Full-Time
Lead Python Software Engineer
Posted on 8/1/2025
Collective Health
501-1,000 employees
Manages employer health benefits via platform
Compensation Overview
$134.5k - $210k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA + 2 more
More locations: Plano, TX, USA | Lehi, UT, USA
Hybrid
Hybrid role; in-office two days per week.
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with a significant track record of delivering complex, scalable systems.
- Proven leadership experience (formal or informal), including mentoring engineers, leading technical initiatives, and driving best practices.
- Expertise in Python developing robust web services.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying robust applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (e.g., App Engine, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Kubernetes Engine).
- Demonstrated experience or strong desire to work with Google Cloud's AI services.
- Experience building and integrating with complex APIs (RESTful and GraphQL).
- Proficiency with relational and NoSQL database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
- A strong understanding of software architecture patterns, design principles, and scalable system design.
- Expertise in software development best practices, including agile methodologies, version control (Git), and advanced CI/CD pipelines.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including product, design, and business stakeholders.
- A passion for leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to solve complex healthcare problems and significantly improve user experiences.
- Lead the technical design, development, and maintenance of highly scalable and performant applications using Python.
- Champion the strategic use of Google Cloud Platform services, optimizing for cost, performance, and reliability across data storage, processing, and deployment pipelines.
- Lead our applied AI initiatives, collaborating closely with Engineering, Product and Business stakeholders to integrate advanced AI models into our products and services.
- This will include implementing and leveraging Google Gemini for enhanced conversational AI, content summarization, or intelligent search within our platform.
- Exploring and integrating other relevant Google Cloud AI services (e.g., Natural Language API, Vision AI) to extract insights from healthcare data and automate processes.
- Shaping the technical roadmap for AI-driven features and ensuring responsible AI development and deployment in a healthcare context.
- Mentor and guide junior to mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaborative problem-solving within the team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, including Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Analytics teams, and various Business Stakeholders.
- Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, from initial concept and requirements gathering to design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
- Proactively identify and resolve complex technical challenges and production issues, driving continuous improvement.
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry trends, particularly in AI technologies cloud computing.
- Direct experience with machine learning operations (MLOps) and integrating AI models into production systems.
- Prior experience working in the healthcare technology space with an understanding of HIPAA and healthcare data compliance.
- Familiarity with other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) is a plus
- Experience in Reactand modern JavaScript (ES6+).
- Contributions to open-source projects or a strong portfolio of personal projects.
- Experience with stream processing technologies (e.g., Kafka).
Collective Health provides a health benefits platform that helps employers manage and improve employee health benefits by integrating multiple health insurance plans, wellness programs, and related services into one easy-to-use interface. The product works as a software platform used by employers to enroll employees, compare plans, access claims, and administer benefits, consolidating diverse plans and services into a single portal with administrative tools for streamlined management. Compared with competitors, Collective Health focuses on the employer experience—centralizing plan administration, transparency, and user-friendly access to benefits and wellness options—while aiming to reduce costs and administrative overhead for employers. The company’s goal is to make healthcare benefits easier to access and manage for employees and to simplify benefits administration for employers.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series F
Total Funding
$714M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2013
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Plano office opened April 23, 2024, supports Spanish-speaking clients with 100 employees.
- Noom partnership offers 28% GLP-1 medication savings via SmartRx adaptive cost-sharing.
- Caroline Jessen as CPO and Keven Sticher as CISO drive growth and security enhancements.
What critics are saying
- Providence outsourcing causes integration failures, HIPAA violations, and PEBB member data loss.
- Zocdoc captures 20% self-funded market share with cheaper telehealth navigation in 12 months.
- Google Cloud outages disrupt CAI reliability, raising costs after July 2024 healthcare failures.
What makes Collective Health unique
- Collective Health integrates medical, dental, vision, pharmacy into unified TPA platform.
- CAI AI launched February 25, 2026, with Google Cloud enhances member concierge experience.
- Exclusive Providence Health Plan TPA partnership delivers 50% claims cost reduction over five years.
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Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision plans
Flexible time off
Life insurance
Retirement plan
Paid time off
Maternity & paternity leave
Free lunch and snacks
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
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↓ -1%Collective Health collaborates with Google Cloud to deliver Collective AI (CAI(TM), reimagining the healthcare experience through enterprise-scale AI. Collective Health leverages its unique third party administration (TPA) foundation and Google Cloud's secure infrastructure to support responsible artificial intelligence innovation SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb. 25, 2026 - Collective Health, an independent, transparent third party administrator (TPA) with Care Navigation and Benefits Hub, today announced a strategic infrastructure expansion and collaboration with Google Cloud to deliver its next generation of human-centric healthcare intelligence, Collective AI (CAI(TM). CAI(TM) brings the power of artificial intelligence across the Collective Health platform. It includes: * CAI MX(TM)(Member Experience): Acts as an intelligent concierge within the My Collective(R) app. Members can use their own words to ask common questions about their specific plan benefits, like "Is my plan active?" or "Can you show me my ID cards?" * CAI Intelligence(TM): Today, CAI Intelligence(TM)"supercharges" customer service representative (Member Advocate) abilities when on the phone with members. By automating plan-specific search and real-time documentation, CAI(TM) allows Member Advocates to actively engage and be present while interfacing with members. * CAI CX(TM)(Client Experience): The first applications of CAI CX(TM) will focus on transforming the administrative burden of annual enrollment and plan implementation processes into an easy-to-follow guided project management experience with CAI(TM) plan design insights, supporting benefit leaders and their consultant teams to collaborate and execute their benefits strategy all within the Collective Compass(R) employer portal. "Our focus at Collective Health has never been on chasing headlines, but on the real, practical application of technology to solve the problems that affect millions of people trying to get the care they need," said Ali Diab, CEO and Co-founder of Collective Health. "By collaborating with Google Cloud, we are combining our deep healthcare expertise with world-class infrastructure to improve access to benefits information for employers and members, with robust security and privacy protections for sensitive healthcare data." "Healthcare requires a unique balance of rapid innovation and an uncompromising commitment to data privacy and user safety," said Aashima Gupta, Global Director, Healthcare Strategy & Solutions, Google Cloud. "By choosing Google Cloud to help deliver CAI(TM), Collective Health is able to deploy sophisticated generative AI models on a foundation built for privacy, scale, and reliability. We are excited to support their mission of helping healthcare consumers better understand, navigate, and pay for their healthcare, proving that advanced technology can be used to significantly improve the day-to-day experience of employers and their members." Collective Health's platform is built on a privacy-by-design framework, providing employers with the confidence that sensitive employee health data is protected and never used to train external foundational models. In addition, Collective Health's AI implementation follows the same rigorous security standards as its core infrastructure - including foundational, actively monitored compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule and SOC 2 Type 2 trust principles. Collective Health's commitment to privacy and compliance distinguish its approach in the market. CAI's(TM) development is anchored in a framework of responsible AI including: * Enhance, never diminish: AI must always improve the customer experience. * Superior accuracy: AI must be at least as accurate as a human, and ideally much more. * Human boundaries: AI can never be catastrophically wrong and must respect the necessity of human interaction. * Do no harm: AI must protect customers, workers, and society at large. About Collective Health Collective Health is the leading independent TPA and navigation platform powered by AI that transforms how employers deliver healthcare benefits. By unifying medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, and program partners into a single platform, Collective Health delivers measurable cost savings with a better member experience and lowers administrative burden for HR teams. Collective Health, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with customer experience centers in Lehi, UT, and Plano, TX. For more, please visit collectivehealth.com. Media Contact
Collective Health, a leading employee health benefits platform with integrated member advocacy, clinical navigation, and an extensive partner ecosystem, announced the appointments of Caroline Jessen as Chief People Officer (CPO) and Keven Sticher as Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Engineering.
At its Together 2025 customer conference in Scottsdale, CollectiveHealth, Inc. had an engaging and thought-provoking discussion on AI in healthcare to kick off the event.
Providence Health Plan partners with Collective Health.
In 2023, Collective Health laid off 54 employees and restructured its workforce to better align with customer needs.