Lirio is a technology/software company that provides expertise in a variety of behavioral science domains (e.g., behavioral economics, social psychology, public health), data science, and machine learning to drive consumer engagement, close gaps in preventive and chronic care, and promote health and well-being across an individual’s lifespan. Lirio’s behavior change AI platform unites behavioral science with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver Precision Nudging health interventions. Precision Nudging is the application of behavioral science to health interventions personalized by AI to each individual that overcome barriers to action at the right time and place for scalable behavior change.
This position will be remote, with the opportunity to be hybrid if located in Tennessee. All applicants must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship, and must reside full-time in the US.
Position SummaryLirio is offering a unique opportunity for an experienced software engineer who's skilled in software engineering, technical leadership, solutions architecture, distributed systems, and cloud native technologies to join us in meeting the challenge to improve the lives of healthcare patients by contributing to our behavior change AI platform. This is a chance to contribute to Lirio’s core platform and enterprise solution.
The Senior Software Engineer will be a member of an agile team responsible for researching, designing, developing, and deploying software solutions; improving engineering processes; making technical decisions; driving technology adoption; working with other technical leaders to alter the engineering landscape.
To succeed in this role, the Senior Software Engineer will need strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka (or similar), distributed systems, SQL databases, Kubernetes and cloud platform providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities- Design, implement, test and deploy production application software as a strong technical contributor
- Write exemplary clean and maintainable code with appropriate tests
- Collaborate with other engineers by sharing knowledge and leading by example in terms of software craftsmanship and modeling a culture of collaboration and respect
- Review code and design contributions from others, promoting readability and maintainability
- Support and improve Lirio’s engineering practices including an emphasis on quality and security
- Document architectural decisions, solution designs, processes, and best practices
- Contribute to the quality culture including performing test planning and execution
- Pursue technology and process innovations aimed at resiliency, increased security, developer experience, increased efficiency, and reduced cost
- Assist in project planning, estimation, story refinement, and internal demos
- Implement and support build & CI pipeline engineering efforts as needed
- Provide production system support on a rotating schedule
- Contribute to and pick up projects built with unfamiliar technologies in a timely and productive manner as needed or required
- Pursue continuous learning through individual study, online courses, product documentation, and community resources to bring innovation to the technical organization
- 5+ years developing secure, scalable, enterprise systems using Spring Boot and Java
- Proficiency in at least one other programming language (e.g., TypeScript, Python, or C#), and demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technology stacks and deliver production-ready solutions in a timely manner
- Strong Kubernetes experience as a developer, deployer and supporter of workloads
- Knowledge of distributed systems of micro-services running on cloud infrastructure
- Experience with Reliability Engineering, SRE, custom metrics, and some observability platform
- System design ability: can break ambiguous problem statement into concrete requirements and craft an architecture and design that satisfies them
- Desire to innovate, grow, and make a difference in the world by working with modern technology and a great team to achieve worthwhile healthcare goals
- Front end experience with Angular, RxJS, Cypress
- Asynchronous messaging using Apache Kafka (or similar distributed, partitioned messaging systems such as Apache Pulsar)
- AI-first development tools such as Cursor
- Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm and ArgoCD
- Build Tools like Gradle, Poetry, and CI-Pipelines like Azure DevOps or similar
- SRE experience with large scale cloud-based systems
- Experience with ML Operations or Data Operations tools
- Bachelor of Science degree
- Medical (HSA available)
- Dental
- Vision
- Short-term & long-term disability (company-paid)
- Life & AD&D (company-paid)
- 401K with company match
- 10 paid holidays + holiday week company closure
- Flexible time off policy
- Work from home
- Salary Range: $120-$160k
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