Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer US - REMOTE

At LifeLoop, we are powering a new era of aging—where proactive engagement and wellness help older adults not just live longer, but better.

Our technology helps senior living communities elevate the everyday experience for residents, families, and staff. By personalizing engagement and supporting whole-person wellness, we help prevent isolation, empower purpose, and create moments that truly matter. And by seamlessly connecting residents, staff, families, and the broader community, LifeLoop strengthens relationships and fosters the sense of belonging that makes senior living feel like home.

If you're inspired by mission-driven work and excited to shape a brighter, more connected future for aging, we'd love for you to join us.

In March 2021, Vista Equity Partners acquired iN2L, the leading resident engagement platform in senior living. In April 2022, Vista acquired LifeLoop, merging the two companies to form the most comprehensive senior living operations and engagement platform in the market. In September 2023, iN2L and LifeLoop rebranded under the unified name, LifeLoop. Building on this growth, in 2024, LifeLoop acquired Linked Senior, to deepen its strength in delivering the leading resident and staff experience solution to market.

Vista's portfolio of technology and software companies includes more than 70 enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled companies that serve over 200 million users and employ more than 70,000 team members around the world. Their "intraportfolio" approach allows for career advancement opportunities and provides LifeLoop employees the opportunity to benefit from shared learnings from across Vista's ecosystem.

We work hard. We also love what we do, and it shows. Over the last 26 years we have built a culture at LifeLoop that is rooted in our mission to enrich the lives of seniors. LifeLoop team members are all-in. We approach our work and our business wholeheartedly, with the ultimate desire to do good. We are committed to doing right by our business and our clients. And last but certainly not least, we believe that fun matters. It is a part of our work life at LifeLoop and at the center of our approach to developing technology and content that truly connects and engages.

This is a high-level individual contributor engineering role. As the most senior individual contributor on the team, the Lead Software Engineer leads innovation and sets the technical standard for the entire engineering team. This person is deeply AI-native — not just using AI tooling, but actively championing and evolving AI-driven development workflows across the engineering organization.

LifeLoop is an AI-native engineering organization. All roles are expected to be proficient with the latest AI development tooling and workflows, and to actively keep pace with rapid advancements in this space. The engineering team is organized into focused squads operating on a Kanban model, with a culture of spec-driven development, pragmatic execution, and continuous improvement.

What can you expect the role to look like:

• Lead development of the most complex products and features on the LifeLoop platform
• Identify and drive adoption of emerging AI tools and workflows that improve how the team builds software
• Serve as a technical coach to both engineering leads and junior engineers — helping the team level up technically and in their use of AI-assisted development
• Contribute to the engineering playbook and continuously evolve how the team works
• Operate with a pragmatic coaching style — hands-on, not just advisory
• Set and uphold engineering quality standards across the codebase
• Collaborate with product and leadership to shape the technical direction of the platform
• Drive spec-driven development practices and ensure technical specifications are clear, complete, and actionable

This role is expected to be a visible champion of AI-native development. Proficiency with tools like Claude Code, and similar AI coding assistants is required. Willingness to experiment with new AI tooling, document learnings, and raise the entire team's capabilities is essential. The Lead Software Engineer should be the person the team looks to for guidance on how to best leverage AI in their day-to-day workflows.

What we expect of you:

• Deep expertise across modern full-stack environments, including MERN, Java Spring Boot, cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure, and distributed systems.
• Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from design through delivery.
• Advanced proficiency in coding, unit testing, and technical design at scale — code should be trusted to scale, with known tipping points at time of authorship.
• Expert-level functional and technical design skills — ability to define technical specifications for work of high complexity and lead the architectural direction of the most complex strategic initiatives.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership in coaching and mentoring engineering teams without direct management authority.
• Experience pioneering new engineering standards based on modern best practices and communicating them to the broader team.
• Ability to lead change and champion new ways of working, including AI-driven development practices.
• Results-oriented mindset — leads across projects, lending expertise, guidance, and picking up work to ensure broad team objectives are met.
• Strong collaboration skills — able to form teams and organize efforts ensuring project assignments are equitable and efficient.
• Deep commitment to spec-driven development, pragmatic execution, and continuous improvement.

LifeLoop is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, but is open to candidates who are comfortable working remotely. At LifeLoop, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to how we grow and operate our business. We are building a diverse workforce that cultivates and supports all individuals. We believe a culture of equality builds a stronger work environment for all employees and that we are all accountable for encouraging and celebrating diverse voices. LifeLoop is committed to promoting and recognizing principles of fairness, equity, and social justice in relation to, and across, intersections of race, age, color, disability, faith, religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, social class, economic class, ethnicity, gender identity, gender expression, and all other identities represented among our diverse membership. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists, and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for open job opportunities.