Senior Staff Engineer

About the job

Our client is building the future of healthcare technology with industry-leading products, solutions and platforms to help improve the lives of millions of seniors and those who care for them.

Position Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will operate as a technical leader across teams, driving architectural direction, raising engineering standards, and enabling consistent delivery of scalable, reliable platforms. While still hands-on, this role focuses less on feature-by-feature delivery and more on system design, technical strategy, and team enablement. This role is ideal for experienced engineers who want to lead through influence, solve complex cross-cutting problems, and shape the long-term technical health of the platform.

• Own and evolve system-level architecture across services, platforms, and domains.
• Lead technical design for complex initiatives spanning multiple teams or product areas.
• Set and promote engineering standards for architecture, security, reliability, and performance.
• Partner with Dev Leads, Engineering Managers, and Product to align technical decisions with business priorities.
• Guide and mentor Senior and Mid-level Engineers through design reviews, architecture discussions, and technical coaching.
• Identify and resolve systemic technical risks before they impact delivery or customers.
• Influence platform evolution to support scalability, AI-enabled capabilities, and future growth.
• Deep-dive into codebases and systems when needed to unblock teams or resolve ambiguity.
• Improve developer experience, tooling, and observability across teams.

• Design and review distributed systems and APIs.
• Drive architectural decisions related to data, integration, and service boundaries.
• Ensure systems meet standards for availability, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Support adoption of AI-enabled services and data-driven capabilities where appropriate.
• Champion best practices for testing, CI/CD, and operational readiness.

You will influence and work across a modern full-stack environment, including:

• Backend:
  • .NET
  • Python
• Frontend:
  • React
• Databases:
  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
• APIs:
  • RESTful services

Experience designing AI-enabled systems or integrating LLM-backed services is a plus.

• Strong systems thinking and ability to reason about complex architectures.
• Comfortable influencing without direct authority.
• Ability to balance long-term technical health with near-term delivery needs.
• Clear communicator of technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mindset and bias toward action.

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale, distributed systems.
• Strong background in backend systems and data architecture.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.
• Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional partners.

• Experience with AI-enabled platforms or data-intensive systems.
• Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated environments.
• Cloud platform experience and CI/CD pipeline ownership.
• Experience improving platform reliability, observability, or developer experience at scale.

• Clear, scalable architecture that enables teams to deliver with confidence.
• Reduced technical risk and improved system reliability.
• Strong technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.
• Platforms that scale to support evolving business and customer needs.