Senior/Staff Software Engineer

The Team:

At Amae we are a collective of healthcare leaders and technologists on a mission to create a radically different patient-first behavioral health care model that truly transforms patient’s lives by integrating care delivery, patient experience, cutting edge technology and research. Join a team of operators, builders and technologists from One Medical, Forward Health, Stanford, UCLA, Hinge Health, Palantir, The Four Seasons, and Brightline as we redefine care for the most vulnerable populations - across the nation, at scale. 

The Opportunity: 

As we expand our ability to care for complex patient populations, the core teams that support this work are also growing! We are seeking a Senior/Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale Amae Health’s patient and clinic facing technology platform. In this hands-on individual contributor role, your work will be central to shaping how patients and families access our precision psychiatry services, this role is fundamental to ensuring our solutions are both technically robust and adaptable to the evolving needs of care. As part of the technology team at Amae , you’ll help define how software development 3.0 can be harnessed responsibly in healthcare to expand access to life-changing care. 

About You:

You’re a full-stack engineer who thrives at the intersection of traditional engineering best practices and the emerging AI-native development paradigm. You’re a builder at heart, equally comfortable prototyping user interfaces and optimizing API performance. You care deeply about usability, reliability, and maintainability, and you enjoy working across the full lifecycle of a product: concept, implementation, deployment, and iteration. You’re mission-driven, passionate about mental health and healthcare innovation, and eager to make a tangible difference in people’s lives.

You take pride in mentoring peers, raising engineering standards, and ensuring code quality across the stack. You’re energized by the fast pace of early-stage work and motivated to build systems that directly improve mental health outcomes for patients and families.

What You’ll Work on:

• Design, develop, and ship full-stack web applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Architect, implement, and maintain APIs and backend services that power our clinical and patient-facing experiences.
• Deploy, monitor, and scale production systems using Vercel, AWS, or similar cloud infrastructure.
• Integrate securely with healthcare data sources (EHRs, FHIR, HL7) in compliance with HIPAA and related regulations.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and clinical teams to turn real-world healthcare workflows into intuitive, performant software.
• Write clean, testable, maintainable code and contribute to internal tooling, documentation, and developer experience improvements.
• Help shape Amae’s long-term technical direction by mentoring teammates through code reviews and architectural discussions.
• (Optional) Experiment with AI/ML features that enhance clinical workflows and patient engagement.

What you’ll have:

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack web applications.
• Deep proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern front-end tooling.
• Strong backend experience in Node.js (Python experience a plus) and SQL/PostgreSQL.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on Vercel, AWS, or equivalent cloud environments.
• Familiarity with FHIR, HL7, and healthcare interoperability standards (nice-to-have).
• Solid understanding of security, authentication/authorization, and data privacy best practices.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment balancing rapid iteration with sound engineering discipline.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to work full time in person in our San Francisco HQ

• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental & vision plans
• Competitive compensation
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k)
• FSA & HSA savings programs
• Short & long-term disability
• Pre-tax commuter assistance program
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• Parental Leave - 12 weeks for birth and non birth parent
• 11 company holidays

Amae Health is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

Base salary range for this role is $175,000 to $220,000 per year based on level and a full-time schedule and the compensation package will include equity. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate's experience and professional leveling and it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range. These factors include, but are not limited to, job related knowledge and skill set, depth of experience, certifications, degrees, licensures, and specific work location.

The Problem

Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. Schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder. Bipolar I. Treatment-resistant depression. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for.

The result is fragmented care, revolving-door hospitalizations, misaligned incentives, and a population that falls through every crack in the system. Emergency departments become the default. Families burn out. People die decades earlier than they should.

What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. None of it has been built. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve.

We are developing all of it. The care, the science, the technology.

What We’re Building 

Most healthcare companies ask you to optimize an existing system. We’re asking you to build things that have never existed.

• A national care delivery model engineered from the ground up for the highest-acuity patients in behavioral health.
• Precision medicine for SMI: collecting multimodal data across clinical, behavioral, and social dimensions to develop individualized treatment approaches for a population that has never had them.
• A clinical operating system that synthesizes longitudinal data, real-time patient signals, and purpose-built clinical tools into a single decision layer. Nothing like it exists today.
• Frontier science and measurement: defining and validating the outcomes frameworks that this field has never had. Hospitalizations avoided, days stable, functional improvement, and more. This is not incremental research. This is building the scientific foundation for an entire category of care.
• A partnership model with the country’s leading health systems that proves coordinated SMI care can work at scale.

If you want to ship a product that sits in a backlog, this is not the place. If you want to create things that don’t exist yet and change how an entire population receives care, keep reading.

Compensation & Benefits 

We pay competitively. Base salary reflects role, level, and geography. Total compensation includes valuable equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, unlimited PTO, parental leave, and programs built around employee well-being. We’ll share specifics during the interview process.

Amae Health is building the care platform, the precision medicine, and the frontier science that severe mental illness has never had. If you want to be part of creating something this hard and this important, something that has never been done, we’d like to talk.