Remote Senior Full Stack Engineer IV

At Vida, we help people get better
- and were helping the healthcare system get better, too. Vida is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider that uses evidence-based treatment to help patients manage obesity and related conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. Vidas team of Obesity Medicine-Certified Physicians, Registered Dietitians, Expert Coaches and Licensed Therapists takes a whole-person approach to care, helping people lose weight, reduce stress and improve their overall health. By combining advanced technology with top-notch healthcare providers, Vida is breaking down the barriers that have historically kept people from getting the best care. Vida Health is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help shape the technical direction of our Provider Team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain the backend services and user-facing applications that power our clinician and provider workflows — making a direct impact on how care is delivered at scale. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Engineering to drive initiatives from early ambiguity through to production, bringing both technical depth and cross-functional leadership to everything you do. Your work will span Python, Django, REST APIs, and React or React Native, with a focus on building provider tools that are reliable, scalable, and built to support the clinicians who depend on them every day. Champion high engineering standards through thorough code reviews, architectural discussions, and mentorship of mid-level and junior engineers. Act with a high degree of autonomy on the frontend. Build and maintain high-performance frontend applications using React, TypeScript, and React Query. Support and contribute to our React Native mobile applications. Apply strong product intuition and UX sensibilities to build clean, logical, and user-friendly flows using component libraries like Tailwind or MUI. Design, build, and optimize robust REST APIs using Django REST Framework (DRF). Develop and evolve clean database models, schemas, and complex migrations. Leverage LLMs and AI tooling, specifically Claude and Claude Code, to accelerate development workflows and build innovative, automated features. Monitor, troubleshoot, and scale production services deployed via Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Datadog and logging best practices. Bachelors degree at a minimum. 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of leading technical projects and cross-functional initiatives. You are comfortable building and refining interfaces independently, leveraging component frameworks to deliver great user experiences quickly without a design crutch. Deep expertise in Python, Django models, and Django REST Framework (DRF) for building production-grade REST APIs. Robust experience with modern React, state management via React Query, and TypeScript. Strong experience writing optimized queries, designing schemas, and managing database migrations. Experience utilizing AI assistance, specifically Claude and Claude Code, to write, test, refactor, and optimize code efficiently. Experience navigating healthcare technology, HIPAA compliance, or digital health platforms. Hands-on experience with React Native. Familiarity with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure like GCP or AWS. Diversity is more than a commitment at Vida—it is the foundation of what we do. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. We seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our platform and those we serve. Vida is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. S. as Vida is unable to sponsor work visas for any position. international work is prohibited. LI-remote We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.