Lead Platform Software Engineer (Remote)

Inspira Financial is seeking a Lead Platform Software Engineer to join its engineering team and help build a smarter health benefits platform. The role leads full-lifecycle development of consumer-facing digital products, collaborates with product and design leaders, guides architecture and technical direction, and responsibly leverages AI to improve engineering productivity and code quality.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and test applications (e.g. API, web apps) in accordance with established standards
• Collaborate with Product and Design Leaders to lead product delivery teams
• 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
• Leverage AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity multiplier while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated code meets quality standards
• Full code ownership mandatory - Must understand, explain, and support all AI-assisted code as if written from scratch
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 5+ 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
• Practical AI experience required - Comfortable using tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude for prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Proficiency with:
• Node.js
• React
• TypeScript
• Apollo GraphQL
• Git Version Control System
• PostgreSQL
• Google Cloud
• Jest
• Docker Container
• 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
• Infrequent travel (10%)
• Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer