Senior Software Engineer - Technical Lead

Karoo Health is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead to guide its core engineering efforts and lead a small team. The role sets technical direction, supports agile delivery, and contributes to building and maintaining secure, scalable software for value-based healthcare.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and Mentor: Set technical direction, unblock developers, and drive continuous improvement
• Orchestrate Agile Processes: Facilitate daily standups, weekly sprint planning, backlog grooming, and team retrospectives to ensure predictable and timely delivery
• Execute: Craft clean, testable, and maintainable code in collaboration with the team
• Deliver: Own the software from requirements development through deployment and maintenance
• Operationalize Data: Architect, optimize, and maintain databases to ensure reliability and performance
• Architect: Design and deploy scalable, secure, cloud infrastructure leveraging infrastructure-as-code best practices
• Safeguard Data: Ensure compliance with healthcare data regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST)

Requirements:

• In this role, you will maintain hands-on contribution while stepping up to lead a small team of software engineers
• In order to do this job well, you must be a curious, pragmatic problem solver and an empathetic technical leader
• At least 4 years of experience leading small technical teams with direct responsibility for deliverables
• Minimum 6 years of dedicated professional experience in backend or full stack engineering, ideally in a startup or fast-paced environment
• Experience with healthcare data regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST) and data formats (e.g. FHIR)
• Strong communication skills with an ability to translate product requirements into technical task breakdowns
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native development
• Proficiency with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB) and API design (RESTful, GraphQL)
• Proven capability in system architecture, scalability, security best practices, and CI/CD pipelines
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and not require employer sponsorship now or in the future