Staff Engineer, Healthcare Staffing Engine

Vitalize; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Flexible PTO

Travel budget

Off-sites

Free meals

Relocation bonus

Desk allowance

Commuter benefits

Wellness stipend

Office in Jackson Square

Job summary

Vitalize is hiring for a software engineer to design and own the decision engine behind staffing recommendations in healthcare operations. You will turn messy operational reality into reliable software that hospitals trust for critical staffing decisions.

You will work with product and design teams to build scalable solutions, explain why recommendations were made, and help automate workflows while balancing policy, patient needs, and operational constraints.

Qualifications

• Expertise with TypeScript.
• Instinct to dive into the Why.
• Experience working across the entire tech stack.
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to reason through complicated edge cases.
• Comfort working directly with customers to understand problems and rapidly improve the product.
• Clear communication and a high ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the decision logic behind staffing recommendations, alerts, and workflows.
• Own systems that balance staffing rules, hospital policies, patient needs, and operational constraints.
• Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to build complex software solutions that are easy to use by customers.
• Work directly with clinical leaders to understand how staffing decisions are made.
• Build software that explains why it reached a recommendation so users can trust, validate, or override it.
• Define where automation ends and human judgment begins, helping Vitalize safely automate more of hospital operations over time.
• Continuously improve the system using customer feedback, production data, and real-world outcomes.

Skills

TypeScript

Why-oriented

Full-stack experience

Systems thinking

Customer collaboration

Ownership mindset

Tools

Planetscale

Bun

React

TanStack Router

Job description

Vitalize is hiring for a software engineer to design and own the decision engine behind staffing recommendations in healthcare operations. You will turn messy operational reality into reliable software that hospitals trust for critical staffing decisions.

You will work with product and design teams to build scalable solutions, explain why recommendations were made, and help automate workflows while balancing policy, patient needs, and operational constraints.