Senior Software Engineer, Citizen Health
Front-End
$200-235k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Health data access & sharing platform
Be an early applicant
Health data access & sharing platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-235k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve the lives of 400+ million people navigating rate and complex conditions.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in front-end development, with a focus on complex single-page applications (SPAs) and a proven track record of launching consumer-facing products
- Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and modern CSS (including CSS-in-JS solutions)
- Strong understanding of web performance optimization techniques, scalability, and security
- Experience with front-end testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress)
Desirable
- Experience with state management solutions (e.g., Redux, MobX, or Recoil)
- Familiarity with modern build tools, module bundlers, and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of responsive design principles and cross-browser compatibility
- Proven track record of high-quality coding and architectural design
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Senior Front-End Engineer to work on the development of our patient, partner, and internal-facing web applications
- This role is crucial in creating intuitive, efficient, and responsive user interfaces that will directly impact our users' experience and our platform's success
- As a key part of our front-end team, you will build high-performance, scalable, and accessible user interfaces that serve diverse user groups including rare disease patients, healthcare providers, researchers, and our internal teams
- Your work will be at the heart of our mission, translating complex health data and research findings into user-friendly interfaces that empower patients, facilitate groundbreaking research, and streamline our internal operations
- Implement high-performance, scalable front-end solutions using modern web technologies
- Lead the design and development of reusable UI components and libraries to ensure consistency across our platform
- Optimize application performance, focusing on load time, responsiveness, and efficient resource usage, particularly crucial for our data-intensive healthcare applications
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate wireframes and mockups into responsive, interactive features that meet the needs of rare disease patients, healthcare providers, and researchers
- Implement and maintain robust front-end testing strategies, including unit tests and end-to-end tests, to ensure the reliability of our critical health-related applications
- Stay current with front-end best practices, emerging technologies, and industry trends, particularly those relevant to healthcare and scientific research applications
- Work closely with back-end engineering teams to integrate front-end applications with APIs and services, ensuring seamless data flow and functionality
Our take
Citizen Health is an AI-powered platform that gives individuals with rare and complex diseases access to their health data. By centralizing records like clinical data, genetic information and patient-reported outcomes, it helps patients make informed decisions, share insights with caregivers and connect with others facing similar conditions.
The platform also accelerates medical research by providing researchers with critical patient data, speeding up drug development and clinical trials. By empowering patients to share their experiences, Citizen Health helps advance personalized care and faster therapies for rare diseases.
Only founded in 2023, the company is already making waves, with financial backing from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). With CZI's support, Citizen Health aims to expand its platform, innovate further and accelerate research to improve the overall treatment of rare diseases.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2024
$14.5m
SEED
Total funding: $14.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Company off-sites
- Work-from-anywhere 30 days of the year
- Unlimited PTO
- Potential for equity
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
Company values
- Work for the patients: Not for the systems that serve them
- Fearlessly build the future with urgency: Don't incrementally improve the status quo
- The future is built by the doers: Good ideas alone will not change the world
- Speed is of the essence: But we need robust technology to scale and succeed
- Life is hard enough: Let's never make it any harder for our community
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Farid Vij
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the President and General Manager of Patient Network and Data at Invitae. Prior to that, they co-founded Ciitizen where they served as the Chief Operating Officer.
Nasha Fitter
(Co-Founder & CBO)Co-founder and CEO at FOXG1Research. Previously VP at Invitae and Ciitizen. Also was founder and CEO of Schoolie (acquired by GreatSchools) and spent 6 years at Microsoft in a number of education related roles.
Daniel Wang
(CTO)Previously the Director of AI, ML and Pricing Engineering at Uber Freight. They also worked at Amazon as an Alexa Speech Recognition Model Engineer and co-founded Factory Method where they served as the CEO.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 5 more jobs at Citizen Health