Senior Software Engineer

Trella Health•Philadelphia, PA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer will join Trella Health’s Clinical Solutions Development team, which focuses on improving patient discharge. This hands-on role designs, builds, and scales data-driven healthcare solutions. The engineer owns significant parts of the architecture, helps set technical direction, writes high-quality code, and raises engineering standards across the team. The team works in a collaborative, fast-moving environment and continuously looks for ways to improve its products and practices. The role involves designing complex, scalable systems; developing cloud-native solutions and backend services; building API integrations; and working with front-end engineers to define API contracts and ensure reliable data flow. The engineer also contributes to CI/CD, automation, containerization, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, security, testing, documentation, and observability. They resolve challenging technical issues, improve system performance and reliability, lead root-cause analysis, mentor other engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and take ownership of product features that deliver customer value. This is a hybrid position requiring one day per week in Trella Health’s Philadelphia office. The role reports to the Manager, Software Engineering.

Requirements

At least 7 years of software development experience, including experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.
Expert proficiency in programming languages and API development, including Java, Python, JavaScript, and REST; strong understanding of architectural patterns and system design.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP; Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation; and container orchestration tools such as Docker or Kubernetes.
Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team.
Experience working with RESTful APIs and system integrations.
Solid understanding of responsive design, cross-browser compatibility, and accessibility standards.
Good understanding of JSON, SQL, and Git actions.
Hands-on experience with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, and logging.
Desire to grow, learn, and explore new things.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing applications for healthcare.

Responsibilities

Design complex, scalable systems; review code; maintain technical documentation and diagrams; and promote engineering best practices.
Resolve challenging issues, optimize performance and reliability, lead root-cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement.
Build cloud-native solutions and support CI/CD, automation, containerization, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring.
Apply security best practices, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations.
Define and promote best practices in testing, documentation, and observability.
Mentor engineers, share expertise, and foster collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
Architect and implement efficient API integration patterns for backend services; collaborate with front-end engineers on API contracts and reliable data flow.
Partner with design, product, and other cross-functional teams and business units.
Own product features that advance Trella Health’s mission and deliver customer value.
Improve the team through process and technical contributions.