Senior Software Engineer - Screenings Team

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer 

Department: Product Development 

About the Role: The Screenings team is responsible for all functionalities that are client facing and aim to gather client information to identify the needs the client has. The Senior Software Engineer will play a critical role in designing and delivering scalable solutions that streamline screening workflows. They will work closely with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to build high-impact features that drive meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex problems, and are passionate about creating systems that improve access to care. The ideal candidate will have experience building robust APIs, maintaining high standards for code quality, and mentoring teammates while contributing to a mission-driven organization.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to design, build, and enhance our products’ features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that scales with user needs and system growth.
• Take ownership of end-to-end software development cycles — from architecture and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
• Ensure observability and reliability metrics.
• Help evolve and maintain our platform architecture to support a growing number of referral partners and use cases.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members through code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance, reliability, and scalability challenges across backend services.
• Actively participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and roadmap discussions to help shape the direction of the team’s work.
• Drive best practices in testing, CI/CD, observability, and agile development.

You’re a great fit for this role if:

• At least 5+ years of software development experience, with strong preference for experience in healthcare.
• Proficiency with Python (Flask/FastApi frameworks), Ruby on Rails and popular front-end JavaScript frameworks, like React.
• Expertise in building and scaling backend services in a production environment or expertise in single page frontend applications.
• Proficiency in relational databases such as Postgres.
• Experience working in a cloud environment (preferably AWS) with containerized applications (e.g., Docker, ECS, Fargate).
• Strong understanding of testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring best practices.
• Experience working in cross-functional agile teams, with a product-focused and customer-centric mindset.

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. 
• The target pay range for this role is: $140,000-$175,000. This salary range represents our target hiring range for this role. The proposed salary will be dependent on the candidate's skills, experience, and competencies, as well as location.
• All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification 

Benefits provided by Unite Us:

Medical, Dental, and Vision

We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.

Wellness

Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.

Flexible Time Off

Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company-wide holidays.

Paid Parental Leave

Adoptive parents are included.

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