Staff Software Engineer - ControlCheck

Bluesight is a high growth healthcare information technology company focused on increasing efficiency and safety for health systems and pharmacy operations. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction and contribute to architectural decisions for their healthcare data products, ensuring safe and efficient medication management for their clients.

Responsibilities:

• Help set technical direction for the ControlCheck team, designing work that spans multiple domains (front-end, back-end, infrastructure) over months, not sprints
• Contribute to critical architectural decisions for services built on Ruby on Rails and Python FastAPI, deployed via Terraform and guide the team on architectural choices
• Make critical technical and architectural calls within the timelines the team needs
• Drive proactive de-coupling of services and application of sound microservices patterns as ControlCheck scales
• Identify and resolve the hardest technical problems in the codebase — expert-level debugging across distributed systems and complex applications
• Help elevate the whole team's technical ability and execution — the goal is doubling (or more) the team's collective output, not just personal 5–10x contributions
• Lead cross-team dependency management and coordinate cross-discipline efforts with Product, QA, and adjacent engineering teams while maintaining productive relationships across the organization
• Communicate large systems and technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders, including in roadmap and planning conversations
• Influence at the Engineering Manager level — partner closely with your EM and fellow technical leads on team execution, hiring signal, and technical roadmap and provide technical guidance across the broader engineering team, not just direct collaborators
• Mentor senior engineers and serve as an escalation point for the team's most difficult technical challenges
• Maintain a "customer service" mentality toward the rest of the team — your job is to help make everyone else's work better

Requirements:

• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated depth across the full stack
• Acute specialization in one or more areas (front-end, back-end, or infrastructure) combined with working knowledge across the rest of the stack
• Track record of contributing to technical direction for a team and driving multi-month, cross-domain initiatives to completion
• Strong understanding of relational database systems (MySQL), with experience designing for scale
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and owning production services end-to-end
• Demonstrated ability to influence architectural decisions across multiple teams, not just your own including long-term architectural direction
• Excellent communication skills — able to describe large systems and complex tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders and drive alignment across teams
• A leadership style rooted in service and collaboration: you measure your success by the team's output, not just your own
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and building technical judgment in others
• Comfortable co-leading technical direction alongside other senior technical voices on the team
• Database administration experience, preferably AWS Aurora MySQL
• Experience integrating Electronic Health Record (EHR) data into enterprise software
• Prior experience in a regulated/compliance-driven healthcare or controlled-substance domain
• Experience applying AI and LLMs — AWS ecosystem preferred (e.g., AWS Bedrock or similar managed AI services)