Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Location: United States, Remote

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Department: Product Development 

 

About the Role: 

 

The Senior Software Engineer will play a critical role in designing and delivering scalable solutions that streamline case coordination and referral workflows. They will work closely with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to build high-impact features that drive meaningful outcomes for the communities we serve. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex problems, and are passionate about creating systems that improve access to care. The ideal candidate will have experience building robust APIs, maintaining high standards for code quality, and mentoring teammates while contributing to a mission-driven organization.

 

What You'll Do:

 

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to design, build, and enhance our products’ features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that scales with user needs and system growth.
• Take ownership of end-to-end software development cycles — from architecture and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
• Help evolve and maintain our platform architecture to support a growing number of referral partners and use cases.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members through code reviews and architectural discussions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance, reliability, and scalability challenges across backend services.
• Actively participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and roadmap discussions to help shape the direction of the team’s work.
• Drive best practices in testing, CI/CD, observability, and agile development.

 

You’re a great fit for this role if:

 

• At least 3+ years of software development experience, with strong preference for experience in healthcare.
• Expertise in building and scaling backend services in a production environment or expertise in single page frontend applications.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, GoLang, and/or other modern programming languages.
• Experience designing and/or consuming RESTful APIs
• Proficiency in relational databases such as Postgres.
• Experience working in a cloud environment (preferably AWS) with containerized applications (e.g., Docker, ECS, Fargate).
• Strong understanding of testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring best practices.
• Experience working in cross-functional agile teams, with a product-focused and customer-centric mindset.
• Deep understanding of healthcare claims lifecycle (EDI 837/835, adjudication, coordination of benefits)
• Experience integrating with payer and provider systems (FHIR, HL7, X12)
• Knowledge of HIPAA compliance and PHI data handling
• Familiarity with claim edits, business rules engines, and validation logic

 

Our Mission:

 

Unite Us’ mission is to unlock the potential of every community. Our co-founders started Unite Us in 2013 to serve the people they served with. They witnessed firsthand the barriers and inefficiencies in trying to navigate health and social services, and set out to improve that experience for veterans and their families. Unite Us quickly expanded to serving all people who need connections to care across our country. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community-based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole-person health. If you want to do well and do good, join Unite Us.

 

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:

• This position is remote, U.S. based. 
• This position may require 5% travel
• The target pay range for this role is: $140,000 - $175,000. This salary range represents our target hiring range for this role. The proposed salary will be dependent on the candidate's skills, experience, and competencies, as well as location.
• All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification 

Benefits provided by Unite Us:

 

Medical, Dental, and Vision

 

We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.

 

Wellness

 

Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.

 

Flexible Time Off

 

Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company-wide holidays.
Paid Parental Leave

 

Adoptive parents are included.

 

Employee Resource Groups

 

Join our ERGs to connect and engage with colleagues, like Military Veterans

 

Spending Accounts

 

We offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits.

 

401(k) + Employer Match

 

Enjoy matching, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources

 

Additional Benefits

 

Life and AD&D - a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents

 

Disability Coverage

 

Accident Insurance

 

Pet Insurance

 

As part of this work at home job, we will provide you with all the necessary equipment to perform your duties, including a computer, mouse, keyboard as well as other items on our approved list of WFH supplies.

 

Unite Us is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in race, religion, color, national origin, gender, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, and other characteristics. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability please email us at peopleops@uniteus.com to request an accommodation.

 

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