Senior Software Engineer

Healthcare’s helping hand.

CHG shook things up in 1979 by inventing the locum tenens staffing model. We connect doctors with patients who need their care. As the largest physician staffing firm in America, our providers treat millions of patients each year.

Our industry is growing and demand is high. This means you’ll have plenty of opportunities to grow and develop in your career. Keeping healthcare healthy can be as fun as it is rewarding

CHG Healthcare is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our DMO Engineering team. The Engineering team designs, builds, and maintains the technology platforms and software solutions that power CHG's staffing and healthcare businesses. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and mentor across the team, driving high-quality software delivery, architectural decisions, and engineering excellence in an AI-driven product development environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain production software following SOLID architecture design, engineering best-practices, and defined development methodologies

• Apply SOLID design principles consistently across build, review, and test to produce maintainable, high-quality software

• Leverage AI tools across the full development lifecycle — spec generation, coding, and review — with the judgment to critically evaluate and own AI-generated output

• Contribute to system architecture discussions and apply mature design patterns to build highly available, resilient, performant, and secure systems

• Participate actively in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring spec alignment

• Collaborate with product and stakeholders across AI-driven product development, aligning on scope and business value

• Use AI tools to accelerate ramp-up on new languages, frameworks, and platforms, and to generate and improve technical documentation

• Identify and address technical debt that impedes team velocity and quality

• Participate in technical refinements, breaking epics and stories into executable tasks targeting thin vertical slices
  

Qualifications:

• Comfortable with ambiguity, high agency and systems thinking; business acumen and product judgment

• Engineering Practices & Processes — apply SOLID design principles, Engineering Playbook, CI/CD best practices, and spec-driven development

• AI-Competency — leverage AI tools across the full development lifecycle with critical judgment to evaluate and own AI-generated output

• Technical Proficiency — fluency in the organization's languages, frameworks, databases, version control, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud platforms

• Software Architecture & Design — apply mature design patterns and service-based architectures for high availability, resilience, performance, and security

• Stakeholder Communication — communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with stakeholders on scope, approach, and business value

• Extended use of AI tools — use AI to accelerate ramp-up and generate/maintain technical documentation
  

Education & Experience:

• M.S. / B.S. in Computer Science or related STEM discipline
• 8+ years of proven experience at Sr. Software Engineer level

Preferred skills:

• Experience with languages and application frameworks as defined by the organization (JavaScript, Java, Salesforce/Apex, Node.js)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions)
• Experience with RESTful API design, service-based architectures, and data modeling

We believe in fair compensation for all of our people, which is why our pay structure takes into account the cost of labor across U.S. geographic markets. For this position, we offer a pay range of $146,200 -- $282,600 annually, with pay varying depending on work location and job-related factors such as knowledge, position level and experience. During the hiring process, your recruiter can provide more information about the specific salary range for the job location. 

CHG Healthcare offers starting salaries for sales positions in the form of total target compensation (TTC = base + commission + bonus), which includes base pay, commission, and bonuses. Sales positions receive short-term incentives through commission plans and bonuses. On the other hand, non-sales positions have starting salaries that consist of a base salary and short-term incentives through various bonus plans, which are paid out monthly, quarterly, or annually. 

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In return we offer:

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Traditional healthcare benefits such as medical and dental coverage, and some unique benefits like onsite health centers, corporate wellness programs, and free behavioral health appointments.
• Flexible work schedules - including work-from-home options available
• Recognition programs with rewards including trips, cash, and paid time off
• Family-friendly benefits including paid parental leave, fertility coverage, adoption assistance, and marriage counseling
• Tailored training resources including free LinkedIn learning courses
• Volunteer time off and employee-driven matching grants
• Tuition reimbursement programs

Click here to learn more about our company and culture.

CHG Healthcare values a diverse and inclusive workforce. Interested in this role but not a perfect fit? Apply anyway.

We welcome applicants of any race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status and individuals with disabilities as an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We are an at-will employer.

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