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Lead Software Engineer

About Providence

Providence, one of the US’s largest not-for-profit healthcare systems, is committed to high quality, compassionate healthcare for all. Driven by the belief that health is a human right and the vision, ‘Health for a better world’, Providence and its 121,000 caregivers strive to provide everyone access to affordable quality care and services.

Providence has a network of 51 hospitals, 1,000+ care clinics, senior services, supportive housing, and other health and educational services in the US.

Providence India is bringing to fruition the transformational shift of the healthcare ecosystem to Health 2.0. The India center will have focused efforts around healthcare technology and innovation, and play a vital role in driving digital transformation of health systems for improved patient outcomes and experiences, caregiver efficiency, and running the business of Providence at scale.


Why Us?

  • Best In-class Benefits
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Reimagining Healthcare
  • Competitive Pay
  • Supportive Reporting Relation

Job Title: Sr. Software Engineer

How is this team contributing to Providence’s vision?

Our team builds robust, cloud-native platforms that deliver reliable, resilient, and high-performance connectivity across our hospitals. These platforms empower caregivers with seamless access to critical systems—directly supporting our mission: “Health for a better world.”

 

What will you be responsible for?

• Design and implement high-performance, cloud-native microservices with a strong focus on Python (FastAPI), JavaScript frameworks, PostgreSQL, and scalable distributed systems.

• Architect and build end-to-end full-stack solutions using React/Next.js, modern JavaScript tooling, and Python-based backend services.

• Develop highly scalable, sustainable, and performant systems, ensuring low latency, reliability, and observability.

• Deliver well-tested features across multiple services and platforms using DevOps pipelines (GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Build APIs and integrate with internal and external systems following modern API design standards.

• Analyze, collate, and transform large data sets to solve complex, real-world challenges.

• Use engineering best practices to ensure maintainable, secure, and enterprise-grade software.

• Drive, own, and influence architecture, design decisions, and system blueprints.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—architects, analysts, data engineers—to deliver solutions that enable business workflows.

• Work within a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and learning.

• Apply performance tuning, profiling, and architectural optimization techniques across services.

• Contributes to the evolution of AI-enabled engineering by exploring GenAI and Agentic AI application patterns.

 

What would your day look like?

• Build and maintain Azure cloud-native and hybrid (cloud + on-prem) solutions.

• Develop enterprise-grade front-end applications using React/Next.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.

• Implement full-stack Python services using FastAPI, asyncio, message queues, and microservices practices.

• Design and maintain relational data models and schemas using PostgreSQL / SQL.

• Contribute to CI/CD automation, IaC, and platform reliability using GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, and monitoring tools.

• Integrate APIs, microservices, and third-party systems using secure, scalable patterns.

• Optionally, they contribute to .NET-based microservices where needed (secondary skills).

 

Who are we looking for?

• B. Tech in Computer Science or related field—or equivalent industry experience.

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Primary Skills (Highly Preferred / Core Requirement):

  • Strong experience in modern JavaScript frameworks: React, Next.js. 
  • Strong Python Full-Stack development experience with FastAPI. 
  • Experience with microservices architecture, distributed systems, event driven design. 
  • Expertise in designing scalable PostgreSQL schemas and SQL optimization. 
  • Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, API gateways, service mesh concepts. 
  • Experience in building scalable, resilient cloud-native applications (Azure preferred). 
  • Solid understanding of DevOps pipelines (GitHub Actions). 
  • Strong grounding in OOP, OOAD, design patterns, and enterprise architecture principles. 
  • Performance engineering experience—profiling, tuning, optimizing distributed systems. 
  • Experience with highly scalable enterprise systems and multi-tier architectures. 

• Secondary / Complementary Skills:

  • C#, .NET Framework/.NET Core for legacy or integration workloads. 
  • SQL server or other relational databases. 
  • Experience with React, HTML/CSS, and TypeScript (if not already in primary skill set). 
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and ADO/Git. 

• Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with GenAI frameworks, GitHub Copilot, M365 Copilot. 
  • Exposure to Agentic AI application development. 
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, event-driven designs. 
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritize efficiently, and deliver results in fast-moving environments. 

Providence’s vision to create ‘Health for a Better World’ aids us to provide a fair and equitable workplace for all in our employment, whether temporary, part-time or full time, and to promote individuality and diversity of thought and background, and acknowledge its role in the organization’s success. This makes us committed towards equal employment opportunities, regardless of race, religion or belief, color, ancestry, disability, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, pregnancy, or related needs, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, or any other category protected by applicable law. In furtherance to our mission in building a more inclusive and equitable environment, we shall, from time to time, undertake programs to assist, uplift and empower underrepresented groups including but not limited to Women, PWD (Persons with Disabilities), LGTBQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual or Queer), Veterans and others. We strive to address all forms of discrimination or harassment and provide a safe and confidential process to report any misconduct.

Contact our Integrity hotline also, read our Code of Conduct.

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