Long term technical lead

We’re building a platform that brings business operations, scheduling, workforce management, commerce, and clinical workflows together. We have an established development team and a technical lead. We’re hiring a hands-on senior developer with team leadership experience to work alongside our current technical lead, strengthen security, and help get our first MVP into users’ hands. You’ll write production code, take ownership of agreed workstreams, and share responsibility for technical planning, code reviews, and release readiness. We’re looking for someone who can help the team make decisions faster and bring creative, practical ideas to complex workflows. If a feature is too complicated for the first release, we want you to propose a simpler version that still solves the user’s problem. What you’ll do Work with our technical lead and product team to identify what’s delaying the MVP, agree on what belongs in the first release, and turn that into milestones with clear owners. Build and ship features alongside the team. Review pull requests, mentor developers, and help resolve blockers. Strengthen security across the platform, including role-based access, separation of data between organizations, audit logging, secrets management, dependency updates, and secure deployments. Help build and maintain software that handles protected health information under HIPAA requirements. Evaluate where end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is appropriate, how keys would be managed, and how encryption choices affect workflows such as authorized access, search, and recovery. Help design and build enterprise medication and order management workflows, including order entry, review and approval, status changes, cancellations, and audit history. Account for how these workflows vary by role, location, and organization. Contribute to web, desktop, and mobile applications. Help the team decide which features and logic can be shared and where each platform needs its own implementation. What you’ll bring Strong production experience with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, NestJS, Next.js, and modern React, including familiarity with React 19. Experience leading developers while continuing to code, ideally on an existing product you helped take through a production release. Hands-on experience building HIPAA-regulated healthcare software and designing or implementing E2EE. You can explain which parts of the security architecture you personally owned. Experience with enterprise medication management and order workflows, such as medication ordering, pharmacy or dispensing workflows, or related clinical systems. You understand how to handle permissions, order changes, and traceability. Experience shipping both desktop and mobile applications. Tell us which platforms you shipped on, what you built, and how you supported releases or updates. How to apply Put 2–3 direct project links in the body of your Upwork proposal, even if they already appear on your profile. Choose projects you personally worked on for an employer or client. A live product, app store listing, public repository, or approved case study works. For confidential projects, share a public product page if available and describe your contribution within the limits of what you’re allowed to disclose. For each project, tell us what you personally built, what you led, which technologies you used, and what shipped. Across your examples, highlight any healthcare, medication or order management, desktop, and mobile work. Please also answer these three questions briefly: 1. Tell us about a release that was behind schedule. How did you work with the existing technical leadership, what did you take ownership of, and what shipped? 2. Describe a healthcare security or encryption decision you personally made. What did you protect, what tradeoff did you make, and how did you verify the implementation? 3. Describe an enterprise medication or order workflow you helped build. How did you handle permissions, changes after approval, and the audit history? Include your hourly rate, weekly availability, and time zone.