Lead Backend Software Engineer - Remote Opportunity

About the Role

We're hiring a Lead Backend Software Engineer to join our dynamic team at Parsley Health. This remote position offers an exciting opportunity to build and scale the systems that power our innovative healthcare solutions. As a Lead Backend Software Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing our member experience, clinical workflows, and internal operations.

What You'll Do

• Build and evolve backend services that support our core healthcare products and experiences, including member-facing workflows and internal operational tooling.
• Lead backend technical execution across product pods by shaping architecture, setting standards, and unblocking teams with strong technical guidance.
• Design systems with reliability, scalability, and performance in mind, emphasizing maintainability and clean interfaces.
• Partner closely with Product and Design teams to translate business needs into clear technical plans, pragmatic tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes.
• Contribute to infrastructure and delivery practices, including deployments, observability, and incident response in a production environment.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to uphold high engineering quality, testing discipline, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Move quickly and responsibly, including building and implementing AI-forward solutions in a compliant way (privacy, security, and reliability first).

Requirements

• Senior or Staff-level backend engineering experience, with a track record of owning and shipping meaningful production systems.
• Deep experience in either Go or Kotlin (strong preference for both), ideally 3+ years.
• Strong infrastructure and DevOps experience in AWS or GCP (preference for GCP), ideally 4+ years.
• Experience running production workloads on Kubernetes, ideally 2+ years.
• Some exposure to Node/JavaScript (does not need to be deep).
• Product-minded approach with a focus on outcomes, tradeoffs, and user impact.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams, clarify ambiguity, and guide technical decisions.
• Comfort working in a startup environment with speed, accountability, and the occasional chaos.
• Enthusiastic about AI-augmented development.

What We Offer

• Generous compensation package based on experience.
• Equity stake for all employees based on level.
• 401(k) + Employer Matching program.
• Remote-first with the option to work from one of our centers in NYC.
• Complimentary Parsley Health Complete Care membership.
• Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options.
• Generous flexible time off plan.
• Annual professional development stipend.
• Annual wellness stipend.