Tech Lead – Data Platform (Healthcare)

Role Overview

Full Time Fully Remote Role (40 hours/week, Mon-Fri)

Salary: $90k–$105k/ Annual (DOE)

Hours of Work: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM CT for Synchronous Work

What You'll Get

• 10 Vacation Days
• 3 Sick Days
• 1 Bday PTO
• Paid Overtime
• Monthly Learning & Development Allowance
• $200 annual Hardware Stipend
• Opportunity to work with growing team of high performers

Were looking for:
We are looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to lead the migration of our existing platform to a new scalable architecture designed by our system architect. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineering teams.

You will play a critical role in shaping the next generation of our platform while working closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams in a data-intensive healthcare environment serving the U.S. market.

Focus areas: Data processing, performance optimization, scalable architecture, and engineering leadership.

Experience

• 3-5 years as Tech Lead / Senior Engineer in data-heavy systems
• Experience with high-load production systems
• Experience building data pipelines and transformation workflows
• Team leadership and mentoring experience is a must

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Migration

• Lead implementation of new system architecture
• Ensure safe and efficient migration from legacy implementation
• Translate architecture decisions into technical implementation plans
• Identify technical risks and mitigation strategies

Technical Leadership

• Lead and mentor development team of 10+
• Perform code reviews, enforce best practices
• Ensure high code quality and test coverage
• Introduce modern tools and AI-assisted development workflows

Data Engineering

• Design and optimize data models
• Work with high-load data systems
• Database normalization / denormalization
• Query optimization and performance tuning
• Implement ETL / data pipelines

Documentation & Planning

• Convert business requirements into:
  • technical documentation
  • structured epics
  • implementation plans
• Support and document technical decisions

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Participate in cloud migration
• Work with containerized infrastructure
• Support microservices architecture
• Collaborate closely with DevOps

Observability & Reliability

• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting
• Ensure production stability and performance

Team & Process

• Work with Product Owner and business stakeholders
• Participate in Scrum / Agile processes
• Coordinate technical work across the team

Required Skills:

Languages

• PHP (primary)
• Python / Ruby / similar backend language

Databases

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Data modeling, performance tuning, query optimization

Data Engineering

• ETL pipelines
• Airflow / Dagster
• DBT

Infrastructure

• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• Cloud environments
• CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring

• Logging & monitoring systems
• Production troubleshooting

Nice to Have

• Healthcare data systems

About Us
AR Proactive is a 10-year B2B SaaS company in healthcare/fintech (HQ: Chicago)

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