Staff Software Engineer

Foundation Health Global Inc

$120K — $150K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building complex systems from scratch
  • Proven ability to make informed architectural decisions
  • High agency and proactive problem-solving skills
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong familiarity with AI tools and applications
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field

Responsibilities

  • Set technical standards through hands-on coding and architectural decisions
  • Design multi-component systems and create practical design documentation
  • Identify and address technical debt before it escalates
  • Create AI-driven workflows, including automated reviews and QA
  • Contribute to AI-powered features such as RAG and evaluation frameworks
  • Manage cross-team dependencies to ensure smooth delivery
  • Mentor team members and support hiring processes without bureaucratic overhead

Benefits

  • Opportunity to be a founding engineer in a new hub
  • Influence product, architecture, and team culture
  • Access to meaningful equity
  • Ability to work on impactful healthcare solutions
  • No legacy code; work on greenfield projects
Full Job Description
The Role

We're building out our engineering hub in Orlando, and we want a Staff Engineer who's genuinely excited about owning something - not just contributing to it. You'll be a technical anchor for one of our core products, making architectural calls that matter six months from now, not just this sprint.

This is a hands-on role. You'll write code, not just review it.

What you'll be doing

You'll set the technical bar - through your own code as much as your decisions. You'll design systems that span multiple components, produce design docs the broader team actually uses, and spot the debt hotspots before they become fires.

On the AI side: we're native by design. Cursor, Claude, the lot. You'll design agentic workflows (automated reviews, LLM-assisted QA) and contribute directly to AI-powered features - RAG, function calling, evaluation frameworks. You'll also help pick the tooling and set the patterns others follow.

Beyond the code, you'll own delivery across workstreams, manage cross-team dependencies, and translate between what engineering can do and what the business needs. You'll grow the people around you through coaching and hiring, not through process overhead.

What we're looking for
  • A track record of building complex systems from scratch - and being able to talk about the specific decisions you made and why
  • High agency. You don't wait for a perfectly scoped ticket. You figure out what needs to happen and do it.
  • Comfortable in ambiguity. We're a Series A - things move fast and change often
  • Already using AI tools daily, and interested in pushing that further
  • Strong educational foundation in CS or a related field


The stack: Node/TypeScript/GCP. No legacy code. Greenfield all the way.

Why now, why us

You'd be joining as one of the founding engineers in a new hub. That means real influence - on the product, the architecture, and the culture we build here. Meaningful equity, a seat at the table, and work that actually touches people's lives through the healthcare system.

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