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Lead Software Engineer, RoR
HHAeXchange
Location
United States
Work Mode
Remote
Type
Full-Time
Sector
Education
First Seen
2026-07-05
Source
himalayas
Remote United States Education IT MEAL Communications Deadline Unclear Remote
Job Description
<div><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/hhaexchange">HHAeXchange</a> is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/hhaexchange">HHAeXchange</a> was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states. </div><div>We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership across our Ruby on Rails platform, with a strong focus on DevOps, AWS, Kubernetes, and platform evolution. This role will help guide the transition from a single-tenant architecture toward a scalable, multi-tenant (Shopify-like) model, while also partnering closely with DevOps and engineering teams to identify, fix, and improve broken development and operational processes.</div><div>This role is both builder and fixer: writing production Rails code, improving infrastructure and delivery workflows, and raising the bar on reliability, scalability, and execution across teams.</div><div>To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</div><h3>Essential job Duties</h3><ul><li>Lead the design, development, and operation of Ruby on Rails services running on AWS, GCP and Kubernetes.</li><li>Serve as a technical lead for evolving the platform toward a scalable, multi-tenant architecture, balancing long-term direction with near-term delivery.</li><li>Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested Rails code while setting technical standards for the team.</li><li>Partner closely with DevOps and development teams to improve CI/CD, deployment, and operational workflows.</li><li>Identify and remediate broken or inefficient engineering processes, tooling gaps, and handoffs that slow delivery or increase risk.</li><li>Design and review system architectures with a focus on scalability, reliability, and tenant isolation.</li><li>Optimize application performance, database queries, background jobs, and infrastructure utilization.</li><li>Improve production readiness through better monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response practices.</li><li>Participate in and help lead on-call rotations, root-cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions.</li><li>Mentor engineers on cloud-native development, DevOps practices, and production ownership.</li><li>Collaborate with Product, QA, and Engineering Leadership to align technical execution with business priorities.</li></ul><h3>Other Job Duties</h3><ul><li>Other duties as assigned by supervisor or <a href="https