AI-Driven Full-Stack Engineer, Healthcare Navigation

TouchCare; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Flexible benefits package

Onsite at Stamford, CT

Job summary

TouchCare, based in Stamford, CT, is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to build and maintain our HIPAA-regulated healthcare platforms. You’ll own end-to-end full-stack development and ship AI-driven solutions that support member services and benefits advocacy.

You’ll collaborate with the COO and a global tech partner to modernize our stack, design autonomous workflows, and ensure production-ready systems that scale with our growing member base.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building and maintaining production system
• Full-stack engineering capability, comfortable owning frontend and backend across the full development lifecycle.
• Hands‑on production experience, you’ve shipped systems real users depend on and iterated on them based on what you learned.
• Experience in a regulated environment, HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, or equivalent
• Background in healthcare tech, benefits advocacy, carrier systems, or claims data, or a strong interest and willingness to go deep on this domain.
• An AI‑native workflow, Cursor, Claude, GPT (or equivalents) are part of how you work every day, and you have developed opinions about when and how to use them effectively.
• Comfort operating as an individual contributor with engineering lead responsibilities, making technical decisions, collaborating with external partners, and owning outcomes without layers of process.

Responsibilities

• Own full-stack feature development end-to-end: architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Design and ship production AI agents and workflow automations that our member services and benefits advocacy teams depend on daily.
• Collaborate directly with the COO, operations, and member services teams to understand the healthcare and benefits workflows you’re improving (claims, coverage issues, billing disputes, provider coordination).
• Build in a HIPAA-regulated environment.
• Partner with our external engineering team to maintain and improve existing systems, while helping migrate and streamline the tech stack over time.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Production systems

HIPAA/regulatory

Healthcare tech

AI workflows

External partner collaboration

Tools

Python

React

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

GCP

GitLab

Jenkins

Sentry

TestRail

Jira

Confluence

LangChain

LlamaIndex

ElevenLabs

REST APIs

Job description

TouchCare, based in Stamford, CT, is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to build and maintain our HIPAA-regulated healthcare platforms. You’ll own end-to-end full-stack development and ship AI-driven solutions that support member services and benefits advocacy.

You’ll collaborate with the COO and a global tech partner to modernize our stack, design autonomous workflows, and ensure production-ready systems that scale with our growing member base.