Job Description

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Job Title: Remote Senior Software Engineer (100% Work From Home)

Location: Remote from Latin America Position Type: Full-time Salary $6,000 USD/month paid via bank transfer / ACH Schedule: Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM MST
Our Client is the creator of a next-generation, cloud-based EHR (Electronic Health Record) platform designed specifically for the healthcare industry. Their mission is to help clinical practices automate operations, improve patient outcomes, and scale through the power of data and AI. By building modern, high-performance tools for patient management, billing, and scheduling, Our Client is redefining the technical foundation of clinical environments.

The Role

Our Client is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to take full ownership of the core platform architecture and the critical systems that clinics rely on daily. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role where the successful candidate will not just write code, but shape the technical foundation of a healthcare platform. The role involves architecting scalable systems, managing complex API integrations, and ensuring the highest standards of HIPAA compliance and system reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & System Design

• Architects and evolves core EHR features, including patient records, scheduling logic, and charting workflows.

• Defines and enforces engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the codebase.

• Makes critical "build vs. buy" decisions and manages technical tradeoffs between performance and speed.

• Ensures the platform remains scalable, maintainable, and resilient as the user base grows.

Integrations & Infrastructure

• Designs and maintains clean, versioned REST APIs and owns third-party integrations (e.g., GoHighLevel, payment processors).

• Owns system performance and reliability, targeting 99.9%+ uptime for core services.

• Manages CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and proactive monitoring/alerting systems.

• Leads incident response and root cause analysis for production issues.

Security, Compliance & Quality

• Designs all systems with HIPAA compliance by default, ensuring secure data handling of sensitive PHI.

• Defines the overall testing strategy (Unit, Integration, E2E) to maintain a high bar for code quality.

• Partners cross-functionally with support and QA teams to triage and resolve systemic issues.

• Documents architecture and decisions to support long-term scalability and team growth.

Qualifications, Skills, and Key Competencies

Required

• Experience: 5+ years of professional software development experience in production environments.

• Backend Expertise: Strong proficiency in PHP (Laravel) and/or Python

• Data Management: Extensive experience with MySQL/SQL and designing scalable database schemas.

• API Mastery: Proven track record of building and maintaining robust REST APIs and complex third-party integrations.

• Architecture: Experience designing, scaling, and owning high-traffic production systems end-to-end.

• Communication: Excellent English communication skills, capable of translating ambiguous business needs into structured technical solutions.

Preferred

• Experience with Healthcare or EHR systems and HIPAA regulations.

• Familiarity with React or other modern frontend frameworks.

• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor).

• Prior experience in early-stage, fast-moving startup environments.

What Success Looks Like

• Reliability: Maintaining 99.9%+ uptime with fast, consistent API response times.

• Execution: Consistently shipping features on a weekly or bi-weekly cadence.

• Security: Zero security incidents related to sensitive healthcare data (PHI).

• Leadership: Improving engineering quality over time through cleaner architecture and fewer regressions.

Benefits

• Ownership: High level of influence over product direction and technical architecture.

• Impact: Solve meaningful problems that directly affect doctor efficiency and patient care.

• Environment: Work closely with founders in a remote, async-first, and innovation-driven culture.

• Growth: Opportunity to step into technical leadership roles as the engineering team expands.

Application Disclaimer: Please Read Before Proceeding

To ensure a fair and efficient hiring process, all applications must meet the mandatory requirements listed in the job description.

Voice/Video Recording is REQUIRED
Your application CANNOT be considered without a voice or video recording. It must be at least 30 seconds long and in English Submissions in any other language or missing a recording will be automatically disqualified

Mandatory Knockout Questions
Each application includes knockout questions designed to verify minimum qualifications required by the client. If you answer "NO" to any of these, you will be immediately disqualified from the hiring process for not having the experience requested for the role. Please note that the citizenship question is also a knockout if you answer "YES" as we are only able to hire Latin American talent based in Latin America.

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