Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)-Remote, USA
Company: Tempus
Location: Remote (Remote)
Salary: $130,000 - $150,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-25
About this role
Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)-Remote, USA
Purpose:
The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for architecting and delivering the Java-based services at the core of Ambry's platform modernization. This role ensures technology execution stays aligned with strategic business goals, owning the design and build of Spring Boot microservices that replace legacy monolith functionality. The position drives legacy system refactoring, cloud migration, microservices adoption, and CI/CD maturity across the engineering organization. It safeguards architectural coherence, actively mitigates technical debt, and provides the senior technical judgment needed to keep major initiatives on schedule and operationally sound.
Essential Functions:
- Own the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of Java and Spring Boot microservices across the platform.
- Define and evangelize target-state architecture, service boundaries, and upgrade paths, and document them for engineering and stakeholder audiences.
- Lead the decomposition of legacy PHP/Symfony monolith functionality into resilient, independently deployable Java services.
- Design and build AWS-native solutions using ECS/Fargate, SQS, SNS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and Parameter Store.
- Build and maintain secure REST APIs with robust validation, error handling, authentication, and authorization.
- Drive identity modernization, including OAuth2/OIDC and the LDAP-to-Okta migration.
- Design and optimize data access layers...