[Hiring] Lead Software Engineer @Evolent

Role Description

The Lead Software Engineer leads the design, development, and delivery of the web user experience for the Evolent Platform. This role defines the front-end architecture and technical strategy for a React and Next.js (TypeScript) application that consumes Pydantic AI agents over the AG-UI protocol and ensures the agent-to-human handoff is fast, accessible, secure, and auditable.

This individual provides technical leadership and mentorship to a team of front-end engineers, sets the standards others follow, and partners with architecture, agent, platform, design-system, and product teams to prioritize work and deliver on schedule. The role is expected to use approved AI-assisted tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality while remaining fully accountable for every result delivered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including 4+ years building production web applications with React and TypeScript.
• 2+ years of experience leading teams of 3+ software engineers.
• Deep, hands-on experience with Next.js, including Server and Client Components, server-side rendering, streaming, and caching.
• Experience building AI or agent-driven user interfaces (e.g., Vercel AI SDK, assistant-ui, CopilotKit, AG-UI) or equivalent streaming, real-time interfaces using Server-Sent Events or WebSockets.
• Experience designing and delivering data-heavy enterprise screens, such as large grids, document viewers, rich-text editors, and multi-step workflows, using component libraries such as KendoReact (Telerik) or MUI.
• Proven experience with the backend-for-frontend pattern and integrating front ends with services written in other languages, such as .NET (C#) and Python (FastAPI).
• Experience implementing authentication with Entra ID (Azure AD) and OpenID Connect.
• Demonstrated expertise delivering applications that meet WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA and Section 508.
• Experience with front-end testing using Vitest or Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (AKS preferred), CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience applying npm supply-chain security practices, such as SBOMs, lockfile policy, and dependency scanning.
• Strong, daily use of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies and working in cross-functional, globally distributed teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve complex technical challenges and make critical decisions under pressure.

Requirements

• Follow enterprise policies governing AI usage, intellectual property protection, security, privacy, PHI handling, and Responsible AI practices.
• Handle patient data safely under HIPAA, keeping PHI out of browser storage, client logs, and telemetry.
• Ensure no confidential, regulated, or protected information is used with unapproved AI services or tooling.
• Participate in peer reviews and validation processes for AI-assisted solutions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees.

Company Description

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with the most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care systems and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.