Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack [NYC or SF]

Amigo

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 260,000 - 300,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Catered meals (lunch/dinner)

Mental health support

Wellness stipend

Learning budget

Conferences

Team offsite

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Amigo is hiring a Staff Application Engineer to build real-time interfaces for clinical oversight, NLP-driven data exploration, and design-time tooling for agent behavior without code. Youll own features end to end, from database schemas to UI, in systems handling sensitive patient data with a high bar for correctness.

Youll collaborate with clinicians, designers, and customers to refine details, ship production features across the stack, and ensure reliability and performance in critical

Qualifications

Shipped production full-stack features end to end.
Strong across the stack from data modeling and APIs to modern front-end work.
Care about correctness and reliability, especially with sensitive data.

Responsibilities

Build real-time interfaces for clinical oversight of live agent conversations.
Own a feature end to end, from schema to API to UI.
Design tools that let non-engineers shape agent behavior safely.
Make healthcare data explorable through natural language.
Improve reliability and performance of clinician-facing apps.
Collaborate with designers, clinicians, and customers to get details right.

Skills

Full-stack development

API design

Frontend development

Data modeling

WebSockets

NLP

Healthcare data

Tools

WebSockets

SSE

Job description

About Amigo

Amigo partners with healthcare organizations to deploy robust AI infrastructure that directly serves patients and providers. Our agents handle clinical workflows and patient engagement across the entire journey: pre-visit intake, care navigation, post-visit care plans, patient monitoring, and more.

About Amigo

We're fresh off our Series A backed by Tier 1 investors like Madrona, General Catalyst, and Optum Ventures. Our work is validated with leading academic medical institutions. Our agents have reached 3M+ patient encounters and are on track to 10x this year.

About This Role

As a Staff Application Engineer at Amigo, you'll build the applications that clinical teams, researchers, and customers use every day: real-time oversight of live agent conversations, natural language research over healthcare data, and tools for designing agent behavior without code. You'll own features end to end, from the database to the UI, in systems that handle sensitive patient data. The bar for correctness and reliability is high.

What you'll do

Building real-time interfaces for clinical oversight of live agent conversations

Owning a feature end to end, from schema to API to UI

Designing tools that let non-engineers shape agent behavior safely

Making healthcare data explorable through natural language

Hardening the reliability and performance of applications clinicians depend on

Working with designers, clinicians, and customers to get the details right

What we're looking for

You've shipped production full-stack features end to end and owned the outcome

You're strong across the stack, from data modeling and APIs to modern front-end work

You sweat correctness and reliability, especially where sensitive data is involved

You have good product instincts and care how things feel to use

You're low ego, direct, and hold yourself to a high bar

You can work on site in New York City or San Francisco

Nice to have

Experience in a regulated or critical, low margin for error domain (healthcare, finance, legal)

Experience and familiarity with WebSockets, SSE client and server implementations

Background with design systems or complex UI state

Experience with production AI or ML products

Benefits (available To Full-Time Employees)

Health & Wellness

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Daily catered lunch and dinner

Mental health support and wellness coaching

Flexible wellness stipend for fitness, therapy, or personal growth

Growth & Development

Annual learning budget for courses, books, or conferences

Conference attendance budget for professional development

Annual team offsite

Academic collaboration opportunities

Unlimited PTO

Our Core Values

Patients Win, We Win

If patients aren't getting better care, we haven't earned the right to scale. Every internal decision gets pressure-tested: does this make patients' lives better? If we can't draw the line, we question why we're doing it.

High Standards, High Care

We hold a high bar for the team because patients are counting on us to get this right. But high standards only work with genuine investment in each other. You can take risks, admit mistakes, and challenge ideas—not despite our standards, but because of them.

Thoughtful Urgency

We move fast by default, but speed without judgment is recklessness. The discipline is knowing which decisions are reversible vs. not. In healthcare AI, the companies that win will be fast everywhere they can be and careful everywhere they must be. We build the muscle to do both.

Intensely Measured

We instrument patient outcomes, provider ROI, system performance, and clinical accuracy. But data without action is surveillance. Every metric should have an owner, a threshold, and a response plan. If we're measuring something but never acting on it, we stop measuring it.

Who Builds With Us

Low ego: Politics and territory don't interest you. The best ideas win, regardless of who has them.

Direct: You say the hard thing, challenge ideas openly, and commit fully once decided.

High agency: You thrive on trust rather than instruction. When you see something is broken, you fix it. You don’t file tickets and wait for someone else.