Praia Health Inc.: Staff Software Engineer

Headquarters: Chicago, IL URL: https://praiahealth.com Praia is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical anchor and architect for our core consumer experience platform. In this role, you will establish deep, end-to-end architectural ownership of our platform, spanning high-performance Java services, Databricks ETL pipelines, and enterprise grade healthcare integrations. This is a staff level scope where you will partner closely with engineering leadership to advocate for industry best practices, mentor engineering teams, and ensure the delivery of secure, well-documented APIs used by internal teams and external health system partners. If you thrive on bridging complex data engineering workloads with secure, scalable interoperability, in a dynamic environment, we want to hear from you. Key Responsibilities Architecture & System Design: Build and scale foundational platform services powering Praia’s consumer experience products. Lead code and design reviews, establishing technical direction and mentoring other engineers. Healthcare Interoperability: Build and operate enterprise integration services for EMRs (Epic/MyChart and others) using HL7 FHIR APIs and related modern integration patterns. Data Engineering Workloads: Utilize Databricks and Apache Spark for complex data engineering workloads (pipelines, workflows, notebooks) to support product and integration use cases. Security & API Excellence: Develop and own secure APIs with strong authentication/authorization, auditing, and least privilege principles. Produce and maintain high quality developer documentation (integration guides, runbooks). DevOps & Operational Readiness: Build with a modern DevOps mindset, owning CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (unit/integration), infrastructure-as-code, monitoring/logging, and data-driven incident response. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with Product, Design, and Customer-facing teams to translate complex business requi