Staff Software Engineer

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

AtModMed were not just building softwarewere reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur we took a radically different approach:we hired doctors and taught them how to code.This for doctors by doctors philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

A Culture of Excellence

When you join ModMed youre joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India we are a team of 4500 passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:

• Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work

• 2025 Globee Business Awards:Gold Globee for Technology Team of the Year

• 2025 Black Book Awards:Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties

• Florida Venture Forum:Venture-Backed Company of the Year

We are growing fast thinking big and we are just getting started.

Ready to modernize medicine with us

Job Description Summary:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical anchor for our engineering this role you will move beyond individual contribution to drive architectural decisions set engineering standards and lead the technical direction of our core platforms.

You will act as a Tech Lead of Tech Leads working across squads to solve complex distributed system challenges while ensuring our platform remains scalable secure and performant. While this is an Individual Contributor (IC) role you will be expected to mentor senior engineers and partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership. As a Staff Engineer you wont just use AI toolsyou will architect the foundations developer harnesses and domain-specific skills that make AI a reliable high-impact force multiplier across our entire engineering organization.

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Design and architect healthcare application using Java (Spring Boot) and AWS. You will be the go-to person for the hardest technical challenges..

• Hands-on Engineering: While you will lead design you are expected to stay hands-on (approx. 40-50% coding) writing critical path code POCs and reviewing complex PRs.

• Tech Leadership: Define and enforce coding standards design patterns and quality gates. Lead technical grooming sessions and architecture reviews.

• Mentorship: Elevate the teams technical bar. Mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers through code reviews pair programming and design discussions.

• Operational Excellence: Champion DevOps culture. Own the reliability observability and performance of production systems (CI/CD monitoring alerting).

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Translate complex technical concepts into business value for stakeholders. Work with Product Managers to assess feasibility and trade-offs.

• Architect AI Training & Execution Harnesses: Design and build robust scalable developer harnesses and evaluation pipelines (Evals) to fine-tune evaluate and deploy domain-specific AI models and agents safely and efficiently.

• Design & Systematize AI Skills: Translate complex domain knowledge and proprietary business logic into structured reusable toolsets prompt frameworks and APIs (skills) that enable AI models to perform specialized engineering and business tasks.

• Experience: 12 years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years operating at a Senior Lead or Staff level.

• Java Mastery: Deep expertise in Java (8/11/17) including memory management concurrency/multithreading and JVM tuning.

• Spring Ecosystem: Expert-level knowledge of Spring Boot Spring Cloud and Spring Security.

• AWS Cloud Native: Extensive experience designing systems on AWS. You should be comfortable with ECS/EKS Lambda API Gateway SQS/SNS RDS and DynamoDB.

• System Design: Proven track record of architecting distributed systems event-driven architectures and RESTful/gRPC APIs that handle high throughput.

• Technical Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to drive cross-functional alignment propose long-term technical strategies and mentor engineers across multiple squads through shift-changes in tech stack or paradigms.

• Database: Strong proficiency in SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL modeling.

• Tools: Experience with Docker Kubernetes Git and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions or GitLab CI).

• Healthcare Domain: Prior experience in the Healthcare/HealthTech industry is a significant plus.

• Compliance & Standards: Familiarity with HIPAA compliance HL7 FHIR standards or EMR/EHR integrations.

• Infrastructure as Code: Experience using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

• Observability: Experience setting up monitoring using Datadog New Relic Prometheus or ELK Stack.

ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed we believe its important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

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• Comprehensive medical dental and vision benefits including a company Health Savings Account contribution
• 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits Flexible Spending Account and Employee Assistance Programs
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
• Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US) Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch treadmill workstations Zen and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.

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