Associate Software Engineer

Amae Health•San Francisco, CA

37d•$115,000 - $155,000•Onsite

About The Position

At Amae Health, we are dedicated to helping the 15.4 million Americans living with severe mental illness (SMI) lead stable, meaningful lives, while ending the cycle of repeat hospitalizations. In partnership with some of the nation’s top academic medical centers we’ve pioneered an innovative outpatient care model that combines compassionate, in-person psychiatric care with comprehensive wraparound support. Our integrated care teams — including psychiatrists, therapists, primary care physicians, health coaches, and peer support specialists — work together to treat the whole person via a unique model, addressing physical, mental, and social needs in unison. By caring for every aspect of our patients’ well-being, we help them not just survive, but truly thrive. Amae Health is a Series B venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to becoming the nation's center of excellence for individuals living with severe mental illness (SMI). Backed by top-tier venture capital firms and strategic healthcare investors, we collaborate with prestigious health systems including NewYork-Presbyterian, Stanford Healthcare, and Cedars-Sinai, underscoring our commitment to fundamentally transforming mental health care delivery at scale. 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. As we expand our ability to care for complex patient populations, the core teams that support this work are also growing! We are seeking an Associate Software Engineer to help build and scale Amae Health’s patient and clinic facing technology platform. 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. 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 fluent in writing and reviewing production-grade code, but you also bring discernment and pragmatism in how to integrate AI-generated code into a secure, reliable product. You’re equally comfortable architecting backend systems as you are collaborating on frontend experiences. 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.

Requirements

1+ years of professional software engineering experience, with proven full-stack contributions
Strong fundamentals in modern backend (Node.js, Python, or similar) and frontend frameworks, with Next.js experience preferred
Deep familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS & Vercel)
Pragmatic approach to code review: able to spot issues in both human- and AI-generated code, and guide teams toward best practices
Excitement about “software development 3.0”—working AI-native, but with the maturity to know when traditional approaches are required
Collaborative, mission-driven mindset, motivated to improve mental health outcomes at scale

Responsibilities

Lead design, implementation, and review of features across the stack, with emphasis on scalable, secure, and maintainable architecture.
Build backend services, APIs, and frontend interfaces that power the patient experience.
Contribute to both backend and frontend, with flexibility to lean where your strengths are deepest.
Leverage LLMs and AI-native tooling to accelerate development while maintaining rigorous standards.
Apply strong code review practices to both human- and AI-generated contributions, ensuring correctness, security, and long-term maintainability.
Help define best practices for AI-augmented workflows in production-grade healthcare software.
Partner with product, design, and clinical teams to translate mental healthcare needs into intuitive software.
Participate in architectural discussions and guide the evolution of our platform.