Staff Software Engineer

Gifthealth is revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. The Staff Software Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and scaling critical software systems that support Gifthealth’s core products and operations, providing technical expertise and leading complex initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities:

• Designs and implements scalable, reliable, and secure software systems for core Gifthealth platforms
• Leads technical architecture decisions and drive long-term platform evolution
• Provides technical leadership, code reviews, and mentorship to engineers across teams
• Collaborates with Product, Design, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Identifies and reduces technical debt; improve system performance, observability, and reliability
• Establishes and upholds engineering best practices, standards, and documentation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field OR equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating production-grade systems at scale
• Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns (modularity, event-driven systems, APIs); Cloud-native systems (AWS, GCP, or Azure); and data modeling, distributed systems, and system reliability principles
• Advanced proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Ruby, Elixir, Python, Java, Go, or Node.js)
• Designing and reviewing complex systems and APIs skills
• Debugging and resolving production issues in distributed systems skills
• Ability to independently lead complex, ambiguous technical initiatives
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams without formal authority
• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience operating in high-growth or regulated environments
• Prior experience functioning as a staff or principal-level engineer
• Knowledge of healthcare, pharmacy, or regulated industry environments (HIPAA); Domain-driven design and platform engineering concepts
• Frontend or mobile experience (Hotwire, React, TypeScript, etc.) skills
• Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling skills
• Ability to translate business strategy into scalable technical solutions