Lead Software Engineer

📍Remote | 🕒 Full-time | 🚀 Fast-growing SaaS startup

About CarePortals

CarePortals is building the backbone of direct-to-consumer telehealth.

We help digital health brands launch faster, run more efficiently, and scale with confidence by bringing E-commerce, EHR, CRM, patient experience, and operational workflows together in a single platform. We’re building the infrastructure layer behind modern telehealth brands!

The opportunity

We’re looking for a
Lead Software Engineer
to help shape technical direction and strengthen our engineering team as CarePortals scales.

You’ll play a key role in shaping how we build, scale, and improve the platform while continuing to write code and contribute directly to delivery.  You’ll work closely with the founding team to help shape and scale the systems powering modern telehealth experiences.

This is a highly hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone who loves building, solving complex problems, and bringing order to ambiguity in a fast-moving startup.

What you’ll work on

• Lead technical design and implementation across our tech stack
• Architect scalable, event-driven systems and ensure performance, reliability, and security
• Collaborate with the founding team on product strategy, technical roadmap, and key architecture decisions
• Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical planning
• Drive integrations with EHRs, pharmacies, telehealth networks, and other third-party APIs
• Establish engineering best practices for CI/CD, testing, and documentation
• Balance hands-on coding with high-level technical leadership and delivery management

What we’re looking for

- 6+ years of experience
building and shipping full-stack web applications
- Proven experience leading small teams or projects in a startup or fast-paced environment
- Strong proficiency with
NestJS (Node.js), Angular/React, MongoDB, and AWS
- Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., SQS, EventBridge, RabbitMQ)
- Familiarity with serverless and distributed systems design
- Excellent communication and leadership skills in a remote-first setting
- Comfortable working in a startup environment where priorities can move quickly
- Experience with SaaS platforms or
API-first products
- Strong judgment around technical tradeoffs, prioritization, and execution

Nice to have

- Familiarity with HIPAA, PHIPA, PIPEDA, or healthcare compliance
- Experience with EHR/EMR systems and integrations
- Experience with healthcare APIs (FHIR, eRx, labs, insurance billing)
- Strong bonus:
Relevant telehealth or digital health domain experience

What success looks like in this role

• Engineering moves faster with better technical clarity and fewer bottlenecks
• Technical decisions are thoughtful, practical, and scalable
• Code quality and development standards improve over time
• CarePortals ships with greater speed, confidence, and technical discipline

Why join CarePortals

- High ownership:
You’ll play a meaningful role in shaping how support works at a growing company
- Real impact:
Your work will directly improve the experience of fast-growing digital health brands
- Startup environment:
Small team, high trust, fast execution, and strong exposure to leadership
- Mission-driven work:
Help power better access to modern healthcare through software
- Competitive package:
Competitive salary plus Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)

Interested?

If this sounds like the kind of role you’d thrive in, we’d love to hear from you!

Apply and tell us a bit about your background, why this role stands out to you, and what kind of engineering environments you do your best work in.