Lead Software Engineer, Eligibility

At Collective Health, we’re transforming how employers and their people engage with their health benefits by seamlessly integrating cutting-edge technology, compassionate service, and world-class user experience design.

The Eligibility team plays a crucial role in our healthcare organization, managing the essential process of member enrollment across all our clients. We handle significant volumes of sensitive data that directly impacts individuals' access to their health benefits—effectively serving as stewards of what we consider the "currency of healthcare." Our work directly supports operations teams in their mission to maintain seamless, uninterrupted membership services for our clients.

We are architecting the next generation of our systems, creating exciting opportunities for innovation. This position represents a data-centric role with high visibility throughout the organization and significant impact on our business operations.

If you're passionate about applying technical expertise to solve meaningful healthcare challenges, we would love to hear from you!

What you'll do:

• Take ownership of significant features and modules within our Eligibility Platform, from conception to deployment and ongoing maintenance


• Design and develop scalable, secure and configurable platform services for eligibility


• Lead end-to-end development of services across backend(Java/Spring), integration platforms and frontend (React/Angular)


• Build and extend APIs and data services (micro-services) to enable partner integrations and downstream systems


• Integrate and operationalize AI-powered developer tools (e.g. Copilot, Cursor) and contribute to incorporating ML-backed capabilities into platform workflows


• Collaborate with product managers, backend engineers, operations, and data teams tosolve complex real-world problems like data and interface integrations, data enrichment, and automated decision rules.


• Translate business requirements to technical design specifications


• Engage with our operations team to help them improve their overall efficiency


• Drive architectural decisions and champion reusable patterns for cloud-native, AI-enabled backend systems


• Mentor other senior engineers and influence best practices in system design, testing, and continuous delivery

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• 8+ years of working as a full stack engineer


• Is well-versed in technologies such as Java & Spring, including strong understanding of microservices architecture.
  
  
  
  • Experience building file (EDI, CSV), messaging based integrations (Kafka) will be a plus
  
  


• Have experience building frontend features in React/Angular, even if not your primary focus


• Extensive experience workings hands on with native cloud capabilities (SaaS, PasS) with AWS/GCP


• Has hands-on experience with data architecture, SQL/PostgreSQL and building data intensive services and solutions


• Use AI-enhanced development tooling like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or WindSurf as part of your regular development workflow


• Strong Communicates to clearly communicate up, down and across teams


• Prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems


• Balances getting things done with making things perfect, demonstrating MVP approach


• To take pride in mentoring other developers


• To love working with a team of awesome, collaborative co-workers


• To like to be involved in the decision making process, taking into account the needs of our customers as well as our company long term engineering excellence goals

Pay Transparency Statement

This is a hybrid position based out of one of our offices: Plano, TX, or Lehi, UT. Hybrid employees are expected to be in the office two days per week. #LI-hybrid

The actual pay rate offered within the range will depend on factors including geographic location, qualifications, experience, and internal equity. In addition to the salary, you will be eligible for stock options and benefits like health insurance, 401k, and paid time off. Learn more about our benefits at .

Lehi, UT Pay Range

$134,500—$168,000 USD

Plano, TX Pay Range

$147,800—$185,500 USD

Why Join Us?

• Mission-driven culture that values innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence in healthcare


• Impactful projects that shape the future of our organization


• Opportunities for professional development through internal mobility opportunities, mentorship programs, and courses tailored to your interests


• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work-life balance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Collective Health is committed to providing support to candidates who require reasonable accommodation during the interview process. If you need assistance, please contact [email protected] .

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