# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Pearl Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pearl-health)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, REST APIs, Frontend Architecture, Observability, Data Pipelines, Hipaa Compliance, Soc2, Relational Databases
**Posted:** 2026-05-21

> Lead technical architecture and drive cross-functional initiatives for a healthcare technology platform. Design scalable distributed systems, mentor engineers, and align technology decisions with business outcomes.

## Job Description

## Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Drive system design and technical planning for projects, including large, complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Partner on architectural decisions for critical systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with Pearl's long-term technical vision
- Define and implement engineering standards, patterns, and best practices that improve scalability, reliability, and developer productivity across the organization
- Partner to make strategic trade-offs between technical debt, feature delivery, and system reliability

## Full-Stack Excellence
- Design and build high-performance, distributed systems including data pipelines, APIs, and microservices that process healthcare data at scale
- Architect intuitive, responsive, end-to-end web applications and internal tools
- Ensure observability, monitoring, and operational excellence across distributed services, cloud infrastructure, and frontend applications
- Apply deep expertise in both backend service design (RESTful and event-driven architectures) and modern frontend frameworks
- Champion security best practices, data consistency patterns, and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC2)

## Strategic Collaboration & Influence
- Partner with product, operations, and design leadership to align engineering decisions with company priorities
- Act as a technical advisor to multiple teams
- Influence and drive technical discussions across the organization
- Translate business requirements into technical strategies

## Mentorship & Cultural Leadership
- Mentor engineers at Software Engineer I, II, and III levels
- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on continuous learning and technical excellence
- Conduct thorough design and code reviews
- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and retention efforts

## Delivery & Impact
- Own and drive multi-quarter technical projects with autonomy and accountability
- Identify and resolve systemic issues, technical bottlenecks, and cross-team dependencies
- Measure and communicate the business impact of technical work

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in full-stack software development with service-oriented architectures and large data systems
- Demonstrated architectural experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed systems including microservices and event-driven architectures
- Strong leadership track record in driving technical direction for significant cross-functional projects
- Cloud platform proficiency (preferably AWS) including hands-on experience with infrastructure design, deployment pipelines, and cost optimization
- Deep expertise designing and optimizing data-intensive applications involving large-scale data movement, transformation, and presentation
- Proven production operations experience in distributed systems (observability, monitoring, incident response)
- Experience aligning technical decisions with business objectives
- Frontend architecture experience including state management, component design systems, build optimization, and deployment strategies
- Hands-on experience with AI-enabled development using tools like Cursor, Claude, or similar productivity tools

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building systems in healthcare technology, fintech, or other highly regulated industries
- Expertise in regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC2)
- Deep database expertise with relational databases including schema design, query optimization, data consistency patterns, and performance tuning

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