--- title: 'Technical Lead (Engineering) at Solace' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-lead-engineering-solace-united-states-xcdj2w5gkkbq' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-12' --- # Technical Lead (Engineering) at Solace - **Company:** Solace - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $200k–$230k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solace/2c45f1e5-6614-4548-a647-c2b90f5b670b/application **Skills:** React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, NestJS, API Development, Frontend Development, Backend Development, Shadcn, Tailwind, Heroku > The Technical Lead will join a lean engineering team to shape product direction, mentor engineers, and manage technical architecture. Responsibilities include writing production code, building APIs, and driving large releases while fostering a culture of ownership and collaboration. ## Job description ## About Solace Healthcare in the U.S. is fundamentally broken. The system is so complex that 88% of U.S. adults do not have the health literacy necessary to navigate it without help. Solace cuts through the red tape of healthcare by pairing patients with expert advocates and giving them the tools to make better decisions—and get better outcomes. We're a Series C startup, founded in 2022 and backed by Inspired Capital, Craft Ventures, Torch Capital, Menlo Ventures, Signalfire, and IVP. Our U.S. based team is lean, mission-driven, and growing quickly. Solace isn't a place to coast. We're here to redefine healthcare—and that demands urgency, precision, and heart. If you're looking to stretch yourself, sharpen your edge, and do the best work of your life alongside a team that cares deeply, you're in the right place. We’re intense, and we like it that way. Read more in our Bloomberg funding announcement [here](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/vcs-give-solace-health-1-billion-valuation-for-patient-advocacy-tech?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3MDczMDg4MywiZXhwIjoxNzcxMzM1NjgzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQThVUzhLR0NURzEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBRDYxODI0MTc0ODM0MTk0QTRENUZFNzkwMzNGMDJGNSJ9.TE2pFUAOQAPMUXFlzoQ7zeJvctq7cSibbZqtIwhW-2U&leadSource=uverify+wall). ## About the Role As a Technical Lead, you'll join a spectacularly talented team of engineers and you'll help shape them into an even stronger force. You'll split your time between writing production code yourself and elevating the engineers around you through mentorship, technical guidance, and direct management. You will be expected to move aggressively, commit code regularly, and see your work in the wild with live users—while simultaneously unblocking your team, reviewing their code, and helping them grow. You are a seasoned engineer who can identify problems, architect the highest-quality solutions, and teach others to do the same. You are curious and enjoy working on ambiguous problems where the solutions are not (yet) well-defined. You take pride in your craft, have impeccable communication skills, and you absorb feedback exceptionally well. You aren't afraid to make mistakes and learn from them, and you create an environment where your team can do the same. Above all, you enjoy taking ownership and are stifled by large organizations. ## What You'll Do Technical Leadership: - Analyze product requirements and produce high-quality, production-ready code while creating a best-in-class user experience. - Build and maintain new user-facing features with everything from database models to UI components. - Own the technical architecture for major initiatives and guide the team through complex technical decisions. - Create services and APIs to drive existing and new features for web apps. - Maintain the health of our systems and codebase, refactor and make improvements, and keep our systems robust and resilient. - Write clear specs to ensure product/code quality for stress-free deployment. - Drive large releases to production on a continuous deployment cadence. - Set technical standards for code quality, testing, and engineering excellence. People Leadership: - Directly manage 2-6 engineers, conducting 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations. - Mentor engineers on technical growth, code quality, and problem-solving approaches through pairing sessions and thoughtful code reviews. - Unblock your team—whether that's a technical challenge, a process bottleneck, or a cross-functional coordination issue. - Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement within your team. - Participate in hiring: interview candidates, assess technical skills, and help build a world-class engineering team. - Work with product and design partners to translate vision into executable technical plans your team can rally around. ## What You Bring to the Table - 7+ years of relevant experience on both frontend and backend development, with a proven track record of shipping high-impact products. - Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers—whether formal or informal. You've helped others level up. - Strong React fundamentals and a background working with Typescript/Node. - An intuitive understanding of what it takes to create delightful, consumer-oriented experiences. - Experience working in a start-up environment where you've worn multiple hats and moved fast. - Exceptional communication skills that help you influence product direction, align stakeholders, and give feedback that lands. - Extreme bias toward action and execution. You get antsy if you're not writing code, improving the codebase, vigilantly enhancing systems, or helping your team do the same. - The ability to balance hands-on technical work with people management—you thrive in both modes. - Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to create structure where none exists. Our Tech Stack - Typescript across all our applications - NestJS API with TypeORM - Postgres - Redis - React - Custom UI library built on shadcn - Tailwind - GCP Applicants must be based in the United States. Up for the Challenge? We look forward to meeting you. Fraudulent Recruitment Advisory: Solace Health will NEVER request bank details or offer employment without an interview. All legitimate communications come from official solace.health emails only or [ashbyhq.com](http://ashbyhq.com). Report suspicious activity to recruiting@solace.health or advocate@solace.health. ## About Solace ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Solace is a healthcare advocacy platform that connects patients with dedicated, experienced healthcare advocates (nurses and care specialists) who navigate the complex U.S. healthcare system on their behalf, covered by insurance. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States (also listed with an Austin, Texas address) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Jeremy Gurewitz (CEO) & Sara Sargent (CPO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare advocacy, care navigation, patient support services - **Target customers**: B2C (patients and families with complex or chronic health needs) / B2B (health plans, employers, and organizations like The American Legion) / Enterprise - **Mission**: To empower patients, improve outcomes, and restore the promise of the U.S. healthcare system. ## Products & Services - **Solace Advocacy Platform (Core Service)**: A service that pairs patients with a dedicated healthcare advocate—a registered nurse or care specialist with an average of 16+ years of experience. The advocate helps navigate diagnoses, coordinate care, understand insurance benefits (Medicare, commercial insurance), find specialists, schedule appointments, and manage continuity of care across different providers and systems (VA, private, Medicare). This service is covered by insurance (including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, BCBS, Cigna) for eligible members. - **American Legion Partnership**: A specialized program offering dedicated healthcare advocacy to veterans and their families, helping them navigate both VA and private healthcare systems. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1 Billion (as of February 2026, per reports from their Series C raise) [cbinsights.com] - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $204M raised to date. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - **Lead Investors (latest round)**: IVP (Series C lead) [linkedin.com] - **Other Investors**: Menlo Ventures (Series B lead), Inspired Capital Partners (Series A lead), Torch Capital, SignalFire, RiverPark Ventures [cbinsights.com] - **Key Partner**: The American Legion (nation's largest veterans service organization) [businesswire.com] - **Growth Signals**: - **Valuation**: Reached $1B valuation in early 2026, just 4 years after founding. [cbinsights.com] - **Funding**: Raised $130M Series C in Feb 2026, following a $60M Series B in May 2025. [linkedin.com] - **Headcount**: 562 employees as of mid-2026, with a yearly growth rate of +402.6%. [linkedin.com] - **LinkedIn Growth**: 24,608 followers, with a yearly growth of +265.7%. [linkedin.com] - **Recognition**: Named to Jeffrey Bussgang's 2026 "Rocket Ship Startup List" of 35 Supernova companies out of 900 evaluated. [linkedin.com] - **New Markets**: Expanded services to commercially insured patients (Feb 2026). [cbinsights.com] ## Competitive Advantages - **Insurance Coverage Model**: Unlike many advocacy services that are paid out-of-pocket, Solace is covered by major insurance plans (UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, BCBS, Cigna), removing the cost barrier for patients. - **High-Touch, Longitudinal Care**: Each patient is paired with a single, dedicated advocate for the entire care journey, providing continuity. Advocates are highly experienced (avg. 16+ years). - **Deep Veteran Focus**: A exclusive partnership with The American Legion gives them a unique and powerful distribution channel and brand credibility in the massive veterans' healthcare market. - **Strong Traction & Funding**: Achieving unicorn status ($1B valuation) in just 4 years signals strong investor confidence and business model validation. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the Advocate Network**: Hiring heavily for clinical roles (Lead Advocate, Associate Researcher) to meet growing demand. - **Deepen Insurance Partnerships**: Expanding coverage to more commercial and government insurance plans to reach a wider patient base. - **Expand Veteran Programs**: Capitalizing on the American Legion partnership to become the leading patient advocacy solution for veterans. - **Data & Technology Investment**: Hiring data analytics leads and impact researchers, suggesting a focus on measuring outcomes and using data to improve the platform and the care experience. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are motivated by a clear, tangible social impact—solving real suffering within a broken healthcare system. The company culture is described as one where the problem is "real, and so are the people living it." - **Fully Remote & Anti-Meeting Culture**: The company is a "productive, fully-remote team" with a strong "anti-meeting culture" that values asynchronous work and quality conversations. [solace.health] - **High-Growth Environment**: With 562 employees and a 402% yearly headcount growth rate, this is an extremely fast-scaling startup. This offers significant career advancement opportunities but also requires adaptability and a bias for action. - **Culture of Feedback & Excellence**: The company values "feedback as a gift" and has a "bias toward action," emphasizing learning from mistakes while holding a high standard for performance. - **Vibrant Work Environment**: High employee rating on LinkedIn (4.5/5.0) with strong marks for Work-Life (4.2) and Compensation (4.3). [linkedin.com] - **Culture of Beauty**: The company believes in "functional beauty" in all they build, from design to code, fostering a culture of quality and delight. ## Sources 1. [Solace Careers Page](https://www.solace.health/careers) 2. [Solace Website](https://www.solace.health/) 3. [Solace LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/find-solace) 4. [CBInsights - Solace Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/solace-2) 5. 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