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Senior Software Engineer (EST)

USA (EST)

About EllieMD

EllieMD is on a mission to revolutionize healthcare by empowering individuals with pharmaceutical-grade products and a network of dedicated brand partners. We believe healthcare should be accessible, transparent, and built on trust. Inspired by the wisdom, strength, and nurturing nature of elephants, our name reflects our commitment to care, integrity, and empowerment—ensuring that our customers, partners, and community feel supported, valued, and protected.

As a member of our team, you'll help bring this mission to life by upholding our values of accountability, collaboration, and excellence. We're looking for individuals who take pride in delivering high-quality experiences and who thrive in a fast-moving, innovative environment.

Position Overview

EllieMD is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our fast-growing engineering team. This is a remote role for candidates based in the United States, with periodic travel for team collaboration, planning, or company events. In this role, you will own technical design and execution across our monolithic Next.js + Node.js platform, including:

  • E-commerce subscription engine
  • Customer, Partner, and Admin portals
  • Internal tools and scripting workflows
  • API backend (Express/TypeScript)
  • Medical provider integrations
  • Website and marketing systems

A primary focus of this role is solutions architecture and task breakdown. You will translate product and business requirements into clear technical approaches, decompose work into well-scoped deliverables, and guide implementation so the team can ship predictably and maintain high quality. You will collaborate closely with our VP of Engineering, Product Manager, and UX/UI Designer to deliver scalable features that power EllieMD's digital experience. As we scale, you'll help strengthen our engineering foundation and prepare the platform for future microservice and cloud migrations.

This is an opportunity for a senior engineer who enjoys driving technical direction, mentoring through clear design and breakdown, and building consumer-facing healthtech products at scale.

What You’ll Do

  • Solutions architecture & task breakdown (core focus)
  • Own technical design for new features and system changes: propose approaches, evaluate tradeoffs, and document decisions.
  • Break down epics and initiatives into clear, actionable tasks with defined scope, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  • Ensure work is appropriately sized for predictability and iterative delivery; unblock the team by clarifying ambiguity and sequencing work.
  • Develop, enhance, and maintain our full-stack platform built on Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Express.
  • Build scalable APIs, backend services, and modular frontend components.
  • Integrate third-party services including payments, authentication, analytics, notifications, and more.
  • Write automated tests (Jest), improve code quality, and champion engineering best practices.
  • Participate in and lead code reviews; support continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the engineering team.
  • Work closely with Product & Design to translate requirements into technical specs and polished, user-friendly features.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Support light DevOps work, including deployments, logging, monitoring, and CI enhancements.
  • Contribute to the evolution of the platform toward more distributed, cloud-native systems (experience with AWS, microservices, or containerization is a bonus).

30-60-90 Day Plan

  • 30 days: Get acclimated to the codebase and assist in feature solution architecting and work breakdown, while helping deliver on development.
  • 60 days: Establish a working process to spec out feature architecture solutions and gain adoption from other lead engineers.
  • 90 days: Take on major platform solutions and drive the overall direction of the product, infrastructure, and process.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional full-stack or software engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated experience in solutions architecture: designing systems or features, documenting approach and tradeoffs, and getting buy-in from stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated experience in task breakdown: turning vague or large initiatives into well-defined, shippable tasks; defining scope, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
  • Strong experience with Next.js, React, Node.js, Express, and TypeScript.
  • Experience building customer-facing platforms, dashboards, or interactive web applications.
  • Experience with MongoDB or similar document databases.
  • Proficiency with version control (Git), testing (Jest), and modern frontend styling systems (Tailwind or CSS frameworks).
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment, collaborate cross-functionally, and ship features on time with high quality.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to clearly articulate technical decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in HIPAA-compliant or regulated healthcare environments, including telehealth and other medical integrations.
  • Experience with e-commerce, subscription systems, payments, or checkout flows.
  • Experience with any of the following:
  • Distributed systems or microservices architecture
  • AWS services (Lambda, ECS, S3, CloudWatch, etc.)
  • Infrastructure tooling (Docker, containers, cloud hosting)
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Observability & analytics: Sentry, PostHog
  • Background job systems (Agenda, cron-based workers)
  • Heroku or Netlify deployment environments
  • PNPM monorepos and code quality tooling (ESLint, Prettier)
  • Experience mentoring or guiding other engineers through design reviews or task breakdown.

While these are not required, they reflect the technical direction of the company and are valuable as EllieMD scales.

Who You Are

  • A builder who takes pride in writing clean, maintainable, high-quality code—and in designing systems that others can build on.
  • Someone who thrives when owning technical direction: you enjoy turning ambiguity into clarity and big goals into executable work.
  • Passionate about improving the healthcare experience and designing technology that supports customers and partners.
  • A team player who values collaboration, communicates tradeoffs clearly, and enjoys elevating others through better structure and breakdown.
  • Aligned with EllieMD's core values: Accountability, Collaboration, Excellence, Integrity, and Care.

Compensation & Structure

  • Contract Role: Starting as a 1099 contractor.
  • Future Conversion: Planned transition to full-time W2 in 2026.
  • Compensation: $175,000 (commensurate with experience).
  • Benefits: Planned upon full-time conversion.

Equal Opportunity Statement

EllieMD is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and levels of experience.

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