Senior Software Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: FullTime
• Salary: Not specified

Pearl Health is powering the future of healthcare by enabling primary care providers and organizations to deliver quality healthcare and get rewarded for keeping patients healthy. Their technology, services, and financial tools aim to improve proactive care, decrease total cost of care, and optimize performance in value-based care models.

About Pearl Health

Pearl Health is a team of experienced physicians, public health experts, technologists, healthcare innovators, and risk management professionals dedicated to addressing healthcare system challenges through primary care. Since its founding in 2020, Pearl has partnered with thousands of primary care providers across 44 states and is backed by prominent investors.

The Role: Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer at Pearl Health, you will be instrumental in building scalable, high-impact software solutions across the technology stack. You will design and develop robust services and applications to support proactive healthcare decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of service-oriented architectures, including decomposing monolithic applications.
• Develop high-performance, reliable data pipelines and APIs for real-time and batch data processing.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on architectural decisions and system optimizations.
• Own and drive technical projects autonomously, ensuring alignment with business needs and scalability.
• Enhance observability, monitoring, and reliability across distributed services and cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor and upskill junior and mid-level engineers, promoting a strong engineering culture.
• Apply best practices in service design, data consistency, and security for system integrity and regulatory compliance.
• Focus on building robust services that efficiently manage and process data, rather than solely dedicated data engineering.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in full-stack development, with a focus on service-oriented architectures and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Python, relational databases, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Deep understanding of service design principles (RESTful, event-driven architectures).
• Experience designing and optimizing data-intensive applications involving large-scale data movement and transformation.
• Strong background in performance optimization, reliability engineering, and security best practices.
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers and driving best practices for service and API development.
• Hands-on experience with observability, monitoring, and operational excellence in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with data consistency, eventual consistency, and database performance tuning best practices.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience leading monolith-to-SOA migrations or significant architectural transformations.
• Background in healthcare technology, fintech, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC2, etc.), with a focus on privacy and security.

Our Values

Pearl Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. They value diversity and believe in improving people's lives through the contributions of individuals with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds.