Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wellvana is a healthcare company dedicated to transforming the healthcare system through value-based care programs. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will own the internal tooling layer that connects Wellvana’s data platform to various teams, designing and building web and desktop interfaces to enhance usability and contributing to data engineering efforts.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain internal web and desktop applications used by clinical operations, analytics, and data engineering teams
- Own the full stack: frontend interfaces, backend APIs, authentication, deployment, and observability
- Partner with data engineering to surface pipeline outputs, data quality signals, and operational metrics in usable interfaces
- Establish frontend and application engineering conventions where none currently exist
- Contribute to data engineering work — pipeline development, Dagster assets, dbt models — when capacity or priority calls for it
- Evaluate and introduce tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure appropriate to a small team with limited ops overhead
- Translate ambiguous requirements from non-technical stakeholders into scoped, shippable software
- Raise the application development baseline of the broader data engineering team through pairing, review, and convention-setting
- Deploy and manage containerized applications on AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, or equivalent)
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline application deployment and integration processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including analytics, clinical ops, and product, to ensure software meets real user needs
- Build and maintain API-based integrations to facilitate seamless data exchange between internal applications and the data platform
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve application development practices
Skills
- Integrity: The right way is the only way
- Dependability: You do what you say you're going to do
- Advocacy: You fight for the best possible outcome for providers and their patients
- Clarity: You make it all understandable
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated scope growth
- 3+ years of cloud deployment experience on AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, or equivalent)
- 3+ years of production experience with a modern frontend framework (React preferred)
- 3+ years of backend API development in Python or Node
- Demonstrated use of AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) in a professional development workflow
- Strong full-stack capability: able to own a feature from data model to UI without handoffs
- Production experience with React or an equivalent modern frontend framework
- Backend API development in Python or Node; comfortable owning the full request lifecycle
- Cloud deployment on AWS; familiar with ECS, Lambda, S3, and CloudFront
- Data modeling and DBT specific experience
- Strong understanding of authentication patterns and application security fundamentals
- Knowledge of CI/CD practices for application deployment
- Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker
- Strong instinct for simplicity: reaches for complexity only when it earns its keep
- Excellent communication skills; able to work with non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable operating as the sole application engineer on a data-engineering-primary team
- Active use of AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) as a development force multiplier — not as a novelty, but as a core part of how you work
- Healthcare or regulated-data environment experience is a plus
- Experience integrating directly with data warehouses (Snowflake or similar) from application code is a plus
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