Staff Software Development Engineer

About the role

WHO WE ARE

Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics. At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves. Therefore, we focus on empowering them with data-driven solutions. And the momentum is building.

Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare’s greatest needs. Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve.

Who You Are

As a Staff Software Engineer L5, you design and build resilient, secure, high-throughput, multi-tenant services that support critical business and platform needs. You bring strong technical judgment to system design, reliability, scalability, and maintainability, and you help raise the engineering bar through hands-on leadership and collaboration. You work closely with engineers, teams across Inovalon, and external customers to deliver robust solutions with a fast, data-driven feedback loop. Your work strengthens service reliability, infrastructure strategy, and long-term engineering excellence.

What You'll Do

- Design distributed systems that are resilient, secure, and scalable from inception for high-throughput, multi-tenant services.

- Raise the engineering bar for scale, resiliency, and security by providing technical leadership and promoting engineering excellence.

- Discover, review, and influence evolving designs, architectures, and standards for building and delivering services and solutions.

- Investigate, design, and implement innovative technologies that expand Inovalon’s infrastructure through robust and scalable solutions.

- Champion enterprise infrastructure vision and strategy while serving as a subject matter expert in service reliability and sustainability.

- Develop and execute designs for complex systems backed by thorough engineering analysis, detailed design, testing, and optimization.

- Develop, gather, and use metrics to manage server fleets and complex computing systems to drive automation, performance, and continuous improvement.

- Set direction and goals for the team related to project impact, product quality, and engineering efficiency, and lead major initiatives, rollouts, and phased releases.

- Mentor and onboard new team members to support successful ramp-up and ongoing development.

- Collaborate with engineers, teams across Inovalon, and external customers to understand requirements, maintain a tight data-driven feedback loop, and participate in an on-call rotation to resolve critical issues within defined SLAs.

What You'll Need

- Minimum 8+ years of related professional experience, with prior software engineering experience preferred.