Staff Software Engineer

Who you are

• 8+ years building and operating production software
• Experience on a platform, infrastructure, internal tools, or developer-facing team
• Strong Python. Django and FastAPI skills
• Real depth in Kubernetes and GitOps delivery (Helm, ArgoCD)
• Experience owning an authentication / authorization system
• Excellent project management skills: breaking down, estimating, sequencing, and communicating about work in progress
• Clear written and verbal communication; influential beyond one team
• Multi-tenant medical SaaS experience
• Backstage, internal developer portals, or service scaffolding tooling
• Depth of healthcare tech knowledge: HIPAA, PHI/PII, Epic and Cerner integrations, SMART on FHIR
• Terraform, Jenkins, Datadog and/or APM in general
• Built or rolled out agent-based dev tooling: MCP servers, coding agents, matrixed evals, spec-driven workflows, shared knowledge bases

What the job involves

• We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical lead of our Web Applications Platform team. This team builds the foundation under every application at Qventus
• They own all shared services, including authentication/identity and configuration. The platform team also owns the build and deployment path that carries code into each hospital customer's isolated environment
• Platform’s customers are other engineering teams, so the work is measured by how efficiently and safely they can create and then grow our applications
• You'll be the technical lead of a team composed of several other engineers. That means setting technical direction, owning the roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders, and writing code or configurations as needed
• Your highest-leverage work will be cross-team efforts to make great architectural choices that impact a half dozen applications. This role reports to an engineering manager, who is responsible for team health and career growth
• This role is also central to defining how engineering benefits from AI coding tools: the standards, the context that makes agents genuinely useful, and the guardrails that keep our codebase and deployed apps secure and compliant

Benefits

• Stock options
• Comprehensive health benefits with 90% of the cost covered for employees
• Paid parental leave for all new parents
• Generous HSA contribution
• Paid disability and life insurance
• Participation in a 401(k)
• Wellness + Tech stipends
• Education and professional development reimbursement