Technical Lead, Software Development (IT)

Posting Date

04/24/2026

2000 16th St, Denver, Colorado, 80202-5117, United States of America

DaVita is a leading provider of dialysis services for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure.  The Company owns and operates kidney dialysis centers and home peritoneal dialysis programs domestically in 43 states.  DaVita operates over 1500 outpatient facilities serving 109,000 patients.  DaVita is a publicly traded company on the NYSE (DVA).

The Patient Digital Next team is helping DaVita model the way for integrated care. Our team guides the web and mobile technology direction for patient-facing applications.

As a technical lead, you will play a key role in the Patient Digital Next team by designing, building, testing, and deploying the next generation of mobile and web applications for our patients and teammates.

The candidate will exhibit passion for producing quality code, solving problems, and collaborating on solutions to improve our products. The successful candidate has a desire to thrive in a modern technical environment, embraces the principles of DevOps, and enjoys working in a rapidly changing environment. The candidate must love to work in an Agile development environment and have fun!

We are seeking a technical lead with proven public cloud experience (GCP) who will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing enterprise scale solutions to support the organization’s business strategy and goals .  The technical lead will be responsible for working with product owners, designers, and other stakeholders to create, plan, and manage projects from inception to production release. Candidate will also be responsible for guiding and mentoring other junior developers.

Job Description:

• Design, development, implement, and support of various Clinical System Applications.
• Work closely with our business product owners on an Agile team to fully understand requirements, provide feedback, and request clarification as needed.
• Work with other engineers on a collaborative Agile team to deliver code on an ongoing basis.
• Review requirements and data models and translate into responsible applications and architecture
• Conduct design and code reviews with extended team to ensure that code meets standards
• Support test execution including system level and integration tests
• Track and resolve software defects
• Work with QA and CM team for code build/releases, test case design and defect resolution
• Work with Team Lead/Project Manager/Architect for planning, estimation, documentation and status reporting
• Any other tasks necessary for completion of project deliverables and application support
• Excellent communication skills
• Be able to adapt and contribute to a fast paced and agile application development
• Adhere to project schedules, proactively resolve and or escalate issue to management
• Healthcare experience a plus
• Experience with working with offshore teams a plus
• Demonstrated experience with bringing multiple products to market

Abilities/Skills/Knowledge:

• GCP Cloud Services: Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL (Postgres) Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Datastore, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud firestore.
• Platform/Infrastructure: Terraform, Helm
• Skills in languages: Angular and Java
• Professional development experience with SQL and NoSql databases
• Object Oriented Design and Development experience
• Understand of software design patterns
• Applicant must work well under pressure
• Understand the SAFE Agile and Continuous Discovery Delivery framework
• Knowledge of software craftsmanship and Agile best practices
• Knowledge of application development on Android or iOS platforms
• Mobile UI/UX design
• Familiar with microservice architecture principle. System architecture experience is a plus
• Unit testing frameworks
• Software Debugging
• AI experience – Knowledge building AI agents via Gemini/Vertex AI is a preferred
• Experience building AI Automation/ automation within CICD portfolio
• Hands on experience working in the mobile application space (native or ionic capacitor) preferred
• Should have ability to work across bigger portfolio (Dev teams, Product, etc)
• Should be hands on to be able to code and also provide technical guidance to the teams

What We’ll Provide:

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out

• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more

• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.

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At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second.  We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong."  Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

The Salary Range for the role is $98,000.00 - $155,000.00 per year.

If a candidate is hired, they will be paid at least the minimum wage according to their geographical jurisdiction and the exemption status for the position.

New York Exempt: New York City and Long Island: $66,300.00/year, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $66,300.00/year, Remainder of New York state: $62,353.20/year New York Non-exempt: New York City and Long Island: $17.00/hour, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties: $17.00/hour, Remainder of New York state: $16.00/hour

Washington Exempt: $80,168.40/year Washington Non-exempt: Bellingham: $19.13/hour, Burien: $21.63/hour, Everette: $20.77/hour, Unincorporated King County: $20.82/hour, Renton: $21.57/hour, Seattle: $21.30/hour, Tukwila: $21.65/hour, Remainder of Washington state: $17.13/hour

For location-specific minimum wage details, see the following link: DaVita.jobs/WageRates

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits  

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process.  You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.