Staff Software Engineer
Strive Health1 day ago
Denver, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$130k - $163k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy, architecture, and roadmaps for one or more critical platform domains.
- Design and deliver complex cross-team solutions from problem framing and architecture through implementation, rollout, and production operation.
- Write high-quality, tested, observable software and make architectural tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, compliance, cost, and maintainability.
- Design and evolve APIs, services, data models, integrations, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines.
- Identify and address systemic technical risks, architectural limitations, performance bottlenecks, technical debt, and legacy-system modernization needs.
- Establish reusable architectural patterns, reference implementations, and engineering standards across teams.
- Drive platform-wide improvements in developer experience, reliability, observability, security posture, and performance.
- Partner with Product, Clinical, Data, Security, and Operations leaders on priorities and outcomes.
- Facilitate design and architecture reviews, guide major engineering decisions, and unblock teams through hands-on technical support.
- Participate in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvement.
- Collaborate with Security and Compliance to protect sensitive healthcare information and meet regulatory requirements.
- Mentor and coach engineers and technical leads through design discussions, code reviews, pairing, and daily collaboration.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity, quality, and effectiveness.
- Communicate engineering strategy, architectural decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- 9+ years of combined related education, experience, or certification in software engineering or a closely related field, including substantial experience building and operating production software systems.
- Internet connectivity of at least 3.8 Mbps upload, 3.0 Mbps download, and latency under 60 ms.
- Ability to travel and work onsite as business needs require.
- Preferred bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience as a senior individual contributor leading complex initiatives across multiple systems, domains, or teams.
- Strong fundamentals in system design, API design, data modeling, testing, debugging, and production operations.
- Experience building scalable cloud-based applications, services, integrations, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines on AWS or a similar platform.
- Experience with automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, security by design, troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction without formal management authority.
- Experience in healthcare, health technology, value-based care, or another regulated environment handling PHI or sensitive data.
- Understanding of privacy, security, and compliance requirements such as HIPAA.
- Familiarity with healthcare interoperability, clinical data, electronic health records, FHIR, and HL7.
- Experience with relational and non-relational data stores and high-volume operational or clinical data.
- Experience influencing engineering strategy across teams and leading legacy-system modernization or technical-debt initiatives.
- Experience evaluating new technologies through prototypes, reference implementations, and incremental adoption.
- Exposure to kidney care, value-based care, or complex clinical workflows.
- Strong written and verbal communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, collaboration, ownership, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid-remote flexibility with work from home and onsite needs at offices, clinics, or patient home visits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, employee assistance programs, life and disability insurance, and health and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) with employer match and financial wellness resources.
- Paid holidays, vacation and sick time, and paid birthgiving, bonding, sabbatical, and living donor leaves.
- Family-forming services through Maven Maternity, physical wellness perks, mental health support, and an annual professional development stipend.
- The position requires travel and onsite work as needed.
About Strive Health
Strive Health delivers value-based kidney care, integrating a technology platform with local provider networks to manage patients from chronic kidney disease through end-stage kidney disease. It partners with commercial and Medicare Advantage payors, Medicare, health systems and physicians through value-based, often risk-based, contracts; founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, the privately held company’s case management programs are NCQA-accredited and its CareMultiplier platform is HITRUST-certified, serving 145,000+ patients across all 50 states with 6,500+ provider partners.