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# Lead Software Engineer

- **Company:** PEOPLE INC.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $215,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Databases, Customer Data Management, Data Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Systems Integration, Data Ingestion, Large Language Models, Backend, Agentic-AI, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75656110-lead-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience owning important production systems.
 * Experience building products in an early-stage or fast-moving environment.
 * Strong product judgement and comfort working directly with customers.
 * Confidence making architectural decisions with limited direction.
 * Experience using modern AI tools while validating outputs and managing reliability.
 * An interest in technical leadership, mentoring and team building.
 * Healthcare, fintech or regulated-industry experience is useful but not required.

Tech Stack

 * LLMs and agentic systems
 * Data pipelines and integrations
 * APIs and backend systems
 * Relational and analytical databases
 * Cloud infrastructure
 * Secure multi-tenant architecture
 * Observability and monitoring

## Description

The company helps multi-location healthcare operators identify and recover insurance underpayments by reconciling contracts, claims, fee schedules, and remittance data, then automating evidence-backed recovery workflows.

Following a recent pre-seed raise, the team has strong runway, active design partners, and growing enterprise demand. They are now hiring their first full-time engineer to help lead technical direction and shape the future engineering team.

The Role

You'll work directly with the founders and take broad ownership across the platform.

This is a highly hands-on role spanning product engineering, data systems, integrations, infrastructure and AI-driven workflows. You'll help define technical direction, make key architectural decisions and play a major role in hiring and mentoring future engineers.

What You'll Do

 * Own critical systems across data ingestion, reconciliation and recovery workflows.
 * Help set technical direction and make key architectural decisions.
 * Build reliable integrations across contracts, claims, remittance and customer data.
 * Develop evaluation and monitoring systems for models and automated workflows.
 * Work directly with customers to turn complex operational problems into simple products.
 * Shape engineering standards, processes and technical quality.
 * Help hire, onboard and mentor future engineers as the team grows.