Lead Software Engineer

Gifthealth is revolutionizing healthcare by simplifying the management of prescriptions and health services. The Lead Senior Software Engineer will lead the design and development of scalable software solutions while providing technical leadership and mentorship to a small team of engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Leads design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-quality software solutions aligned with business priorities
• Provides technical leadership, code reviews, and architectural guidance to engineering team
• Manages, mentors, and supports a team of 2–8 software engineers, including performance feedback and career development
• Collaborates with product, design, operations, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Oversees system reliability, performance monitoring, testing strategies, and production support
• Contributes to documentation, development standards, and continuous improvement of engineering processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field OR equivalent professional experience
• 5–10 years of professional software engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or small engineering teams
• Experience leading teams using Agile or similar delivery methodologies
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Knowledge of Ruby and Ruby on Rails (Rails 7 or similar frameworks); modern web application architecture and RESTful APIs; relational databases (Postgres) and data modeling; and cloud platforms and production systems
• Strong software design and coding skills with emphasis on clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Technical leadership, code review, and architectural decision-making skills
• Team leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills
• Cross-functional communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate abstract business problems into technical solutions
• Ability to prioritize work and balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities
• Ability to influence technical direction and drive alignment across teams
• Prior experience managing or formally leading engineers
• Experience in high-growth startups or healthcare technology organizations
• Knowledge of healthcare or regulated industry environments and scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
• Ability to scale teams and systems in a high-growth environment