Lead Product Software Engineer

Inspira Financial; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 165,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Company holidays

Job summary

Inspira Financial is seeking a Lead Platform Software Engineer to own end‑to‑end development of consumer‑facing digital products. You will work across frontend and backend, collaborating with product and design leaders to deliver scalable, secure, high‑performing solutions.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, cloud expertise, and a strong focus on developer experience within an Agile environment. Remote‑friendly with limited travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 7–10 years in software or solution architecture roles.
• Strong knowledge of architecture principles, patterns, and frameworks.
• Experience with continuous delivery, cloud foundational patterns, observability, and DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test applications (APIs, web apps) per standards.
• Set short to medium term technical direction and plans.
• Peer‑review solution designs and related code.
• Package and support deployment of releases.
• Foster an inclusive environment and value diverse backgrounds.
• Collaborate on architecture decisions to meet scaling needs.
• Work with developers, product managers, and architects to plan and deliver apps.
• Assess opportunities for improvements and document rationale.
• Adhere to high‑quality development principles and on‑time delivery.
• Ensure security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability.
• Work in an Agile framework to improve developer experience and productivity.
• Stay current with technology trends and best practices.
• Define benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade software.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

JavaScript

React

TypeScript

Apollo GraphQL

Git

PostgreSQL

Google Cloud

Jest

Docker

CI/CD

Agile/Scrum

DevOps

GitHub

Serverless

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Docker Container

Git Version Control System

Jest

Google Cloud

PostgreSQL

CI/CD Pipelines

Serverless

GitHub

Job description

Job Summary

This role is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Lead Platform Software Engineer, you will have relevant experience with both front-end and back-end coding languages, software development architecture and design patterns, development frameworks and third‑party libraries. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing consumer‑facing digital products in collaboration with product and design leaders. This individual must be creative, client focused, a team player, organized, and able to thrive in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test applications (e.g. API, web apps) in accordance with established standards.
• Set short to medium term technical direction, creating plans to help achieve goals.
• Participate in peer‑reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Package and support deployment of releases.
• Foster an environment where different backgrounds, cultures, industry and life experiences are embraced and valued.
• Collaborate on architecture decisions, ensuring that we are adapting and evolving to meet organization’s scaling business needs.
• Collaborate with other software developers, product managers and software architects to plan, design and deliver applications.
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
• Adhere to high‑quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and within budget.
• Ensure that non‑functional requirements such as security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability are being considered when architecting solutions.
• Work in an Agile framework to identify and automate solutions that result in enhanced developer experience and increased developer productivity.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in solution architecture and technology innovation.
• Contribute towards defining and establishing benchmarks, metrics, and quality measures.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade software.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience in software or solution architecture roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex, enterprise‑level solutions using cloud platform.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and architectural frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery patterns, Cloud foundational patterns, Observability patterns, Developer experience patterns.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

Technical Proficiency and Skills

• Proficiency with:
• JavaScript
• React
• TypeScript
• Apollo GraphQL
• Git Version Control System
• PostgreSQL
• Google Cloud
• Jest
• Docker Container
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with one or more cloud platforms, preferably GCP
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail and organizational skills
• Experience delivering individual and institutional client‑facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and third‑party integrations
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology
• Expertise in delivering secure, high performance, fault‑tolerant, and high availability solutions
• Experience with DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, SecDevOps, Containers, Serverless

Other Requirements

• Infrequent travel (10%)
• Ability to occasionally work overtime or after hours
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Pay Range

$165,000 - $184,000 per year

Compensation & Benefits

The compensation for this position will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive and bonus opportunities.

Inspira provides industry‑leading benefits including, but not limited to: healthcare, 401k savings plan, company holidays, paid time off, parental leave and an employee assistance program.

Location & Remote Policy

Remote roles can sit in any of the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA and WV. Remote status and role locations are subject to change. Relocation is not provided.

Employees within a 90‑minute radius of our Oak Brook, IL headquarters are required to adhere to the company in‑office work guidelines of 4 days per month minimum from 10 am to 2 pm (1 of the 4 days must be a Monday or Friday). This requirement does not apply to support specialist positions.