Software Engineer, Color

• A passion for using software and technology to help save lives, and reduce the risk of populations to a multitude of diseases. You want to apply your skills in the service of a greater mission
• 4+ years of industry experience as a software engineer (or equivalent role)
• Experience building and launching numerous features, products or systems successfully into the wild and iterated to incorporate user feedback
• A commitment to quality of code; you will work hard to eliminate unnecessary duplication or awkward workarounds. You're passionate about rigorous engineering practices and discipline: code reviews, automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc
• Effective communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical collaborators: you identify core challenges in complex situations, explain trade offs, and incorporate feedback to make decisions using code reviews, docs, wikis, meetings, and other channels as needed
• Experience defining product roadmaps in close collaboration with Product Managers, Designers, Researchers and other stakeholders
• Experience with modern web stacks

Desirable

• We’re looking for an experienced full stack Software Engineer II to help us build and scale our healthcare platform
• You’ll develop innovative new features that impact people’s health and lives
• As a Color engineer, you’ll build out new products, improve the usability, performance and architecture of our existing products and services
• This is a mid-level position, suitable for those with experience building complex software as part of a high-performing team
• No background or expertise in healthcare is required
• The Onboarding Experience (OX) team builds patient-facing systems that connect patients to Color’s Virtual Cancer Clinic and guide them through personalized Cancer Risk Assessments (CRA)
• We translate patient responses into cancer risk evaluations that power downstream experiences like dashboards, messaging, care team scheduling, and kit fulfillment
• As a metrics-driven team, we ground product development in data—testing hypotheses, monitoring funnel performance, and refining experiences to maximize impact
• In this role, you will deliver patient-centered solutions that increase cancer screening adherence and improve health outcomes at scale
• Design and build novel products and features to address long-standing problems in healthcare, with a focus on producing amazing experiences that are more than the sum of their parts
• Collaborate with product, design, data and business intelligence, and our clinical teams to build cutting-edge experiences and services
• Improve the quality, reliability, and speed of our core products and services
• Propose and implement changes to our data models, core architecture, and codebase
• Develop all levels of the technical stack even if you’re more experienced in some layers
• Smarter onboarding funnels at scale: Build flexible, campaign-driven onboarding experiences (side doors) and referral flows for Color’s Virtual Cancer Clinic, designed to expand patient reach and increase engagement and enrollment
• Modular Cancer Risk Assessment (CRA) sections: Evolve the CRA into fully independent, reusable modules that simplify maintenance, enable campaign-specific assessments, streamline testing, and create a foundation for future innovation
• Marketing site modernization: Contribute to the evolution of Color’s public website, www.color.com, to use a modern content management system (CMS), allowing our Brand Design team to effectively tell our story while ensuring accessibility and performance
• Data-informed product iteration: Apply data science techniques to improve our product – run hypothesis-based experimentation, track performance, and continuously iterate to improve app conversion and cancer screening adherence in close collaboration with the Engagement Marketing team