Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
ecares health is a healthcare technology startup spun out of Essen Health Care, a large multispecialty provider group in the Bronx. We're building the care coordination OS that brings concierge medicine to underserved communities. Our platform powers proactive outreach, intelligent care programs, and automated scheduling, helping provider groups ensure no patient falls through the cracks. Through our unique relationship with Essen Health Care, we have access to clinical and operational experts who help drive our product strategy and refine our vision. Our platform is currently live with active users at Essen, and we are finalizing expansion to more practices across New York City in the coming months. The role: We're hiring Software Engineers to join our founding engineering team. You'll take well-scoped technical work from our principal engineers and ship it, end to end: features, integrations, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements. You'll work across the full stack, and you'll have full ownership over what you build.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Comfortable working across the stack, backend and frontend
- Strong fundamentals: data structures, system design basics, debugging, writing testable code
- Self-directed and comfortable with focused, independent work
- Thorough. You think through edge cases, write tests, and care about getting it right
- Excited to own features and work with the team to deliver them our users
Nice To Haves
- Health tech or healthcare experience
- Experience with EHR systems or healthcare data
- Experience working in compliance-heavy or regulated environments
- Familiarity with Azure cloud services
- Background working with underserved communities or in mission-driven organizations
Responsibilities
- Implementing clinical rules that determine which patients need outreach and for what (e.g., a diabetic patient who hasn't seen endocrinology in 6 months)
- Building AI automations that interact with payor and Medicaid systems to understand and leverage insurance benefits on behalf of patients
- Working on EHR integrations that pull patient data, push appointment updates, and keep systems in sync
- Using LLMs to deliver critical patient context to care coordinators so they can educate and engage patients
- Improving infrastructure: API performance, data pipelines, deployment tooling, test coverage
- Pick up work from a prioritized queue, build it well, write tests, submit PRs, and ship
- Work with principal engineers when the technical approach needs clarification and participate in code review across the team
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
