SENIOR / LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER

COPE Health Solutions is seeking a Senior or Lead Software Engineer to join our mission-driven team building secure, high-performance web applications in the healthcare domain. Our core stack includes a mix of Java and .Net on the backend and React on the frontend, and we’re looking for someone who can bring technical expertise, leadership, and strong collaboration skills to a growing team. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who’s comfortable owning features end-to-end, mentoring others, and helping define best practices in a highly regulated and quality-focused environment.
FLSA Status
Exempt
Salary Range
$125,000- $155,000
Reports To
Engineering Manager / VP of Engineering
Direct Reports
None
Location
Remote (Candidates in the Pacific Time Zone preferred)
Travel
Occasional
Work Type
Regular
Schedule
Full Time

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Java (Spring Boot or similar frameworks).
• Collaborate with frontend developers working in React to build seamless, responsive, and accessible web applications.
• Drive architectural decisions and contribute to long-term technical strategy in coordination with product and infrastructure leads.
• Work closely with QA, DevOps, and Security teams to ensure software is secure, testable, performant, and compliant with healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HiTrust).
• Lead technical planning, code reviews, and mentoring sessions with junior and mid-level engineers.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code and advocate for coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Own the full software development lifecycle — from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated testing infrastructure in collaboration with DevOps.
• Assist in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts.

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, informatics, management information systems or STEM discipline strongly preferred
• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead role.
• Strong proficiency in Java (Spring Boot preferred) for backend development.
• Solid experience building and integrating RESTful APIs, backend services, and working with relational databases (e.g. SQL Server).
• Frontend experience with React.js or similar JavaScript frameworks.
• Familiarity with modern software development practices: Git, CI/CD, code reviews, testing, infrastructure-as-code, etc.
• Experience working in regulated environments, preferably healthcare (e.g., HIPAA, HiTrust, SOC 2).
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional distributed teams and communicate technical concepts clearly.
• Strong understanding of security, scalability, and performance considerations in web-based applications.

Preferred:

• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (preferably Azure).
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, X12).
• Exposure to identity and access management (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SSO).
• Experience mentoring or line-managing other engineers.
• Hand on experience leveraging AI tools to improve efficiencies in the engineering process.
• Experience with .Net APIs a definite advantage.

Please refer the Job description for details