About CoverRight

CoverRight is on a mission to simplify how older Americans navigate Medicare. We’re building the most user-friendly, data-driven digital platform in a $30B+ underserved market. With deep empathy for the customer, strong product instincts, and a culture of experimentation, we’re delivering clarity in a space that needs it most.

We’re a small, fast-growing team and are now looking for a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to own the architecture and development of our platform as we scale.

Role Overview

This is a foundational engineering leadership role. You’ll be responsible for shaping and leading the technical direction of our platform — everything from core architecture decisions to building scalable infrastructure and world-class user experiences.

You’ll work directly with the founders and cross-functional leaders across product, design, and growth to deliver high-impact features and help build a thoughtful, high-performance engineering culture from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities

Lead engineering efforts end-to-end: From design and development to deployment, you’ll own both the frontend and backend.
Lead sprint planning, working directly with the Head of Engineering to determine scope and roadmap requirements
Drive architectural decisions: Evaluate and evolve our current stack (React.js, GCP, Java/Kotlin), ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Implement engineering best practices: Shape processes around code quality, testing, CI/CD, and documentation.
Mentor and grow the team: Help establish a technical culture that balances shipping fast with building for the long term.
Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product, Growth, and Design to define requirements, shape features, and deliver solutions that drive business impact.
Own platform performance and infrastructure: Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and scalability.

Preferred Experience

6+ years of experience building full-stack applications in production environments
Expertise in React.js (frontend) and Java/Kotlin (backend)
Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud platforms
AI adoption, leveraging Code-Copiloting and other tools to expedite deployments & amp; QA
Experience leading architecture or re-architecture efforts in high-growth environments
Strong product sensibility and interest in working closely with cross-functional teams
A bias toward ownership, problem-solving, and execution
Experience in early-stage startups or fast-moving tech teams
LLM and other data transformation layer experience is a big plus

Why CoverRight?

High impact, high ownership: You’ll shape the future of the platform and team from day one
Mission-driven: Help older Americans make better healthcare decisions
Tech-forward: Opportunity to re-architect and modernize the stack
Early-stage equity + competitive compensation

Location

This role can be remote, but there is a strong preference for candidates who are based in one of our key hubs: Brooklyn, Buffalo, or Toronto
Our team operates on Eastern Time (EST), so availability during core business hours is important

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