Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack - (React, Node)

Linus Health; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Unlimited PTO

401K match

Monthly flex day

Job summary

Linus Health, a Boston-based digital health company, seeks a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership while remaining hands‑on in building web applications and platform.

You will design, build, and maintain scalable React/Node.js solutions, mentor engineers, and drive architecture across distributed teams, balancing speed with maintainability and quality.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building full-stack applications with React and Node.js.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing architecture across teams.
• Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams, including employees and contractors.
• Experience building and scaling consumer-facing products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of strategic product initiatives.
• Serve as technical lead for a distributed team of engineers and contractors.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical excellence across the organization.
• Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver solutions.

Skills

React

Node.js

TypeScript

Technical leadership

Distributed teams

Tools

AWS

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - Full Stack - (React, Node)

About this position

Linus Health is a Boston-based digital health company focused on transforming brain health for people across the world. By advancing how we detect and address cognitive and brain disorders – leveraging cutting-edge neuroscience, clinical expertise, and artificial intelligence – our goal is to enable a future where people can live longer, happier, and healthier lives with better brain health.

Role

Linus Health is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership while remaining hands‑on in the development of our web applications and platform. This role will serve as the technical lead for a distributed team of employees and contractors, driving architecture, engineering excellence, and delivery of customer‑facing products that advance brain health.

What you'll do

• Lead the technical design and delivery of strategic product initiatives.
• Serve as technical lead for a distributed team of engineers and contractors.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript.
• Responsibly leverage AI‑assisted development tools and workflows to improve team productivity while ensuring code quality, maintainability, security, and reliability.
• Partner with Product, Design, and cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.
• Take accountability for the full lifecycle of critical feature work, driving features from initial requirements to technical design, through production deployment and long‑term maintenance.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical excellence across the organization.

About You

Must Haves

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building full‑stack applications with React and Node.js.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing architecture across teams.
• Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams, including employees and contractors.
• Experience building and scaling consumer‑facing products.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to balance rapid delivery with long‑term maintainability and technical excellence.
• Bring a 'Masters of Our Craft' mindset, proactively applying the latest engineering practices to modernize our platform.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building and shipping React Native applications.
• Experience in healthcare, digital health, or other regulated environments.
• Experience with AWS and cloud‑native architectures.

Compensation

The base salary budgeted for this position is in the $185-215,000 range per year. This position will also include a yearly target discretionary bonus as well as equity, health benefits, unlimited PTO, a monthly flex day, a 401K plan with a match and more. The final offer determined for the candidate who is hired into this position will depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant skills, professional experience, labor market conditions, etc.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Linus Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, disability or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diversity is critical to the growth of our company and understand the importance of fostering an environment where everyone has a voice. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the recruiting process. If you are in need of assistance due to a disability, please contact us.