Senior Software Engineer

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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.