Software Engineer

Essen Medical Associates • New York, NY

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

ecares health is a healthcare technology startup spun out of Essen Health Care, a large multispecialty provider group in the Bronx. The company is building a care coordination OS that brings concierge medicine to underserved communities. This platform powers proactive outreach, intelligent care programs, and automated scheduling, helping provider groups ensure no patient falls through the cracks. Through a unique relationship with Essen Health Care, ecares health has access to clinical and operational experts who help drive product strategy and refine vision. The platform is currently live with active users at Essen, and expansion to more practices across New York City is finalizing in the coming months. Healthcare is full of absurd complexity, and ecares health aims to leverage LLMs and other cutting-edge technology to build the operational infrastructure that makes care coordination work, committed to the belief that technology is society's strongest lever to improve health at a population level. The Software Engineer role involves joining the founding engineering team, taking well-scoped technical work from principal engineers, and shipping it end to end, including features, integrations, bug fixes, and infrastructure improvements. This role requires working across the full stack and having full ownership over what is built.

Requirements

• 2+ 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
• Ability to learn and contribute to the stack (Python (FastAPI), React/TypeScript, MSSQL, Redis, Azure (Container Apps, Static Web Apps, DevOps Pipelines), Terraform)

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees