Senior Software Engineer- Nashville- Hybrid

About Lucent Health

Lucent Health combines top-tier claims management with a compassionate, human-focused, data-driven care management solution. This approach helps self-insured employers provide care management that enables health plan participants to make smarter, cost-saving healthcare decisions. Continuous data analytics offer ongoing insights, ensuring participants receive the right care, at the right cost, at the right time. Join us as we build a company that aims to be a better health benefits partner for self-insured employers.

Company Culture

We believe that the success of Lucent Health relies on having employees who are honest, ethical and hardworking. These values are the foundation of Lucent Health.

Honest

• Transparent Communication: be open and clear in all interactions without withholding crucial information
• Integrity: ensure accuracy in reporting, work outputs and any tasks assigned
• Truthfulness: provide honest feedback and report any issues or challenges as they arise
• Trustworthiness: build and maintain trust by consistently demonstrating reliable behavior

Ethical

• Fair Decision Making: ensure all actions and decisions respect company policies and values
• Accountability: own up to mistakes and take responsibility for rectifying them
• Respect: treat colleagues, clients and partners with fairness and dignity
• Confidentiality: safeguard sensitive information and avoid conflicts of interest

Hardworking

• Consistency: meet or exceed deadlines,maintaininghigh productivity levels
• Proactiveness: take initiative to tackle challenges without waiting to be asked 
• Willingness: voluntarily offer to assist in additional projects or tasks when needed
• Adaptability: work efficiently under pressure or in changing environments

Summary:

We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join our Platform Solutions team in Nashville, TN. The Sr. Software Engineer will report directly to the Director of Platform Solutions and will be responsible for designing, building, and evolving scalable platform solutions that support core business operations and healthcare data workflows. This role requires a hands-on engineer who is comfortable working across multiple technology stacks and contributing to both legacy system enhancements and greenfield development.

The ideal candidate is energized by opportunities to bring structure to complex systems, improve operational workflows, and partner closely with both internal stakeholders and external vendors. This role offers the chance to contribute ideas, recommend improvements, and help influence engineering practices as the organization continues to grow and mature.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, andmaintainfull-stack applications using modern JavaScript and TypeScript frameworks, including React and server-side technologies such as Express or similar frameworks 
• Contribute to the development and stabilization of a React Native mobile application as it progresses toward broader deployment 
• Build andmaintaindata workflows and integrations using relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL 
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, contractors, and external vendors to gather requirements and implement effective solutions 
•  Support and improve operational processes, including identifying opportunities to enhance or automate existing manual workflows 
• Contribute to systems supporting healthcare pricing models, including reference-based pricing workflows and integrations 
• Assistin enhancing existing systems while contributing to the development of new platform capabilities 
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across a variety of systems and technology stacks 
• Support cloud-based solutionsleveragingAWS services and related tooling 
• Participate in Agile development practices and contribute to ongoing improvements in team processes 
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following established best practices 
• Communicate progress, challenges, and technical concepts clearly with team members and stakeholders 
• Take ownership of assigned work and follow through to completion 
• Identify opportunities for incremental improvements to systems and development workflows 

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on full-stack development 
• 5+ years of experience working with JavaScript and/or TypeScript in production environments 
•  3+ years of experience working with relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred (or equivalent practical experience)
•  Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and backend development using Node.js-based frameworks (e.g.,Expressor similar) 
• Exposure to mobile development frameworks such as React Native is preferred 
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS is preferred 
• Experience working with multiple systems or codebases is preferred 
• Exposure to Agile development practices is preferred 
• Experience collaborating with external vendors or third-party partners is a plus 
• Demonstrated ability to learnnew technologiesand adapt in a changing environment 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

Lucent Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status.