Staff Software Engineer - Full-Stack
About the Role

Care Journey is the team responsible for designing and continuously improving a timely, inclusive, and intuitive adaptive care experience, one that guides each member to the right blend of preventative, scalable, and 1:1 support as their needs evolve, driving sustainable engagement and better outcomes for members and a predictable, cost-efficient care mix for our customers. This includes owning new and future work in our onboarding, assessments, care recommendations domains and our various 1:1 and self-paced care offerings, collectively the core of Modern Health's adaptive care model.

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can operate with high ownership across the full stack: someone we can trust to work cross-functionally with product and design, translate ambiguous problems into clear technical plans (tech specs/RFCs), and then execute against that plan, both individually and in close collaboration with other engineers. You'll be expected to have (or quickly build) deep familiarity with our tech stack so you can move fast without First-derivative learning curves slowing down the team. We expect an engineer at this level to be ramped up and owning critical parts of roadmap development within 30 days of onboarding.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii.
What You'll Do-

• Truly full stack product development with a slight lean towards the backend
• Build and maintain GraphQL APIs powered by Python services (Django, Flask)
• Implement web and mobile user experiences using React & React Native
• Engineer efficient and reusable systems that drive complex web and mobile applications
• Maintain HIPAA and GDPR compliance and general security through best practice implementation
• Independently write and execute technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) for large, ambiguous, cross-domain projects, negotiating scope with product along the way
• Lead ambiguous or large projects, working collaboratively with design, product, cross-functional partners, and other engineers to deliver a cohesive adaptive care experience
• Serve as the directly responsible individual from engineering on roadmap commitments, owning launch timelines, decomposing work, and coordinating dependencies across teams
• Write and maintain technical documentation, unit tests, and integration tests
• Be a thought leader in strategic engineering and tech initiatives, and contribute to cross-team engineering forums
• Lead and contribute to cross-team engineering forums and on cross-team engineering projects
• Mentor other engineers to scale your impact both on Care Journey and across the engineering department
• Provide compassionate and impactful reviews of technical project plans and code
• Participate in on-call, driving investigation, remediation, and process improvements from recurring issues

Our Stack-

• React, React Native, Typescript, Redux, Vite
• GraphQL, REST
• Python, Django, Flask, aiohttp
• PostgreSQL, Redis
• Docker
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) including ECS, RDS, Cloudfront, etc.

Who You Are-

• 8+ years of relevant software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages
• At least 2+ years of production experience in full-stack web development, including React, JavaScript/TypeScript, React Native, and Python
• Deep familiarity with our tech stack (or a directly comparable one) strongly preferred; expect to start meaningfully contributing within your first 30 days
• Demonstrated high ownership: you independently decompose very ambiguous problems into component parts, propose technically elegant strategies, and can estimate and deliver against them with confidence
• A track record of writing technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) that hold up under cross-functional scrutiny, and driving solutioning for initiatives that span multiple domains or teams
• Experience building and maintaining GraphQL and/or REST APIs
• Experience scaling relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and writing performant queries
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and be trusted as a technical partner by product, design, and other engineering teams, including navigating disagreement and bringing people along on a technical direction
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment with stakeholders outside your immediate team
• Experience mentoring and effectively working with a distributed development team
• Experience leading and architecting large-scale projects as a technical thought leader
• Passion for building something to improve the lives of others

Bonus points if you have experience in-

• Native mobile development
• AI/LLM-powered product features (e.g., recommendation systems, conversational or agentic experiences)
• Experience with maturely leveraging AI in your development lifecycle to improve quality and speed for yourself and other engineers
• Real-time messaging or notification flows, including push notifications
• Experience with SQL, bash, or other scripting languages to facilitate debugging or developer-experience contributions
• Working with AWS or other cloud platforms
• Working at a high-growth startup
• Working in Health Tech or HR

Benefits

Fundamentals:

• Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance
• High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
• Flexible Time Off
• Company-wide Collective Pause Days

Family Support:

• Parental Leave Policy
• Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
• Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter

Professional Development:

• Professional Development Stipend

Financial Wellness:

• 401k
• Financial Planning Benefit through Origin

But wait there's more...!

• Annual Wellness Stipend to use on items that promote your overall well being
• New Hire Stipend to help cover work-from-home setup costs
• ModSquad Community: Virtual events like active ERGs, holiday themed activities, team-building events and more
• Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement