Backend Engineer Java Jobs in West Palm Beach, FL

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

A Culture of Excellence

When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction.   From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:

• Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work

• 2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year”

• 2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties

• Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year

We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.

Ready to modernize medicine with us?

Job Description Summary:

ModMed is hiring a driven Manager of Platform Engineering to lead the development of Modernizing Medicine’s web solutions. Our mission is to build innovative, high-quality solutions for the healthcare ecosystem in order to increase practice efficiency and improve patient care. The Manager of Platform Engineering manages the development team responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining such solutions. The incumbent is responsible for building a high-performing web engineering organization that deeply cares about its craft and our customers. As such, the technical leadership, the governance of development activities, and the standards and processes the incumbent will put in place, will drive our web organization forward towards that vision  within a fast-paced Healthcare IT company that is truly Modernizing Medicine! This role is HYBRID and requires in office presence three days per week.

Your Role:

• Lead multiple teams of Software Engineers committed to building the next generation of healthcare products

• Grow the Software Engineering organization by empowering the engineers and managers and pushing down ownership and accountability

• Align the Software Engineering organization around our mission, core values, and desired behaviors

• Establish development processes, engineering metrics, and operational guidelines that improve the overall health of the Software Engineering organization through continuous improvements

• Be a champion of engineering initiatives

• Ensure products and releases are delivered on time and with high quality

Skills & Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams in a web-based application/service environment

• 5+ years of experience with the Agile/Scrum development methodology

• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

• Experience with object-oriented design and SOA based principles

• Strong understanding of back-end development using system languages: Java or .NET, Web Services (SOAP & RESTful), and Web/Service-oriented architecture

• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management tools for source control, continuous integration and deployment, and various areas of testing (unit, integration, load, performance, and vulnerability).

• Good understanding of application and web server technologies

• Strong commitment to quality, architecture, and maintainability

• Highly self-motivated and self-directed

• Experience with leading engineers

• Good project management and product lifecycle skills

• Great communicator, collaborator, motivator, and influencer

• High emotional intelligence

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Adaptable, proactive, and willing to take ownership

ModMed Benefits Highlight:  At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

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• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
• 401(k):  ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
• Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
• Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles,
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.

PHISHING SCAM WARNING: ModMed is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving imposters posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote "interviews," and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from ModMed without a formal interview process, and valid communications from our hiring team will come from our employees with a ModMed email address (first.lastname@modmed.com). Please check senders’ email addresses carefully.  Additionally, ModMed will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you are receiving communications as described above, please report them to the FTC website.