<div class="content-intro"><p>CentralReach is a leading provider of autism and IDD care software for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), multidisciplinary therapy, and special education. Trusted by more than 200,000 users, we enable therapy providers, educators, and employers to scale the way they deliver ABA and related therapies with innovative technology, market-leading industry expertise, and world-class customer satisfaction. </p></div><p><span data-contrast="none">CentralReach’s AI team operates as a cross-functional group that rapidly builds, validates, and scales product capabilities including bringing new products to market. The Software Engineer, Applications works in a rapid development manner from design to evaluation to production.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">This role is hands-on and deeply engaged across the early stages of development of applications, from early prototypes and pilots through production hardening and scale. They partner closely with product builders, Product organization leaders and subject matter experts to translate customer problems into reliable features that integrate seamlessly with CentralReach’s core workflows. They follow established engineering standards for application development: evaluation and quality thresholds, observability, guardrails, and performance management. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual, and the ideal candidate will be a natural collaborator and problem solver with a high intellectual curiosity and will thrive in a data-driven environment.</span><span data-contrast="none"> </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Key Accountabilities:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p><em><span data-contrast="auto">Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></em></p><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="7" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Serve as a lead for AI application development within the Product Organization, setting standards for code quality, architecture, and delivery</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="7" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Lead by doing design and implement core application components, critical services, and integration layers</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="7" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Establish quality thresholds and release criteria (accuracy, latency, reliability, cost, and user trust)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="7" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Design safeguards and “safe failure modes”: fallback behaviors, confidence thresholds, user controls, content filtering, and transparency patterns</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><p><em><span data-contrast="auto"> Rapid Application Development (Hands-On)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></em></p><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="6" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Build product capabilities end-to-end (service + workflow integration + instrumentation), including expertise in LLM-enabled workflows, RAG, Next.js, summarization, classification, and automation patterns</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="6" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Build and maintain shared libraries/components for application development (prompt/tooling patterns, service templates, evaluation utilities, safety layers)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Own technical readiness for production: reliability, observability, performance tuning, and incident response preparedness </span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Collaborate with platform Engineering and DevOps to ensure CI/CD and environment consistency, scaling strategies, cost controls for inference and secrets management and secure data handling</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><p> </p><p><em><span data-contrast="auto">Cross-Functional Delivery & Integration</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></em></p><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Partner tightly with product builders and workflow owners to translate validated prototypes into production implementations</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Collaborate with core engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into CentralReach’s main platforms</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Stay current with application engineering practices and help translate emerging techniques into safe, valuable product capabilities</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Desired Skills and Experience:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical leadership</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong experience building and operating production distributed systems and backend services</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Demonstrated hands-on experience delivering AI/ML-powered product features (LLMs and/or traditional ML), including evaluation and monitoring</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience with retrieval systems and search relevance (RAG, embeddings, indexing, ranking, evaluation)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong system design skills: APIs, data flows, integration patterns, performance and reliability tradeoffs</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience with observability and operational excellence (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, incident response)</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to product, design, and executive stakeholders</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience in a healthcare SaaS environment</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Familiarity with multi-tenant architectures and enterprise access control models</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><ul><li data-leveltext="ď‚·" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"ď‚·","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience building internal platforms/tooling that improve developer experience and standardize best practices</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li></ul><p><span data-ccp-props="{}">#LI-Remote</span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Base Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$100,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$140,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p id="isPasted">Backed by Roper Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROP), and led by award-winning CEO Chris Sullens, CentralReach is entering an exciting phase of growth, innovation, and scale. </p><p>Recognized as one of the best places to work over 10 times by organizations such as Inc, Built In, and NJBIZ, our culture is centered around impact, inclusion, and flexibility. As a hybrid company with collaborative offices in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Holmdel, NJ; and Verona, Italy, we foster a workplace where top talent can thrive and make a real difference in the lives of those we serve.<br><br>We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, generous PTO, 401(k) matching, and paid parental leave to our full-time employees. Our team members also enjoy hybrid work schedules, career development support, wellness programs, and opportunities to give back through CR Cares™, our community engagement initiative.</p><p>Be part of a market leader driving the future of care. Explore opportunities at <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcentralreach.com%2Fcareers%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cjamie.madarasz%40centralreach.com%7Cb7b1c0d4e2354127669a08dda36f3df3%7C515bdea7d91847b3b73f5700d21635ec%7C0%7C0%7C638846420463140236%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=WNerHqhY5w8%2Fh6TrRUbAh6uyPQJS8ymWAWaKuyJfaHo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">centralreach.com/careers</a>. </p></div>