Role Summary
The Senior Node Software Engineer is a technically senior individual contributor leading the Node sub-team's technical direction, architecture decisions, and code quality standards, while remaining deeply hands-on in the design, development, and delivery of Evry Health's frontend, mobile, and backend platform. The role is full-stack capable — designing complex Next.js API routes, Node.js backend services, and the underlying data layer as needed and bringing a system-level perspective to architecture that considers performance, security, scalability, and healthcare regulatory compliance across the full stack.
About Evry Health and Globe Life
We are on a mission to bring humanity to health insurance. Our high-technology health plans expand benefits, increase access and transparency, and feature a personalized, human approach. We strive to ensure members live happier, healthier lives.
Evry Health is the major medical division of Globe Life (NYSE:GL). Globe Life has 16.8 million policies in force, and more than 3,000 corporate employees and 15,000 agents. For more than 45 consecutive years, Globe Life has earned an A (Excellent) rating or higher from A.M. Best Company. Roles and Responsibilities
Node Architecture & System Design: Leads architecture of the frontend, mobile, and backend platform — component design, rendering strategy, state management, service and API structure, and relational/document data modeling — documenting decisions for stakeholders.
Senior-Level Feature Development: Owns design and implementation of the most complex frontend/mobile features using React, TypeScript, Next.js, and React Native, delivering production-quality code that sets the team standard.
Full-Stack Development — Node.js & Next.js API Layer: Designs and implements complex Next.js API routes and Node.js backend services — API design, authentication/authorization, caching, and relational/document database design and access — bridging frontend and backend.
Technical Leadership & Mentoring: Provides day-to-day technical leadership to the Node sub-team — leading code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and establishing and enforcing Node coding standards.
Performance, Testing, & CI/CD Ownership: Owns performance optimization, testing strategy, and CI/CD pipeline governance, ensuring HIPAA-compliant, secure, and high-availability frontend and mobile applications.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
7+ years of professional software development experience with primary frontend expertise
Deep, demonstrable proficiency with React, TypeScript, and Next.js in production applications
Senior-level React Native/Expo mobile experience and strong Node.js backend capability, including relational and document database design
Preferred
10+ years of professional experience across frontend and full-stack development
Experience in healthcare technology, health insurance, or another regulated industry
Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7 FHIR, X12, NCPDP) as applied to frontend rendering
Experience with GraphQL Federation/tRPC, monorepo tooling & relational/document schema design
Telecommuting Requirements
This is a remote position. Our whole company works remotely. Company headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. Candidates must reside in the Eastern or Central time zones.
Company business hours are weekdays 9-5 CST.
As part of the interview process, finalists will be required to attend an in-person interview at our Dallas headquarters.
Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separate from other living areas and provides information privacy.
Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure.
Must live in a location that receives an existing high-speed internet connection/service.
Evry Health is the major medical division of Globe Life, a health insurance carrier on a mission to bring humanity to health insurance. The company offers high-technology health plans that expand benefits, increase access and transparency, and feature a personalized, human approach to ensure members live happier, healthier lives. Evry Health operates within Globe Life, which maintains 16.8 million policies in force and has earned an A (Excellent) rating or higher from A.M. Best Company for more than 45 consecutive years. The company employs over 3,000 corporate employees and works with 15,000 agents to deliver major medical coverage and utilization management services.
