Staff Software Lead - Healthcare Data & Cloud

Smile Digital Health; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Work Environment

Flexible Time Away From Work

Competitive Salary & Benefits

RRSP/TFSA/401K

Life & Disability

Employee Assistance Program

FHIR Study Program

Learning & Growth Opportunities

Job summary

Smile Digital Health is seeking a Staff Software Developer to lead core platform features and drive technical excellence across teams. You will mentor developers, shape architecture for healthcare data platforms, and deliver end‑to‑end features with RESTful/FHIR APIs, Kafka pipelines, and cloud-native tooling.

A senior, hands-on role with strong collaboration across stakeholders. The position offers a remote-friendly environment with competitive salary and health benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software development lifecycle, ideally in healthcare technology.
• 4+ years in senior or staff-level development roles.
• Post-secondary degree in CS/SE or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience with unit and functional testing.
• Expertise in backend with Java and Spring Boot; microservices & distributed systems.
• APIs: RESTful and FHIR-based; data pipelines, ETL/ELT, streaming (Kafka).
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP); Kubernetes, Docker, Helm; CI/CD.
• Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR); dQM/CQL a plus.
• Strong technical decision-making, mentoring, and cross-functional writing/speaking.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement Smile Digital Health core features.
• Lead sessions for new features; provide design estimates for SOWs.
• Resolve complex challenges; ensure interoperable, performant solutions.
• Guide distributed dQM processing, CQL execution, validation and reasoning.
• Mentor junior developers; enforce high coding standards across teams.
• Collaborate with product and customers to refine requirements and design.

Skills

Java & Spring Boot

Backend development

Microservices

RESTful APIs & FHIR

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Team leadership

Communication

Healthcare data standards

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker

Helm

Kafka

Job description

Smile Digital Health is seeking a Staff Software Developer to lead core platform features and drive technical excellence across teams. You will mentor developers, shape architecture for healthcare data platforms, and deliver end‑to‑end features with RESTful/FHIR APIs, Kafka pipelines, and cloud-native tooling.

A senior, hands-on role with strong collaboration across stakeholders. The position offers a remote-friendly environment with competitive salary and health benefits.