Lead Software Engineer

Icon Health provides value-based musculoskeletal care through technology-enabled clinical services and care coordination. The Lead Software Engineer will lead and develop the engineering team while building and maintaining software, data systems, integrations, and infrastructure that support clinical operations.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, mentor, and hire software or systems engineers while setting clear performance expectations and growth plans
• Ensure all technology, data handling, and software products strictly follow healthcare laws like HIPAA and safety standards
• Partner with clinicians, product managers, and security teams to turn clinical or operational needs into technical solutions
• Continue to build a healthy remote team culture with strong verbal and written communication and ownership mindset
• Oversee complex technology initiatives, manage resource allocation, and track project milestones and budgets
• Guide architectural decisions, support cloud infrastructure and SAAS integrations, and maintain high standards for system reliability
• Ensure teams build accessible, intuitive, and responsive UI components that staff can navigate quickly and efficiently during critical patient care
• Maintain and optimize the team's engineering stack
• Write production code in Python, TypeScript and SQL, and contribute to DBT models and data pipelines
• Review pull requests and set the bar for code quality, testing and documentation
• Lead technical design for new services, integrations and data flows
• Step in on incidents, debugging and on-call escalation when needed
• Manage automated testing, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines to push application updates without disrupting clinical operations
• Report progress, risks and metrics to the CTO and Business Leadership
• Other Duties As Assigned

Requirements:

• 7+ years in software or data engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers
• Still writing code: strong in Python and SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, ideally GCP
• A track record of putting engineering processes in place (agile delivery, code review, CI/CD) that held up as a team grew
• Experience automating manual workflows and building internal tools
• Experience with regulated or sensitive data, and a working understanding of security fundamentals
• Clear written communication and comfort leading a remote team
• Sound judgment on build vs. buy, technical debt and trade-offs
• Healthcare experience, including HIPAA, and PHI handling
• Healthcare data experience such as claims, member, provider or clinical/EHR data, and standards like HL7 or FHIR
• Experience with SOC 2 or HITRUST controls