Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lyric is an AI-first, platform-based healthcare technology company dedicated to simplifying the business of care. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Fullstack to lead modernization efforts on their payment integrity platform, utilizing AI tools and building scalable web experiences.
Responsibilities
- Ship modernization work at a pace that surprises people
- Use AI agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) to blow through framework upgrades, refactors, API extraction, test scaffolding, and documentation - while catching hallucinations and preventing regressions before they hit a PR
- Build reusable playbooks the team can actually follow: prompt templates, repo-level agent instructions, migration checklists, review heuristics, and clear "definition of done" standards for AI-assisted changes
- You measurably move the needle - more modules migrated per sprint, faster PR turnarounds - without a spike in production bugs
- The team gets better because of you: PRs are clearer, test coverage grows, documentation stays current, and the same mistakes stop repeating
- Modernize a real .NET + SQL Server stack into something you'd be proud of
- Upgrade legacy services to current .NET (LTS where it makes sense), untangling architecture boundaries and fixing the performance issues that have been "known" for years
- Push toward a proper API-layer architecture - RESTful, versioned - built for correctness and maintainability, not just "it works."
- Get your hands dirty with SQL Server: query performance, indexing, transactional correctness. If there are data pipeline needs (Kafka, etc.), you'll help build those too
- Legacy surface area shrinks sprint over sprint. Critical paths live in modern code. Fewer "oh, that's still in the old system" conversations
- APIs get faster and more reliable. Database hot spots stop waking people up at night
- Own it like it's yours - especially because this is healthcare
- Build with security and privacy as defaults, not afterthoughts. Least privilege, safe data handling, the works. This is healthcare - getting it wrong isn't an option
- Put real quality guardrails in place: automated tests that actually catch things, CI that blocks bad changes, structured logging, observability that tells you what's happening before users do
- Review code thoughtfully, have honest architectural conversations, and raise the bar without being a jerk about it
- Fewer severity-1 incidents. When something does go wrong, root cause takes hours, not days
- Automated test coverage grows meaningfully on modernized code. The team stops relying on "just test it manually."
- Work with real humans to ship things that matter
- Partner with analysts, stakeholders, and other engineers to turn business problems into working software - not just technically correct software, but software that actually solves the problem
- Help build delivery plans that are honest about trade-offs. "Right" vs. "right now" is a real tension - you'll help the team navigate it with pragmatic milestones
- Delivery is predictable. Customer onboarding milestones are met. Features ship with confidence, not crossed fingers
Skills
- 5+ years building and shipping production systems. Not side projects - real software with real users
- Some C# and modern .NET experience (Core and beyond). Especially in large codebases and you've done meaningful refactoring and migration work, not just greenfield
- Strong SQL Server chops - schema design, query tuning, performance troubleshooting. You've worked on data-heavy applications where the database wasn't an afterthought
- Cloud experience with Azure and/or AWS. Azure is particularly relevant here
- API design experience - you've built and maintained service-oriented architectures with real versioning, auth, reliability, and testing practices
- You actually use AI coding tools as a daily driver. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, or similar - and not just for autocomplete. You've used agents for multi-file refactors, migrations, test generation, and review workflows. You have opinions about what works and what doesn't
- You've actually done a legacy ASP.NET / .NET Framework modernization before. You know where the bodies are buried and you have the scars to prove it. Bonus points for Azure modernization patterns
- You communicate clearly. Good PR descriptions, straightforward design docs, pragmatic collaboration, low ego. We don't need a rockstar - we need someone the team trusts
- Experience with distributed systems tooling - Kafka, event-driven architectures, or working with Postgres alongside SQL Server
- Front-end experience with Angular and/or React/Next.js
- You've helped establish agent-friendly engineering practices: writing repo instructions that AI tools can follow, breaking work into agent-sized tasks, setting up CI guardrails for AI-generated code, feature flags, canary deployments - any part of the progressive delivery toolkit
- Background in regulated domains (healthcare, fintech, payments) where 'move fast and break things' will get you fired
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