Lara Health is a leading platform for virtual and remote care. Launched in 2020, we have since experienced fast growth in customer acquisition and revenue, enjoying the rare opportunity to bootstrap and reach profitability without a major funding (yet). Due to our rapid growth, stellar client retention (98.8% client retention to date) and an exciting roadmap, we are adding to our engineering team while preparing for a round of funding to further accelerate our growth.

 

We’re searching for a Lead Software Engineer to help us reach our ambitious goals. Working closely with the C-level (CEO) to ensure that the technology vision is aligned with the business objectives, you will work as a member of the team at every stage of software development life cycle: designing solutions, writing and testing application code and finally managing the deployment (with automated pipeline). You'll provide input and influence discussions around best practices and new technologies, helping us to develop an effective basis for future developments.

 

This role will start as a part-time position (8 hours a week), with flexible working hours. The candidate must be located and authorized to work in the USA. Transition to a full-time role is expected post funding.
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As a Lead Software Engineer, you will:

• Maintain, enhance and upgrade of our existing product platform
• Build high performance internal and external APIs
• Modern service architecture fully built on AWS stack
• Data pipeline for gathering and processing high volume of the data collected from global network of Bluetooth and GSM IoT sensors – including customer electronics
• Machine Learning/AI platform research and implementation
• Manage a team of outsourced developers and oversee their work

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What you’ll do:

• Work closely with the C-level (CEO) to ensure that the technology vision is aligned with the business objectives
• Own the architecture across the core application to ensure a secure, stable, and scalable product
• Provide direction based on the latest technology developments in the space, keeping up to date with advancements in software development, and AI to ensure the competitive advantage of the company
• Be the central stakeholder in negotiations with partners and third parties with regard to platform integrations, and manage those integrations
• Define the engineering strategy, articulate it to internal and external stakeholders (including the shareholders of the company), and implement it from launch to scale
• Build, scale, and support the engineering team, manage external members and foster a strong tech culture in that team and the wider company, and embrace an agile and iterative approach

 

What you’ll need:

• You have significant experience in software architecture and building digital products from early-stage through to scaling and maturity
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset that is flexible, experimental, and resourceful
• You have the ability to manage internal and external stakeholders through clear and concise written and verbal communication
• You have a track-record of building, leading and scaling high performing engineering teams
• Good understanding of building a highly secured, HIPAA compliant product

 

We're looking for candidates with:

• 5+ years experience in software development, full stack engineer
• Proficient in programming using C#, building API powered solutions
• Javascript, familiarity with Net Core and Angular
• Strong understanding of service architecture and object-oriented programming
• Skills for writing reusable libraries
• Experience with at least few common frameworks and libraries (e.g. flask, pyramid, bottle, celery, tornado, pandas...) 
• Familiarity with API gateways, configuration, rate limiting
• Experience with client-server architecture using REST and GraphQL protocols
• Good knowledge of relational and non-relational databases (DynamoDB, PostgreSQL) 
• Building and deploying cloud native solution with AWS
• Understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery(CI/CD) tools and systems (ideally if you can participate in continuous improvement of our delivery pipeline)
• Proficiency in code versioning tools such as Git, TFS

 

The right candidate will play a central role in driving our product forward, with the opportunity to join as a full-time member post funding.

 

Employment Type:	Part Time
Location:	[REMOTE]
Experience Required:	Mid-Senior Level
Date Published:	12 May 2023