Staff Software Engineer, Zocdoc
Bookings
$180-265k
API connecting patients to doctors
Be an early applicant
API connecting patients to doctors
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-265k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To give power to the patient by delivering the accessible, seamless, and simple experience patients expect and deserve.
Role
Who you are
- Inspired by the opportunity to positively impact the healthcare experience of millions of patients and providers
- Product-driven with a relentless focus on user needs
- A fervent champion of engineering fundamentals and enjoys driving adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability across organizations and teams
- Passionate about being part of and contributing to diverse and inclusive teams and culture
- An entrepreneur with strong ownership who can thrive in an ambiguous and fast-changing environment
- A proven track record of owning and scaling complex, user-facing platforms, balancing near-term delivery with a long-term technical vision
- Demonstrated history of solid and well-rounded system design skills, including API design and front-end page architecture
- Bring a strategic mindset, fusing immediate wins with a big-picture roadmap that drives meaningful transformation for your organization
- Lead by example, steering teams toward best-in-class testing, deployment, and observability practices that amplify output and quality
- Strong communication skills that bridge technical and non-technical audiences, aligning product, data science, user experience, and engineering priorities
- A passion for mentoring engineers, driving best practices in testing, deployment, and maintainability, and elevating team-wide engineering quality
- A growth mindset rooted in humility, inclusivity, and curiosity—valuing diverse perspectives and fostering an equitable, collaborative engineering culture
What the job involves
- Zocdoc’s most important asset is our people
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll take ideas from inception to reality by rapidly building prototypes, iterating, and releasing them
- You’ll oversee changes to the business logic and user interface of the booking flow to improve the patient experience
- You’ll also play a key role in evolving the data representation of appointment booking requests to optimize performance, cost, and stability of the booking system
- As a Zocdoc’r, you’ll work with a supportive team of great humans who are funny, intellectually curious, and passionate about giving power back to the patient!
- Charting the technical course for Zocdoc’s booking platform to improve stability and user experience — drafting technical roadmaps, setting technical priorities, and driving visionary initiatives
- Spearheading bold innovation, whether by employing cutting-edge user experience patterns, exploring emerging data sources, or pioneering architectural strategies that keep Zocdoc ahead of the pack in healthcare tech
- Managing and building complex, multi-page web applications along with the backing APIs and microservices, creating frictionless user experiences and data flows that truly empower both patients and providers to access care and information in real time
- Mentoring fellow engineers, supercharging team throughput through robust coding standards, automated workflows, and a culture that embraces continuous improvement
- Analyzing and decomposing complex product challenges to drive sound design decisions
- Collaborating with our agile team of dedicated and brilliant engineers, product managers, and designers
- Working with cutting-edge GenAI tools and technology
Application process
- To ensure fair consideration, candidates should apply to only one Staff Software Engineer role at Zocdoc. Please avoid submitting multiple applications, as we will review your profile for the most relevant opportunity
Our take
The healthcare system often runs on inefficiencies; patients call outdated directories, wait weeks for a visit to a professional and are often hit with surprise bills. Zocdoc was founded to streamline the healthcare experience by putting the patient first.
The platform allows millions of users each month to view open appointment times with doctors, book instantly online, read verified reviews, and keep up-to-date with checkups. The platform works for both in-person and virtual care – the latter of which has seen a substantial increase in demand. Zocdoc is one of the few companies tackling these problems in healthcare.
The company has solidified its position in the SaaS space, in part by forming partnerships with companies such as WellHive, a leader in digital care, to drive healthcare support for veterans. Going forward, Zocdoc will continue to invest in its platform to optimize its services for its users.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2021
$150m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2015
$130m
SERIES D
Total funding: $374m
Company benefits
- 100% paid employee health benefit options
- Vacation and parental leave packages
- Lunch and snacks on us (in-office)
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Corporate wellness programs with Headspace and Peloton
- Employer funded 401(k) match
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Oliver Kharra
(CEO & Co-Founder)Oliver trained as a doctor in Germany before moving into consulting where he worked for McKinsey. During his seven-year tenure at McKinsey & Co., Oliver developed and implemented new patient utilization models for the national health services of a number of governments and major hospital chains
Nick (Nikhil) Ganju
(Co-Founder)Nick has extensive experience in product development, database management and site architecture. He was responsible for building the earliest iterations of ZocDoc and directly overseeing its development for many of its first years
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