Director of Software Engineering
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Bachelor's, Master's
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership
About the job
Requirements
- At least 12 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in architecture leadership roles.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in any field.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and API design.
- Strong expertise with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Strong expertise in high-availability and fault-tolerant system design.
- Experience with data platforms, event streaming such as Kafka, and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Deep understanding of scalability, performance, and secure architecture principles.
- Proficiency in designing and architecting enterprise-level software solutions using modern technologies and frameworks.
- In-depth knowledge of software development methodologies, architectural patterns, and best practices.
- Hands-on experience with Java or .NET technologies, cloud platforms, microservices, containers, and API design.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and agile development methodologies.
- Ability to influence, motivate, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication and presentation skills to convey complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage competing priorities.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive enterprise architecture strategy for revenue cycle management platforms aligned with business and technology goals.
- Establish and operationalize architecture pillars covering scalability, reliability, security and compliance, performance optimization, operations, and cost optimization.
- Drive a design-first mindset across the engineering organization.
- Design highly scalable, fault-tolerant, low-latency systems using microservices and event-driven architectures.
- Drive cloud-native adoption and optimize infrastructure costs through right-sizing, auto-scaling, workload optimization, and efficient storage, compute, and data transfer strategies.
- Architect integration frameworks for electronic health records/electronic medical records, payers, and clearinghouses using application programming interfaces and messaging systems.
- Define and implement data architecture supporting transactional and analytical workloads.
- Ensure security-by-design and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance across platforms.
- Establish observability, site reliability engineering practices, and performance engineering benchmarks.
- Drive build-versus-buy-versus-reuse decisions for platform capabilities.
- Identify and enable artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative artificial intelligence use cases to improve automation and efficiency within revenue cycle management workflows.
- Lead architecture governance, design reviews, and technical decision-making forums.
- Mentor engineering teams and promote engineering excellence and best practices.
- Undertake solution design and architectural tasks to ensure software applications are scalable, performant, secure, and maintainable.
- Conduct architecture reviews and recommend ways to optimize system design and performance.
- Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and tools to support product development and delivery.
- Define and document architectural patterns, guidelines, and best practices for development teams.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in the healthcare or revenue cycle management domain.
- Familiarity with Health Level Seven, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, and healthcare integrations.
- Exposure to artificial intelligence, machine learning, or generative artificial intelligence-enabled enterprise solutions.
About the company
R1 RCM provides revenue cycle management solutions for healthcare providers, helping hospitals, health systems, and physician groups manage patient service revenue from registration to denials. It uses technology and automation to streamline front-end, middle, and back-end workflows, aiming to reduce costs and increase net patient revenue while improving the patient experience. The company differentiates by offering end-to-end RCM across the full revenue cycle under long-term contracts with performance-based incentives, consolidating vendors and enabling data-driven insights. Its goal is to reduce administrative waste and improve financial performance so providers can focus more on patient care.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Murray, Utah
Founded
2003
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- UF Health selected R1 in September 2026, validating Phare OS with a flagship system.
- Hyderabad headcount is growing strongly through 2026, expanding delivery capacity and margin leverage.
- June 2026 CIO hire Eric Tagliere signals serious AI investment and enterprise modernization.
What critics are saying
- April 2026 breach exposed billing, insurance, and diagnosis data; OCR scrutiny follows.
- R1CM remains dependent on hospital contracts; any UF Health or top-system churn hurts hard.
- Phare OS promises real-time adjudication; failure to prove ROI by 2027 weakens the platform narrative.
What makes R1 RCM unique
- Phare OS unifies prior auth, coding, denials, and collections across 95 top-100 systems.
- R1's 600 million annual payer transactions make payer-intelligence feedback loops hard to copy.
- Humata acquisition deepens agentic AI before-bill automation and real-time payer-provider collaboration.
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Benefits
- Performance Bonus
- Professional Development Budget