Platform Engineering Lead: Hands-On Architect for Scale

Pivotal Health; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health coverage

401(k)

Flexible time off

Company events

Job summary

Pivotal Health in the United States is seeking a hands-on tech leader to shape the product platform that powers identity, tenancy, APIs, and developer experience. You’ll write production code, lead design reviews, and set technical standards for systems used by multiple teams.

This high-ownership role demands 8+ years of software engineering, deep backend depth, and cloud-native experience (GCP). You’ll mentor engineers, drive architecture, and translate ambiguous requirements into concrete

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience across backend and full-stack domains.
• Proven track record owning architecture on complex production systems.
• Strong Python backend depth and cloud-native system design experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the platform across identity, tenancy, and developer experience.
• Stay hands-on: write production code and lead design reviews.
• Design for extension with well-defined interfaces for platform reuse.
• Design scalable, reliable system interactions balancing performance and security.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into clear, scoped work with trade-offs.
• Raise engineering quality with patterns, reviews, and collaboration.
• Mentor and grow engineers, serving as a technical resource.

Skills

Backend depth

Python

GCP

Cloud-native

Architecture

Code reviews

Customer discovery

Team leadership

Debugging

Tools

APIs

SQL

TypeScript and React

AI tooling integration

Job description

Pivotal Health in the United States is seeking a hands-on tech leader to shape the product platform that powers identity, tenancy, APIs, and developer experience. You’ll write production code, lead design reviews, and set technical standards for systems used by multiple teams.

This high-ownership role demands 8+ years of software engineering, deep backend depth, and cloud-native experience (GCP). You’ll mentor engineers, drive architecture, and translate ambiguous requirements into concrete