Your Future Evolves Here
Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.
Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.
Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Position Summary
The Lead Software Engineer leads the design, development, and delivery of large-scale software solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements. This role defines software architecture and technical strategy, oversees the full software development lifecycle from initial concept through production deployment and ongoing maintenance, and ensures applications are highly available, performant, secure, and scalable.
This individual provides technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and productive development environment, and partners closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to prioritize work and deliver on schedule. The role is expected to use approved AI-assisted tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality while remaining fully accountable for every result delivered.
AI-Assisted Engineering Expectations
Evolent engineers are expected to effectively leverage approved AI-assisted development and productivity tools (e.g., code assistants, copilots, automation agents, knowledge assistants, and analytics tools) to improve quality, efficiency, and innovation while maintaining accountability for all delivered work. These expectations span the full engineering lifecycle, not only code generation, including iterating with AI on solution design and architecture, evaluating alternatives, revising existing architecture, and producing design artifacts. Engineers remain responsible for validating outputs, ensuring solution quality, protecting sensitive information, and complying with security, privacy, regulatory, and Responsible AI standards.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership and Delivery
• Lead the design, development, and delivery of large-scale software solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team, fostering a collaborative and productive development environment.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from initial concept to production deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to prioritize work, set timelines, and deliver features on schedule.
Architecture and Engineering Excellence
• Define and implement software architecture and technical strategy for new and existing projects.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of applications through effective system design and optimization.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and security guidelines.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including automation, testing frameworks, and DevOps practices to increase team efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, identifying root causes and providing long-term solutions.
AI-Enabled Delivery
• Utilize approved AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate software development, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and analysis activities.
• Apply AI-assisted development techniques throughout the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and operational support.
• Evaluate and validate AI-generated outputs for correctness, security, maintainability, compliance, and business appropriateness.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and solution quality through AI-enabled workflows and automation.
• Contribute reusable prompts, skills, agents, engineering playbooks, and AI-assisted development patterns to benefit the broader engineering organization.
• Partner with architecture, security, and platform teams to integrate AI-enabled capabilities into enterprise applications.
• Design systems that effectively leverage AI services, APIs, agents, and automation capabilities where appropriate.
Governance and Compliance
• Follow enterprise policies governing AI usage, intellectual property protection, security, privacy, PHI handling, and Responsible AI practices.
• Ensure no confidential, regulated, or protected information is used with unapproved AI services or tooling.
• Participate in peer reviews and validation processes for AI-assisted solutions.
Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong focus on building large-scale, distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience leading teams of 3+ software engineers.
• Expertise in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to C#, Java, or Python, and deep knowledge of their frameworks.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft and .NET technologies, specifically .NET Core, C#, and T-SQL.
• Experience building scalable and performant RESTful APIs using ASP.NET.
• Relational database development experience, preferably using SQL Server.
• Experience with at least one testing framework (e.g., xUnit, NUnit, MSTest), logging framework (e.g., NLog, log4net, Serilog), and ORM framework (e.g., Dapper, Entity Framework, NHibernate).
• Strong command of design patterns and SOLID principles.
• Proven experience with software architecture design, including microservices, cloud-native applications, and event-driven systems.
• Experience developing Single Page Applications (SPA) using React, Angular, or Vue.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (e.g., Docker), and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Experience using GitHub, Azure Git, or other Git-based source control systems.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to manage and mentor a team of engineers.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies and working in cross-functional, globally distributed teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve complex technical challenges and make critical decisions under pressure.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience using AI-assisted development platforms such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI-assisted testing, and AI-enabled software delivery practices.
• Experience integrating AI services, models, or agents into production applications.
• Experience working with NoSQL data stores (e.g., Elasticsearch).
• Healthcare domain experience.
Education
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
#EvolentAi
To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.
Technical Requirements:
We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router.
Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.
The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional software development experience focused on large-scale distributed systems
- 2+ years leading teams of three or more software engineers
- Expertise in multiple programming languages, including C#, Java, or Python, and their frameworks
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft and .NET technologies, including .NET Core, C#, and T-SQL
- Experience building scalable RESTful APIs using ASP.NET
- Relational database development experience, preferably with SQL Server
- Experience with at least one testing, logging, and ORM framework
- Strong knowledge of design patterns and SOLID principles
- Experience designing software architectures involving microservices, cloud-native applications, and event-driven systems
- Experience developing single-page applications with React, Angular, or Vue
- Understanding of Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience using GitHub, Azure Git, or another Git-based source control system
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, including mentoring engineers
- Experience with Agile methodologies and globally distributed cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving and critical decision-making skills
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience with AI-assisted development platforms such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI-assisted testing, and AI-enabled software delivery
- Experience integrating AI services, models, or agents into production applications
- Experience with NoSQL data stores such as Elasticsearch
- Healthcare domain experience
Evolent Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Evolent Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Evolent Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Salaried roles commonly include unlimited PTO alongside paid holidays, volunteer time off, and a sabbatical option after several years. Feedback suggests time-off flexibility is a meaningful lifestyle strength for many roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with a publicly highlighted emphasis on mental-health resources, including a 2026 Gold Bell Seal from Mental Health America. This recognition signals above-baseline support for employee health needs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A remote-first approach for most positions and flexible work arrangements are consistently emphasized. Feedback suggests these elements add notable non-cash value to the overall package.
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What We Do
Evolent Health delivers proven clinical and administrative solutions that improve whole person health while making health care simpler and more affordable. Our three solutions—Evolent Care Partners, New Century Health and Evolent Health Services—encompass total cost of care management, specialty care management and administrative simplification. Evolent serves a national base of leading payers and providers, is the first company to receive the National Committee for Quality Assurance's Population Health Program Accreditation, and is consistently recognized as a top place to work in health care nationally. OUR PEOPLE We were named one of “Becker’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and are proud to be recognized as a leader in driving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) efforts. Evolent achieved a 100% score on the 2020 Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, making us one of the best places to work for LGBTQ+ employees. We were also named on the Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020 and 2021 by Parity.org. OUR CULTURE Our accessible leadership team cultivates an open-door environment. We don’t like approval chains; we love ideas and people with the courage and conviction to bring novel solutions forward. We win as a team and always ask how we can do better. We respect and encourage commitments outside of work. OUR COMPENSATION & BENEFITS We recognize and reward our most valuable asset—our team—with competitive pay and annual performance-based bonuses. Evolent also offers comprehensive health benefits, a company-matched 401(k) and flexible spending accounts. Every salaried Evolent employee receives unlimited Personal Time Off and is eligible for a month-long sabbatical after working five years with Evolent. This account is monitored closely by our company. Please message us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
