Lead Engineer

- Ship new product surface area, fast. Take new ideas from zero to production with a quality bar that makes the rest of the team raise theirs. AI is how you compress weeks into days.

- Stand up AI-native workflows for the team. Define how we use Claude, Cursor, and the rest of the toolchain - patterns, evals, guardrails, prompts - so AI leverage is a team capability, not a personal habit.

- Keep the foundations healthy. Own the backend and infra well enough to make sure nothing brittle ships and production stays boring. CI/CD, deploy hygiene, observability, architecture decisions.

- Set the hiring bar. Be the technical screen and the reason strong candidates say yes.

- A track record of using AI to build real products and systems dramatically faster than the old way - with no loss of quality. You have strong, lived opinions about where AI tools shine and where they lie, and shipped work that proves it.

- Excellent product judgment. You understand the user, you know what to build and what to cut, and you make the calls that a junior engineer would defer up.

- An unusually high quality bar for code, design, production rigor, and what "done" means.

- Founding-engineer DNA - or an ex-CTO/VPE coming back to the code. You're effective in small, high-trust teams with wide scope and ambiguous problems.

- Solid backend experience in Go or Kotlin (strong preference for both) - enough to own services, not just pass them through.

- Competent with AWS or GCP (preference for GCP) and with production Kubernetes . You can debug it, evolve it, and know when to stop improving it.

- Full-stack comfort across Node/TypeScript services and React/Next.js on the frontend.

- Generous compensation package based on experience

- Equity stake for all employees based on role level

- 401(k) + Employer Matching program

- Hybrid opportunity with remote work and on site at our NYC HQ

- Complimentary Parsley Health Complete Care membership

- Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plan options

- Generous flexible time off plan

- Annual professional development stipend

- Annual wellness stipend

Parsley Health is committed to providing an equitable, fair and transparent compensation program for all employees.

The starting salary for this role is between $240,000 - $350,000 , depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location.

Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. We recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.

If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with candidates during the process.

At Parsley Health we believe in celebrating everything that makes us human and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We embrace diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we can serve our members.

In light of recent increase in hiring scams, if you're selected to move onto the next phase of our hiring process, a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out to you directly from an @parsleyhealth.com email address to guide you through our interview process.

- We will never communicate with you via Microsoft Teams

- We will never ask for your bank account information at any point during the recruitment process, nor will we send you a check (electronic or physical) to purchase home office equipment

We look forward to connecting!

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