Lead Platform Software Engineer (Remote)

Inspira Financial is a company focused on helping businesses and individuals thrive through health and wealth solutions. The Lead Platform Software Engineer will be responsible for the full software development life cycle, collaborating with teams to design, develop, and deliver applications while ensuring high-quality standards and best practices are met.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Proficiency with Node.js
• Proficiency with React
• Proficiency with TypeScript
• Proficiency with Apollo GraphQL
• Proficiency with Git Version Control System
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL
• Proficiency with Google Cloud
• Proficiency with Jest
• Proficiency with Docker Container
• Proficiency with 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
• Infrequent travel (10%)
• Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer