Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform Architect

modmed; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ModMed is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor our engineering organization, driving architectural decisions, standards, and the technical direction of our core platforms. You will act as a "Tech Lead of Tech Leads" across squads to solve complex distributed system challenges, while mentoring senior engineers and partnering with Product and Engineering leadership.

As an IC, you will still code 40-50% of the time, architect foundations, and build domain-specific harnesses to scale

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3+ years at Senior, Lead, or Staff level.
• Java mastery with 8/11/17+ experience, including memory management, concurrency, and JVM tuning.
• Spring ecosystem expertise: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security.
• Extensive AWS cloud experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, RDS, DynamoDB).
• Proven distributed systems design, event-driven architectures, RESTful/gRPC APIs.
• Technical leadership and influence: drive cross-functional alignment and mentor engineers.
• Strong SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL data modeling.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: design and architect healthcare applications using Java and AWS.
• Hands-on engineering with ~40-50% coding for critical paths and POCs.
• Define and enforce coding standards, patterns, and quality gates; lead architecture reviews.
• Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers through code reviews and design discussions.
• Own reliability, observability, and performance of production systems (CI/CD, monitoring, alerts).
• Translate complex concepts into business value for stakeholders and collaborate with Product Managers.
• Design AI training & execution harnesses to fine-tune and deploy domain-specific models.
• Develop reusable AI 'skills' and toolsets to enable AI-driven engineering tasks.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

System design

Technical leadership

Database

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Job description

ModMed is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to anchor our engineering organization, driving architectural decisions, standards, and the technical direction of our core platforms. You will act as a "Tech Lead of Tech Leads" across squads to solve complex distributed system challenges, while mentoring senior engineers and partnering with Product and Engineering leadership.

As an IC, you will still code 40-50% of the time, architect foundations, and build domain-specific harnesses to scale