[Hiring] Software Architect @Abacus Insights

Role Description

Abacus is scaling fast – more Data Solutions applications, more agent-assisted engineering, more complexity worth getting right. We’re creating this role to put a strong technical voice at the center of that growth: someone who can take sharp architectural judgment and turn it into standards the whole organization can build on with confidence.

We’re looking for an experienced Software Architect to help set the technical vision for how Abacus builds, secures, and scales its healthcare data platform & data applications platform. This is an individual-contributor role, not a management track – you’ll be the architecture guru and evangelist for our platform, translating business and customer needs into target-state architectures across data, applications, cloud, and agent-assisted engineering, and sharing your expertise with engineers and Solution Architects as you go.

We’re excited to meet architects at a range of career stages:

• Mid-level seasoned architect ready to step into broader scope
• Senior architect with a track record of leading complex designs
• Principal-level leader who has shaped architecture across an organization

Our platform is built for health plans, and we’re especially excited to hear from architects who’ve worked with healthcare data.

You’ll build the reusable application foundation – application blueprints, integration contracts, and production-readiness gates – that lets Data Solutions applications move fast without reinventing the wheel every time, create re-usable assets.

As agent-driven development becomes a bigger part of how we ship, you’ll be the one turning architecture standards into skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics that let AI-assisted output meet the same bar as our best human-written code.

You’ll bring enough depth to guide decisions across data, application, integration, cloud, and agentic development, while staying pragmatic about fit-for-purpose architecture and delivery constraints. You won’t do it alone – you’ll partner closely with Product Engineering, our Principal Engineers, AI Engineering, Security, and Client Solutions, bringing architecture to life from concept through production.

Qualifications

• Software engineering experience (typically 8+ years, with more depth expected at the senior and principal levels)
• A full-stack engineering background
• A proven ability to establish standards
• Deep, hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure)
• Strong experience with a modern data platform and distributed data processing
• Working knowledge of agentic and AI-enabled engineering
• Excellent communication skills
• Direct experience building or maintaining reference architectures or developer platforms
• Experience defining architecture standards, rules, or evaluation rubrics for AI- or agent-assisted development workflows
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Requirements

• Design scalable architectures for data solutions and their analytical and operational serving layers
• Apply FHIR-based interoperability patterns and healthcare data standards
• Establish data contracts, lineage, quality controls, metadata, and integration patterns
• Define standard user-management capabilities
• Partner with UX/Design on front-end and design-system standards
• Translate approved architecture standards into skills, rules, templates, and evaluation rubrics
• Evaluate agent-generated code and designs against architectural standards
• Be an active contributor to Abacus’s Architecture and Data Guilds
• Help establish lightweight architecture review mechanisms
• Ensure every architecture package includes deployment topology, support model, rollback strategy, and operational telemetry

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off – recharge when you need it
• Work from anywhere – flexibility to fit your life
• Comprehensive health coverage – multiple plan options to choose from
• Equity for every employee – share in our success
• Growth-focused environment – your development matters here