Software Engineer (Part-time Contracted)

Who is Navita Health?

Navita Health is a next-generation behavioral health company committed to transforming the way people experience recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health challenges. Our name, meaning “new life,” is exactly what we aim to create for every person we serve.

Through compassionate care, real-time access, and innovative technology, we deliver a personalized, holistic, and coordinated support system. Whether it's through assessments, peer-led services, outpatient care, or digital tools, Navita Health offers an integrated platform that simplifies the path to healing and empowers individuals to rebuild their lives with confidence.

We don’t just treat symptoms—we restore hope, build sustainable resilience, and help people embrace a healthier future.

Position Summary: This part-time software engineer contractor position will be responsible for the maintenance of the electronic health record platform, capable of managing, maintaining, and enhancing our service offerings to the recovery community and service providers. The contracted software engineer will design, develop and maintain a scalable platform.

This position requires the ability to work with a small cross functional team and internal stakeholders. Must be willing and capable of being a solo engineer with a growth mindset and a willingness to create a best-in-class engineering team over time. This position is a 1099 contractor position working up to 20-25 hours per week.

Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or two to four years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Responsibilities:

Experience & Tooling – 5+ years’ experience with:

• Building mobile-responsive web applications using React and TypeScript
• Designing and implementing backend services with Node.js, Express, and TypeScript, primarily using REST APIs
• Working with PostgreSQL or another relational database, with fluency in schema design and performance tuning
• Developing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure using Terraform on AWS, including  ECS, RDS, S3, and Cognito
• Implementing secure, scalable authentication and RBAC systems, leveraging AWS Cognito and best practices in access control
• Building and deploying in a modern CI/CD environment (e.g., GitHub Actions) with automated tests, containers, and hands off deployments
• Writing end-to-end (Playwright), integration, and unit tests (Jest) to ensure reliability and regression coverage
• Managing observability and performance using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Using Git confidently in collaborative, trunk-based development workflows

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following. 

• Technical Strategy & Leadership: Defines and champions the technical direction of the team. Makes architectural decisions that ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance. Aligns team work with business goals and long-term vision.
• Operational Excellence: Owns reliability and performance across systems. Ensures incident processes, on-call responsibilities, and post-mortems are followed and improved. Sets high standards for automation and observability.
• Security & Compliance: Leads security reviews and ensures the team adheres to industry standards like HIPAA and SOC2. Sets and communicates expectations for security-first engineering practices.
• Code & Review Quality: Produces high-quality code and ensures others do too. Maintains a strong code review culture that promotes learning, rigor, and technical excellence.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Works across engineering, product, and business teams to align priorities and unblock dependencies. Acts as a trusted partner to stakeholders.
• Team Culture & Influence: Sets the tone for team culture. Drives accountability, urgency, and a growth mindset. Provides clarity during ambiguity and supports team morale and cohesion.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Ensures documentation practices are maintained and scaled. Promotes discoverability, maintainability, and hand-off readiness.

Bonus Experience

• Experience working in a regulated industry, with familiarity around HIPAA and other privacy/security frameworks
• Exposure to data engineering tools like Snowflake or Spark
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards, including FHIR and HL7
• Experience implementing or supporting clinical workflows within healthcare software
  Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS architectures and infrastructure patterns
• Understanding of healthcare billing systems and data flows

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Work Location: This position is remote from any state, but if a contractor moves into a W2 position, candidates must reside in the states of Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina or NY.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a contractor encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually low.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a contractor to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the contractor is regularly required to sit. The contractor is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The contractor is occasionally required to stand and walk. The contractor must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.