Software Engineer - Clients Team

Job Title: Software Engineer 

Department: Product Development 

About the Role: 

The Software Engineer contributes to the design, development, and implementation of scalable solutions in the Clients Team that builds and maintains systems that store, process, and display patient data from hospital and community health systems. They collaborate with product, design, engineering, and SET, DevOps, or Data teams teammates to deliver high-quality features that advance the organization’s mission of improving access to care. This role focuses on building reliable, maintainable software under the guidance of senior engineers, adhering to established engineering standards, and continuously developing technical and problem-solving skills. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong coding fundamentals, experience working with web applications and front end React, and a commitment to quality, collaboration, and learning in a mission-driven environment.

What You'll Do:

• Interrogate, synthesize, and implement acceptance criteria to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable web applications using React, Redux, and Ruby on Rails.
• Develop and integrate RESTful services that support real-time, high-volume data flows between hospital systems.
• Implement and maintain cloud-native infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform on AWS.
• Monitor and optimize system performance using DataDog and automated CI/CD pipelines via Spinnaker.
• Collaborate on feature development, code reviews, testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance across distributed systems.
• Use LaunchDarkly for safe feature rollouts and A/B testing.
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to improving system reliability and developer experience.
• Test your own software, and work with Test Engineers to ensure comprehensive automated test coverage.
• Refine product requirements as needed

You’re a great fit for this role if:

• 2-4 years of relevant experience as a software engineer or in a related role
• 2 or more years of front-end and back-end experience.
• A strong understanding of CS fundamentals.
• Proven experience successfully collaborating with immediate teammates as well as other teams in problem-solving.
• Experience writing code that is clear, concise, testable, easily understood by other engineers, and accounts for errors and edge cases.
• Experience understanding and making design decisions and tradeoffs 
• Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques to build web services
• Some knowledge of cloud-based SaaS development is required.
• A talent for asking questions that will help to flesh out project requirements, and a curiosity about how business requirements become technical requirements
• Experience mentoring and being mentored by team members in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner

Preferred experience:

• Experience in React, Redux, and JavaScript/TypeScript for frontend development.
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog) and feature flagging systems (e.g., LaunchDarkly).
• Experience in creating or working in large-scale distributed applications. 
• Experience with Ruby or Ruby on Rails, Python, or with object-oriented and/or functional programming generally are highly desirable but not required.
• Experience with Docker, AWS, and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes).
• Experience with tracking systems like New Relic or LogDNA
• Exposure to continuous deployment workflows and performance optimization at scale.
• Experience working in Agile teams, particularly remotely

Our Mission:

Unite Us’ mission is to unlock the potential of every community. Our co-founders started Unite Us in 2013 to serve the people they served with. They witnessed firsthand the barriers and inefficiencies in trying to navigate health and social services, and set out to improve that experience for veterans and their families. Unite Us quickly expanded to serving all people who need connections to care across our country. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community-based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole-person health. If you want to do well and do good, join Unite Us.

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:

• This position is remote, U.S. based.