Firefly Health

Lead Software Engineer

Firefly Health$150K — $180K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience writing production code across the stack
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a love for learning
  • Experience with designing, building, and shipping features end-to-end
  • Capacity for humility and resilience when facing challenges
  • Ability to foster a collaborative engineering culture through mentorship and code review

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with clinical, operations, and product teams to design and build supporting technology
  • Develop mobile apps, web applications, and APIs for accessible health benefits
  • Refine workflows using machine learning for automation across the platform
  • Integrate third-party health tech to enhance platform functionality
  • Work on member-facing and clinical intelligence platforms for efficient care delivery
  • Own projects from ideation to release, influencing product and technical decisions
  • Contribute to technical architecture and establish best practices

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401k
  • Bonus opportunities
  • Flexibility of a largely remote working structure with occasional onsite team gatherings
Full Job Description
The Role

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who thrives in a high growth environment to join our core engineering team. This team works side-by-side with our clinical, operations, and product teams to change the experience of healthcare.

The engineering team's goal is to create an integrated, intelligent platform that proactively manages healthcare at scale and makes high-quality benefits accessible and engaging for all. You'll help power a platform that not only serves members, providers, and employers, but also leverages advanced technologies to drive efficiency and better outcomes.

Our tech stack includes React, React Native, Typescript, Python, Django, Postgres, Docker, and AWS. It's a great modern foundation for tackling the challenges ahead of us.

You will:
    • Partner with our clinical, operations, and product teams to design and build technology underlying our alternate health plan and care experiences
    • Build beautiful mobile apps, web applications, and APIs that make high-quality health benefits and world class care accessible and engaging for members
    • Develop and refine agentic workflows using machine learning models to power automation and intelligence across our platform - including care management, navigation and proactive interventions
    • Integrate with third-party vendors and health tech innovations to expand our platform's functionality, data sources, and member services
    • Work on a member-facing platform and clinical intelligence platform used by our care teams to deliver efficient, quality care
    • Own projects from ideation to release, influencing both product and technical decisions
    • Contribute to technical architecture and best practices across the team
    • Help recruit highly capable engineers to the team from diverse backgrounds

You'd be a good fit if:
    • You have 8+ years of experience writing production code across the stack
    • You resonate with our mission: to deliver clinical and financial health through joyful, always there, care
    • You love learning and unstructured problem-solving
    • You enjoy and take ownership in designing, building, and shipping features end-to-end
    • You approach challenges with humility and resilience
    • You strive to build collaborative engineering cultures through thoughtful code review, documentation, mentorship, and teamwork

Nice to haves:
    • Experience with the specific technologies in our stack
    • Experience working with machine learning models, agentic workflows, or automation in the healthcare space.
    • Experience with the messiness of healthcare data and ETL work


The salary range for this position is $150,000 to $180,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Firefly Health is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

Our office is in Watertown, Massachusetts, but we've developed a robust remote working structure to give us more geographical flexibility while hiring for many positions. This role can be done largely remotely, there are several times a year when staff come together onsite for planning and team building.

About Firefly Health

Firefly Health is a healthcare company that provides virtual primary care services to patients. The company's platform combines virtual care with in-person visits to provide patients with comprehensive care. Firefly Health's services include preventive care, chronic disease management, behavioral health, and more. The company's mission is to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable to everyone. Firefly Health was founded in 2018 by Andy Ellner and Mark Nathan and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Learn more about Firefly Health
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2018

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