Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - Lead Platform

Company Description

About A Place for Mom:

A Place for Mom is the leading online resource connecting families searching for senior care with a team of expert advisors providing insight-driven, personalized solutions. As the nation’s largest senior care advisory service, A Place for Mom helps hundreds of thousands of families every year navigate the complexities of finding the right senior care solution for their loved ones across home care, independent living, memory care, assisted living, and more. Established in 2000 as a family business, A Place for Mom employees are deeply committed to the company mission to enable caregivers to make the best senior care decisions. A Place for Mom fosters, cultivates, and preserves a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our employees live the company values every day:

• Mission Over Me: We find purpose in helping caregivers and their senior loved ones while approaching our work with empathy.
• Do Hard Things: We are energized by solving challenging problems and see it as an opportunity to grow.
• Drive Outcomes as a Team: We each own the outcome but can only achieve it as a team.
• Win The Right Way: We see organizational integrity as the foundation for how we operate.
• Embrace Change: We innovate and constantly evolve.

Job Description

We’re looking for a thoughtful, action oriented Senior Software Engineer to join our Lead Platform engineering team. This team plays a vital role in enabling APFM to connect families with the right senior care solutions through robust systems for lead capture, routing, and tracking. The Lead Platform is the beating heart of our business — powering the experiences and insights our advisors depend on every day.

The lead platform team is a growing engineering group modernizing core services by transitioning from legacy .NET systems to a modern stack built on NestJS, NodeJS, and React. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Software Engineering – Lead Platform, you’ll help design, build, and support scalable services that are at the center of our product ecosystem.

You’ll work closely with a passionate group of engineers, product managers, and QA teammates, all focused on building high-quality, high-impact solutions that support our mission to help families navigate senior living decisions with confidence and care.

Who you are:

You’re a pragmatic builder with a deep curiosity for how systems work and a strong instinct for solving the right problems. You enjoy taking ownership of complex challenges and thrive in environments where you can drive clarity and momentum, even when the path isn’t fully paved.

You're experienced in building and evolving backend systems, especially in modern JavaScript/TypeScript environments. You know how to collaborate across disciplines, pair with product and QA, and ensure that quality is baked into every step of the development lifecycle. While you care deeply about clean code and robust architecture, you’re equally focused on outcomes — delivering features that are reliable, scalable, and actually move the needle.

You see software engineering as a craft, and you take pride in writing code that lasts. You’re someone who values learning, embraces feedback, and contributes to a positive, high-trust engineering culture.

What you will do:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using NestJS, NodeJS, and Express as part of our Lead Platform modernization efforts.
• Own and deliver well-scoped projects and features from end to end — from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
• Lead efforts in debugging, refactoring, and optimizing performance across services you help maintain.
• Work with product managers and QA to translate business requirements into resilient, well-tested software solutions.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, design reviews, and platform-wide decision-making.
• Help evolve and enforce strong engineering standards via code reviews, documentation, and mentorship.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of automated tests and CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, stable delivery.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues — using logs, metrics, and instrumentation to continuously improve reliability.
• Document your work clearly and communicate technical concepts effectively to a range of stakeholders.
• Engage with the engineering team on technical planning and provide timeline estimates and implementation guidance for smaller to moderately complex tasks.
• Collaborate with and learn from senior engineers and engineering leadership while also mentoring more junior teammates as appropriate.
• Actively apply an