Tech Lead - Platform

Tech Lead - Platform Carbon Health Remote, California, United States About this position As a physician-founded and led organization, ensuring everyone has access to quality healthcare is what inspires us. The magic we’ve created lies in Carbon Health’s custom EHR and the collaboration among clinical teams, engineers, and designers who work side‑by‑side to deliver innovation like our hands free AI charting tool. That’s why we hire people who genuinely care about patients, solving healthcare challenges, and making a positive impact every day. Join us and help change the future of healthcare for the better. What you'll do Lead technical work on building and scaling Carbon Health’s core platform and foundational services. Drive architectural and implementation decisions for highly available, scalable, and reliable backend systems. Guide the team through system design, development, and delivery in a modern microservices environment. Promote best practices in software engineering, including code quality, observability, testing, and automation. Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and fast, reliable delivery. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across frontend and backend domains. Qualifications 5+ years of experience designing and building backend or distributed systems. 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role. Strong experience with microservice architectures and cloud-based systems. Proficiency in at least one strongly typed language (preferably Kotlin, Scala, Java). Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and data stores such as Redis, ElasticSearch. Hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure. Experience on GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines Ability to work as an independent technical leader to design and develop new features with a distributed team. Familiarity with modern DevOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) is a plus. #J-18808-Ljbffr Carbon Health