Staff Software Engineer (NYC / SF / Remote)

A confidential healthcare technology company is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to build and scale a cloud-based platform for hospital nutrition and clinical workflows. The role owns full-stack projects end to end, develops AI-powered features, and helps shape engineering practices and culture.

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Responsibilities

Build and deliver impactful features across the full technology stack, including React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS Lambda

Design robust, scalable, and extensible systems capable of supporting complex healthcare workflows

Own projects from initial requirements and technical architecture through development, launch, monitoring, and continuous improvement

Develop and integrate AI/LLM-powered features that improve automation, workflow efficiency, and the user experience

Use modern AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT to accelerate development and improve engineering quality

Partner closely with product and clinical stakeholders to evaluate technical tradeoffs involving safety, usability, reliability, and automation

Help establish engineering best practices, development processes, and standards as the company scales

Identify technical risks and raise concerns early while working collaboratively toward practical solutions

Lead engineering projects involving other engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture and implementation

Contribute across infrastructure, backend services, application development, and user-facing experiences

Improve system reliability, performance, maintainability, and scalability as the platform grows

Help shape the company's engineering culture and contribute to building a high-performing technical organization

Preferred

Experience working in healthcare technology, health-tech, clinical software, or other highly regulated/high-trust environments

Experience at a modern, rapidly scaling startup, preferably Series A–F

Previous experience working on AI-enabled products or automation platforms

Experience working in a remote or distributed engineering environment

Experience designing and operating AWS serverless systems at scale

Experience working on products where reliability, safety, privacy, and user trust are critical

Benefits

The company is open to visa transfers , including candidates currently on OPT or H-1B who are eligible for transfer .

Competitive equity package

Hybrid: New York City or San Francisco

Remote candidates may be considered nationwide, with an expectation of traveling approximately quarterly for onsite team collaboration

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College Park, Maryland, USA

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Qualifications

5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience , with strong backend and full-stack experience

At least 2 years in a senior-level engineering role

Strong experience building modern full-stack applications

Professional experience with TypeScript and React or comparable modern frontend technologies

Strong backend development experience with Python, Go, Ruby , or a similar modern backend language

Experience working with PostgreSQL or other relational databases

Hands-on experience with AWS , serverless architecture, infrastructure-as-code, or Terraform

Experience building or shipping AI/LLM-powered applications or features

Regular experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, or ChatGPT

Experience working in a startup or rapidly scaling technology environment

Experience leading an engineering project involving at least one other engineer; this is project leadership rather than formal people management

Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, reliability, and engineering best practices

Ability to work collaboratively with product, engineering, and domain/clinical stakeholders

Strong ownership mentality and ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment

hands-on senior/staff-level engineer who thrives in an early-stage startup environment

Candidates should have demonstrated experience working in collaborative startup environments

The role requires demonstrated experience collaborating as part of an engineering team

Hands-on senior/staff-level engineer who thrives in an early-stage startup environment

Experience working in healthcare technology, health-tech, clinical software, or other highly regulated/high-trust environments

Experience at a modern, rapidly scaling startup, preferably Series A–F

Previous experience working on AI-enabled products or automation platforms

Experience working in a remote or distributed engineering environment

Experience designing and operating AWS serverless systems at scale

Experience working on products where reliability, safety, privacy, and user trust are critical

5–8+ years of professional software engineering experience , with strong backend and full-stack experience.

Required skills

AI/LLM Application Development, ChatGPT, Cursor, Engineering Project Leadership, GitHub Copilot, Go, Healthcare Technology, Infrastructure as Code, PostgreSQL, Python, React, Represents the skills you have, Ruby, Serverless Architecture, Software Architecture, Terraform, TypeScript, click on the tags

Experience

5+ years