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Senior Software Engineer

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Akido is rebuilding the healthcare experience from the ground up. Through early interventions designed around social determinants of health (SDoH), world-class care focused on chronic disease, and human-centered technology, we believe we can build a healthcare model that allows for all patients to live their fullest lives. We are a fast-growing, impact-focused, Y Combinator company created out of the University of Southern California’s D-Health Lab with the idea that empowering government, healthcare, and nonprofit services with population-based data could help usher in a new era of preventive public health. Today we are building a full stack medical network that leverages our predictive capabilities to provide a frictionless experience for both our patients and care providers. 

The Opportunity

Big things are happening at Akido — and we’re just getting started! Our tight-knit team is passionate about transforming healthcare by turning data into powerful actions that change lives. We thrive on collaboration, innovation, and the energy that comes from solving real-world healthcare and public health challenges together. At Akido, every idea counts, every voice matters, and every day brings a new opportunity to learn, grow, and make a lasting impact. 

 

What you will do: 

  • Design, build and test new features based on our technology and business needs within an agile environment where we embrace frequent releases and quality code. 
  • Provide strong technical leadership in areas of design, architecture, quality and developer productivity 
  • Tech lead projects and help define the work streams required to deliver projects and features 
  • Improve testing and tooling for our apps and services 
  • Collaborate with various product and technical team members and leaders 
  • Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code. 
  • Optimize apps and services for performance, scalability and user experience 
  • Develop and maintain reusable code and libraries 
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge 
  • Support your teammates by continuing to learn and grow 

 

What you bring: 

  • Minimum 7 years' experience in software engineering including 4+ years of experience with full stack architecture, distributed systems and microservices  
  • A product-centric mindset and ability to challenge product owners and teammates to improve in all areas of product engineering. 
  • Desire to write feature code as well as infrastructure as code for builds and deployments 
  • Strong quality and test automation bias. Attention to detail and help teammates deliver polished products 
  • A desire to move fast and ship high quality code.  
  • Experience including major contributions in developing multiple microservices, preferably as a tech lead, having built them from scratch and worked through all phases of product development from planning and design to execution and release 
  • Ability to work effectively with remote teammates 
  • Passion for software engineering, clean code and strong sense of ownership and accountability 
  • Experience mentoring engineers with a history of presenting team tech talks on multiple development topics 
  • Must Have: Multiple years of industry experience: 
    • Top notch communication skills 
    • A mission-oriented mindset and a strong desire to continuously learn and improve 
    • Experience developing RESTful APIs and integrating them with frontend applications 
    • Experience with unit and API test automation 
    • Hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.) 
    • Microservices integration with Kafka 
    • Observability tools, and service operations 
    • Docker 
    • Gitlab, Gitlab CI 
  • Nice to have: 
    • Node.js / NestJS 
    • GraphQL 
    • Fullstack development experience with React, Typescript, Next.js 
    • Experience with Launch Darkly or feature toggles 
    • AWS cloud services experience 
    • Avro

 

Benefits

 

  • Stock-options package
  • Health benefits include medical, dental and vision
  • 401K
  • Long-term disability
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Life insurance
  • Paid Leave Program

 

Salary range

$150,000 - $180,000 USD

Akido Labs, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage qualified applicants of every background, ability, and life experience to contact us about appropriate employment opportunities.

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