Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Zus Health; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with match

Unlimited PTO

Equity

Job summary

Zus Health is seeking a Staff Engineer for the platform team to build core data services that process, store, and deliver health records at scale. You will work with AWS services like Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, and others, building RESTful and GraphQL APIs, primarily in Go.

You will collaborate with product managers and engineers, provide technical leadership, and coach others. The role offers a hybrid schedule in the Boston metro area or remote EST/CST with occasional travel for in-person

Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale cloud systems in Go.
• Experience with healthcare data and APIs.
• Familiarity with FHIR and TEFCA standards.
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade services.
• Hybrid/in-person collaboration in Boston area or willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate data services and APIs at scale.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture and design.
• Coach and mentor engineers to ship safely in production.

Skills

Go

Cloud architecture

AWS services

APIs (REST/GraphQL)

DynamoDB

Tools

AWS

DynamoDB

Postgres

Iceberg

Elasticsearch

Job description

Who we are

Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights – so that they can build up, not around.

What we're looking for...

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join the platform team at Zus which builds our core data services. The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, providing low latency and high‑availability for all operations. You are creative, innovative and think deeply about both the technical problems and business problems our customers are facing.

The Platform team has needed to rapidly innovate to stay ahead of data volumes that grow at 10x per year and a growing base of data‑savvy customers using Zus to improve patient care. The team is also contending with an evolving regulatory landscape in data privacy and security. Expect to learn a lot and be put on mission‑critical projects with direct customer impact.

The Platform team is at the heart of everything at Zus. You will work on data services that operate on large‑scale data using a variety of AWS services (Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc.) and use data storage technologies such as DynamoDB, Postgres, Iceberg, Elasticsearch and others. You will also work on RESTful and GraphQL APIs that are used both internally and externally. Go is our language of choice and the team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its pipelines and services.

As part of our team, you will...

• Collaborate with product managers and internal users of the Zus Platform to ensure the platform is meeting the needs of our customers, both internal and external
• Collaborate with team members and across Engineering to iteratively prototype and develop new functionality
• Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the team’s systems
• Build and operate data services driving our applications and APIs
• Coach others to become better engineers

You're a good fit because you...

• Learn fast and enjoy open‑ended technical challenges
• Are interested in the business problems our customers face
• Have experience with operationally stable, scalable, and cost efficient data services
• Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production
• Are jazzed to build backend services in Go
• Have experience using Cloud Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift or Databricks
• Have experience with at least one of the following: deployment technologies (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Are excited to finally enable a true digital revolution in healthcare
• Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup
• Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems
• Are in the Boston metro and excited to collaborate in person on a hybrid schedule, or are remote (EST/CST) but willing to travel for in‑person collaboration occasionally

It would be awesome if you were...

• Experienced in building and running large‑scale systems in the cloud using Go
• Experienced in AWS DynamoDB
• Knowledgeable about application security
• Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
• Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards

$170,000 - $200,000 a year

For Engineering roles, we expect occasional travel for in‑person meetings and events a few times per year.

We will offer you…

• Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team – a combination of cash and equity
• Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401(k) with a match, unlimited PTO
• Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)

Please note: Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences.

We do not conduct interviews by text nor will we send you a job offer unless you've interviewed with multiple people, including the Director of People & Talent, over video interviews. Job scams do exist so please be careful with your personal information.

We will offer you a hybrid schedule with occasional remote work from EST/CST, but require in‑person collaboration occasionally.