to request an accommodation.

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