Senior Software Engineer

Objective Arts is a Chicago-based company focused on behavioral health analytics, providing software infrastructure for clinical assessments used by various agencies. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work on both new features and the modernization of existing code, emphasizing the importance of customer interaction and meaningful software delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Hiring an engineer who's into AI coding tools
• Building features, designing systems, shipping things
• Modernization: taking a mature codebase that's been serving real customers for years and making it faster, cleaner, and more maintainable
• Using AI coding assistants daily, Claude Code in particular
• Talking to customers — this is non-negotiable. You'll be on calls 4–6 hours a week explaining technical things to clinicians and program directors who don't speak engineer
• Switching gears from heads-down coding to customer conversations without losing your day
• Comfortable with modernization work — finding the puzzle of improving existing systems interesting, not annoying
• Shipping working software more than talking about shipping working software

Requirements:

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• You use AI coding assistants daily, Claude Code in particular
• You can talk to customers — this is non-negotiable. You'll be on calls 4–6 hours a week explaining technical things to clinicians and program directors who don't speak engineer
• You can switch gears from heads-down coding to that kind of conversation without losing your day
• You're comfortable with modernization work — you find the puzzle of improving existing systems interesting, not annoying
• You like shipping working software more than talking about shipping working software
• Experience with Java backend
• Experience with Angular frontend
• Comfortable with AWS