Lead Backend Software Engineer

Parsley Health•New York, NY

17h•$170,000 - $220,000•Remote

About The Position

We’re hiring a Lead Backend Software Engineer to help build and scale the systems that power Parsley Health’s member experience, clinical workflows, and internal operations. This is a highly technical, hands-on role for someone who brings senior-to-staff level backend experience and can provide technical leadership across teams through strong system design, pragmatic decision-making, and clear communication. This is a remote position, but it is highly preferred to hire a candidate in the NYC area who could come into our office and work alongside the team a couple of days per week. You’ll join a team of passionate builders and work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and Customer Reliability. Parsley Health is an outcome-driven organization and your work will directly contribute to the company objectives: expand the business nationally, improve activation, conversion, retention, and expansion of our healthcare products. We work in a blameless environment and we take ownership and pride in our efforts. We follow light agile development practices that encourage feedback and iteration. Our teams are built on pillars of trust, humility and continuous improvement. The position reports directly into our VP of Product & Engineering.

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. You think in outcomes, tradeoffs, and user impact, not just tickets
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. You see AI coding assistants as tools that amplify your impact, not replace your judgment

Responsibilities

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, with an emphasis on maintainability and clean interfaces
Partner closely with Product and Design 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)