# Lead Software Engineer

**Company:** [Firefly Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/firefly-health)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** React, React Native, TypeScript, Python, Django, Postgres, Docker, AWS, Machine Learning, ETL
**Posted:** 2026-04-15

> Lead Software Engineer builds fullstack mobile/web apps and APIs for healthcare platform, develops ML-powered agentic workflows for care automation, and owns projects end-to-end. Requires 8+ years fullstack experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with clinical, operations, and product teams to design and build technology underlying alternate health plan and care experiences.
- Build beautiful mobile apps, web applications, and APIs that make high-quality health benefits and world class care accessible and engaging for members.
- Develop and refine agentic workflows using machine learning models to power automation and intelligence across platform, including care management, navigation, and proactive interventions.
- Integrate with third-party vendors and health tech innovations to expand platform’s functionality, data sources, and member services.
- Work on member-facing platform and clinical intelligence platform used by care teams to deliver efficient, quality care.
- Own projects from ideation to release, influencing both product and technical decisions.
- Contribute to technical architecture and best practices across the team.
- Help recruit highly capable engineers to the team from diverse backgrounds.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience writing production code across the stack.

## Nice to Haves
- Experience with the specific technologies in our stack (React, React Native, Typescript, Python, Django, Postgres, Docker, AWS).
- Experience working with machine learning models, agentic workflows, or automation in the healthcare space.
- Experience with the messiness of healthcare data and ETL work.

## Compensation
- Salary range: $150,000 to $180,000 annually, as part of total benefits package including health insurance, 401k, and bonus.

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