Staff Engineer, Healthie

• This role requires strong technical judgment and the ability to navigate ambiguity, complexity, and scale
• We are looking for someone who can balance long-term technical vision with hands-on execution and who thrives working across a wide range of systems, teams, and problem spaces
• You have 8+ years of experience building and scaling production software systems, including experience working across both legacy and greenfield environments
• You have strong full stack engineering experience and are comfortable owning projects across backend systems, frontend applications, APIs, infrastructure-adjacent work, and system integrations
• You have direct experience with our tech stack: Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, RSpec, and Capybara
• You have deep experience with software architecture, systems design, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization in complex production environments
• You understand how to thoughtfully evolve legacy systems while balancing business needs, technical debt, speed, and long-term maintainability
• You are highly collaborative and excel at partnering cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, and operational stakeholders
• You are comfortable leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and influencing architectural decisions across teams without relying on formal authority
• You thrive in fast-paced startup environments and are able to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic execution
• You have strong product and customer intuition and care deeply about building reliable, intuitive systems that improve outcomes for healthcare organizations and patients
• You embody Healthie’s core values (Respect, Reliability, Resilience) and bring a collaborative, no-ego, ownership-oriented mindset to your work
• You have a strong sense of software stewardship and continuously look for opportunities to improve systems, developer experience, operational excellence, and engineering quality over time

Desirable

• We are hiring an exceptional Staff Full Stack Engineer to join our Core Engineering team at Healthie
• In this senior technical role, you’ll help drive the evolution of Healthie’s platform across both legacy systems and new product development, balancing thoughtful modernization with pragmatic execution in a fast-moving healthcare environment
• As a Staff Engineer, you’ll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Platform, and Engineering teams to architect, build, and scale systems that power critical healthcare workflows for providers and patients
• Your work will span backend and frontend development, platform improvements, API design, system architecture, performance optimization, and developer experience initiatives across both established and greenfield areas of our platform
• You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of Healthie’s architecture while also improving and maintaining highly utilized production systems that support millions of patient interactions and billions of API calls
• You’ll help lead technical direction across the organization, mentor engineers, raise the engineering bar, and influence how we build scalable, reliable, and maintainable software
• At Healthie, we are increasingly AI-enabled and AI-accelerated in how we build. We are looking for team members who actively leverage AI-powered development tools, embrace automation, and help teams adopt modern, AI-assisted engineering practices to increase both velocity and quality

• Quick chat with someone from our Talent team (15 min)
• Interview with Jonathan, VP of Engineering (30 minutes)
• Pair Coding Interview (2- one-hour sessions)
• Interview with and Engineering Manager (30 minutes)
• Interview with Cavan, CTO + cofounder (20 minutes)
• Reference Checks