Lead Software Engineer

RipeGlobal is hiring a senior individual-contributor software engineer to set technical direction for its learning platform. The role combines platform architecture, hands-on development, engineering standards, integrations, roadmap planning, and mentoring.

Responsibilities:

• The end-to-end architecture of our learning platform: membership, video delivery, live events, assessments and CE tracking
• Technical strategy and key decisions, including build or buy, platform choices, scalability and cost
• Writing and reviewing production code on the most complex and highest-impact parts of the system
• Engineering standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, security and data privacy (HIPAA and GDPR)
• Integration architecture for CRM, payments, analytics and enterprise DSO platforms
• Turning business and clinical goals into a clear, sequenced technical roadmap with operations, education and marketing leads
• Mentoring and raising the bar for engineers and contractors, and helping build out the team

Requirements:

• 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years at Senior, Staff or Principal level
• Proven experience designing and scaling SaaS platforms in production
• Deep expertise in TypeScript/Node.js, React and Python, and cloud-native architecture on AWS or GCP
• Strong system design, data modeling and API design skills, plus hands-on DevOps
• A record of leading technical initiatives across teams without direct authority
• Clear written and spoken communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• ideally e-learning, video or subscription products
• Bonus: experience in healthcare or edtech, compliance-heavy environments, or an early-stage team