Architect

Do you want to shape the future of fintech and healthtech? Energized by challenges and inspired by bold goals? Ready to elevate your career alongside driven and talented colleagues? If that sounds like you, explore a career at Alegeus today. Opportunity Happens Here. 

About Alegeus 

Alegeus is the market leader in consumer‑directed healthcare (CDH) solutions, powering millions of consumer benefit accounts including FSAs, HSAs, HRAs, dependent care and wellness programs through a modern SaaS and payments platform. 

We are investing aggressively in modernization, API‑first integration, real‑time data access and AI‑enabled automation to redefine how consumers save and spend on healthcare. With industry expectations shifting rapidly, Alegeus is at a pivotal inflection point; we are transforming our platform, elevating engineering rigour and building a next‑generation product and engineering team. 

Role summary 

We are seeking a Software Architect with a strong product mindset, deep expertise in Test Driven Development (TDD), and extensive experience in cloud-native microservices architecture to join our Consumer Directed Healthcare platform engineering team.

This role goes beyond designing systems—it requires an architect who understands the business value behind every capability, collaborates closely with product and stakeholders, and drives end-to-end architecture and delivery outcomes. You will shape system design, influence product direction, and ensure scalable, resilient, and high-quality solutions.

Key responsibilities 

Architecture & System Design

• Lead domain decomposition, domain modeling, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) across the platform.
• Define and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient microservices architectures using Node.js and C#/.NET.
• Architect solutions using Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), RESTful APIs, and event-driven patterns.
• Design integration strategies for legacy systems and APIs, including subdomain remapping where required.
• Establish architecture standards, design patterns, and best practices across teams.

Application & Platform Engineering

• Guide development of application-level microservices acting as an intermediate layer between UI and core platform services.
• Architect usage of Azure PaaS services, including Azure SQL and Cosmos DB for domain-based data ownership.
• Ensure observability, scalability, and performance optimization are built into all services.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools for code, testing, and documentation efficiency.

Engineering Excellence

• Champion Test Driven Development (TDD) and enforce high standards for automated testing (unit, integration, regression).
• Lead code reviews, static analysis, and refactoring initiatives to maintain code quality.
• Define and enforce CI/CD best practices, ensuring continuous deployment with frequent, reliable production releases.
• Promote DevOps maturity, including containerization and infrastructure as code.

Product Mindset & Collaboration

• Partner with product managers, stakeholders, and business leaders to understand the “why” behind features.
• Drive technical decision-making aligned with business goals, including trade-off analysis.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with QA, design, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Advocate for user-centric design and engineering decisions.

Ownership & Leadership

• Take end-to-end ownership of architecture and delivery—from concept to production impact.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor, guiding teams on TDD, DDD, and modern engineering practices.
• Identify risks early, communicate effectively, and drive resolution across teams.
• Support and evolve existing systems with continuous improvements and enhancements.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Drive improvements in architecture, performance, and engineering processes.
• Stay current with industry trends in microservices, cloud-native development, and AI in software engineering.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous learning.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in product-based organizations (healthcare payments or similar domains preferred).
• Proven experience in a Software Architect or Senior Technical Leadership role.
• Strong expertise in Test Driven Development (TDD) with hands-on experience in automated testing frameworks.
• Proficiency in C#/.NET (Node.js preferred; other modern frameworks acceptable).
• Extensive experience with:
  • Microservices and event-driven architectures
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  • Azure cloud platform (AKS, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB)
• Strong experience in DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infrastructure as code.
• Experience with system integration and legacy modernization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes.

Preferred qualifications 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field. 

• Experience developing applications using a microfrontend architecture and design-system. 

• Familiarity with healthcare or payment processing domains. 

• Experience using generative AI for code generation and documentation. 

What success looks like 

A successful software engineer developing our consumer‑directed healthcare applications will: 

Deliver business value by shipping features that solve real customer problems and improve user experience; this requires understanding the product context.  Maintain high quality by championing TDD, writing comprehensive tests and keeping the system stable during modernization.  Take ownership of features end‑to‑end from design to deployment and support and proactively seek improvements.  Collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams and communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.  Help shape the next‑generation architecture by contributing domain models, identifying technical debt, and mentoring teammates on microservices and event‑driven patterns. 

Why join us 

You will be part of a team tackling challenging modernization work on a scale. Our consumer‑directed healthcare platform is critical to Alegeus’ mission of simplifying healthcare payments, and this role offers the opportunity to drive tangible impact. You will work with supportive colleagues, leverage cutting‑edge tools (including AI‑assisted development), and develop your skills in microservices, event‑driven architectures, test‑driven development and cloud engineering. If you are a product‑minded engineer who cares about business outcomes and takes pride in your craft, we’d love to hear from you. 

BECAUSE WE CARE, WE OFFER: 

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At Alegeus, being transparent about our compensation philosophy and approach is more than just a legal requirement. As our organization continues to grow and evolve, we have made a commitment to ensure that our compensation framework is equitable, data-driven, consistent, and unbiased, with allowable pay differences based on factors unique to each candidate (think: skills, experience, qualifications, etc.) in order to attract and retain a highly talented and committed workforce.

We are taking an “inside-out” approach to pay transparency by first educating our valued managers and internal workforce and then moving to publishing compensation ranges externally.  In the interim, if you are a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio or Washington resident and this role is physically available in your state or classified as remote, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. Please send an email identifying the title of the role you are interested in and the state you reside in to talentacquisitionteam@alegeus.com.

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