Lead Platform Software Engineer (Remote)

inspiracareers; Oak Brook (IL); Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspira is seeking a Lead Platform Software Engineer to join our growing team. This role covers the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment, with emphasis on front-end and back-end development, architecture, and modern tooling.

You will work with product and design leaders to deliver consumer-facing digital products on a health benefits platform, embracing AI tools responsibly while maintaining high-quality, scalable code in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software or solution architecture roles.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles, design patterns, and frameworks.
• Understanding of CD patterns, cloud foundations, observability, and developer experience.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with practical AI experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test applications (APIs, web apps) per standards.
• Collaborate with Product and Design Leaders to deliver product goals.
• Set short-to-medium term technical direction and plans.
• Participate in peer-reviews and code quality efforts.
• Package and support deployment of releases.
• Collaborate on architecture decisions to scale business needs.
• Ensure non-functional requirements: security, performance, reliability.
• Work in an Agile framework to improve developer experience.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Node.js

React

TypeScript

Apollo GraphQL

Git

PostgreSQL

Google Cloud

Jest

Docker

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

We are seeking a Lead Platform Software Engineer to join our growing team. 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, team player, organized, and can thrive in a dynamic environment.

At Inspira, we believe in empowering engineers to build a smarter health benefits platform - one where human expertise is amplified, not replaced, by AI tools. We seek engineers who have demonstrated experience using AI responsibly to accelerate their development workflow, improve code quality, and solve complex problems more efficiently.

Our engineering team is built on the principle of humans over code. We are a tight-knit group of lifelong learners in a constant quest to be a team that is greater than the sum of its parts. Come join us!

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and test applications (e.g. API, web apps) in accordance with established standards.

• Collaborate with Product and Design Leader s to lead product delivery teams.

• 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.

• Leverage AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity multiplier while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated code meets quality standards

• Full code ownership mandatory - Must understand, explain, and support all AI-assisted code as if written from scratch

• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

• Other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience:

• 5+ 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.

• Practical AI experiencerequired - Comfortable using tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude for prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.

Technical Proficiencyand Skills:

• Proficiency with:

• Node.js

• 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

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