Lead Software Engineer

Location: Remote (US) or Hybrid

Team: Engineering

Type: Full-time
Reports to: Senior Director of Engineering

Partners with: Lead Software Architect

About the role

Computrition is building a cloud-native platform for hospitals and health systems. You’ll be the hands-on technical lead partnering with our Lead Software Architect to design and ship a secure, scalable .NET solution on AWS with a React front end,  a .NET business/API layer, and PostgreSQL for persistent data.  You’ll own critical services, mentor engineers, raise the bar on engineering practices, and help us leverage AI safely to deliver high-quality software faster.

Attention on backend – business and API layer.

What you’ll do

• Design & build: Lead development of distributed services in .NET 8 / C# (ASP.NET Core), including REST/gRPC APIs, background workers, and event-driven components.

• Cloud architecture: Implement cloud-native patterns on AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager, Cognito/SSO).

• Data & performance: Model schemas in PostgreSQL, optimize queries/indices, tune performance, and design migrations and data retention strategies.

• Security & compliance: Build with HIPAA in mind—least-privilege IAM, encryption in transit/at rest, audit logging, PHI data handling, BAA considerations, and secure SDLC practices.

• Quality & delivery: Champion CI/CD (GitHub Actions/CodeBuild/CodePipeline), IaC (Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation), automated testing (unit/integration/contract), and safe feature-flag rollouts.

• Observability: Establish metrics, logs, and traces (OpenTelemetry) with actionable dashboards and alerting; lead incident response and postmortems.

• Technical leadership: Run design reviews, set coding standards, perform thoughtful code reviews, and mentor a small team of engineers.

• AI First Mentality: Safely apply AI tools (code assistants, test generation, static analysis, documentation) to accelerate delivery—respecting PHI boundaries and vendor policies.

• Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Security/Compliance, Customer Success, and clinician stakeholders to translate needs into resilient designs.

Our stack

• Backend: .NET 8 (C#), ASP.NET Core (REST/gRPC), EF Core/Dapper, MediatR/CQRS where it fits

• Frontend: React (TypeScript), Fluent UI, Vite/Webpack, Jest, React Testing Library

• Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, S3 (cold storage); potential Redshift/Athena for analytics

• Infra/DevEx: AWS, Docker, Terraform or CDK, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Grafana/CloudWatch

Clean Code, Architecture & Design Patterns

We hold a high bar for clarity, maintainability, and long-term agility.

Principles we practice

• SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI—favor simple, composable solutions over cleverness.

• Clean Architecture / Hexagonal boundaries: keep the domain independent of frameworks; depend on abstractions; isolate external concerns (DB, AWS, UI) behind ports/adapters.

• Secure-by-design: least-privilege IAM, safe handling of secrets, auditability, and privacy-by-default patterns appropriate for HIPAA.

Coding standards

• Small, focused classes/functions with intention-revealing names; avoid primitive obsession and Law-of-Demeter violations.

• Prefer immutability and pure functions where practical; inject dependencies; avoid shared mutable state.

• Consistent formatting (EditorConfig, dotnet format) and analyzers (Roslyn/Sonar) enforced in CI.

Design patterns (used judiciously)

• Creational: Factory, Builder for complex object construction.

• Structural: Adapter, Facade, Decorator to compose behavior without inheritance.

• Behavioral: Strategy, Command, Observer, Mediator (e.g., MediatR) to decouple flows.

• Architectural: CQRS where it adds value; domain events; anti-corruption layers between bounded contexts.

• Cloud/resilience: Circuit Breaker, Retry, Timeout, Bulkhead (e.g., Polly); Outbox pattern and idempotency for message-driven workflows; Saga/Process Manager for long-running, multi-service transactions.

• Performance: Cache-aside (Redis), pagination/streaming, backpressure for event consumers.

Testing & quality

• Pragmatic TDD/test-first when it reduces risk; comprehensive unit, integration, and contract tests; UI component tests (React Testing Library/Jest).

• Observability baked in: structured logs, metrics, traces (OpenTelemetry) with actionable SLOs.

• Security and quality gates in CI (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, secrets scanning).

• Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and short RFCs for significant changes.

What this looks like day-to-day

• Write code a teammate can extend in 6 months without a meeting.

• Choose patterns intentionally—explain trade-offs, avoid over-engineering, and delete complexity when it no longer pays for itself.

• Use AI assistants responsibly (no PHI) for rote tasks—tests, boilerplate, refactor suggestions—while you own the design thinking.

What success looks like (first 6–12 months)

• Ship a HIPAA-ready MVP service to production with SLOs and dashboards.

• Reduce lead time for changes and MTTR through CI/CD, testing, and on-call hygiene.

• Establish engineering patterns (service templates, linting, PR workflows) that the team loves to use.

• Demonstrate practical AI use that measurably cuts cycle time without risking PHI.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years building production systems; 3+ years in a lead role.

• Expert in .NET/C# and ASP.NET Core for high-throughput, cloud-hosted services.

• Strong AWS experience designing secure, cost-efficient architectures.

• Solid PostgreSQL skills: schema design, performance tuning, migrations.

• Hands-on with CI/CD and IaC (GitHub Actions, Terraform/CDK, Docker).

• Proven ownership of production systems (incident response, postmortems).

• Working knowledge of HIPAA concepts (PHI handling, auditability, BAAs, and logging).

• Excellent communication: clear design docs, pragmatic trade-offs, and stakeholder alignment.  Ability to speak up and express opinions or concerns in a positive and constructive manner. 

• Proven use of AI coding assistants, prompt engineering for dev workflows, or internal guardrails for safe AI usage.

Nice to have

• Experience in hospital/health-tech, HITRUST/SOC 2, and secure SDLC tooling.

• Event-driven architectures (SQS/SNS/EventBridge), gRPC, and background processing.

• Frontend performance/accessibility expertise and design systems experience.

• Observability at scale (log aggregation, tracing, SLO/SLA design).

• Data warehousing/ELT exposure; analytics in regulated environments.

Soft skills we value

• Product mindset: You empathize with clinicians and hospital workflows and sweat usability and reliability.

• Technologist spirit: Passionate about new technologies; you evaluate tools critically and adopt them when they add real value.

• AI-savvy pragmatism: You thoughtfully leverage AI to speed coding/testing/docs, and you know when not to.

• Bias for action: You ship iteratively, automate the boring parts, and leave systems better than you found them.

• Leadership & mentorship: You elevate teammates through pairing, feedback, and clear guidance.

• Ownership & accountability: You take responsibility end-to-end—from design to run-time.

• Communication: You write crisp RFCs, explain trade-offs simply, and collaborate across functions.

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary + equity

• Medical, dental, vision • 401(k)

• Learning budget (including AI tools and cloud certifications)

“Lead Software Engineer — Healthcare.”

Jonas Software is a leading provider of enterprise management software solutions, serving a wide range of vertical markets including hospitality, healthcare, construction, education, personal care, fitness, leisure, moving and legal services, to name a few. Within these markets, Jonas is comprised of over 65 distinct brands, each a respected leader in its domain.

Jonas’ vision is to be the branded global leader across these verticals and to be recognized by customers and industry stakeholders as the trusted provider of “Software for Life.” We are committed to technology, product innovation, quality, and exceptional customer service.

Jonas Software supports over 60,000 customers in more than 30 countries. We employ over 6,000 skilled professionals, including industry experts and technology specialists. Across our broader network, we support a global workforce of more than 30,000 employees.

Headquartered in Canada, Jonas Software has a global footprint with offices around the world. We’re a 100% owned subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc., based in Toronto, publicly listed on the TSX (CSU.TO), and a member of the S&P/TSX 60 Index.