Lead Software Engineer

About this role

Unite Us is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to provide senior technical leadership for our Platform Services team, the core APIs and services that power the entire Unite Us product suite. This is a senior individual-contributor role, not a people-management role: the Lead Engineer sets technical direction, raises the bar on engineering quality, and multiplies the team's effectiveness through mentorship, architecture, and hands-on delivery, rather than through direct reports. The Lead Engineer acts as the primary technical counterpart to the Senior Engineering Manager, translating team goals and long-term architectural context into concrete technical plans, and representing Platform Services' technical perspective in conversations with other engineering teams and stakeholders. This role requires deep experience with large-scale, object-oriented backend systems, APIs, and interoperability standards, along with the judgment to make and defend significant design and architecture decisions. A background in the healthcare or social care problem space is useful but not required. Unite Us builds the technology network that connects health and social care providers so people can access services addressing the social determinants of health.