Staff Software Engineer

Role Description

Bluesight is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help us redefine and grow our suite of healthcare data products in support of the company's mission of powering hospital and pharmacy operations. As a Staff Software Engineer on the ControlCheck team, you'll help lead technical direction — contributing to critical architectural decisions, elevating the team's collective technical execution, and driving cross-team initiatives that extend beyond any single feature or sprint.

You can expect to:

• Help set technical direction for the ControlCheck team, designing work that spans multiple domains (front-end, back-end, infrastructure) over months, not sprints.
• Contribute to critical architectural decisions for services built on Ruby on Rails and Python FastAPI, deployed via Terraform.
• Make critical technical and architectural calls within the timelines the team needs.
• Drive proactive de-coupling of services and application of sound microservices patterns as ControlCheck scales.
• Identify and resolve the hardest technical problems in the codebase — expert-level debugging across distributed systems and complex applications.
• Help elevate the whole team's technical ability and execution — the goal is doubling (or more) the team's collective output, not just personal 5–10x contributions.
• Lead cross-team dependency management and coordinate cross-discipline efforts with Product, QA, and adjacent engineering teams.
• Communicate large systems and technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
• Influence at the Engineering Manager level — partner closely with your EM and fellow technical leads on team execution, hiring signal, and technical roadmap.
• Mentor senior engineers and serve as an escalation point for the team's most difficult technical challenges.
• Maintain a "customer service" mentality toward the rest of the team — your job is to help make everyone else's work better.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated depth across the full stack.
• Acute specialization in one or more areas (front-end, back-end, or infrastructure) combined with working knowledge across the rest of the stack.
• Track record of contributing to technical direction for a team and driving multi-month, cross-domain initiatives to completion.
• Strong understanding of relational database systems (MySQL), with experience designing for scale.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and owning production services end-to-end.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architectural decisions across multiple teams, not just your own.
• Excellent communication skills — able to describe large systems and complex tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
• A leadership style rooted in service and collaboration: you measure your success by the team's output, not just your own.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and building technical judgment in others.
• Comfortable co-leading technical direction alongside other senior technical voices on the team.

Requirements

• Database administration experience, preferably AWS Aurora MySQL.
• Experience integrating Electronic Health Record (EHR) data into enterprise software.
• Prior experience in a regulated/compliance-driven healthcare or controlled-substance domain.
• Experience applying AI and LLMs — AWS ecosystem preferred (e.g., AWS Bedrock or similar managed AI services).

Benefits

• Ownership of problems of scale, technical debt, and security that shape what's possible in medication intelligence.
• Room to be creative and choose your own path.
• Trust in your sense of ownership.
• Dedicated budget for training and career development.
• Coworkers who you'll learn from, who will push you, and who are looking to learn from you.
• $160,000 - $200,000 a year.
• Unlimited vacation days.
• Generous insurance coverage.
• 401k program with a company match.
• Fun, collaborative culture!