Staff Software Engineer

Modernizing Medicine; Boca Raton (FL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) matching

PTO & parental leave

Life & disability

FSA & EAP

Professional development

Hybrid/remote opportunities

Catered meals

Job summary

ModMed in Boca Raton, FL is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor our engineering org. You will drive architectural decisions, set standards, and lead the technical direction of core platforms.

This IC role expects hands-on coding ~40-50% and mentoring for senior engineers while partnering with Product leadership. You'll design scalable healthcare apps on Java/Spring Boot and AWS, shape DevOps practices, and build AI training harnesses to safely deploy domain-specific AI models across

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in Senior/Lead/Staff roles.
• Deep Java (8/11/17+) expertise.
• AWS cloud-native design and distributed systems experience.
• Proficient in SQL/NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Design and architect healthcare application using Java (Spring Boot) and AWS.
• Hands-on Engineering: 40-50% coding, critical path code, POCs, and PR reviews.
• Tech Leadership: Enforce coding standards and lead architecture reviews.
• Mentorship: Elevate the team’s technical bar through reviews and pairing.
• Operational Excellence: Own reliability, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Translate tech concepts to business value with Product.
• Architect AI Training & Execution Harnesses: Build scalable AI model harnesses and eval pipelines.
• AI Skills: Define structured tooling and APIs for AI-enabled tasks.

Skills

Java Mastery

Spring Framework

AWS Cloud

System Design

Tech Leadership

SQL/NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

APIs REST/gRPC

JVM Tuning

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD (Jenkins/GH Actions)

Job description

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

A Culture of Excellence

When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:

• Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work

• 2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year”

• 2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties

• Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year

We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.

Ready to modernize medicine with us?

Job Description Summary:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for our engineering organization. In this role, you will move beyond individual contribution to drive architectural decisions, set engineering standards, and lead the technical direction of our core platforms.

You will act as a "Tech Lead of Tech Leads," working across squads to solve complex distributed system challenges while ensuring our platform remains scalable, secure, and performant. While this is an Individual Contributor (IC) role, you will be expected to mentor senior engineers and partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership. As a Staff Engineer, you won't just use AI tools—you will architect the foundations, developer harnesses, and domain‑specific skills that make AI a reliable, high-impact force multiplier across our entire engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Design and architect healthcare application using Java (Spring Boot) and AWS. You will be the "go-to" person for the hardest technical challenges..

• Hands-on Engineering: While you will lead design, you are expected to stay hands-on (approx. 40-50% coding), writing critical path code, POCs, and reviewing complex PRs.

• Tech Leadership: Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns, and quality gates. Lead technical grooming sessions and architecture reviews.

• Mentorship: Elevate the team’s technical bar. Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and design discussions.

• Operational Excellence: Champion DevOps culture. Own the reliability, observability, and performance of production systems (CI/CD, monitoring, alerting).

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Translate complex technical concepts into business value for stakeholders. Work with Product Managers to assess feasibility and trade-offs.

• Architect AI Training & Execution Harnesses: Design and build robust, scalable developer harnesses and evaluation pipelines (Evals) to fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy domain‑specific AI models and agents safely and efficiently.

• Design & Systematize "AI Skills": Translate complex domain knowledge and proprietary business logic into structured, reusable toolsets, prompt frameworks, and APIs ("skills") that enable AI models to perform specialized engineering and business tasks.

Mandatory Qualifications (The "Must-Haves"):

• Experience: 12+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years operating at a Senior, Lead, or Staff level.

• Java Mastery: Deep expertise in Java (8/11/17+) including memory management, concurrency/multithreading, and JVM tuning.

• Spring Ecosystem: Expert-level knowledge of Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Security.

• AWS Cloud Native: Extensive experience designing systems on AWS. You should be comfortable with ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, RDS, and DynamoDB.

• System Design: Proven track record of architecting distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and RESTful/gRPC APIs that handle high throughput.

• Technical Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment, propose long-term technical strategies, and mentor engineers across multiple squads through shift-changes in tech stack or paradigms.

• Database: Strong proficiency in SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL modeling.

• Tools: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI).

Preferred Qualifications (The "Nice-to-Haves"):

• Healthcare Domain: Prior experience in the Healthcare/HealthTech industry is a significant plus.

• Compliance & Standards: Familiarity with HIPAA compliance, HL7, FHIR standards, or EMR/EHR integrations.

• Infrastructure as Code: Experience using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

• Observability: Experience setting up monitoring using Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, or ELK Stack.

ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

United States

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
• 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
• Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
• Global presence and in‑person collaboration opportunities; dog‑friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office‑based roles and remote availability for some roles,
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.