Staff Engineer, Systems Architect

Summary

Join Bellese Technologies, a mission-driven digital services company, as a Staff Engineer. You will play a crucial role in driving impactful decisions across multiple teams, leading technical excellence on complex projects, and maintaining high-level architectural vision for our Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) software system. This role requires 8+ years of relevant experience, a Bachelor's degree in a related field, and proficiency in various technologies. Bellese offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including four weeks of paid time off, flexible scheduling, a remote-first culture, and a generous education stipend. We are seeking a collaborative, mission-driven individual passionate about healthcare and innovative solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of relevant work experience
• U.S. citizen or legal right to work in the United States without sponsorship

Responsibilities

• Drive impactful decisions across multiple teams, fostering alignment and collaboration beyond your immediate team
• Demonstrate expert-level proficiency in the full technology stack, setting high technical standards and guiding best practices
• Lead the technical excellence of complex projects or products, proactively developing strategies to mitigate risks and minimize outages
• Coordinate team efforts by providing constructive feedback, facilitating discussions, and maintaining a positive, productive team dynamic
• Continuously refine team processes, actively seeking feedback, and guiding the team through necessary changes to improve efficiency and outcomes
• Proactively communicate with client stakeholders across teams and organizational levels, translating technical details into clear, actionable insights and aligning project goals with business objectives
• Maintain high-level architectural vision and system design to ensure alignment with both business and technical goals
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams and models that reflect the system architecture including components, modules, and interactions between subsystems
• Define and maintain technical standards, guidelines, and best practices
• Collaborate with Solution and Enterprise Architects to ensure the system architecture is aligned with the broader organizational technical strategy
• Evaluate and recommend technology solutions that best meet the system's requirements (e.g., performance, security, and reliability)
• Work closely with Agile teams to ensure alignment between the technical solution and the architectural vision considering both immediate needs and long-term goals
• Provide technical oversight and guidance on system-level technical choices such as microservices architecture, integration strategies, and API design
• Mentor and coach teams and engineers on architectural principles and decision-making
• Ensure that the system has sufficient technical infrastructure and capabilities to support upcoming features
• Plan for and execute on technical enablers that help teams build future functionality more efficiently
• Identify and mitigate risks and system-level issues such as scalability, reliability, performance, and security
• Identify and prioritize technical debt that may hinder future progress and advocate for necessary refactoring or architectural improvements
• Ensure that the architecture supports continuous delivery and DevOps practices, including automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code. Help teams implement systems that allow for rapid and frequent releases

Preferred Qualifications

• Government contracting, working with external stakeholders/clients
• Delivering solutions built on AWS
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• HL7 FHIR
• One or more of the following languages: Java, Go, Javascript/Typescript, Python
• Modern software architecture patterns
• Diagram tools like Lucidchart, Miro
• Presentation software (Google Slides, PowerPoint, etc)
• CI/CD tools - we use Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Docker
• Agile development methodologies and tools - we use GitHub, Jira, Confluence
• Ability to operate autonomously and be driven to build a personal roadmap

Benefits

• Four weeks paid time off yearly (prorated based on start date for the first year)
• 10 paid company holidays
• Flexible schedule and remote-first culture
• $3000 annual education stipend
• Work from home setup including a Macbook
• Collaborative, learning environment
• Medical, dental, and company-paid vision insurance
• Optional HSA account with some medical plans and a company contribution
• Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance coverages
• Company paid short and long term life insurance
• Optional critical illness and accident insurance
• 401K plan with 3% safe harbor contribution
• Wellness resources and virtual care
• Perks Plus employee discounts