Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Amae Health•New York, NY

49d•$175,000 - $220,000

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. Amae Health is a Series B, venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation on a mission to build the nation’s leading center of excellence for individuals living with SMI. We’re backed by top-tier healthcare and technology investors behind transformative companies like Cityblock, Oscar, Palantir, Square, Instacart, and Lyft. Our strategic partners also include leading health systems such as Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures and CommonSpirit Ventures, reinforcing our commitment to reshaping mental health care 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 a Senior/Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale Amae Health’s patient and clinic facing technology platform. In this hands-on individual contributor role, your work will be 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 a builder at heart, equally comfortable prototyping user interfaces and optimizing API performance. You care deeply about usability, reliability, and maintainability, and you enjoy working across the full lifecycle of a product: concept, implementation, deployment, and iteration. You’re mission-driven, passionate about mental health and healthcare innovation, and eager to make a tangible difference in people’s lives. 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

5+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack web applications.
Deep proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and modern front-end tooling.
Strong backend experience in Node.js (Python experience a plus) and SQL/PostgreSQL.
Experience deploying and managing applications on Vercel, AWS, or equivalent cloud environments.
Solid understanding of security, authentication/authorization, and data privacy best practices.
Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment balancing rapid iteration with sound engineering discipline.
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with FHIR, HL7, and healthcare interoperability standards (nice-to-have).

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and ship full-stack web applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
Architect, implement, and maintain APIs and backend services that power our clinical and patient-facing experiences.
Deploy, monitor, and scale production systems using Vercel, AWS, or similar cloud infrastructure.
Integrate securely with healthcare data sources (EHRs, FHIR, HL7) in compliance with HIPAA and related regulations.
Collaborate closely with product, design, and clinical teams to turn real-world healthcare workflows into intuitive, performant software.
Write clean, testable, maintainable code and contribute to internal tooling, documentation, and developer experience improvements.
Help shape Amae’s long-term technical direction by mentoring teammates through code reviews and architectural discussions.
(Optional) Experiment with AI/ML features that enhance clinical workflows and patient engagement.