Technical Lead

About the role

As the Tech Lead for Zulu, you will own the technical foundation of the platform, ensuring that the patient app, integrations, and healthcare infrastructure work reliably, scale effectively, and evolve into a long‑term internal system. Zulu is a healthcare platform that integrates with external systems (IQVIA, Healthplug, payments, notifications) and orchestrates complex user flows such as appointments, records, and multi‑profile care.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture across the Zulu platform (patient app, Healthplug, and integrations).
• Ensure the system is reliable, scalable, and consistent across all workflows.
• Define and enforce data models and system structure (patient records, history, files).
• Design and enforce integration patterns (retries, idempotency, error handling).
• Review and challenge development‑partner decisions and implementations.
• Identify and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues.
• Validate end‑to‑end system behavior across critical flows.
• Work closely with Product to ensure correct and feasible implementation.
• Define and execute the transition from outsourced development to an internal engineering team.
• Hire and build an internal engineering team.

Required profile

• Strong backend and systems experience (APIs, integrations, distributed systems).
• 5+ years of experience building or owning production systems with external dependencies.
• Ability to audit and improve external development work.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, API design, and system reliability.
• High ownership and execution mindset.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and making pragmatic technical trade‑offs.

Required skills

• APIs
• Integrations
• Distributed systems
• Data modeling
• API design