Lead Engineer, loT & Device Messaging

Capsa Solutions, LLC

• $110K — $130K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent field.
  • 10+ years professional software engineering experience.
  • 4+ years in distributed, real-time, or high-throughput production systems.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in .NET and C#, including asynchronous programming.
  • Experience in performance optimization and scalable service architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of IoT and middleware systems for healthcare.
  • Oversee device identity, provisioning, and fleet management.
  • Implement messaging technologies like MQTT and gRPC for reliable communication.
  • Ensure high-throughput processing and reliability patterns are followed.
  • Maintain cloud-native architectures using Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Drive security practices including threat modeling and secrets management.
  • Collaborate with teams to optimize processes for automated prescription fulfillment.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
  • Paid time off and holidays.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Company-paid Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability insurance.
  • Voluntary Short-Term Disability and supplemental insurance options.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Lead Engineer, loT & Device Messaging, to shape the future of connected healthcare operations. Build high-scale loT and middleware systems that power automated prescription fulfillment from order intake to patient delivery.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture and is a REMOTE role requiring 50% travel.

As the Lead Engineer, you will need experience with the following:

IoT & Connected Device Platform Experience
  • Device identity and provisioning.
  • Digital twins/shadow state.
  • Fleet-scale device management.
  • Telemetry pipelines.
  • Offline/intermittent connectivity handling.
  • OTA (over-the-air) configuration and firmware updates.

Messaging Technologies (MQTT & gRPC)
  • Production experience with MQTT and gRPC.
  • Understanding of:
  • Delivery guarantees
  • Message ordering
  • Backpressure
  • Reliability patterns

Reliability, Guaranteed Delivery & High-Throughput Processing
  • At-least-once and effectively-once processing.
  • Idempotency.
  • Deduplication strategies.
  • Transactional outbox patterns.
  • Retry and dead-letter handling.
  • Partitioning and ordering.
  • Proven experience with low-latency, concurrent systems.

Cloud-Native Architecture, Security & Technical Leadership
  • Kubernetes and containerization.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • CI/CD.
  • Observability (OpenTelemetry, SLOs).
  • Security:
  • mTLS
  • Certificates
  • OAuth 2.0 / OIDC
  • Secrets management
  • Threat modeling

What We're Looking For
  • A bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent field.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 4+ years designing and building distributed, real-time, or high-throughput production systems.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in .NET and C#, including asynchronous programming, performance optimization, microservices, and scalable service architectures.


What Capsa Offers

At Capsa Healthcare, we recognize that great people drive with great results. That's why we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package designed to support you professionally and personally, including:
  • Competitive salary commensurate with experience
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Paid parental leave
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Company-paid Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability insurance
  • Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Supplemental Life, AD&D, Accidental Injury, and Hospital Indemnity insurance


Join Us in Engineering Better Care. If you're excited about using your engineering expertise to create innovative technologies that support healthcare professionals and improve patient outcomes, we invite you to apply and help us shape the future of healthcare.

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