Founding Software Engineer — Hybrid, Health Tech Impact

Essen Healthcare; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology startup in New York is looking for a Software Engineer to join their founding engineering team. This role entails taking ownership of features and improvements across the platform, with responsibilities such as building clinical rules, AI automations, and EHR integrations. Candidates should have 2+ years of experience in software engineering and be comfortable working full stack. The position offers a hybrid work environment with strong opportunities for career growth while impacting underserved communities directly.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Comfortable working across the stack, backend and frontend.
• Strong fundamentals: data structures, system design basics, debugging, writing testable code.

Responsibilities

• Implement clinical rules for patient outreach.
• Build AI automations interacting with payor systems.
• Work on EHR integrations for patient data management.
• Use LLMs to deliver patient context to coordinators.
• Improve infrastructure: API performance and data pipelines.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Working across the stack (backend/frontend)

Data structures and system design

Debugging skills

Writing testable code

Attention to detail

Feature ownership

Tools

Python (FastAPI)

React/TypeScript

MSSQL

Redis

Azure

Terraform

Job description

A healthcare technology startup in New York is looking for a Software Engineer to join their founding engineering team. This role entails taking ownership of features and improvements across the platform, with responsibilities such as building clinical rules, AI automations, and EHR integrations. Candidates should have 2+ years of experience in software engineering and be comfortable working full stack. The position offers a hybrid work environment with strong opportunities for career growth while impacting underserved communities directly.