The Senior Software Engineer will develop consumer-oriented healthcare software, collaborate with teams, and mentor juniors while utilizing modern technologies.
We are looking for a seasoned software engineer who is passionate about creating next-generation healthcare software that will dramatically improve the lives of patients, clinicians, and caregivers. This person will write critical, significant portions of the code behind a brand new software product.
The ideal candidate has experience building SaaS and/or Cloud Native software for a regulated industry. Additionally, the Senior Software Engineer will bring expertise in one or more technologies including React, TypeScript, Go, Ent, gRPC, Twirp, and/or AWS technologies like EventBridge and Aurora. Sharing knowledge and mentoring members of a growing team will be key.
The Senior Software Engineer should enjoy working in an Agile collaborative environment with product managers, designers, external partners, and other engineers to build a high quality, consumer-oriented product from the ground up.
About Tendo
Make an impact—join our team!
We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven company building a culture that enables teams and individuals to thrive. Our team-driven culture and rapid growth have earned us recognition as one of Forbes’ Top Startup Employers for both 2024 and 2025. Led by an experienced and proven team, we live by our values and are always on the hunt for motivated people with diverse experiences and backgrounds to help us improve the care journey for patients, clinicians, and caregivers by creating software that provides seamless, intuitive, and user-friendly experiences.
If you like working with innovative technologies and want to be part of a growing team that will help transform the healthcare experience, we encourage you to apply today!
Job Location
Tendo has hubs in San Francisco, CA; San Diego, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Chicago, IL; Nashville, TN; and Philadelphia, PA. Candidates may be located in any one of our hub locations.
Responsibilities
- Drive all phases of software development including requirements analysis, architecture/design, implementation, documentation, testing, and debugging for a large consumer-facing application with significant daily usage.
- Collaborate with product owners and designers to understand user needs and translate wireframes and other requirements into technical requirements and detailed architecture.
- Participate in Agile processes including sprint planning, daily standups, demos, and retrospectives.
- Learn and use Go and potentially other back end languages, along with technologies and frameworks like gRPC/Twirp, Ent, and various AWS technologies, to produce, modify, and maintain APIs, microservices, event streams/queues, and similar.
- Write automated tests for all code and use Behavior Driven Development practices.
- Write infrastructure as code using Serverless Framework.
- Perform code reviews.
- Provide expertise in Web, API, database, and/or cloud technologies and frameworks, including React, TypeScript, Go, gRPC, Twirp, Ent, Serverless Framework, and/or AWS technologies like EventBridge and Aurora.
- Provide guidance, mentorship, and subject matter expertise to other team members.
- Create technical documentation describing architecture decisions.
- Support and implement the latest standards in securing data to meet HIPAA requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar major OR equivalent professional experience or software development certification (including bootcamp).
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Professional experience developing Cloud Native applications/products on AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred) OR professional experience with Go/Golang OR professional experience with React + TypeScript.
- Ability to communicate designs and work with product managers, engineers, and QA to clarify and prune requirements.
- Professional experience with modern version control systems (e.g., Git) and tools (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab).
Nice to Have
- Experience working in a startup environment.
- Knowledge of the healthcare industry and HL7 standards like FHIR.
- Experience writing infrastructure as code using Serverless Framework.
- Experience with graph data modeling (i.e., using Ent).
- Experience with event streaming frameworks (i.e., EventBridge).
- Experience with gRPC/Twirp.
- AWS certification(s).
Base Salary Range
$127,500-$172,500
This salary range is offered with the understanding that final compensation is based on a number of factors including geography and experience. Tendo also offers an equity package, annual bonuses, and benefits.
Benefits
For full time employees, Tendo also offers full health benefits (medical, dental, and vision), flexible spending and health savings accounts, company paid life insurance, company paid short-term and long-term disability, company equity, voluntary benefits, 401(k), company paid holidays, flexible time off, and an employee wellness program (“Breathe”).
Tendo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.
Top Skills
Aurora
AWS
Ent
Eventbridge
Go
Grpc
React
Twirp
Typescript
Tendo San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, CA, United States
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