Lead Engineer - Full Stack (Java / GraphQL / React / AWS / Kafka)

At Casebook PBC, our software makes people’s lives better. We are committed to empowering community well-being through adaptive, research-based, and practice-driven technology. Designed to “help the helpers,” our innovative and award-winning SaaS solutions enhance outcomes in human services. We continually expand and evolve the Casebook Platform, aiming to support more agencies and inspire industry-wide innovation.

At Casebook PBC, we are dedicated to fostering a multicultural, unprejudiced, and welcoming workplace where everyone feels included and valued. We believe that different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences strengthen our ability to innovate and serve our clients effectively. Every employee is respected and empowered to contribute at their highest potential. Our commitment goes beyond providing opportunities—we actively create an environment where everyone has the support, resources, and recognition they need to thrive.

💡 Location: This is a remote US-based role. Candidates must be authorized to work in the US.

About the Engineering Team

At Casebook, our Engineering team drives innovation and efficiency across our technological infrastructure. This team of passionate experts collaborates with cross-functional teams to build seamless deployment pipelines, champion best practices, and stay at the forefront of emerging technologies. Their work ensures Casebook remains agile and adaptive in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a software/systems engineer with deep experience in building, testing, delivering enterprise cloud native software, and is committed to standing up a shippable product as part of a diverse and high-performing team that includes client stakeholders, other software engineers, designers, QA testers, release managers, product managers, and infrastructure engineers.  The candidate is a clever problem solver, with a profound understanding of web technology, architecture and process and who is able to find consensus around workable solutions. 

The candidate will have a lead role on an Agile development team and an ownership of Casebook Platform code repositories, internal engineering processes and helping improve engineering coding standards. Casebook Platform caters to all human services. The ideal candidate needs to have an engineering mindset, an exceptional appetite for cutting edge technological advances, and be enthusiastic about continuous learning. Casebook Platform follows cloud native architecture and software design patterns with state of the art Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment modeling. Additionally, the candidate will collaborate with design and product teams which includes client-facing delivery and implementation of the Casebook Platform for small non-profit organizations to large scale state and local government projects.

What you’ll do (Responsibilities):

• Provide technical leadership in the design, integration, implementation, and transition of enterprise SaaS human services system

• Flexible design architectural approach to deliver configurability along the data creation, integrations, workflows, notifications, and data persistence

• Understand and synthesize integration requirements, and develop recommendations based on business objectives, product roadmap, solution architecture and technical considerations

• Contribute to the development of Casebook platform functionality using state-of-the-art frameworks and tools

• Specify and troubleshoot API integrations in an ecosystem of multiple systems

• Work closely with client stakeholders, partners, product managers, creative designers, platform architect, and other software engineers

• Constantly learn and use leading-edge technologies

• Implement a system that will address the needs of vulnerable populations

• Contribute to the highest security, extensibility, reusability and testing standards in system architecture and software, interface, components, data structures, and algorithms specifications

• Continuously introduce new AI tools and technologies to assist and enhance feature and functionality development, testing and approval

What You Have (Skills and Experience):

• Experience building multi-tier web applications (Java preferred)

• Experience building microservices

• Experience utilizing OpenAPI standards to deliver RestFUL web services

• Experience integrating external system based on OpenAPI standards

• Extensive experience with React, TypeScript, MaterialUI, GraphQL, Java and Spring Boot

• Experience with Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch, ElastiCache, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, Redshift and others 

• Experience leading a major IT application implementation effort

• Ability to synthesize information, remove roadblock, to deliver optimal solutions 

• Experience working with all teams within a SaaS focused organization

• Must have a strong background in SaaS software engineering principles

• Strong analytical and technical skills to identify critical issues, escalate them and drive them to resolution.

• Experience in an agile software development project

• Experience using a software version control system (e.g., Git) in a project with multiple developers committing to a shared repository

• Experience with IT security architecture and best practices

• Experience with software testing, including test planning, integration testing and load and performance testing

• Experience with an automated build, automated release, and CI/CD automation

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent work experience)

💡 Why Join Casebook?

• Great Place to Work Certified: We’re proud of our collaborative and supportive culture.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Professional growth opportunities.

• The chance to make a real difference by supporting those who help others.

💵 Compensation:  $ 160,000 - 187,000 Salary + Bonus + Benefits + Equity


🎯 See Casebook in action - Demo of Casebook: https://play.goconsensus.com/ac9bc58df

Benefits & Additional Information

At Casebook PBC, we offer:

• Fully funded medical, dental, and vision plans.

• 401(k) contributions.

• Company shares

• Generous paid time off to recharge and refresh.

Visa sponsorship for this role is currently not available.