Lead Software Engineer, Backend

About Cylinder

Cylinder (formerly Vivante Health) was founded in 2021 and offers personalized, clinician-backed care through its virtual health platform. The platform connects members to the right level of support from dedicated care teams, aiming to decrease costs, reduce absenteeism, and improve quality of life for members.

Position Summary

As a Lead Software Engineer at Cylinder, you will lead the development of the digestive health platform, collaborating with product, clinical, and data teams to deliver high-quality software that improves outcomes for members. The role involves technical leadership, AI integration, and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong technical leadership and vision for your engineering squad, ensuring alignment with company goals.
• Collaborate with product management and other stakeholders to define and prioritize the technical roadmap, aligning with business objectives.
• Implement processes, tools, and practices to drive high-velocity and high-quality delivery across onshore and offshore teams.
• Drive the successful delivery of software projects, including planning, resource allocation, and project management.
• Grow and foster SQA best practices to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to communicate technical details effectively.
• Encourage a culture of innovation and experimentation, staying informed about industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Drive AI-powered feature development, responsible AI practices, and adoption of AI tools to improve engineering efficiency.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and challenges, making data-driven decisions to achieve project success.
• Monitor and drive improvements to team and organizational performance.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in Software Engineering with 2+ years in an engineering leadership role, delivering complex software projects with both onshore and offshore developers.
• Exceptional leadership and team-building skills, able to motivate, mentor, and inspire engineers in a remote setting.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, effective collaboration with offshore developers, cross-functional teams, business partners, and vendors.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with backend systems, preferably in Go and cloud-native environments.
• Experience building or integrating AI-powered features with working knowledge of responsible AI practices.
• Experience building and integrating AI-assisted tools and practices into the SDLC, including engineering productivity, code generation/review, DevOps workflows, documentation, test automation, and operational governance.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in a startup environment.
• Experience with medical, healthcare, and population health data, especially familiarity with OHDSI, FHIR, and other healthcare data standards.
• Experience working in a HIPAA-regulated environment and supporting data security and privacy controls.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) frameworks, such as GKE, IAM, Firebase, Pub/Sub, or others.
• Familiarity with data engineering concepts and practices.

Compensation Range

$165K - $210K