Sr. Software Engineer

Nrc-Health; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 115,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

My Time Off (MTO)

Parental and emergency leave

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Wellness program and financial coach

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

NRC Health in Lincoln, Nebraska, is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-native healthcare platform features. You will own deployments, implement IaC, and advance CI/CD with AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery.

Join a collaborative team focused on reliability, scalability, and observability, with opportunities for mentorship and career growth in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/MIS/IT/engineering or related field with outstanding academics or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years’ experience on a professional development team.
• Strong software engineering experience developing production applications.
• Experience administering Kubernetes clusters (Amazon EKS preferred).
• Experience with AWS services (EKS, RDS, IAM, S3, Route 53, ALB, CloudWatch).
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Experience automating infrastructure, deployments, or operational workflows.
• Understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with observability and logging platforms.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT).
• Willingness to rapidly learn AI-powered engineering workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ownership mindset.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience with test-driven development (NUnit or similar).
• Familiarity with ReactJS/EmberJS or similar front-end frameworks.
• Strong SQL development experience
• Ability to work with non-technical business partners to inform decisions.
• Willingness to mentor team members.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance customer-facing product functionality across our healthcare platform.
• Own the software and services you build with reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code to provision cloud resources.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines for automated software delivery.
• Create reusable infrastructure modules and deployment patterns for consistency and scalability.
• Automate operational processes to improve platform reliability.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve deployment processes and workflows.
• Monitor production environments and enhance observability and health.
• Identify and resolve scalability and performance challenges.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term solutions.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and quality.
• Participate in architecture discussions and shape long-term technical direction.
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code.

Skills

Cloud-native

Problem-solving

Collaboration

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

NRC Health Helps healthcare organizations deeply understand the people they serve and turning that “Human Understanding” into meaningful action. At its core, our work is about helping organizations build trust, improve engagement, and advance better outcomes.

Our associates. . .

Make a Meaningful Difference - Serve with purpose, care, and follow-through.

Move with Urgency and Precision - Act quickly, thoughtfully, and with discipline.

Own the Outcome - Measure impact, follow through, and deliver results.

Win as One Team - Work across boundaries as one team with one culture.

Build What Healthcare Values - Innovate for the complexity of healthcare.

Why NRC Health? We know our associates do their best work when they feel supported both personally and professionally. That's why we offer benefits designed to help you thrive:

• My Time Off (MTO), our flexible paid time off program
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental and emergency leave
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Wellness program and financial coaching
• Professional growth and career development opportunities

Who we want

• Do you have experience building modern cloud-native engineering platforms that enable healthcare organizations to deliver exceptional patient and employee experiences?
• Do you have experience developing customer-facing software while continuously improving the platform that powers it, including experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and AI-assisted software development?
• Do you enjoy solving complex technical problems across both application development and platform engineering?
• Do you have experience combining software engineering with modern DevOps and Platform Engineering practices that help shape both the applications and the infrastructure that runs them?
• Are you passionate about building reliable software, automating operational work, and leveraging AI for more effective engineering?
• Do you enjoy improving developer experience, simplifying deployments, and building scalable cloud-native systems?

What you will do

• Design, build, and enhance customer-facing product functionality across our healthcare platform.
• Own the software and services you build, designing with reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind to develop high-quality software using modern engineering practices.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes-based application deployments.
• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and manage cloud resources.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, automated software delivery.
• Build reusable infrastructure modules and deployment patterns that improve consistency, reliability, and scalability.
• Automate operational processes to reduce manual effort and improve platform reliability.
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve deployment processes, developer workflows, and platform capabilities.
• Monitor production environments and continuously improve observability, alerting, and operational health.
• Identify and resolve scalability, performance, reliability, and operational challenges.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement durable, long-term solutions.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery, improve code quality, automate repetitive tasks, generate tests, improve documentation, and solve technical problems.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to the long-term technical direction of the platform.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and well-documented code.

What you need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, IT, Engineering, or a related field with outstanding academics, or equivalent experience and the demonstrated ability to learn
• 3+ years’ experience working on a professional development team
• Strong software engineering experience developing production applications.
• Experience administering Kubernetes clusters (Amazon EKS preferred).
• Experience working with AWS cloud service such as EKS, RDS, IAM, S3, Route 53, ALB, and CloudWatch.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Experience automating infrastructure, deployments, or operational workflows.
• Understanding of cloud architecture, scalability, distributed systems, and modern application design.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and logging platforms.
• Demonstrated proficiency using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or similar to improve software development effectiveness.
• For candidates newer to AI-assisted development, a strong willingness and proven ability to rapidly learn and adopt modern AI-powered engineering workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an ownership mindset.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience with test-driven development (NUnit or similar).
• Familiarity with client-side JavaScript/Typescript web frameworks, such as ReactJS or EmberJS.
• Strong SQL development experience
• Experience working effectively with non-technical business partners to inform product and business decisions
• Willingness to act as a mentor to other team members.

Nice to have

• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience with Docker and container security.
• Experience implementing observability using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Linux system administration.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems.
• Experience in healthcare or other regulated industries.

Compensation

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $115,200 - $167,040, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at NRC Health, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package. For more information on specific benefits, please refer to our Careers Page.

NRC Health is not currently hiring in DE, HI, MD, NJ, RI, D.C. While this position may allow for a work from home environment, preferred candidates live in the Lincoln, Nebraska and surrounding areas.

In general, NRC Health’s positions are closed within 30 days. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require NRC Health to shorten or extend the application window. We encourage our prospective candidates to submit their application expediently so as not to miss out on our opportunities.

Inclusion & Belonging

At NRC Health, Inclusion & Belonging are essential to our mission as a company devoted to greater Human Understanding. For information about our efforts in this area, please refer to our Equal Employment Opportunity policy.