Staff Software Engineer

Inspiren offers a complete and connected ecosystem in senior living, founded by a former Green Beret turned nurse. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to serve as a technical leader, tackling architectural challenges in data modeling, APIs, and platform scalability, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own:The long-term vision and implementation of our core data models and internal API architecture, ensuring they are scalable, consistent, and well-documented
• You will lead the charge on defining our next-generation data architecture to support new product lines and business models
• This includes collaborating with our ML and Data teams to ensure data models support their needs for training and inference
• Architectural choices that unlock velocity across teams, with an eye toward secure, reliable, and repeatable patterns
• Teach:Modern best practices for systems design, API architecture, automated testing, observability and security
• Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and technical design sessions, elevating the skills of the entire org
• Improve:Engineering velocity by designing and rolling out a new, standardized API layer and automated testing practices that will help us reduce our feature lead time
• You will be responsible for increasing developer confidence by establishing critical integration test patterns and enforcing coverage

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in backend systems architecture, with deep expertise in data modeling, distributed systems and API design (REST and/or GraphQL)
• Proven ability to influence and lead technical direction without direct authority
• Excellent communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for mentorship and have a track record of elevating the technical capabilities of a team
• Problem-solver with a pragmatic approach to addressing technical debt while enabling new features
• Demonstrate a high degree of humility, leaving your ego at the door, and are kind and thoughtful when working with others
• Expertise in backend systems with an emphasis on TypeScript, Node.js, and/or React
• Actively use AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) as a core part of how you work
• Experience with event-driven systems and technologies like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS IoT Core
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure management and serverless applications, specifically in managing performance, observability, and scalability
• Expertise scaling and maintaining SQL and NoSQL Databases, leading schema design and capacity planning for high-traffic production environments
• Experience with observability tools like Sentry and New Relic
• Experience with modern CI/CD practices and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK)
• Experience building systems that support AI/ML workloads, including data pipelines and API endpoints for model inference
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol and experience designing or implementing protocols that standardize data exchange between multiple services
• Hands-on experience with secure coding practices, threat modeling, or cloud security audits