Lead Software Engineer

Care

Cru is seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Technical Lead) to join an ambitious, talented, and growing engineering team. You should be entrepreneurially minded and have a passion for developing software platforms that scale. We expect this engineer to play an active role guiding our client-facing and feature development team, which is almost entirely responsible for the end-user experience of our product.

Let's talk if...

• You’ve shipped multiple software products to production

• You understand the importance of a SaaS company being able to ship

• You’re the kind of person who takes initiative to improve things

• You conquer learning curves with ease

• You understand the importance of process and mentorship on a development team

• You have an up-to-date knowledge of industry standards and their tech stacks

• You don’t shy away from Infrastructure challenges and work well with other teams

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with the Product team to help both shape, and deliver, the Product Roadmap

• Act as Team Lead to team of 4 to help shape how the team works and align priorities with overall goals for the team and company

• Aid in creation of roadmap and operational changes to improve legacy code testability while building new customer-facing intiatives

• Work in tandem with the team's Technical Lead on the company’s Platform domain (User-facing Features: Workflow Automation, Scheduling, Campaigns, etc.)

• Contribute to key technical decisions alongside the Director of Engineering, CTO, and other Senior Engineering staff

• Be a significant contributor to your team’s sprints, in both planning and delivery capacities

• Provide mentorship and process guidance for the team to achieve their sprint goals

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience shipping in formal software environments

• Experience building and maintaining large-scale, data intensive, enterprise platforms

• Experience building and maintaining distributed systems

• Comfortable working in a cross-functional agile team

• Strong troubleshooting abilities

• Disciplined and detail-oriented

• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and oral

The Care

Cru Stack (bolded are most relevant for this role)

• Backend: NodeJS, GraphQL, Go

• Frontend: React, Typescript

• Data: PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, AWS SQS, MongoDB, Redis (Cache)

• Analytics: dbt, SQL

• Integrations (Connector): Java, Spring Boot

• Dev

Ops: AWS, Docker, Terraform, k8s, ArgoCD, Github Actions

• Observability: Grafana, Loki, Open

Telemetry

Why Care

Cru?

• Be an early stage contributor in high-growth company run by a proven team with successful SaaS startup experience

• Competitive salary and early-stage stock options

• Excellent benefits package including health, life, dental and vision

• Be part of a passionate, entrepreneurial team that works hard and has fun doing it

About Care

Cru

Care

Cru is building the premier growth platform in dental. Both single-location practices, and dental groups, can supercharge their business by connecting their DPMS to the Care

Cru Platform to:

• Reveal the health of the practice(s) (Business Intelligence, AI-driven Insights)

• Boost team productivity by intelligently automating tasks (CRM-like Business Process Automation)

• Deliver an unparalleled patient experience (Next-gen Online Scheduling, Modern Patient Engagement)

Adding the “Cru” is like adding three world-class team members to the practice—a front office administrator, a marketing specialist, and a practice consultant.