Staff API Engineer, Healthie
$197-227k
+ Equity & company bonus
More information about location
Infrastructure for virtual-first healthcare organizations
Be an early applicant
Infrastructure for virtual-first healthcare organizations
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$197-227k
+ Equity & company bonus
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower the providers and builders of the care ecosystem with the tools they need to deliver a complete virtual experience for the end-consumers.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of backend or full-stack development experience, plus deep GraphQL expertise. Bonus points for Ruby on Rails
- A proven track record designing and scaling APIs that handle millions or billions of calls
- Skilled in building developer tools and SDKs (TypeScript, Python, Ruby, or similar) that make integrations effortless
- You care about the details: authentication, pagination, error ergonomics, observability, versioning—you’ve solved these at scale
- A leader who mentors others, sets technical direction, and raises the bar across engineering
- You’re obsessed with creating APIs that feel as intuitive as they are powerful
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset — you enjoy helping other teams succeed
- You embody Healthie’s core values of Respect, Reliability, and Resilience, and integrate them into your engineering work, decision-making, and team collaboration
- Bonus: Experience with background job systems (e.g., Sidekiq), or event-driven architectures
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Staff API Software Engineer to lead the charge on Healthie’s GraphQL API—the backbone of our rapidly expanding developer ecosystem
- This isn’t a role where you simply consume APIs; it’s about building APIs as products in their own right: elegant, scalable, and a joy to use
- Healthie’s API processes over 1 billion calls every month, powering custom experiences, analytics, and integrations that touch millions of patients’ lives
- As Staff Engineer, you’ll set the bar for what “world-class” means in healthcare APIs—designing systems that scale effortlessly, obsessing over every millisecond, and crafting developer experiences so smooth they feel invisible
- You’ll shape architecture, mentor engineers, and partner with leadership to chart the future of our platform
- If you live for polish, performance, and platform thinking—and you want your work to meaningfully improve healthcare delivery—this is the role for you
- Design and scale GraphQL APIs that serve billions of requests—built for speed, reliability, and clarity
- Define and champion API architecture and standards that developers love to build on
- Build and refine SDKs and developer tools that let engineers ship features in hours, not weeks
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the API roadmap, turning developer feedback into platform breakthroughs
- Elevate the developer experience—from schema design to error messages—so working with Healthie feels effortless
- Mentor engineers, influence architecture, and drive cross-team technical strategy
- Improve observability and tooling to keep our API ecosystem rock-solid as it scales
Application process
- Interview with Katie, Director of Talent (20 minutes)
- Interview with Sherilyn, Engineering Manager for Platform (30 minutes)
- Take Home Assessment - completed asynchronously
- Technical Interview with Andrew and Chris, Engineers for Platform (1 hour)
- Leadership Interviews:
- Interview with John, Director, Engineering (30 minutes)
- Behavioral Executive Interview with Cavan, CTO + cofounder- (20 minutes)
- Reference checks
Our take
The past few years have seen a substantial rise in provision and uptake of telemedicine services, with over one in five Americans now signed up. This successful reimagining of healthcare provision into something more accessible, affordable, and effective, has led to a surge of VC investment and rapid-growth success stories in the sector. Would-be startups, however, have to navigate the costly and complex process of building out core, HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.
So software and API company Healthie is filling the gap in this market. The business helps these companies build and deliver health and wellness services by providing a fully-brandable suite of telehealth, business management, and coaching tools. This means that businesses can launch and scale at a fraction of the cost, and in a fraction of the time.
It’s a broad-based set of solutions that’s won Healthie an impressive number of client organizations across over 20 different countries. This vigorous growth looks likely to continue too with its regular funding rounds. Telemedicine remains a popular healthcare tool, and as regulations on telehealth data privacy tighten, the growing number of startups in this space are likely to need more support than ever.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$23m
SERIES B
Jul 2022
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.2m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverages
- FSA and HSA
- Flexible vacation
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Parental leave program
- Learning & development stipends
- Nutritional coaching
- Fitness membership budget
- Co-working subscriptions
- A laptop plus equipment stipend
- Summer Fridays
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Erica Jain
(CEO & Co-Founder)Conducted research at the Center for Research on Prospective Health Care, moving into a nutrition program analyst role at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and finally spent time as a healthcare consultant with BCG.
Cavan Klinsky
(CTO & Co-Founder)Founded search engine Gevva, and then worked freelance as a web designer.
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