Technical Lead, Software Engineering
Since 2018, Wisp has been on a mission to put healthcare back in patients’ hands. We connect patients with hassle-free sexual + reproductive care online, with discreet and convenient treatment that saves them time, money, and stress. Our goal is to empower everyone to make the decisions about their health that are right for them. We’ve scaled quickly, serving patients across the nation and becoming part of the WELL Health family—and now we want you.
We are a growing, fully-remote team in the United States looking for collaborators who are committed to our mission, passionate about results, eager to build something amazing, and excited to have high levels of ownership, accountability, and personal growth.
Who We’re Looking For
We are looking for a Technical Lead, Software Engineering to join our team of Full-Stack Engineers in building products that empower our patients. This role spans our product and engineering organizations, and will regularly influence and inform priorities across the company.
This role will be primarily hands on keyboard, contributing to the codebase daily at least 60-70% of the time. The other 30% will be providing day-to-day guidance and unblocking engineers while elevating the overall quality of work across the team (directly and formally managing 1–2 direct reports).
What You'll Do
Build For Our Patients: Keep patients at the center of technical decisions while advocating for privacy, security, and access to care. Connect technical work to patient outcomes through thoughtful implementation.
Technical Execution: Contribute to architectural decisions and implement technical standards through code reviews, design discussions, and high-quality code. Balance speed with building reliable, well-structured, extensible solutions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and stakeholders on complex projects. Communicate technical concepts clearly and identify potential risks proactively.
Technical Leadership: Identify improvement opportunities within your team's scope and contribute to technical discussions that shape project direction.
Mentorship & Growth: Serve as a technical resource and example for other engineers on the team. Share knowledge through clear documentation and thoughtful code reviews. Provide guidance when needed and help maintain quality standards across engineering deliverables
Required Skills
You have a minimum 5+ years experience working in Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Django or other modern languages and frameworks. Python and Flask specifically are must-haves.
You have a minimum 1+ years experience in a Full-Stack Engineering leadership role, working in nimble, high-growth environments, and mentoring and leading a few engineers. Please note—formal people management is not required.
You’re able to balance your own coding workload as well as supporting a small team and managing their overall priorities.
You have 5+ years experience with relational database systems - PostgreSQL (preferred), GraphQL.
You have professional experience working in a cloud-based environment - AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure.
You own end-to-end delivery for key projects, driving architecture, quality, performance, and operational excellence.
You make pragmatic technical decisions, balancing speed, scalability, and maintainability; unblock teams with clear direction.
You influence within your sphere: align peers and stakeholders, build consensus, and land technical strategy.
“Compensation for this position is tier-based by geography: Tier 1 markets receive a higher pay scale than Tier 2 markets.”
Visa sponsorship or transfer is not available for this position at present. Must be authorized to work in the country this requisition states.
Wisp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and patients.
If you are committed to collaborative problem solving, creating high-quality and user-centric products, and want to make waves in sexual and reproductive healthcare, join us!