Software Engineer

flatironhealth; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work/life autonomy

Comprehensive compensation

401(k) contribution

Financial health resources

Mental well-being tools

Parental benefits

Job summary

Flatiron Health is seeking a software engineer with 1-4 years of experience to design and develop technology within our engineering organization, collaborating across functions to understand challenges in clinical practice and research and to build technology solutions for better outcomes.

You will work in a hybrid New York role with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end features, write tests, and review code while embracing AI-assisted coding tools and modern

Qualifications

• 1-4 years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in computer science or related field.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and relational databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL/MSSQL.

Responsibilities

• This role will design and develop technology within Flatiron Health's engineering organization and drive clinical outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to understand problems before solving.
• Break down ambiguous requirements into well-scoped work and surface risks early.
• Design, implement, test, and deploy features end-to-end with maintainable code.
• Investigate and resolve bugs with automated tests and root-cause analysis.
• Participate in design and code reviews and leverage AI-assisted coding tools while ensuring security and reliability.

Skills

Python

C++

Java

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

PhD in related field

Tools

Docker

Snowflake

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

What You'll Do

• This role will design and develop technology within Flatiron's engineering organization. This role will collaborate cross functionally with experts across a variety of functions to understand how to develop technology solutions that drive clinical outcomes either in the practice or research settings to understand their challenges and how technology can help solve them.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deeply understand problems before jumping to solutions whilst balancing customer needs, technical constraints, and business priorities
• Break down ambiguous requirements into well-scoped, actionable work, and ask clarifying questions and surface risks early
• Design, implement, test, and deploy features end-to-end. Write clean, well-tested code that balances pragmatism with long-term maintainability
• Investigate and resolve bugs by tracing issues to root causes, designing thoughtful fixes, and validating changes with automated tests
• Participate in design and code reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback that elevates team quality
• Effectively leverage AI-assisted coding tools and modern technologies to accelerate development while applying critical judgment to validate outputs and maintain security, reliability, and code quality

Who You Are

• You're a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. You're excited by the prospect of working on difficult and meaningful problems each day. You seek and give candid feedback, and value the chance to make an important impact on cancer patients and society.
• You're a software engineer with 1-4 years of relevant professional experience
• You hold a Bachelors, Masters, and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and always willing to teach and learn
• You are excited to work in a fast moving environment, think creatively and be scrappy to get the job done
• You have a nose for value and empathy for your customers
• You have experience with languages like Python, C++, Java, and/or C#, but are also willing to pick up new programming languages as needed
• You have some experience working with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
• You have a good understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MSSQL
• You understand the purpose of "boring" technology (as described in this blog post ) and are willing to use the right tools to get the job done
• Extra credit:
  • You have experience working in healthcare or exposure to healthcare-related standards like HL7
  • You have experience developing software with AI agents like Claude Code or Cursor
  • You have experience with containerized environments such as Docker, including image creation, orchestration, and production deployment.
  • You have experience building and maintaining data pipelines and modeling production datasets in Snowflake.

Where You'll Work

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. For more information on our approach to hybrid work, please visit the how we work website.

Life at Flatiron

At Flatiron Health, we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research, and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer:

• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
• Comprehensive compensation package
• 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals
• Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
• Mental well-being tools and services
• Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
• Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy
• Travel support for safe healthcare services

In addition to our robust benefit offerings, visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate inclusion and belonging in the workplace