Staff Software Engineer
$190,000–$235,000 year
On-site · New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Lead end-to-end delivery of impactful features across React, TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS Lambda, improving real workflows for staff and patients. Set technical direction for core systems: API design, data modeling, scalability, reliability, and deployment patterns. Design robust, extensible systems built for clinical environments (edge cases, safety, change management, uptime). Shape how AI is applied across the platform—both to improve engineering velocity and to safely automate high-value workflows. Partner closely with product and clinical teams to navigate tradeoffs across safety, usability, compliance, and automation. Own the full project arc: clarify goals, shape architecture, manage risk, coordinate execution, and improve after launch. Raise the bar across engineering by improving standards, code review quality, observability, incident readiness, and release confidence. Mentor teammates and help build an engineering culture where concerns surface early and releases get smoother over time.
Required Qualifications
- Strong full-stack engineering background with a backend focus; proven track record shipping end-to-end systems
- Expertise with modern web and backend development (React + TypeScript; Postgres; strong API fundamentals)
- Experience building and operating production systems in the cloud (AWS preferred; serverless/Lambda experience is a plus)
- Strong architectural instincts: systems thinking, clean abstractions, maintainability, performance, and reliability
- Product-minded engineering: you care about UX quality, workflow clarity, and adoption—not just code
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, making decisions with imperfect information, and driving alignment across stakeholders
- Strong communication skills and the ability to lead through influence (not org chart)
- Ideal Signals: healthcare/finance/security domains experience; AI-assisted features; observability; safer rollout processes
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