Software Team Lead

About MedaVida

MedaVida is building the payments-enabled operating system for modern cash-pay
healthcare. Our platform connects credential verification, patient care, prescriptions,
payments, suppliers, communication, and practice growth within one unified ecosystem.

We are a fast-moving healthcare technology and fintech startup preparing to bring
multiple products to market. We are looking for a technically strong, growth-minded
Software Team Lead who can turn ambiguous engineering problems into shipped,
reliable software and help build the team's ability to take on harder work over time.

The role

We're looking for a Software Team Lead — someone who's already doing strong technical
work and is ready to start shaping how the team around them operates, without giving up
hands-on engineering.

This isn't a "step away from code and into meetings" role. You'll keep doing real,
hard engineering work — in fact, that's most of what makes you right for this role in the
first place. What's new is a second layer of responsibility: helping make sure the right
work gets to the right person, and helping the engineers around you grow into handling
harder problems themselves.

We're a startup, which means responsibilities don't stay in one lane. You'll shift
between Development, Review, Product Requirements definition, and Testing as the moment
calls for it — that's a feature of how we work, not a scope-creep exception.

If you're a mid-level or senior engineer who's already been the person others quietly
turn to for the tricky problems — even if you've never had "Lead" in your title — this
role is built for exactly that moment in a career.

What you'll do

• Keep solving the hard problems. You'll continue owning and building the most complex, ambiguous pieces of engineering work — this doesn't go away when you take this role, it's central to it.
• Keep a clear, honest read on the team. A simple, current picture of who on the team is ready for more complex work right now, and who's still building toward it — not a guess based on titles or tenure, but something you actually track.
• Help the team route work well. Make sure genuinely hard problems go to the people ready for them, and straightforward work doesn't quietly eat up your most experienced engineers' time.
• Help evaluate readiness, using real work as evidence. When someone seems ready for more responsibility, you'll help confirm that by seeing how they actually handle a real, challenging assignment — not by guessing from a resume or a gut feeling.
• Mentor. Be a resource for engineers earlier in their growth than you, especially around the judgment calls that are hard to teach from documentation alone.

What you need

• A real track record of handling the hardest, most ambiguous engineering problems on a team — the kind of work that requires genuine judgment, not just following a clear spec. This is the one non-negotiable requirement for this role. Everything else below is something we expect you to grow into, not something you need to already have done.

Nice to have — things you'll grow into, not gate you out

• Experience mentoring or informally guiding less experienced engineers.
• Comfort keeping an honest, current read on where a team's skills and capacity actually sit.
• Interest in helping decide when a teammate is ready for more complex responsibility, grounded in real observed work rather than guesswork.
• Any prior experience — even informal — taking initiative on team-wide technical decisions.

How we work

• Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST.
• Weekends: Not the norm, and we mean that as a design goal, not a hope. If a weekend gets worked, we treat that as a personal and managerial failure first — something to fix upstream, not shrug off — and every effort is made to avoid it. That said, we're a startup: the team is expected to pivot to meet real opportunities, sometimes on short notice, and that occasionally means weekend work.

Why this role

If you've been doing strong senior-level work but have never formally led anyone, this is
usually the next real step — not a lateral move into management, and not a step away from
engineering. You keep doing the work you're good at. You just start doing it with a
little more say in how the team around you grows.

Location: Remote

Compensation: We're a startup with real product already in the market, and we offer
competitive salaries. We're also in the process of setting up an Employee Stock Option
Plan (ESOP), with vesting backdated to begin on your employment start date.