Lead Software Engineer

What You'll Do

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Healthcare Workforce Solutions (HWS) group, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our technology and developing the Laudio product. Reporting directly to the Sr Manager of Software Engineering, you’ll work in a dynamic, fast-growing environment, building and iterating on our cloud-based platform using React, Node.js, TypeScript, and AWS.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading - you'll partner with Product to lead a team of software engineers using the Scrum framework to rapidly ship high quality features to production.
• Architect Scalable Solutions - you'll design, develop, and deploy software that is highly available, performant, and scalable.
• Hands-on Coding - act as a key individual contributor, writing code across the full stack to drive our product and engineering roadmap forward.
• Mentor - foster a culture of learning by providing technical mentorship through code reviews and design discussions.
• Innovate & Improve - continuously identify opportunities to enhance our technology and operational processes.
• Being Glue - contribute across multiple areas, including feature development, code optimization, infrastructure improvements, and troubleshooting production issues.

Where You'll Work

• This role is primarily remote, but we prefer candidates located on the East Coast for occasional in-person collaboration.
• We strive for asynchronous work, but early morning meetings (7 AM ET) will be required.
• We also offer opportunities to travel to Nepal as needed for deeper collaboration with our engineering team.

What You'll Need

• A High School Diploma or GED required. A Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer. 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Proven ability to lead projects from ideation to implementation in an iterative, agile environment.
• Strong experience building delightful frontend applications with React and TypeScript.
• Solid expertise building scalable distributed systems using microservices architecture with Node and TypeScript.
• Strong database skills, including SQL performance tuning, schema design, and relational database management.
• Experience building cloud-native applications on platforms like AWS or Azure.
• Strong fundamentals in modern development practices, including Agile, Scrum, CI/CD, test automation, feature flagging, and observability.
• A passion for writing high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code.
• An ability to smoothly operate, monitor, and troubleshoot production applications under pressure.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.

Benefits

• Flexible and generous paid time off
• Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• 401(k) employer matching program
• Parental leave
• Wellness resources
• Charitable matching program
• On-site workout facilities (Leawood, Gilbert, Burlington)
• Community outreach groups
• Tuition reimbursement

Fostering A Sense of Belonging

Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers. We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and be authentic.

About the Role

We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture

Requirements

We are an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S.-based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.