Lead Backend Software Engineer

Parsley Health•New York, NY

9d•$170,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At Parsley Health, we’re building the healthcare experience we all wish existed. Root-cause, functional medicine that’s affordable, data-driven, and designed to help people truly heal. We combine advanced diagnostics, clinical care, and smart tech to treat the whole person, because the gut, brain, hormones, and immune system are all connected. Today, we’re the largest functional healthcare company in the country, and we’re just getting started. How We Work We’re in a pivotal chapter focused on accelerating growth and driving meaningful impact. At Parsley, we keep our momentum by emphasizing speed, accountability, and a strong commitment to excellence. Our culture values ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Parsley’s values: Treat the Root Cause, Commit to Excellence, Win Together, Take Ownership, Speed to Impact, and Count Every Good Thing, guide how we lead, build, and grow together. Why Join Us Mission-Driven Team: Help people live healthier, longer lives through a proactive, holistic care Ownership & Autonomy: Take on meaningful work with the support and trust to make real impact Build, Not Maintain: We’re scaling quickly and looking for builders, not maintainers Igniting Change: We move fast, value smart solutions, and celebrate high-value contribution Who We're Looking For We’re looking for people who thrive in fast-moving, mission-driven environments and aren’t afraid of hard work or a little ambiguity. You’re excited to be part of a growing startup where your ideas matter, your impact is immediate, and every challenge is a chance to build something better. You roll up your sleeves, learn on the fly, and find purpose in the process. The Opportunity We’re hiring a Lead Backend Software Engineer to help build and scale the systems that power Parsley Health’s member experience, clinical workflows, and internal operations. This is a highly technical, hands-on role for someone who brings senior-to-staff level backend experience and can provide technical leadership across teams through strong system design, pragmatic decision-making, and clear communication. This is a remote position, but it is highly preferred to hire a candidate in the NYC area who could come into our office and work alongside the team a couple of days per week. Candidates based in NYC must be willing to work those in office days in a hybrid capacity, but it is very flexible and willing to find something that works for everyone. We will not consider NYC area candidates who are only looking for 100% remote only roles. You’ll join a team of passionate builders and work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and Customer Reliability. Parsley Health is an outcome-driven organization and your work will directly contribute to the company objectives: expand the business nationally, improve activation, conversion, retention, and expansion of our healthcare products. We work in a blameless environment and we take ownership and pride in our efforts. We follow light agile development practices that encourage feedback and iteration. Our teams are built on pillars of trust, humility and continuous improvement. The position reports directly into our VP of Product & Engineering.

Requirements

Senior or Staff-level backend engineering experience, with a track record of owning and shipping meaningful production systems
Deep experience in either Go or Kotlin (strong preference for both), ideally 3+ years
Strong infrastructure and DevOps experience in AWS or GCP (preference for GCP), ideally 4+ years
Experience running production workloads on Kubernetes, ideally 2+ years
Some exposure to Node/JavaScript (does not need to be deep)
Product-minded approach. You think in outcomes, tradeoffs, and user impact, not just tickets
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams, clarify ambiguity, and guide technical decisions
Comfort working in a startup environment with speed, accountability, and the occasional chaos
Enthusiastic about AI-augmented development. You see AI coding assistants as tools that amplify your impact, not replace your judgment

Responsibilities

Build and evolve backend services that support our core healthcare products and experiences, including member-facing workflows and internal operational tooling
Lead backend technical execution across product pods by shaping architecture, setting standards, and unblocking teams with strong technical guidance
Design systems with reliability, scalability, and performance in mind, with an emphasis on maintainability and clean interfaces
Partner closely with Product and Design to translate business needs into clear technical plans, pragmatic tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes
Contribute to infrastructure and delivery practices, including deployments, observability, and incident response in a production environment
Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to uphold high engineering quality, testing discipline, and a culture of continuous improvement
Move quickly and responsibly, including building and implementing AI-forward solutions in a compliant way (privacy, security, and reliability first)