Platform Engineering Lead — Identity & Developer Experience

Pivotal Health; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation including equ

Equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible time off

Company-wide events

Job summary

Pivotal Health is hiring a high-ownership, high-autonomy engineering leader for the product platform in the United States. You’ll own identity, tenancy, APIs, schemas, and the developer experience, writing production code and guiding others in architecture.

You’ll shape how teams collaborate on complex systems and improve the reliability of critical reimbursement workflows. This role is based in the New York area with flexibility for remote or hybrid work, reflecting our distributed,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with backend depth across systems.
• Owning architectural decisions on multi-team production systems.
• Proficient in Python or demonstrated backend depth in Python.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native systems; GCP preferred.
• Relational data modeling and safe schema evolution.
• Strong product instincts and customer-focused problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of the platform across identity, tenancy, and developer experience.
• Write production code and lead design reviews; end-to-end ownership.
• Design for extension with well-defined interfaces for product teams.
• Make architectural calls balancing scalability, security, and performance.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear, scoped work with trade-offs.
• Raise engineering bar through patterns, reviews, and collaboration.
• Mentor and grow engineers; be a technical resource for teams.

Skills

Backend depth

Python

GCP

Cloud-native systems

Relational data modeling

Product instincts

Customer discovery

Self-directed

Communication

Leadership

Job description

Pivotal Health is hiring a high-ownership, high-autonomy engineering leader for the product platform in the United States. You’ll own identity, tenancy, APIs, schemas, and the developer experience, writing production code and guiding others in architecture.

You’ll shape how teams collaborate on complex systems and improve the reliability of critical reimbursement workflows. This role is based in the New York area with flexibility for remote or hybrid work, reflecting our distributed,